Tag Archives: Nevada

Complete with depression-era music via Barber’s Adagio For Strings. (I prefer William Orbit’s techno version, of course!)

In this ad Angle claims to want to save Social Security (from Harry Reid, of course), but that’s certainly not what she’s said in the past: “We need to phase Medicare and Social Security out in favor of something privatized. I’m saying it can’t be fixed. It’s broken.”

Days after Sharron Angle declared that she would not accept donations from companies that support LGBT rights, the Daily Beast’s Steve Friess wonders what Angle will do about the filthy gay-friendly money she’s already received. The Tea Party favorite, facing off against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, checked “yes” on a questionnaire from the Government is NOT God PAC on …

This was supposed to be an official Sharron Angle press conference. But when the speaker at the podium opened up the floor to questions, Angle turned on her heel and fled the venue, pursued by the press that her own campaign had invited.

Twice yesterday my pronunciation of Nevada was corrected by a local. They’s touchy about that here. T-shirts and bumper stickers on that issue abound.

The bottom line cracks me up.

Senate majority leader Harry Reid has surged past GOP candidate Sharron Angle in a new poll after having trailed Nevada’s teabagger hero in past surveys. The Democratic incumbent’s aggressive strategy of attacking Angle’s staunch conservative views from the moment she won the June 8 primary has cost her support among every voter group — from men and women to both …

Even Fox News seems to be over her.

“I think that two wrongs don’t make a right. And I have been in the situation of counseling young girls, not 13 but 15, who have had very at risk, difficult pregnancies. And my counsel was to look for some alternatives, which they did. And they found that they had made what was really a lemon situation into lemonade. Well …

Sharron Angle is threatening to sue Harry Reid because his campaign staff has republished some of her own statements on a site called Sharron Angle’s Underground Bunker. Because the way to bury something you’re embarrassed for having said is to sue somebody for repeating it. A spokesman for Harry Reid notes: “These are Sharron Angle’s positions in Sharron’s own words …

Nevada local television covered a group of senior citizens calling themselves the Alliance For Retired Americans as they protested outside the campaign headquarters of teabagger loon Sharron Angle. But the group’s “spokesman” is actually Richard Miller, the head of Reid’s Southern Nevada Steering Committee. I guess they thought those terrible handmade signs made them look all for realz and shit.