In Book, Christine O'Donnell Addresses `Witch' Ad

NEW YORK (AP) - Nearly a year after she won a stunning primary victory in a U.S. Senate race and drew nationwide attention for her controversial statements, conservative activist Christine O'Donnell chastises adversaries in a new book for undermining her campaign, while admitting errors in her own decision-making.

The Delaware Republican uses the book to address what she calls "my lowest moment of the 2010 campaign" _ a commercial in which she assured voters, "I am not a witch."

She says she never wanted to make the ad _ which was prompted by questions about a statement she had made on a late-night talk show years earlier _ and was surprised when it showed up on the Internet. She blames an insistent media consultant but also her own inability to put her foot down.

"It was a wrong-headed move, made for all the wrong reasons, but it was mine," O'Donnell writes in "Troublemaker: Let's Do What It Takes to Make America Great Again." The book is scheduled to go on sale Aug. 16. The Associated Press purchased a copy on Thursday.

The media consultant, Fred Davis, said Thursday in an e-mail to the AP: "I wish her well with her book, and her future. That was a very unusual campaign."

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