Sharron Angle: National Republicans Have 'Lost Their Principles'

Sharron Angle: National Republicans Have ‘Lost Their Principles’

PoliticsOctober 2010 • Views: 4,760

Jon Ralston has obtained a recording of a meeting between Nevada GOP wacko Sharron Angle and Tea Party of Nevada candidate Scott Ashjian, in which Angle trashes the Republican Party — then tries to convince Ashjian to back her because she’ll be able to get him access to Jim DeMint and other top GOP fat cats: Angle: “I’m not sure I can win” if Ashjian’s in, nat’l GOPers “have lost their principles,” need to “leave me alone”.

And right after being exposed saying the GOP has no principles, Angle will be the star speaker at a $500-per-person fundraiser at the National Republican Senatorial Committee Headquarters. Which might seem strange, but there won’t be any hard feelings — because everyone in the GOP knows the game. The Tea Party exists for them to exploit.

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Mark Pennington Mon, Oct 4, 2010 9:43:09am

I truly hope this is a sign that she is going down…

Nervous Norvous Mon, Oct 4, 2010 9:44:20am

Little Green Footballs: National Republicans Have ‘Lost Their ~~Principles~~ Friggin minds!’

RogueOne Mon, Oct 4, 2010 9:44:46am

Where has she been? They lost their principles around 1998.

Nervous Norvous Mon, Oct 4, 2010 9:45:32am

re: #3 RogueOne

Where has she been? They lost their principles around 1998.

Provided they actually had any in the first place..

Kragar Mon, Oct 4, 2010 9:45:58am

Obviously they no principles.

They’re backing nutballs like Angle, Paul, and O’Donnell.

Taqyia2Me Mon, Oct 4, 2010 9:49:27am

Lincoln had principles.
After that…?

NJDhockeyfan Mon, Oct 4, 2010 9:51:13am

The Las Vegas Review-Journal has given Angel their endorsement today. They endorsed Harry Reid 6 years ago.

mikefromArlington Mon, Oct 4, 2010 9:51:38am

Maybe I’m paranoid but I think this is a last ditch effort from the Angle campaign to try and paint herself as an outsider and regain some momentum she lost rather than have the public focus on her, Millers, Buck, Ayotte, O’Donnell and Palin’s idea that raped women should conceive the child.

Nervous Norvous Mon, Oct 4, 2010 9:52:07am

re: #7 NJDhockeyfan

The Las Vegas Review-Journal has given Angel their endorsement today. They endorsed Harry Reid 6 years ago.

Good lord…..I’d endorse a turnip before I’d endorse a nutjob like Angel.

Kronocide Mon, Oct 4, 2010 9:52:24am

National Republicans have lost their ~~principles~~ minds.

Charles Johnson Mon, Oct 4, 2010 9:53:58am

re: #7 NJDhockeyfan

The Las Vegas Review-Journal has given Angel their endorsement today. They endorsed Harry Reid 6 years ago.

I wouldn’t care if Ronald Reagan came back from the grave and endorsed Sharron Angle. She’s one of the most disturbingly crazy candidates in this election.

NJDhockeyfan Mon, Oct 4, 2010 9:59:29am

re: #11 Charles

I wouldn’t care if Ronald Reagan came back from the grave and endorsed Sharron Angle. She’s one of the most disturbingly crazy candidates in this election.

Harry Reid is a shitbag. I have no dog in this race since I’m in Virginia but if Reid loses I won’t shed a tear.

Kragar Mon, Oct 4, 2010 9:59:47am

re: #11 Charles

I wouldn’t care if Ronald Reagan came back from the grave and endorsed Sharron Angle. She’s one of the most disturbingly crazy candidates in this election.

Zombie Reagan would say “BRAINS!”, take one sniff of Angle, then keep shuffling along.

Varek Raith Mon, Oct 4, 2010 10:00:34am

re: #13 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Zombie Reagan would say “BRAINS!”, take one sniff of Angle, then keep shuffling along.

I’d rather face the Zombie Apocalypse than vote for Angle.

reine.de.tout Mon, Oct 4, 2010 10:05:06am

re: #8 mikefromArlington

Maybe I’m paranoid but I think this is a last ditch effort from the Angle campaign to try and paint herself as an outsider and regain some momentum she lost rather than have the public focus on her, Millers, Buck, Ayotte, O’Donnell and Palin’s idea that raped women should conceive the child.

