Sharon Angle, the Scientologist tea bagger that is the GOP candidate running against Harry Reid this fall, has avoided the media for the last few weeks since she was elected. Her first interview with a local reporter was . . . well, you can watch it for yourself.
Reporter: Is it true that you want to "transition out of Social Security"
Angle: Where are you getting this from? You're buying into Harry Reid's lies.
Reporter: But your own campaign website says-
Angle: Stop putting words into my mouth!
Angle really, really really wants to make this race a referendum on Harry Reid. That's all good and well, but you still have to offer up your own ideas in order to get taken seriously.
Harry Reid was going to be facing a really tough re-election. If the goopers don't get a muzzle and leash on Angle, then he might just cruise onto re-election after all. Democrats aren't too pleased with him, and independents are tired of him, and of course the GOP can't stand him - but at least he's not batsh*t insane.
Angle is, at least, completely honest. She says what a lot of GOPers really think and believe deep down inside, without the censorship and smokescreens that the Republicans have been relying on to get elected over the last fifty years.
(I know the Dems have our own WTF in Alvin Greene, but at least his particular brand of crazy is a quiet, under the radar one.)
Edited, Jun 18th 2010 1:13pm by catwho