Mother Jones - "Nevada Tea Partier's Memory Hole" Re Harry Reid's GOP Opponent Sharron Angle

[TomCADem]

It is really scary that the Republicans would actually field someone this crazy to run for Senate. Amazing. Orly Taitz almost seems sane by comparison. "Repeal regulations that prohibit off shore drilling"? Seriously?

http://motherjones.com/mojo/2010/06/nevada-tea-partier-memory-hole-website-sharron-angle-harry-reid-senate

That Internet thing is mighty tricky for Republicans to master. Sharron Angle—Tea Partier, Oath Keepers supporter, anti-fluoride crusader, and new GOP candidate for Senate from Nevada—is already demonstrating her solidarity with party luminaries like Ted Stevens, George W. Bush, and the entire House Republican caucus by staging an epic Web fail of her own. In a possible bid to play down her more right-leaning, less mainstream views—which are bound to be a liability in a general election fight with Democratic Senate majority leader Harry Reid—Angle's campaign website was scrubbed of its spiciest material. Previously, her site featured an "issues" page, where Angle champions nuclear waste while deriding the UN, the Department of Education, "Obamacare," "illegals," and "an unscientific hysteria over the man-caused global warming hoax." That web page became inaccessible.

Unless, that is, you search for the cached page. So, here, saved for posterity with annotations, are 11 top "issues" statements by Sharron Angle that should be remembered...or at least fact-checked...between now and November:

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Cap and Trade, which is based on an unscientific hysteria over the man-caused global warming hoax, steps over the constitutional boundaries of the federal government and is merely another way to tax the people."

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"Sharron Angle would legislate to repeal regulations that prohibit off shore drilling, drilling in ANWR and development of American owned petroleum resources...Sharron Angle would: Promote Nevada, as the nuclear energy capital of reprocessing spent fuels for the United States... educate Nevadans and Americans, on the safe transportation of nuclear spent fuels since 1954 over 400 million miles without an accident."

[laughingliberal]

1. All that red meat isn't looking quite so good now that's she's in the spotlight.

The Yucca mountain issue, alone, should tank her. Did she forget it's 90 miles from the most populous county in the state?

[TomCADem]

3. Disagree - Look at Rand Paul. Media Will Ignore Or White Wash Her Views, Then...

When she gets elected, everyone will wake up scratching their head regarding how Nevada elected this nut into the Senate. News about her extremist views will be censored in order to keep moderates and Democrats from voting in the election. It is voter suppression through corporate censorship. Worse, when the occasional media outlet does report on her positions, it will be shouted down with screams of liberal media by the rest of the corporate media.

[Bryn]

2. Dear Sharron, in your dreams!

Go away, you're too unAmerican and a nutjob as well as dangerous!