Sharron Angle: ‘She Has Risen’

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This Easter, the right wing Las Vegas Review-Journal is running this crazed editorial by Glenn Cook, comparing Tea Party/John Birch Society lunatic Sharron Angle to … you guessed it … Jesus Christ.

How appropriate that on this Easter Sunday, Nevada marks yet another political resurrection.

And this one, so unexpected and undeserved, could answer the prayers of the tea party movement.

Sharron Angle, less than six months ago a national embarrassment following her humiliating election loss to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, might very well find herself representing Nevada in Congress by summer.

The GOP’s Angle stands out as a clear-cut winner following Thursday’s news that Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., is resigning effective May 3. …

She has risen. She has risen indeed.

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26 comments
1 darthstar  Sun, Apr 24, 2011 9:52:21am

She's still a national embarrassment. I thought about the chance she could get the nod for Senate since she was the GOP's candidate against Harry Reid. But I think Sue "chickens for checkups" Lowdon has a better shot at getting the nod, or the Tarkanian kid.

2 bratwurst  Sun, Apr 24, 2011 9:56:00am

Still have to tip your hat to the Nevada GOP for identifying perhaps the one and only person in the entire state who couldn't beat Harry Reid.

3 comradebillyboy  Sun, Apr 24, 2011 10:01:14am

Why would anyone expect rationality from today's republican party? The scary part is how many people just as zany as Angle got elected last November. Angle now represents the mainstream of the Republican party.

4 Winny Spencer  Sun, Apr 24, 2011 10:01:34am

I still think she is the most hilarious candidate for any office ever.

May she rise so that she can fall again and give us the enjoyment of watching another train wreck.

5 What, me worry?  Sun, Apr 24, 2011 10:04:43am

I guess that means she's a good witch, not a bad witch.

6 elizajane  Sun, Apr 24, 2011 10:05:11am

That's a very strange editorial. It both likens her to Jesus Christ and admits over and over that she was recently a national embarrassment and does not deserve a resurrection, which to my mind would tend to obviate the comparison. Unless he is suggesting that Christ should have stayed dead?

I think it's time for me to go off to my nice, liberal Episcopalian church for Easter service. The Right is distracting me from the joys of the day. Sharon Angle will never be a joy.

7 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Apr 24, 2011 10:19:30am

Are we sure that wasn't sarcasm?

I mean, he did call her an embarrassment.

8 Killgore Trout  Sun, Apr 24, 2011 10:21:06am

Thou shalt not fluoridate the water
/missing Commandment

9 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Apr 24, 2011 10:21:08am
And this one, so unexpected and undeserved

Yep. Sarcasm.

10 Iwouldprefernotto  Sun, Apr 24, 2011 10:21:11am

I'm a Jew, so please forgive my ignorance, but isn't is just wrong to compare a person with Jesus? Especially one that wants to screw over the poor and helpless.

11 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Sun, Apr 24, 2011 10:22:23am

Image: 5otyZ.jpg


I am in a used bookstore right now, and can't find what I was looking for. Suggest something nifty for me. Looking for sci-fi type stuff.

12 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Apr 24, 2011 10:23:57am

re: #11 negativ

Ever read anything by Frank Herbert?
/

13 PhillyPretzel  Sun, Apr 24, 2011 10:24:19am

re: #11 negativ
David Weber?

14 Killgore Trout  Sun, Apr 24, 2011 10:27:20am

re: #7 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Are we sure that wasn't sarcasm?

I mean, he did call her an embarrassment.

It's hard to tell with today's wingnuts but here are the rest of his articles....
Glenn Cook

The slippery slope of the animal welfare agenda

Getting a handle on firefighters and sick-leave abuse

An encounter with the nosy Nanny Staters

: Single moms, boyfriends and dead kids
Taxpayer horror stories

Taxpayers are like supporting characters in horror movies. You know they're going to be terrorized and carved up. It's just a question of when and how.

