Posted on 06/17/2010 10:18:25 AM PDT by patriotgal1787
"Nevada Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle walks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 15, 2010, as she leaves the Republican party policy luncheon. Angle is running against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. - AP Photo"
Nevada Republican Senatorial candidate Sharron Angle was very well received on Capitol Hill yesterday as she lunched with a group of Republican Senators. According to Elizabeth Letchworth, our guest last night on The ANDREA SHEA KING Show, Sharron was treated like a rock star.
Letchworth, founder and editor of GRADEGov.Com and former 26-year elected Secretary of the US Senate has kept her connections and contacts on Capitol Hill. She now joins us each Wednesday night as a regular contributor to update us on "insider" Capitol Hill happenings.
Letchworth said last night that Republican Senators are so thrilled with Sharron Angle, many of them offered her funds from their own campaign war chests. Listen to the interview here.
"Sharron Angle, National Press Club, Washington DC, April 15, 2010"
Angle received the endorsement of the Tea Party Express/Our Country Deserves Better PAC at a news conference held at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on April 15th, the final day of our national tour. It was then I had the pleasure of meeting her and her husband. First impressions are lasting ones. Both are Gold Star -- A+ in my estimation.
An article in today's Las Vegas Sun hyperventilates about Angle's accurate observation on the mood of America toward the current Administration and Congress:
Theres no doubt a chunk of the electorate is angry at the federal government. But are voters willing to take up arms?U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle seemed to raise that specter in three interviews in the past six months, suggesting that some would seek Second Amendment remedies if Congress isnt reined in.
She said the purpose of the right to bear arms is to check the federal government. But she stopped short of saying that she would support an armed uprising.
Our Founding Fathers, they put that Second Amendment in there for a good reason, and that was for the people to protect themselves against a tyrannical government, Angle told conservative talk show host Lars Larson in January. In fact, Thomas Jefferson said its good for a country to have a revolution every 20 years. I hope thats not where were going, but you know, if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies.
Also that month, she told Reno conservative talk show host Bill Manders she hoped her opponent, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, would be defeated at the ballot box before the electorate resorted to more aggressive measures.
Im hoping that were not getting to Second Amendment remedies, Angle said. I hope that the vote will be the cure for the Harry Reid problems.
And last month she told the Reno Gazette-Journal its almost an imperative that conservatives win.
The nation is arming, she told the newspaper. What are they arming for if it isnt that they are so distrustful of their government? Theyre afraid theyll have to fight for their liberty in more Second Amendment kinds of ways. Thats why I look at this as almost an imperative. If we dont win at the ballot box, what will be the next step?
Is she simply tapping into an intense mistrust of the federal government? Or is she advocating something?
[...]
Angle spokesman Jerry Stacy stressed Wednesday that Angle is not advocating for a revolution. But he didnt back away from Angles comments that trouble could be brewing.
We should all be worried, but again, shes not advocating or suggesting a revolution, Stacy said.
In the Gazette-Journal interview, Angle said she prefers to fight at the ballot box.
Thats why Im in the battle the way Im in the battle, she said. I still have a great deal of faith in our political system and a great deal of faith in the American people and voter.
The armed revolt sentiment doesnt belong to Angle alone.
Rick Barber, a candidate in a Republican congressional runoff in Alabama, is airing an ad in which he appears to conspire with 18th-century revolutionaries to stage an armed revolt.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iQ7ZDUutU4]
[...]Bob List, a Republican national committeeman and former Nevada governor, wouldnt speculate on the meaning of Angles comments. But, he said, people are far more riled up about whats going on out there than Ive ever seen in my lifetime.
Theyre furious.
He said he doesnt think an armed revolution is coming.
What will happen is people will go to the ballot box and vote out the incumbents who are doing this, he said.
Larson, host of a nationally syndicated talk radio show, said he agreed with Angles sentiment that the purpose of the Second Amendment is a check on the federal government.
That doesnt mean she was advocating war if she loses, Larson said. She was saying at some point, the purpose of the Second Amendment wasnt first for hunting, or personal protection. It was to make sure government never got out of control.
Watching staunch conservative Angle whoop Communist Reid’s arse next November is going to be almost too much happiness to bear....
She’s just channeling the Founders. God bless’er.
*ping*
From Rasmussen earlier today;
Election 2010: Nevada Senate
Sharron Angle (R) 50%
Harry Reid (D) 39%
Some other candidate 5%
Not sure 6%
Unless a large natural lake suddenly appears at Tonapah, it’s virtually over.
Nailed it. She gets it all right.
Sharron Angle (R) Increases Lead Over Harry Reid (D) For U.S. Senate By 54%- 38%
http://www.usofearth.com/polls/?p=139
She certainly seems to understand the current mood.
My question is this:
Why are conservative women leading and conservative men bowing and apologizing at every chance? Why are the “Republicans” in congress busy “reaching across the aisle” and not kicking some lefty a$$ every chance they get?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.