There are few sane voices out there right now concerning this candidacy.

If I were in a position where my voice carried weight, I would certainly caution–strongly–against going all-in on this candidacy. There’s a reason the heavyweights (save Mark Levin, alas) aren’t putting any stock in Christine O’Donnell, but there’s also a reason many grassroots conservatives are slowly and blindly lining up behind her, and it’s important to understand this phenomenon before it’s too late.

I’m guessing it’s that they sense a repeat of Alaska, or perhaps more aptly, Florida. But that’s not going to be the case: O’Donnell is a mix of J.D. Hayworth and Debra Medina–totally unreliable, flat out of her mind, a professional (yet tactless) politician, and someone who can really do a lot of damage to the wider credibility of the tea party movement.

Look, the “Tea Party Express” getting involved in the Alaska (and now the Delaware) race in the first place is questionable enough. Yet therein is the problem. There is now a presumed “default tea party candidate” in any race containing a pseudo-credible upstart against an incumbent; this is a mistake.

It goes without saying that Christine O’Donnell would not win in Delaware–she would get crushed by any generic Democratic campaign, without them even trying very hard. And, I know, Mike Castle is about on par with Olympia Snowe. I hate to support him, but I also hated having to quietly root for John McCain…yet I did anyway because I knew J.D. Hayworth was a total sleaze–not just a sleaze when it came to backstabbing Republicans and making policy “compromises.”

Let’s take a deep breath and keep electoral politics in perspective (it’s a numbers game, remember). If you want to put your stock into Christine O’Donnell, go right ahead. But I’m pulling against you, because she will 1. lose, and 2. do for the media exactly what they wanted Rand Paul and Sharron Angle to do (which never happened), and that is, obliterate the credibility of grassroots conservatives and the tea party.

Have at it, I guess.

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Re-posted from my blog.