That formula played out again in 2010. ObamaCare became law. Your individual share of the national debt shot past $44,000. And plenty of lawmakers called for even higher taxes in 2011.


He seems pretty wingnutty and has a special fixation with cops and firefighters fleecing the citizens with their socialist unions.

15 Killgore Trout  Sun, Apr 24, 2011 10:29:29am

re: #10 Iwouldprefernotto

I'm a Jew, so please forgive my ignorance, but isn't is just wrong to compare a person with Jesus? Especially one that wants to screw over the poor and helpless.

I don't know about that. Christians are supposed to emulate Christ so I don't think the comparison falls under blasphemy. I think it's a faulty analogy but I don't think there's a religious problem with it.

16 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Apr 24, 2011 10:30:19am

re: #13 PhillyPretzel

Arthur C. Clarke?re: #14 Killgore Trout

And this one, so unexpected and undeserved

But, I don't think he's happy about Sharon coming back to muck up a race again. Some wingnuts aren't stupid.

17 Political Atheist  Sun, Apr 24, 2011 10:30:39am

re: #11 negativ

Go for an old classic like Campbell or Asimov.

18 Winny Spencer  Sun, Apr 24, 2011 10:36:29am

Ayn Rand would have loved the Tea Party version of Jesus.

19 dragonfire1981  Sun, Apr 24, 2011 10:38:40am

re: #4 Winny Spencer

I think Christine O'donnell takes that one by a hair (or should I say a broom?)

But it's darn close.

20 William Barnett-Lewis  Sun, Apr 24, 2011 10:41:27am

re: #11 negativ

Image: 5otyZ.jpg

I am in a used bookstore right now, and can't find what I was looking for. Suggest something nifty for me. Looking for sci-fi type stuff.

Heinlein, Bujold, or Delaney would be good to find.

21 Iwouldprefernotto  Sun, Apr 24, 2011 10:47:59am

re: #15 Killgore Trout

I don't know about that. Christians are supposed to emulate Christ so I don't think the comparison falls under blasphemy. I think it's a faulty analogy but I don't think there's a religious problem with it.

Doesn't emulating Christ mean that you do good deeds? Help the poor?

Please show me where it says that the rich should pay lower taxes and that the EPA is evil.

22 William of Orange  Sun, Apr 24, 2011 12:13:55pm

Glenn Cook. Rarely has a name been that fitting.

23 Tigger2005  Sun, Apr 24, 2011 3:33:26pm

re: #10 Iwouldprefernotto

I'm a Jew, so please forgive my ignorance, but isn't is just wrong to compare a person with Jesus? Especially one that wants to screw over the poor and helpless.

I wouldn't say that it's "wrong" to compare a person to Jesus, except for those who want Jesus to be absolutely unique in every way. But there's lots of passages in the New Testament where Jesus says we should and CAN be like him. Personally I don't think Jesus actually said anything attributed to him, but clearly many of the early Christians did think being Christ-like was the goal of a Christian.

So, there's nothing "wrong" with comparing somebody to Jesus, as long as it's an apt comparison, and not a hilariously absurd one like this.

24 gehazi  Sun, Apr 24, 2011 5:18:30pm

So...the candidate who couldn't win against a very beatable Harry Reid is supposed to win against a what will presumably be a much stronger Dem candidate?

Go ahead, Nevada GOP!

25 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Mon, Apr 25, 2011 12:41:46am

re: #24 gehazi

So...the candidate who couldn't win against a very beatable Harry Reid is supposed to win against a what will presumably be a much stronger Dem candidate?

Go ahead, Nevada GOP!

I love comedy

26 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Mon, Apr 25, 2011 12:42:54am

re: #11 negativ

Image: 5otyZ.jpg

I am in a used bookstore right now, and can't find what I was looking for. Suggest something nifty for me. Looking for sci-fi type stuff.

Iain Banks, any iain Banks culture novel

Also, any Steven Aylett novel, if you like slipstream fiction

Diamond Age by Stephenson, also rad


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