Only in America

Only in America can we have a candidate running for the US Senate who hasn't worked a real job ever in her life. Yes, that is hyperbole, but sadly not nearly enough of one to not warrant a massive facepalm

Christine O'Donnell, running for the Senate seat in Delaware, has less than zero qualifications to be a US senator, and yet she is not only being treated as a legitimate candidate, people are actively supporting her.

Her Wikipedia page details her work history, lots of time as a lobbyist, talking head, and working for various non-profits.

However, what she has been most adept at is getting herself into financial trouble and lying about her credentials. She's claimed on numerous occasions that she had been pursuing a master's degree in Constitional Studies, but neither of the schools she mentioned had record of her enrolling or taking classes there.

She got fired from a job at ISI for doing personal consulting work on their coin. Now, she had filed a lawsuit against ISI, stating that their "conservative beliefs" required men to be subordinate to women. Apparently being a conservative who believes masturbation to be wrong only applies so far in your personal pursuit of a buck. She eventually dropped the lawsuit because she was broke.

At some point in time she decided she'd make a good senator and became embroiled in even more financial troubles. She paid her townhouse's mortgage from campaign funds because she was essentially jobless. She's had numerous campaign employees quit and accuse her of misusing funds.

Another problem is, she's a Tea Partier who believes the Constitution to be some sort of "holy document" except she doesn't even know all the Amendments. I wouldn't expect the average American to know them all, but if you claim to be a Constitutional scholar, who holds the Constitution to almost the level of scripture, shouldn't you know at least all the changes and amendments to it?

What amazes me is that the people who are supporting her don't have a problem with this. They don't have a problem with someone who has lied about her credentials, doesn't exhibit any expertise about the thing they hold dear, and hasn't held a job like an "average" person for more than a couple years at a time.

We don't need lifetime politicians, but we also don't need uneducated buffoons making a different sort of mockery of the current system.