During the long wind-up to this autumn’s congressional elections, hardly a week went by without a gaffe by Delaware tea partier and Sarah Palin-wannabe Christine O’Donnell. The sharp-tongued political commentator Bill Maher seemed to have an entire stockpile of embarrassing clips from when O’Donnell – then president of the conservative advocacy group the Savior’s Alliance for Lifting the Truth – regularly appeared as a panelist on his show Politically Incorrect during the late 1990’s.  Among the political blooper reels was this little gem, in which O’Donnell makes clear her opinion of evolution (no prizes for guessing what she thinks of it):

That’s a minor twist on the old creationist chestnut “If we