Maybe you heard. The Republicans could potentially win the Senate. In fact, the Czar thinks the odds of this are much better than the media is reporting. No, it’s no done deal, but it’s moved past “theoretically plausible” into “strong possibility.”

As you next suspect, every possible victory for a Republican senator is a necessary one. There just aren’t enough Senatorial seats up to ensure victory; but there are enough up there to make it doable. So, yes, every election here will count.

And as you might then conclude, you want to run really good candidates. We have already seen some strongly conservative candidates shoot up to wide margins. Even in heavily Democratic enclaves, we see conservative candidates breaking even. That shows how strong the candidate pool is.

So can someone explain to the Czar what the foxtrot Christine O’Donnell is doing running in the GOP primary in Delaware? O’Donnell, recently endorsed by Palin, DeMint, and the NRA, is taking on Rep. Mike Castle (R-DE) for Joe Biden’s old job. By all polling numbers, Castle is a shoe-in for the job; O’Donnell is seeing her numbers climb, which means votes are being taken away from Castle. Indeed, if O’Donnell wins, the outlook is clear that the GOP will lose this race bad.

But what’s wrong with Castle? Well, he isn’t seen as a strong conservative. He’s part of that old guard GOP that the Tea Party is trying to vote out; although he has voted pretty consistently on core conservative issues, he has voted with Democrats on other issues.

And to some of the folks in the Tea Party, that’s a disaster. So O’Donnell is the better candidate, yes?

Let us consider this carefully.

She appears to make only $5,800 a year despite a lucrative career as a marketing consultant. No need to tip the IRS off that there’s some potential fraud here: she owes almost $12 grand in backtaxes, and defaulted on a mortgage she didn’t feel like paying.

Ouch. No, please—it gets worse. In addition to claiming herself a 1993 college graduate, it turns out she only graduated…ahem…last week. But that isn’t the only lie she’s told. She was embarrassed live during a radio interview when a talk show host questioned her claim that she won two counties against Biden in 2008. Delaware has three counties. Yet, the poll numbers show she got only 35% of the vote. Ah, she acknowledged on the air, she meant to say she tied him, then.

So maybe she has no concept of math, being in marketing and all. But evidently she is also a paranoid whackjob. She claims to have staff members check the landscaping thoroughly around every venue she enters, including her own home, to check for opponents hiding in the bushes. Not figuratively, pal: literally. She has made numerous references to this, and evidently believes—quite earnestly—that unspecified opponents (presumably political) are hiding in bushes all around her.

Perhaps she is the GOP answer to weirdly popular Senate candidate Alvin Green of South Carolina?

The Czar of Muscovy

Божію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the steppes of Russia in 1267, and was cheated out of total control of all Russia upon the death of Boris Mikhailovich, who replaced Alexander Yaroslav Nevsky in 1263. However, in 1283, our Czar was passed over due to a clerical error and the rule of all Russia went to his second cousin Daniil (Даниил Александрович), whom Czar still resents. As a half-hearted apology, the Czar was awarded control over Muscovy, inconveniently located 5,000 miles away just outside Chicago. He now spends his time seething about this and writing about other stuff that bothers him.