Saturday Night Live took aim at Senate hopeful Christine O'Donnell over the weekend with a spoof of O'Donnell's own campaign ad. O'Donnell, reeling from the revelation that she had once played with witchcraft and hung out with Satanists. In her own ad, she claims "I'm not a witch. I'm you."
First of all, "I'm you" is a terrible slogan. No, O'Donnell, you're not me. Clearly not in a literal sense, but I can't even find a decent metaphorical sense. But her continued mention of the witchcraft controversy just adds fuel to the fire. If you want voters to forget the incident, if it really was nothing more than a bit of high school rebellion, why would you repeatedly remind voters of it?
Then again, why did she reveal it on TV in 1999 in the first place? I continue to presume it's attention seeking.
And in light of that, SNL put forth an ad in which an O'Donnell look-alike declares, "I am you, and just like you I have to constantly deny that I am not a witch."
This sort of behavior isn't limited to conservatives trying to bank on their supposed conversion stories. Some modern witches and Wiccans can take a few pointers from the spoof too, as they go around demanding to be treated like everyone else while simultaneously throwing their personal beliefs into the faces of others, which inevitably invites trouble.