Angle support sinks as Nevadans get to know her
“Sharron Angle is dead, one in an occasional series.” Those are the words Nevada readers woke up to this morning from political analyst Jon Ralston who added that three recent polls demonstrate, “the trend is inescapable and the race’s dynamic is fundamentally altered.”
Why the shift? Because the more people learn about Sharron Angle’s extreme views, the faster they run away from her. A columnist John Brummett wrote in today’s Las Vegas Review-Journal, “national Republicans would like to put a veil over that face,” which says has become the “representative face of contemporary conservative Republicanism.” Who can blame them from running away from a candidate who tells rape and incest victims to turn a “lemon situation into lemonade”, says she wouldn’t have lifted a finger to save tens of thousands of Nevada jobs, and believes there’s a “"Second Amendment remedy" if she loses in November?
The latest revelation about Angle in today’s Las Vegas Sun is yet another example of just how extreme Sharron Angle actually is. Reporter Anjeanette Damon writes: “Angle’s view of religion’s role in government parallels that of a religious political movement — Christian Reconstructionism — seeking to return American civil society to biblical law.”
Angle is clear in her belief that the separation of church and state as an “unconstitutional doctrine” (it’s in the First Amendment, by the way), but the Sun writes that this group goes even further: “The movement’s more extreme beliefs are based on a strict interpretation of Mosaic law described in the Old Testament and include the execution of homosexuals and unchaste women and the denial of citizenship to those who don’t adhere to Reconstructionists’ religious beliefs.” While the story says Angle has never “advocated“ those views, prominent leaders in the organization are raising money for her. Given the Reconstructionists’ rigid stances, that’s not something that would do for someone who doesn’t share their views.
No wonder she has gone back to her underground bunker. As Columnist John L. Smith wrote this morning: “This past week she canceled an editorial board meeting with the Review-Journal and an interview with the ‘Nevada Newsmakers’ television program. Her scheduler claimed she had overbooked and couldn't find an hour for Nevada's largest newspaper, the one that for months has been on an editorial rampage to eviscerate Reid.”
Views so extreme that she won’t even talk to the outlet that has been her biggest supporter in the state. Now that’s saying something.
Angle support sinks as Nevadans get to know her
“Sharron Angle is dead, one in an occasional series.” Those are the words Nevada readers woke up to this morning from political analyst Jon Ralston who added that three recent polls demonstrate, “the trend is inescapable and the race’s dynamic is fundamentally altered.”
Why the shift? Because the more people learn about Sharron Angle’s extreme views, the faster they run away from her. A columnist John Brummett wrote in today’s Las Vegas Review-Journal, “national Republicans would like to put a veil over that face,” which says has become the “representative face of contemporary conservative Republicanism.” Who can blame them from running away from a candidate who tells rape and incest victims to turn a “lemon situation into lemonade”, says she wouldn’t have lifted a finger to save tens of thousands of Nevada jobs, and believes there’s a “"Second Amendment remedy" if she loses in November?
The latest revelation about Angle in today’s Las Vegas Sun is yet another example of just how extreme Sharron Angle actually is. Reporter Anjeanette Damon writes: “Angle’s view of religion’s role in government parallels that of a religious political movement — Christian Reconstructionism — seeking to return American civil society to biblical law.”
Angle is clear in her belief that the separation of church and state as an “unconstitutional doctrine” (it’s in the First Amendment, by the way), but the Sun writes that this group goes even further: “The movement’s more extreme beliefs are based on a strict interpretation of Mosaic law described in the Old Testament and include the execution of homosexuals and unchaste women and the denial of citizenship to those who don’t adhere to Reconstructionists’ religious beliefs.” While the story says Angle has never “advocated“ those views, prominent leaders in the organization are raising money for her. Given the Reconstructionists’ rigid stances, that’s not something that would do for someone who doesn’t share their views.
No wonder she has gone back to her underground bunker. As Columnist John L. Smith wrote this morning: “This past week she canceled an editorial board meeting with the Review-Journal and an interview with the ‘Nevada Newsmakers’ television program. Her scheduler claimed she had overbooked and couldn't find an hour for Nevada's largest newspaper, the one that for months has been on an editorial rampage to eviscerate Reid.”
Views so extreme that she won’t even talk to the outlet that has been her biggest supporter in the state. Now that’s saying something.
