All posts tagged "Sharron Angle"

Back online, and stoked about it! I've been interested in this story for a couple of days, but haven't been able to blog about it: a man was arrested in Dearborn, Michigan for attempting to blow up a mosque, and this time there is no wriggling out of the fact that the would-be terrorist is a classic teabagger. Nor is there wriggling out of the fact that Dearborn has long been a town that wingnuts use for propaganda purposes. During the campaign, Sharron Angle claimed Dearborn was ruled by sharia law. In reality, it just has a lot of Muslim residents.

A winning election night is like Christmas in the McCain household, Meghan McCain told NBC's Jay Leno Wednesday.

In tonight's "too little, too late" department: Harry Reid is dropping some truth bombs about Sharron Angle. Politico, being wingnutty, takes a skeptical tone towards Reid's accusations that Angle speaks in code and wants to eliminate the vast majority of the federal government, with a special eye towards services that it actually provides people. It is, of course, absolutely true. Anyone who has been paying attention since before the primaries knows that Angle started off as a hard core Christian libertarian who wanted to eliminate Social Security, unemployment, the Department of Education, basically anything and everything that could conceivably call an "entitlement". And even after the Republican party got a hold of her and explained very carefully that while it was great that she believed those things, she needed to lie about her beliefs to get elected, she still had a tendency to slip up frequently in public. She called people who suffered from layoffs and had to collect unemployment "spoiled", and implied they just didn't want to work.

[rebelmouse-image 24749777 original_size="640x400" expand=1]This round-up of Republican race-baiting ads by Alex Pareene at Salon is at turns hilarious and frightening. But it also gives us an excellent glimpse of what Republican politicians think of their base---how they feel they need to speak to them to get a message across. Conservatives are always accusing liberals of stereotyping them and ascribing to them ugly motivations they don't actually have. But what do Republican politicians that conservatives vote for, give money to, and sometimes hero worship think of them? If anything, their opinion seems to be lower than liberals' opinion of conservatives.

Say what you will about the midterm elections, but they've been a hell of a ride. I'm a little sad to see that Sharron Angle's handlers are beginning to just reduce her public appearances rather than risk her telling another Hispanic voter that he/she "looks Asian", but one thing we're learning is that no matter how much the GOP establishment cracks down, the renegade candidates are just hard to control. Because of this, the usual metrics for understanding elections are getting all fucked up. Usually the polling data two weeks out is nearly set in stone, but in a lot of races, that's not as true as it usually is.

GOP Senate hopeful Angle says Muslim law taking hold in parts of United States