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Strategic Perception Inc, via Associated Press The Republican Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell ran this ad in her losing bid in Delaware.

Christine O’Donnell, who lost her bid for the Senate from Delaware last year, has filed paperwork to form her own political action committee, ChristinePAC, so that she can remain involved in the political process.

Having become famous — or infamous — for her “I am not a witch,” ad, Ms. O’Donnell is hoping to turn her celebrity into a political asset much the way her political mentor Sarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska, has.

Ms. Palin uses SarahPAC as her main political apparatus. A letter to the Federal Election Commission from Ms. O’Donnell’s treasurer suggests that she will do the same.

“This committee intends to make independent expenditures, and consistent with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit decision in SpeechNow v. F.E.C., it therefore intends to raise funds in unlimited amounts,” wrote Paul Kilgore, the treasurer of ChristinePAC. “This committee will not use those funds to make contributions, whether direct, in-kind, or via coordinated communications, to federal candidates or committees.”

It is unclear what Ms. O’Donnell’s political goals are, or how she can help other Republicans. She has so far been unsuccessful in several attempts to win public office in Delaware.

But her candidacy drew widespread attention, in part because of her controversial statements as a guest on television talk shows before her candidacy and in part because of her connection to Ms. Palin.

The letter to the F.E.C. can be found here.

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This ought to push Hillary over the top — not. Christine O’Donnell, the tea party darling, I-am-not-a-witch former Delaware Senate candidate, says she hopes Secretary of State Hillary Clinton runs for president in two years and defeats President Obama in the Democratic primaries. “I would love to see her take out Obama,” O’Donnell told ABC’s [...]

Is a television show next for Christine O’Donnell, the failed Republican Senate
candidate in Delaware?

Ms. O’Donnell, a favorite of the Tea Party, said on NBC’s “Tonight Show” with Jay Leno on Wednesday night that a reality TV show was one of the
job offers she had received in the wake of the campaign. But, she said,
“I wouldn’t be interested in a reality show unless it was a
watchdog-type show.”

Mr. Leno asked, “How about being a pundit on Fox News?”

“I did the pundit thing and that’s what got me in trouble in the first
place,” Ms. O’Donnell answered.

The “pundit thing” is the reason why Ms. O’Donnell wound up on “The
Tonight Show.” Her comments years ago on shows like “Politically
Incorrect” and “The O’Reilly Factor” were dredged up during her Senate
campaign. In one instance she was heard condemning masturbation; in
another, she claimed that she once “dabbled in witchcraft;” in
another, she asserted that evolution “is a myth.”

On Wednesday night Mr. Leno thanked Ms. O’Donnell for “all the
material,” and he repeatedly called her a “good sport.”

“The Tonight Show” was Ms. O’Donnell’s first television interview
since losing the election in Delaware last week. The Democrat in the
race, Chris Coons, beat her by about 16 percentage points.

Citing her weaknesses as a candidate, some prominent Republicans
sought to distance themselves from Ms. O’Donnell during the campaign.
When Mr. Leno brought that up, Ms. O’Donnell quipped, “I don’t think
Karl Rove is going to be buying me a Maserati anytime soon.”

She claimed that when she and Mr. Rove were booked on the “Today” show
on the same morning, “I was really looking forward to seeing him in
the green room, but he avoided the green room.”

Along with television, Ms. O’Donnell said a book deal had also been
offered, but she was noncommittal about her next step. She
said she would consider running again for office again: “Our country
is facing serious issues. Whatever I do, I’d like to continue to
advocate for those issues.”

For the record, Ms. O’Donnell said she regretted her now-famous
campaign ad that declared, “I am not a witch.” She said the purpose of
the ad was to “put it all behind me,” but “I feel like the whole
message got lost.”

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One of the reasons I really like MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” is that it eschews the typical yelling and screaming that have become commonplace on cable TV. Of course, there is a place for heated discussion — especially when the discussion is timely and based on real disagreements. Such was the case this morning when Salon’s [...]

Delaware Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell suggested “dirty politics” was the reason a 24-minute campaign video about her did not run on Channel 28, a local cable station, but a station official said it was because the O’Donnell campaign didn’t deliver the video on time. “They were supposed to have the tape to us on Friday [...]

Given the media obsession with a certain beyond-the-fringe GOP Senate candidate from Delaware, it is easy to imagine an Election Night banner headline like this: “CHRISTINE O’DONNELL DEFEATED.” Then in smaller type: “Concession Speech Sets Ratings Record.” And finally in tiny type: “Republicans make sweeping gains in House and Senate.” By now, even yak herders [...]