► Sharron Angle Runs, but Finds She Can’t Hide: Gives in to Pressure from Progressives
Posted by Jesse R. Borges on June 11, 2010
After facing days of enormous pressure and scrutiny from progressive bloggers and national media organizations, Sharron Angle has relented and re-posted her policy positions — www.sharronangle.com/issues — including many of the extremist views that she defended during the Nevada Republican Primary.
Recall that Angle pulled her “Issues” page off the web immediately after her election night victory. Within just the few days that the policy statements had been removed, bloggers ensured that earlier copies of her website were made available all across the Internet, showing that while Mrs. Angle could run, she would not be able to hide from the radical and dangerous beliefs that she so firmly believes in and which she ran on in her primary campaign.
Perhaps, this is a sign that Sharron Angle is actually going to run as . . . well . . . ”Sharron Angle.”
In any case, at least one thing is certain. Harry Reid had better fasten his seat belt and shift into action. Just today, Angle declared that it was the highly unpopular but reasonably level-headed Reid and not she who is the “whack job.” However, as Nevada’s MyNews 3 reports, “Angle isn’t doing television interviews; instead, she’s carefully choosing where and how to deliver her message: conservative talk radio.” Meanwhile, Reid has begun to attack Angle’s views, while simultaneously running positive ads that promote his own accomplishments. Former President Bill Clinton headlined a rally for Reid last night, and, today, Reid even scored the endorsement of the Republican Mayor of Reno, who called Angle an “ultra-right winger,” stating that “with the wild ideas she has going back to Washington, our state will suffer and we would never get anything done.”
It’s going to be a very bumpy ride indeed — for both candidates. Stay tuned.
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Ellen said
This is the dumbest, most inaccurate news report of the century. The website crashed under
the load of so many donors trying to donate and had to be rebuilt/reconstructed!! Sharron
Angle does NOT ‘hide’ from anyone!!
DoctorJesse said
Thanks for your comment, Ellen, but here’s a quick Fact Check:
As was widely reported, following her primary night victory, Sharron Angle brought on a group of advisors that Scott Brown had used to win election to the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts. The Angle campaign immediately removed her extremist policy statements from the website. And while a good amount of money has been contributed to Angle in the aftermath of her victory, the bulk of that cash was raised “after” the policy statements had been removed.
PainfullyAware said
Angle isn’t Extreme => she is American.
Too Bad That Most Have Been Reduced In Understanding As To What That Entails.
shortbuswonderkid said
Sharron Angle has a propaganda page and a donation page, but there is nothing out there about what she and her party wants to do. She had a web page, and when it was posted she said some very stupid and scary things. She took it down so we can’t see what she wants to do to our state and country. It is my opinion that she is a very bad lady, dirty and slimy like Dick Nixon.
It is clear that our nation is headed for civil war. We need politicians that recognize this, and are willing to work against a terrible future. Sharron Angle is trying to manipulate the angry and the stupid to help her into office. Before she took down her web site, she had claimed in writing that if she isn’t elected, people should practice their second amendment right and march on Washington. Think real hard about that for just a moment. If that alone isn’t enough to scare you, then you are an idiot and need to use your second amendment rights and shooting yourself in the head. It is your patriotic duty to protect our nation, and that would be the best way for all of us to feel safer.
SandyJustice said
Too bad there are people who don’t know what it means to be AMERICAN! I’ll give you some examples: Phasing out Social Security for disabled persons is UNAMERICAN! Wanting to continue offshore drilling so that other catastrophes are highly likely to occur to other Americans such as stripping them of their livelihood, polluting and contaminating their rivers and waters, poisoning and killing their birds and fish and turning their lives upside down—that is UNAMERICAN! Demanding that the U.S. withdraw from the United Nations and seeking to eliminate the Department of Education and the list goes on—UNAMERICAN! If anyone is in agreement with Ms. Angles’s policies,then I don’t know what American country they live in and how they could identify themselves as AMERICANS!