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The Pumas return

Remember 2008's Pumas? They were the Hillary die-hards, after it was clear that Obama was going to win the nomination and Hillary kept at it anyway. The first two letters of Puma stood for party and unity. The next one was my. Got it?

Christine O'Donnell, the tea party candidate for Senate in Delaware, says they're back and they're with her:


"A lot" could mean that the campaign has gotten three such calls. So I think this should be taken with a grain of salt. Remember when the Pumas were going to gravitate to the GOP ticket because of Sarah Palin?

However, O'Donnell is in a statistical tie with the establishment GOP candidate, Mike Castle, who is 71 and has held elective office of one sort or another for four decades. She could win tomorrow. One would think in Delaware this would almost ensure the election of the Democrat, a fellow named Chris Coons. So lots of liberals are cheering for an O'Donnell win tomorrow.

I'm the type who gets a little nervous about such hopes. It's like hoping Palin is the GOP nominee (Palin has endorsed O'Donnell). Well, sure, she'd probably get walloped. But what if unemployment is 9% and there's a terrorist attack on Oct. 27? I mean, if I were a salafist terrorist, I would most certainly want Sarah Palin to be the president of the United States and watch the dialectic play out in compressed time before my very eyes.

Sorry, back to Delaware. Coons seems a good egg and a competent and reasonable guy. But O'Donnell is a babe - let's face it, that matters - and in a small state, an enthusiasm gap could make a big difference. It's one thing for weird states like Alaska to send a weirdo to the Senate, but Delaware is firmly located in the wholly sane and reasonable part of the country.

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