O'Donnell vs. "The Bearded Marxist"

Above, Christine O'Donnell.

The establishment pundits have been saying that Christine O'Donnell is "unelectable" as a candidate.

Her victory last night proved them wrong. Voters were repelled by the smears against O'Donnell and voted accordingly.

The choice between O'Donnell and Democrat Chris Coons could not be more clear-cut. O'Donnell is a Reagan conservative, whereas Coons described himself in 1985 as a "bearded Marxist."


Above, Chris "Bearded Marxist" Coons.

Politico posted a story last May on Coons' "bearded Marxist" article which reads in part:

An article Democrat Chris Coons wrote for his college newspaper may not go over so well in corporation-friendly Delaware, where he already faces an uphill battle for Vice President Joe Biden’s old Senate seat.

The title? “Chris Coons: The Making of a Bearded Marxist.”

In the article, Coons, then 21 years old and about to graduate from Amherst College, chronicled his transformation from a sheltered, conservative-minded college student who had worked for former GOP Delaware Sen. William Roth and had campaigned for Ronald Reagan in 1980 into a cynical young adult who was distrustful of American power and willing to question the American notion of free enterprise.

Coons, the New Castle County executive who is running against GOP Rep. Michael Castle for the state’s open Senate seat, wrote of his political evolution in the May 23, 1985, edition of the Amherst Student.

To read the full Politico article, go here.

Coons will have a hard time weaseling out of this one. Like Coons, I worked in the 1980 Reagan campaign (I was a California Delegate to the 1980 GOP National Convention in Detroit at age 26) and my political views were long formulated. I was a Reagan California Delegate to the 1976 GOP National Convention at age 22. My political views have not changed in 34 years. Has Coons' political views changed again since college?

Once this story starts making the rounds during the general election campaign, Coons will have an albatross of his own making around his neck. Delaware is home to many corporations and small businesses, and they won't want an anti-free enterprise Marxist representing them in Washington.