They’ve said that rape should result in a conception?
Odd.
I thought they were against abortion in the event a raped woman did conceive. I had no clue they were of a mind that raped women ought to conceive a child during the rape.

Taqyia2Me Mon, Oct 4, 2010 10:07:35am

re: #12 NJDhockeyfan

Yep. Harry Reid telling us all that the Iraq war was lost and the surge was a failure before the surge was deployed is in permanent indelible ink.

Charles Johnson Mon, Oct 4, 2010 10:08:41am

re: #12 NJDhockeyfan

Harry Reid is a shitbag. I have no dog in this race since I’m in Virginia but if Reid loses I won’t shed a tear.

If Reid loses that will mean you have an unreconstructed John Birch Society lunatic in office, who believes women should be forced to bear rapists’ babies, and fluoridation is an evil government plot.

I guess that’s not a problem for you.

recusancy Mon, Oct 4, 2010 10:08:45am

Why do conservatives hate Harry Reid? I understand his ineptness from a liberal point of view but I would think a conservative would like his inability to get things done. What has he done to earn your ire?

lawhawk Mon, Oct 4, 2010 10:09:22am

re: #11 Charles

It’s quite telling that the paper is endorsing Angle over Reid.

Reid is that bad.

Angle is the evil of two lessers IMO.

Frankly, the paper ignores the crazy statements and out-of-mainstream position she takes on a wide range of issues.

The paper should have withheld its endorsement of any candidate in the race because neither is deserving.

Decatur Deb Mon, Oct 4, 2010 10:11:02am

Here is RNC chief Michael Steele on the NV race a day or so ago. He openly declares the marriage (non-gay) of the GOP and the TP:

[Link: politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com…]

lawhawk Mon, Oct 4, 2010 10:11:06am

re: #18 recusancy

To me, Reid has blocked the nuclear industry from finding a national repository at Yucca Mt even though the feds have been taking fees from nuclear power plants for years for that very purpose and the uncertainty over nuclear waste storage is a continuing cost and curb on development of an energy source that delivers large amounts of energy with no COx or other greenhouse emissions and can do so in a much smaller footprint than solar or wind.

recusancy Mon, Oct 4, 2010 10:12:21am

re: #11 Charles

I wouldn’t care if Ronald Reagan came back from the grave and endorsed Sharron Angle. She’s one of the most disturbingly crazy candidates in this election.

Haha… From the endorsement:

For the past two years, Sen. Reid has been a water boy for the Obama White House, which is pushing perhaps the most radical liberal agenda in the country’s history.

So yeah. That’s where that paper stands.

recusancy Mon, Oct 4, 2010 10:13:27am

re: #21 lawhawk

To me, Reid has blocked the nuclear industry from finding a national repository at Yucca Mt even though the feds have been taking fees from nuclear power plants for years for that very purpose and the uncertainty over nuclear waste storage is a continuing cost and curb on development of an energy source that delivers large amounts of energy with no COx or other greenhouse emissions and can do so in a much smaller footprint than solar or wind.

So that puts him on par with Angle? Every senator from Nevada will do that. It’s NIMBY.

Charles Johnson Mon, Oct 4, 2010 10:13:32am

re: #21 lawhawk

To me, Reid has blocked the nuclear industry from finding a national repository at Yucca Mt even though the feds have been taking fees from nuclear power plants for years for that very purpose and the uncertainty over nuclear waste storage is a continuing cost and curb on development of an energy source that delivers large amounts of energy with no COx or other greenhouse emissions and can do so in a much smaller footprint than solar or wind.

Reid has blocked the nuclear industry’s plans to use Yucca Mountain, true — with overwhelming support from the voters in Nevada: Poll finds Nevada voters strongly oppose Yucca.

Decatur Deb Mon, Oct 4, 2010 10:13:56am

re: #11 Charles

I wouldn’t care if Ronald Reagan came back from the grave and endorsed Sharron Angle. She’s one of the most disturbingly crazy candidates in this election.

I think that trophy is awarded bi-weekly.

NJDhockeyfan Mon, Oct 4, 2010 10:14:52am

re: #17 Charles

If Reid loses that will mean you have an unreconstructed John Birch Society lunatic in office, who believes women should be forced to bear rapists’ babies, and fluoridation is an evil government plot.

