Oh, HELL NO!!  They can take away my social security, my pay check, teachers from the classroom, and police off of the street but nobody--NOBODY stops me from masturbating!!

I would actually (once again) argue the opposite. Most people are very well informed on the talking points that support the political party they favour, but are very poorly educated and informed when it comes to the details about the policies and issues that are actually relevant to the election. Of those that are informed a large portion have become so disillusioned with the whole process that they have abandoned voting, which exacerbates the situation being that the politicians no longer even have to come up with justifiable policies or reasonable stances on issues they just need more compelling talking points. The existence of this tread is a testament to this problem being that individuals have no desire to discuss this woman's stances on issues, the policies she intents to implement, her capability to approach these problems (without introducing new problems) and her credibility on what she says; they are going to mock her because of some dumb things she said in the mid 1990s.

Politicians do (often) lie, but their lies tend not to be why people become disillusioned with them.Consider Barack Obama, since everyone let him get away with promising "Hope and Change" without clarification of what it meant people interpreted it to mean whatever the hell they wanted it to mean; and didn't bother to look into what Barack Obama stood for. 18 months later, after he has been the president people should have expected him to be, countless people are upset with him because he did not live up to their expectations; because their expectations had no basis in reality.

She's a sacrificial lamb. Any GOP strategist wouldn't have let her within 100 miles of a precinct they actually had a chance of winning. Kinda like when the GOP put up Lynn Swann against Ed Rendell in Pennsylvania in 06. You put your wierder candidates out there to fail so they don't come back to haunt you when the tide is turning in your favor more definitively.

Hahahahaha. This made my day.

You get one internet as a present. Enjoy it.

That's just it, though. The GOP could have taken this seat if the other guy (I think his name was Castle) had won.. but the fringes voted on this crazy woman instead.

This.

I mean seriously, all the corrupt politicians who used to be addicted to heavy drugs (Obama being one of them) and we're going to focus on something pretty damn tame this woman did when she was a teenager?  She said she was against masturbation.  Whoop-dee-doo.  That's her opinion and she's not going to try to ram it down your throats.  I mean, last I checked it wasn't a big talking point of her campaign.  Oh, and she may have tried a "spell" or two.  Again whoop-dee-doo.  There were at least 5 girls in my class who had fooled around with that at one point in time or another.  And how many have tried a Ouija board at least once? 

Sorry, but no matter how much the left leaning media and politicians want to believe the opposite, this election is going to be about policy, not winning through character assasination.  Mike Castle already tried that with O'Donnell and where did that get him?  Nowhere.

And on a further note, aren't the lefties supposed to be the ones who are so open-minded?  Are they now labeling all praticers of witchcraft horrible and evil people now? 

people on the far right are almost exclusively morons, who else would advocate backward social policy and hate everyone but themselves? hopefully not many!

im on the left, I value freedom, equality and fairness, my ideal world is one where people work together for human progress unhindered by the restraints of money, greed or self righteousness.

How would they enforce this if they manage to ban rubbing one off? Prisons would be full of teenage boys.

Wonder what the slogan would be...  "dont beat the meat"?

Anyone who tries to define politics into a left-right divide where one side is intelligent and good and the other side are evil morons just demonstrate that they have no capacity for independent thought; and that they're just mindless partisans. Neither the left nor the right are more likely to defend freedom, they're just more likely to defend some freedoms and to infringe upon others; and neither side of the political spectrum maintains logical positions on a wide variety of issues. Consider your position that the left are defenders of freedom, how can this be when the left tends to be the most aggressive in their support for bans on cigarettes, junk food, video games and anything they deem unhealthy.

As a general guideline you can see the difference between left wing and right wing ideology as a divide between "equality of outcomes" vs "equalities of opportunities" ... In most situations you can see the left infringing on one person's rights or opportunities in order to try to change the outcome of another individual, while the right will infringe upon one person's rights or impact their outcomes to preserve another person's opportunities. Obviously, this is not a perfect explanation and you will find several issues which seem arbitrarily divided, but it works out as a decent general guideline.