Christine O’Donnell ran an unsuccessful Tea Party challenge to unseat Joe Biden in 2008.
At the same time, as is alleged by her then 14 year old niece, Joe Biden made an inappropriate comment to her.
Christine has today posted to Facebook a defense of her niece and a rambling, incoherent attack on Joe Biden, going so far even as blaming him for not being where he wasn’t. But a part of her post immediately jumped out to me and two questions came to mind:
1. If Christine O’Donnell was “right there” to witness this, then she had a responsibility to report this behavior in the interest of her then 14-year old niece. To everyone’s knowledge, that never happened. We’d have remembered it.
2. Christine was running to unseat Joe — wouldn’t it have made sense, politically, to immediately issue a statement about this? That could’ve swung the election in favor of a budding Tea Party darling.
Make me wonder why that never happened.