“I’m not a witch, I’m you”
“I’m not a witch, I’m you” ranks 2nd in the list of political slogans that became memorable. Tea Party candidate Christine O'Donnell used her run for the Delaware Senate to address reports that she dabbled in witchcraft, which is a big no-no among her right-wing religious support base. "I'm not a witch," she claimed in her campaign video, before instantly contradicting herself with the supernatural qualifier: "I'm you." She'd simply dabbled; she'd never joined a coven; she'd always made it clear. And, despite the fact that one of her "first dates with a witch was on a satanic altar, a little blood there and stuff like that," she was not a witch.
Saturday Night Live satirized the bizarre video, which was nearly a parody in and of itself. "I'm not like you've heard," Kristen Wiig as O'Donnell explained, "I'm you." And, like you, I have to continuously deny being a witch." Wiig continued, in a dig to the Tea Party's backward-looking policies, "That's the kind of candidate Delaware hasn't had since 1692."
Some information about Christine O'Donnell:
- Born: : August 27, 1969 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
- Education: Fairleigh Dickinson University(BA)
