Category Archives: Sharron Angle

What John Ensign’s resignation means for Sharron Angle

By: Rachel Weiner The surprise resignation of Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) has major implications for another Nevada Republican: former assemblywoman Sharron Angle. Angle, who lost last fall to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, was planning to run for Rep. Dean Heller’s seat when the Republican congressman ran for Senate next year. Now that Ensign is [...]

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So much for Sarah Palin as a serious ’12 contender

There was a time last summer and fall, when Tea Party ideologues like Sharron Angle, Christine O’Donnell and Joe Miller were winning key Republican Senate primaries, that it seemed quite possible — maybe even inevitable — that the Republican Party would nominate Sarah Palin for president in 2012. Here were Republican primary voters shedding all [...]

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Reid: Tea party’s days are numbered

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid believes the tea party’s days are numbered.   By: Shira Toeplitz POLITICO “The tea party will disappear as soon as the economy gets better. And the economy’s getting better all the time,” Reid said in a pre-recorded interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press,” scheduled to air Sunday. Reid argued that [...]

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They Hate Our Guts…..And they’re drunk on power.

THE WEEKLY STANDARD By: P.J. O’Rourke Perhaps you’re having a tiny last minute qualm about voting Republican. Take heart. And take the House and the Senate. Yes, there are a few flakes of dander in the fair tresses of the GOP’s crowning glory—an isolated isolationist or two, a hint of gold buggery, and Christine O’Donnell [...]

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GOP mega-donors look toward 2012

POLITICO By MAGGIE HABERMAN & KENNETH P. VOGEL  As the 2010 campaign draws to its raucous close, the Republican Party’s biggest donors are slowly beginning to choose sides, with some still looking for a strong alternative to a populist conservative movement that makes them uneasy. The big New York, Texas, California and Florida donors who [...]

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Reid and Angle disagree — about everything

LAS VEGAS — Sixty minutes, two candidates and not a single moment of agreement. Instead, Republican Sharron Angle taunted Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to “man up” Thursday night in their only debate of a close, caustic and costly race. Speaking more softly, Reid called her extreme, an ally of the special interests and advocate [...]

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Angle defends conservative positions

RENO, Nev. — Sharron Angle strode to the microphones here and made a vigorous defense of her fiercely conservative positions, renewing her calls for the elimination of the Education Department and signaling that she still supports a Social Security system that will eventually be “transitioned out.” Speaking to supporters here at the Atlantis Casino before a [...]

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Americans for New Leadership Protect NV.

I have grown so tired of listening to the same old shop worn talking points of the corrupt and failed Democrat Party, that basically hasn’t changed it’s spiel since the Depression Era of the 1930′s, that I wanted to give the Sharon Angle campaign the opportunity to counter the vintage Dem line that she wants [...]

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WHITE HOUSE GOES WEST: Obama Set to Drive Down Candidate’s Poll Numbers

President Obama and Vice President Biden are both on the campaign trail today, boosting a lucky group of four candidates between them. Obama will attend two Kansas City fundraisers for Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan’s Senate campaign before heading to Las Vegas for two events at the Aria Resort and Casino with Senate Majority [...]

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Tea Party’s Next Wave Rising in Alaska to Colorado

Rifle through a stack of Tea Party candidate resumes, and Joe Miller’s will stand out. The man who wants to turn a fellow Republican, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, out of office is a graduate of Yale Law School and West Point, a decorated combat veteran and former judge. Many Tea Partiers share his disdain for [...]

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