I guess that’s not a problem for you.

I think they are both shitbags. I don’t know a lot about Angle but what I’ve read here she seems a bit nutty. Reid has apparently lost quite a bit of support in NV if his poll numbers are down and the biggest newspaper endorses his opponent. If Reid wins we know what crap we will continue to get from him, if Angle wins we will find out what the people in NV saw in her.

Varek Raith Mon, Oct 4, 2010 10:16:16am

re: #26 NJDhockeyfan

she seems a bit nutty

Holy epic understatement of forever, Batman!

Nervous Norvous Mon, Oct 4, 2010 10:16:51am

re: #26 NJDhockeyfan

I think they are both shitbags. I don’t know a lot about Angle but what I’ve read here she seems a bit nutty. Reid has apparently lost quite a bit of support in NV if his poll numbers are down and the biggest newspaper endorses his opponent. If Reid wins we know what crap we will continue to get from him, if Angle wins we will find out what the people in NV saw in her.

I’d like to see Reid lose and the Democrats retain their majority. Maybe they could find a real firebreather to take his place, and give the GOP something to be wistful about.

Nervous Norvous Mon, Oct 4, 2010 10:17:35am

re: #28 PT Barnum

I’d like to see Reid lose and the Democrats retain their majority. Maybe they could find a real firebreather to take his place, and give the GOP something to be wistful about.

“I remember when we could bloviate for days and Harry would just lay there like a corpse and take it.”

Decatur Deb Mon, Oct 4, 2010 10:18:47am

Do you know who else has lost their principles? Four of our AL state senators have just been arrested for corruption over electronic “charity” bingo. There are only two issues in this year’s election: bingo and “I’m more conservative than you are”.

[Link: www.google.com…]

lawhawk Mon, Oct 4, 2010 10:19:42am

re: #24 Charles

I understand that - but with Reid as Majority leader, he’s in a slightly different position and had thwarted any action on nuclear waste storage - hamstringing the industry.

recusancy:
I don’t equate them. I’m just stating part of my opposition to Reid but that doesn’t mean I’d vote for Angle if put in that position.

Nervous Norvous Mon, Oct 4, 2010 10:19:55am

Time for Lunch (Hot beef or the best Tenderloin in existence)

If you ever get to North Central Iowa let me know, I know a place where Hot Beef almost deserves to be a sacrament.

For those of you not from the midwest:

Hot Beef is a sandwich made of slices of roast beef between two slices of white bread with two scoops of mashed potatoes and smothered in a beef gravy.

When done badly, it’s awful. When done well, it’s ambrosia.

Nervous Norvous Mon, Oct 4, 2010 10:20:56am

BBIAB

Sionainn Mon, Oct 4, 2010 10:21:06am

re: #7 NJDhockeyfan

The Las Vegas Review-Journal has given Angel their endorsement today. They endorsed Harry Reid 6 years ago.

Not surprising. The Review-Journal is incredibly biased to the right, getting worse every year.

NJDhockeyfan Mon, Oct 4, 2010 10:21:22am

Washington Post: Why Harry Reid is in trouble

Harry Reid is one of the three or four most powerful people in the United States government. But the state he represents isn’t just in a bad recession — it’s in something closer to a depression:

Unemployment in Nevada is now 14.4 percent, the highest in the nation and a stark contrast to the 3.8 percent unemployment rate here just 10 years ago; in Las Vegas, it is 14.7 percent.

Now, I don’t think the unemployment rate in Nevada is Reid’s fault. He didn’t sit Nevada down and tell it to base its economy on a housing bubble. But voters blame their representatives for the economy, and given Reid’s uncommon power, he has fewer excuses than most. The reality is, he’ll need a miracle — or an extremely unelectable opponent — to survive this election.

rwdflynavy Mon, Oct 4, 2010 10:21:27am

re: #32 PT Barnum

Time for Lunch (Hot beef or the best Tenderloin in existence)

If you ever get to North Central Iowa let me know, I know a place where Hot Beef almost deserves to be a sacrament.

For those of you not from the midwest:

Hot Beef is a sandwich made of slices of roast beef between two slices of white bread with two scoops of mashed potatoes and smothered in a beef gravy.

When done badly, it’s awful. When done well, it’s ambrosia.

