Michael Steele Says Wacko NV Repub Senate Candidate, Sharron Angle, is NV GOP “Standard Bearer”
Via TPM
Michael Steele wasted no time in rushing to embrace kooky NV Republican senatorial candidate, Sharron Angle, after she won the primary yesterday. Maybe he was thinking that at least she was better than chicken economist Sue Lowden. Maybe he should think again.
According to Steele, the election won’t be about Angle’s rather, um, unconventional ideas.
Steele said the election won’t be about Angle’s views—which even her rivals in the Republican primary said are too extreme to win a general election against Reid.
“We expect this election will be as much about Harry Reid and Barack Obama as anything else,” Steele said. He said the RNC is “fully-committed” to helping Angle win, and promised to bolster her shoestring campaign with national and state Republican resources “within the next 10 days.”
Well, the Republicans may not want this election to be about Angle’s views but you can damn well guarantee the Democrats are going to make it all about them. How far out in left right field is she on the issues? Probably somewhat to the right of Rand Paul.
Reid’s people have already lined up the talking points, some of which include her opposition to fluoridated water, her opposition to unemployment benefits, her crusade to end social security and Medicare, her disdain for Americans working in the hospitality industry (and, yeah, Vegas is in Nevada) and this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Read about her support for a group called the Oath Keepers who think the government is gearing up to put us all in concentration camps (FEMA camps?).
In a state rife with foreclosures (and as an assemblywoman she voted against protecting homebuyers from mortgage fraud) with high unemployment and a lot of retired people it’s pretty hard to see how the Repubs are going to not make the election about Angle and her far right point of view. Chicken economics looks pretty good compared to her.
(Title edited to correct radical right wing state she’s running in. ed.)
Posted by marindenver on 06/09/10 at 08:51 PM • Permalink
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