I Am She As You Are She As You Are Me . . .

. . . and we're Christine O'Donnell.

I'm crying.

Delaware's most famous deadbeat has put out a series of incoherent television ads designed to re-introduce herself to Diamond State voters. It's a whole new twist on negative campaigning in that O'Donnell, facing the camera with soft music in the background, tells us who she isn't. She's not a witch. She's not an heiress. She's not a Yale graduate. (Yeah, we figured that out.) She's apparently . . . us.

This ad is goo-goo without the g'joob. O'Donnell is trying to cast herself as someone who knows the value of a dollar and is trying to to the best she can to get by. This argument would actually work if, I don't know, the dollars she spent on herself were her own and not from her previous Senate campaigns. And she still apparently has trouble paying her bills. That doesn't sound like the average American or the average Delawarean to me. If the voters of Delaware accept her as one of their own and send her to Senate, and if she becomes the newest spokeswoman for the American right, she really will prove to be us. We'll be proven to be just as dumb as she is.

How could such dumb ads work? Personally, I think O'Donnell has no interest of being elected to the Senate. I agree with those who suspect she's only trying to get a television deal with Fox News. She wants to follow in the footsteps of her father, Daniel O'Donnell, the official Bozo the Clown of the Philadelphia television market.

Oops! Correction: Daniel O'Donnell was not the official Bozo the Clown in Philly, but rather a stand-in. Christine sixteen, choking smoker, don't you think the joker laughs at you? :-D