Starbucks in Nevada IA used to have an awesome Tenderloin sandwich. Yummy!

And Maidrites in Marshalltown IA…. more yummy!

brownbagj Mon, Oct 4, 2010 10:22:02am

re: #30 Decatur Deb

I saw that today too. Nothing like buying votes. No wonder I trust the government to do the right thing.

I know they were caught, but how many other sweet deals go through without a whisper?

NJDhockeyfan Mon, Oct 4, 2010 10:22:10am

re: #34 Sionainn

Not surprising. The Review-Journal is incredibly biased to the right, getting worse every year.

Why did they endorse Reid 6 years ago if they are biased to the right?

Sionainn Mon, Oct 4, 2010 10:22:14am

re: #17 Charles

If Reid loses that will mean you have an unreconstructed John Birch Society lunatic in office, who believes women should be forced to bear rapists’ babies, and fluoridation is an evil government plot.

I guess that’s not a problem for you.

It’s a major problem for me. I’m voting for Reid.

Shiplord Kirel Mon, Oct 4, 2010 10:22:23am

I like the nuke waste plan proposed by an Omni magazine writer back in the 80s:
We build a huge expanse of concrete in a dry climate or use one that already exists, say, a Texas Tech commuter parking lot. We put some little channels around it to catch run-off. We pile the waste on the slab, hottest stuff toward the center. We build a fence at some safe distance and put signs on it: DANGER! CROSS THIS FENCE AND YOU WILL DIE! There will admittedly be people willing to cross the fence. Just think of it as evolution in action.

brownbagj Mon, Oct 4, 2010 10:23:26am

re: #40 Shiplord Kirel

I smell a darwin award. Literally.

Sionainn Mon, Oct 4, 2010 10:23:32am

re: #21 lawhawk

To me, Reid has blocked the nuclear industry from finding a national repository at Yucca Mt even though the feds have been taking fees from nuclear power plants for years for that very purpose and the uncertainty over nuclear waste storage is a continuing cost and curb on development of an energy source that delivers large amounts of energy with no COx or other greenhouse emissions and can do so in a much smaller footprint than solar or wind.

Yep. He’s got my vote for that accomplishment alone.

brownbagj Mon, Oct 4, 2010 10:24:44am

re: #42 Sionainn

Well, if not coal or oil, nuclear is the only thing left.

How would you solve this problem?

Varek Raith Mon, Oct 4, 2010 10:25:11am

Yucca Mt ain’t gonna happen.
The Feds need to move on and find an alternative site.

Sionainn Mon, Oct 4, 2010 10:25:14am

re: #26 NJDhockeyfan

I think they are both shitbags. I don’t know a lot about Angle but what I’ve read here she seems a bit nutty. Reid has apparently lost quite a bit of support in NV if his poll numbers are down and the biggest newspaper endorses his opponent. If Reid wins we know what crap we will continue to get from him, if Angle wins we will find out what the people in NV saw in her.

If I recall correctly, Reid has never polled very well in Nevada, yet he wins.

Taqyia2Me Mon, Oct 4, 2010 10:25:49am

re: #35 NJDhockeyfan

Washington Post: Why Harry Reid is in trouble

Now, I don’t think the unemployment rate in Nevada is Reid’s fault. He didn’t sit Nevada down and tell it to base its economy on a housing bubble. But voters blame their representatives for the economy, and given Reid’s uncommon power, he has fewer excuses than most. The reality is, he’ll need a miracle — or an extremely unelectable opponent — to survive this election.

If I was in the prediction business, I would say the part about Reid being up against an unelectable opponent is coming true.

recusancy Mon, Oct 4, 2010 10:26:18am

re: #38 NJDhockeyfan

Why did they endorse Reid 6 years ago if they are biased to the right?

Reid’s a conservative Dem. Not quite a blue dog but not exactly a radical liberal.

MrSilverDragon Mon, Oct 4, 2010 10:27:19am

re: #44 Varek Raith

Yucca Mt ain’t gonna happen.
The Feds need to move on and find an alternative site.

I vote for getting it all stored into a rocket and blasted towards Venus. Won’t have to worry about storage fees there!

/ (kinda)

Sionainn Mon, Oct 4, 2010 10:27:22am

re: #38 NJDhockeyfan

Why did they endorse Reid 6 years ago if they are biased to the right?

