Cuckoo? Sharron Angle says Harry Reid's the real 'whack job'
Hey, if there's a theme song for Nevada's U.S. Senate race, Ozzy Osbourne's "Crazy Train" might be the most logical choice.
It's a regular battle of the lunatics shaping up in the Silver State. That is, if you listen to the two campaigns.
The most pressing question: Who's more of a whack job? Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid or his Republican opponent Sharron Angle?
Angle's the one who's been called the whack job, and the nutcase, and the tin-foil-wearing lunatic. But ask her and she -- not surprisingly -- sees things differently.
Appearing on a Nevada radio talk show earlier this week, Angle reeled off a list of Reid's greatest hits -- or misfires -- to support her conclusion that Reid is the one who's cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.
"I' feel like I'm more mainstream than the fellow that said tourists stink, this war is lost, and light-skinned no-Negro dialect," she said alluding to some of Reid's more memorable comments.
"Can I go on and on about what I think a whack-job, marginal candidate sounds like, and that's Harry Reid," she said. "That's what we need to fire him."
If early polls are any indication, he's trending toward getting that Angle-signed pink slip.
A new Rasmussen poll gives Angle an 11-percentage-point lead over Reid. That's a 3-point bump over the 8-point advantage she enjoyed over the majority leader a month ago.
She's got the party loyalists too, with 88% of Republicans lining up behind her. That's a big advantage over the 68% of Democrats who support Reid.
Then there's Reid's abysmal job-approval rating of 35%.
Sure, his campaign is talking tough, and liberal pundits are claiming Angle's victory was a godsend, but actions speak louder than words.
And the action Thursday was unavoidable. If you think it's no big deal that former President Clinton showed up at a rally Thursday for Reid, you're nuts. Reid's campaign is spooked. Big time.
-- Jimmy Orr
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Whack jobs are all over DC. Since the Prince of Whack himself, the great corrupt lying skinny socialist narcissistic megalomaniac himself Barry Obama. DC is now more corrupt than its ever been, Chicago politics has imposed itself on DC. These whack jobs...all of them...need to go. Republicans and most especially democrats...FIRE THEM ALL! And please, dump the miserable failure Boxer!!
Posted by: Obama Lied | June 11, 2010 at 12:24 PM
Harry Reid has said so many outrageous things over the years that will give even the absolute worst Republican candidate years of devastating attack ad fuel.
Harry has a lot of money but it isnt enough to save him unless Angle really really really screws up
Posted by: Mark Zist | June 11, 2010 at 01:11 PM
Keep in mind that the Rasmussen polls have been highly questionable this year. Their estimates have been showing a far greater Republican advantage than what is being found by nearly all other respected polling companies. It's also important to point out that Sharron Angle doesn't necessarily have to "really, really, really screw up" (as Mark Zist commented) in order to lose to Reid. All that she needs to do is to simply state the truth about what she believes in. For instance, she wants to END Social Security for all younger workers. Angle also wants to set mining regulatory laws back to 1872 and she wants to move speed ahead with offshore drilling. Don't believe me. Take a look at the policy statements that she once touted on her website, but pulled down immediately after winning the Republican Primary at http://politicalreformer.com/2010/06/09/%E2%96%BA-the-policy-statements-that-sharron-angle-removed-from-her-website/. Granted, Harry Reid is no prize. The Democrats could do a heck of a lot better. But, clearly, even Angle seems to know just how much of a “whack job" she'd look like if most voters in Nevada learned of the depth and breadth of her extremist views.
Posted by: DoctorJesse | June 11, 2010 at 06:47 PM
The people of Nevada are fed up with what we have been getting from Harry Reid. Nevadans are not stupid. If they were pleased with his results there would not be talk of removing him. He has been in office many years but now has the lowest approval rating of any Senator and he is the majority leader to boot. Sentor Reid now has to fight dirty against Sharron and it shows in the latest ad by creating a talking point out of a media clip of Sharron's but cutting it off before she gives an explanation of why and what she wants to do with these programs. This did not work with Sue Lowden in the primary and it won't with Reid in the general.
Posted by: NVProud | June 13, 2010 at 08:26 PM
Rock On Angle !!!
She is not Extreme => she is American.
It is too bad that many do not remember what that entails.
Posted by: PainfullyAware | June 14, 2010 at 12:45 PM
It,s always something with these people.
Posted by: stoneveneer | June 17, 2010 at 05:00 PM
I actually like that to progressives, being "extreme-ly" american is considered a negative. Sure shows what they don't want; what they don't want is a true american who follows the constitution being a senator. It would undue all the work they have done over the last 90 years to tear down and castrate the Constitution and term it "a racist document made by racist, white, poor-people haters". THAT is the CUCKOO MEDIA GARB that Angle needs to address and expose to the Nevadans and make it clear who is truly "on their side".
Game on Harry. Bring it. And bring it clean...or are you scared that being clean would relegate your nuttiness to approval by only the landfill media pigeons sucking on your dribble on a daily basis?
Nevada is not Chicago, Illinois and Harry Reid and his Chicago style bully tactics must go in 2010.
Posted by: BASTA | June 19, 2010 at 01:56 AM
Malcolm's minions touting Rasmussen, whodathunkit?
Posted by: FGFM | June 19, 2010 at 04:59 AM
Thank You GOP for giving us a senator who had an affair and had his parents pay off the husband. Thank you GOP for giving us a governor who will be or should be indited for perjury, corruption,spousal abuse,jury tampering, ect ect. Thank You GOP for funding our schools so well that we rank last in high school graduation rates and 48th overall.
And a VERY big THANK YOU for making Nevada the envy of every good ole boy in South Carolina by giving us a senatorial candidate whose beliefs were such an embarrassment that the GOP pulled her website down after her election to hide them. Black helicopters, fluoride communist conspiracy's, second amendment solutions, hiding from the press like Palin, (they can't answer simple questions anyway, so no harm there) she has it all!
Thank You GOP for making me so proud of being a Nevadan, that I'm taking a vacation in South Carolina-just to show off !
Posted by: charles hahn | June 22, 2010 at 08:14 AM
Thanks to the GOP for giving us a candidate that makes every good ole boy in South Carolina envious.
I am so proud to be an Nevadan right now that I'm planning to vacation in South Carolina-just to show off!
Black helicopters, communist fluoride conspiracy's, second amendment solutions, hiding from the press like Palin, man oh man she has it all.
Posted by: charles hahn | June 22, 2010 at 08:33 AM