They are going to be gunning for her, so she needs to be prepared. She should prepare for the unfriendly venues like she would for a debate. Mock interviews should be performed and reviewed.

Heck, she already has.

many of the folks here consider such questions to be “smears.” You aren’t going to dissuade them of that conclusion. Heck the Weekly Standard guy was cussed out by Levin for reporting on facts was if the WS were some kind of campaign worker.

Unlike many people slow to get onboard train O’Donnell, I never doubted that a conservative could win in Delaware this year. My concern was always the challenges of her going on to neutral or even hostile venues. I think she should avoid all hostile venues and work on the neutral venues. Scarcity will work to her favor—other networks/shows will repeat the interviews and propagate them all over the place.

I predict that after a Wallace interview, there will be many people on this site saying “heck with Wallace”. Politicians (with the exception of Obama) get asked all sorts of questions about things that they did many years ago.

Rush will forever refer to Tim Geitner as Tim “Tax Cheat” Geitner. I think this is fair, even though Tim has in fact paid all of his taxes, he just did so late and after the fact. Well, people on the other side are going to say similar things about our folks, and O’Donnell is going to attract more attention than anyone else on our side.

I suspect that D’s will attempt to make her the face of the tea party and try to crush her anyway that they can. This is why I hope they avoid taking big risks. There is more than simply her race at stake.

its different now that she is a candidate. Frankly, I enjoyed POLITICALLY INCORRECT back in the day, Bill was far less of an idealoguq and a @$$ back then.

But he isn’t the concern. In my honest opinion, she did not perform that well even in friendly venues like the Gafney radio show or Neil Cavuto.

I do think that O’Donnell will rock on the questions pertaining to social issues. If some reporter wants to aske her a question about masterbation, the public is going to be incensed at the reporter for asking the question in the first place. O’Donnell saying that she believes lying to be bad, or premarital sex sinful is not going to hurt her.

The more challenging questions will be those things that Rove raised. That’s where I have never seen her handle the questions well and she gets defensive. That where they should mock interview her, video tape it, go over the tape, and come up with an approach that is natural to her but effective.

This is where the POLITICALLY INCORRECT stuff helps her.

A cultural warrior who hung out with people involved in witchcraft?

Anybody that open minded can’t be a true culture warrior, can she?

Watching some of the old clips, I had actually forgotten that I kind of liked Bill back in the mid 90s. I remember one episode of POLITICALLY INCORRECT that had three political figures who were all ex-cons comparing notes about their time in the pen. Absolutely hilarious show. Of course, thats when the show actually was POLITICALLY INCORRECT instead of his shows now, which are LEFT-WING IDEOLOGICAL TRIPE

The show has an economic focus, and she would look very serious and professional there.

Outside of Kudlow, I would start with Greta on Fox. Greta isn’t a cheerleader like Hannity, but she won’t be gunning for her either. Greta is very pro-tea party people without necessarily being pro-tea party.

I wouldn’t go with Wallace right outside the box without first going through some mock interview prep and some softer interviews first.

While people like Judlow and Greta don’t have that large of audiences (Kudlow’s is particularly small), people will show the clips in other venues.

She would also be well advised to publish some video online that can be circulated. There is a way to play this game, she just needs to play smart. They will gun for her like nobody else running in 2010.

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its just that O’Donnell is not one of them.

Haley Barbour for example can handle anything anywhere. So can Paul Ryan. Just have to be tactical in how far into the abyss people go.

However, we can keep the B team on the bench for that game. And yes, with respect to media interviews, O’Donnell is on the B team along with many current Senators.

Some people, like Ronald Reagan could go into incredibly hostile territory and persuade people. He was playing “their game” but he played it better than they did. For example, the debate between RR and Robert Kennedy–Kennedy was demolished by Reagan even though the crowd was to the left of Kennedy.

There are people walking around today as Republicans because they were at a unfair left-venue and saw a conservative hold their ground. The process of persuading others requires that Republicans do this. Its not optional. You can’t ride out the clock when American citizens are constantly being born, and constantly dying.

I just think that only certain A players should engage in crossing those lines but we as a team have to field players in all the games that are in town. Yes, we need conservatives to go on show’s like Maddow’s. We do. We need to play our game and their game and not be afraid to do so. However, we need to be selective in who grabs a bat.

So I emphatically disagree with you–we do need to play their game.

I would make a terrible global cooling er… global warming . .. er climate change . . er climate somethingorothery person

you know, a raving lunatic filled with all sorts of misdirected anger and resentment .. . that will get you 80% there.

if she is preparing for a subsequent appearance, then it was a good move.

Frankly, the reason why I did not jump on O’Donnell express before the primary vote was exactly this issue. Neil Caputo makes just about everyone look good, but she came across defensive. Laura Ingraham had O’Donnell on her show several months ago, and thought that O’Donnell wasn’t that impressive.

Everyone one has weaknesses. Smart people address them. I would much rather O’Donnell took a conservative view of her media strategy than start making errors.

She does need to get a website up and running with issues and responses to the various “character issues.” She also needs to prepare for her appearances.

I am actually more optimistic about her chances given that unlike before, she is actually turning down appearance opportunities.

Lets keep our fingers crossed and hope (and work) for victory.

It will make people sympathetic to her. I mean really, Bill M is an absolute @$$, and I say this having enjoyed his show in the mid-90s.

Seriously, the whole blackmail thing . . . come on my show or I will play video of you. People will take her side over his.

I would be more concerned about the more conventional list of topics (see Karl Rove) than the Bill M circus.

Bill Maher allows O’Donnell to lump all the personal stuff together and say “people like Bill Maher wan’t to talk about my thoughts on witches, but I would rather talk about the American economy and what can be done to create jobs.” In many ways, Bill could be gift for Christine.

Nothing on that show is substantive, but it is attention grabbing. It may suck the oxygen out of other less bizzare issues. It will also make O’Donnell very sympathetic (everyone is sympathetic in comparison to Bill M).

Bill M will overplay his hand. I am very much familiar with him. I used to be fan of his Politically Incorrect show in the 90s, back before Bill became a 100% pain in the @$$.

Independent Delaware voters are unlikely to find anything Bill has to say/show helpful.

Backlash, backlash, backlash . ..

There will be moments of darkness, but there will be a backlash. Bill is no political operative, yet he sees someone like Levin or Hannity build up O’Donnell and he thinks it will be easy for him to take her down.

Overplayed hand -> Backlash. Added bonus, less attention is paid to the Karl Rove list of “issues”.

As a regular watcher of Politically Incorrect, I very much remember O’Donnell (who was a regular panelist).