Did you read what I wrote? Six years ago, most people weren’t nuts.

Varek Raith Mon, Oct 4, 2010 10:28:05am

re: #48 MrSilverDragon

I vote for getting it all stored into a rocket and blasted towards Venus. Won’t have to worry about storage fees there!

/ (kinda)

I say we just nuke it.

MrSilverDragon Mon, Oct 4, 2010 10:29:00am

re: #50 Varek Raith

I say we just nuke it.

From orbit, of course. It’s the only way to be sure.

NJDhockeyfan Mon, Oct 4, 2010 10:29:04am

re: #49 Sionainn

Did you read what I wrote? Six years ago, most people weren’t nuts.

The entire newspaper moved to the right in just 6 years? Really? Got a link to support that?

Gus Mon, Oct 4, 2010 10:31:35am

Regarding Yucca Mountain. If Angle did win the election she will enter the Senate as a serious greenhorn. She won’t even come close to the experience of Reid or the power he wields (and others with seniority in the Senate regardless of party). That seniority was what allowed Reid to block Yucca. Angle will have zero seniority and won’t be able to muster any power until many years. At most all she will get is support from the GOP. In other words Reid’s ability to block is far greater than Angle’s potential ability to unblock.

recusancy Mon, Oct 4, 2010 10:31:40am

re: #52 NJDhockeyfan

The entire newspaper moved to the right in just 6 years? Really? Got a link to support that?

Here’s a link:

For the past two years, Sen. Reid has been a water boy for the Obama White House, which is pushing perhaps the most radical liberal agenda in the country’s history.

Stan the Demanded Plan Mon, Oct 4, 2010 10:31:57am

Tribalism vs Common Sense

Sionainn Mon, Oct 4, 2010 10:32:50am

re: #44 Varek Raith

Yucca Mt ain’t gonna happen.
The Feds need to move on and find an alternative site.

Preferably a site that is geologically safer than Yucca Mountain.

NJDhockeyfan Mon, Oct 4, 2010 10:34:58am

Perhaps the people of NV just got tired of all the various sexist & racist comments by Reid. You can only get away with that for so long before you are voted out of office for it.

Decatur Deb Mon, Oct 4, 2010 10:37:05am

re: #56 Sionainn

Preferably a site that is geologically safer than Yucca Mountain.

Not so important if we stop thinking of it as “disposal” and start thinking of it as “energy in storage for future use”.

Charles Johnson Mon, Oct 4, 2010 10:38:52am

re: #57 NJDhockeyfan

Perhaps the people of NV just got tired of all the various sexist & racist comments by Reid. You can only get away with that for so long before you are voted out of office for it.

Reid’s so-called “sexist and racist comments” are absurd distortions of what he said by the right wing. I’m not a particular fan of Harry Reid myself, but the accusation that he’s a “racist” is just silly beyond belief.

Gus Mon, Oct 4, 2010 10:43:55am

Right. Sharron Angle represents the pinnacle of anti-sexism and anti-racism.

Shiplord Kirel Mon, Oct 4, 2010 10:55:40am

I have a bad feeling about this election.

I think two of the three major tea party senate candidates, Paul and Angle, will win. The GOP media machine has managed to shift the emphasis from their own candidates’ craziness to the opponents’ alleged complicity in the Washington status quo. This may not play so well in Kentucky but it will in Nevada, where Reid is definitely part of the status quo, good, bad or indifferent. The third nutburg candidate, Christine O’Donnell in Delaware, is still almost certain to lose. Her opponent is hard to tar with the status quo label and they have to settle for a less-convincing “bearded Marxist” smear. As a probable tax cheat and pathological liar, O’Donnell herself has liabilities beyond tea party craziness.

When the time comes, the “undecided” voters in Kentucky and Nevada will vote heavily for the tea partiers. If they were much bothered by the craziness, they would already have committed to the respective Democrats. The “status quo” meme, however, will resonate personally for them and the media machine has done a great job of selling it to anyone who is at all susceptible.

Romantic Heretic Mon, Oct 4, 2010 12:34:41pm

re: #11 Charles

I wouldn’t care if Ronald Reagan came back from the grave and endorsed Sharron Angle. She’s one of the most disturbingly crazy candidates in this election.

That’s been done.

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