Posted on 07/26/2010 2:15:36 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Republicans are growing increasingly frustrated with Sharron Angle and her lackluster campaign to unseat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), fearing she is jeopardizing what they had long viewed as a sure pickup and costing them a chance to reclaim the majority.
Senate Republicans quietly acknowledge that Angle's controversial views on some issues remain a political liability. But the former Nevada Assemblywoman's larger problems are a progression of unforced errors stemming from a lack of campaign experience and an amateurish staff incapable of offering her the necessary guidance. However, Angle has proved to be adept at fundraising, corralling $2.6 million in the second quarter.
Republicans are reluctant to openly criticize Angle, not wanting to cause their nominee more problems. The most recent polling shows Reid ahead in his bid for a fifth term for the first time this campaign cycle. But privately, they concede Angle could lose if she doesn't learn campaign discipline and overhaul her core team to include advisers with experience running a top-tier, statewide race.
Last week, the Republican National Committee dispatched an operative to Nevada to assist Angle, something the National Republican Senatorial Committee has been trying to do for weeks via telephone from Washington, D.C. NRSC Chairman John Cornyn (Texas) indicated that it has been a slow, sometimes difficult task, although he insisted he remains confident in Angle's ability to beat Reid.
"We've had conference calls, including me personally, with her and the campaign, and we continue to work with them. But it's a work in progress," Cornyn said Thursday. "While running for election is not rocket science, it does require knowledgeable people, it does require some discipline, and that's always a struggle for every first-time candidate."
"It's dysfunctional," a Nevada Republican added, when asked to give an assessment of the Angle campaign.
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I think that is BS, you have to beat them when you can. Besides, it is not like the smarmy a-hole Schumer is a likebale guy. He is an abrasive jerk and would be hated just as widely as dingy harry in no time flat.
.....beat the moron.....
I have serious doubts. Did you see her on Fox News recently. Pretty bad.
The goal? To demolish and demoralize tea party activists. Repubs in DC don't want to be pushed to the right...they want citizens dependent on DC.
Too bad it won't work, because tea party patriots know that the ballot box cannot save us.
The RNC will be happy if she loses. Hate to say it, but I’m certain it is true.
What are you talking about? Do you know which race we’re talking about?
Well said!
FReepers, this is POLL NEWS!
Poll news is the OPPOSITE of real news!!
In reality Angle is probably whipping Reid like a Turkish dancing bear.
human?
People being critical of her campaign organization / campaign tactics does not make someone a liberal or a conservative. Campaign strategy is not an ideology.
Like most gun owners, I couldn't hate Smuck anymore than I already do because it isn't possible.
The problem is, you must give the devil his due, and Smuck is much better at manipulating media coverage than idiot Harry. My fondest wish is for both of them, and 58 or so other Demorat Senators to be gone. But these stupid archaic rules the Senate runs by will still be in place. And you have to consider the morning after.
...nevermind.
She isn’t accepting the help...although they could still help indirectly to defeat Reid even without her cooperation by setting up their own operations...and should just give up and do that if she doesn’t want their help.
Yahoo! with instruction from Sunstein, Kaine, Axelrod and probably Obama himself are letting the Lefty Journolists push their propaganda.
People like winners, they are attempting to say Harry will win and like Obama, want a bandwagon effect of the illiterate, Marxist-lied-to masses to vote for Harry.
Harry’s done, let’s just hope Sharron can hold off the lying press.
Every time I’ve heard her she’s been dead nuts on.
This is proof that the GOP is more loyal to the Ruling Class than us. They would rather see one of their own (Reid, as a member of the Ruling Class) get in under the banner of the Democrats than support a conservative member of the Country Class who advocates for “crazy” and “extreme” policy ideas such as personal liberty and eliminating crap like the Dept. of Ed.
I have a feeling the problem is not offering help but her accepting help.
That’s usually the case anyway.
“This is proof that the GOP is more loyal to the Ruling Class than us”
I think you hit the nail on the head. She is an outsider and a Tea Party member so she is a 2nd class citizen to the good old boys at the RNC. Next month I will be making another donation to her campaign.
I sure wish the whiners would help her instead of curling up in the fetal position.
NRSC (Cornyn is the chair.)
.... ahhhhh, I suspect that Cornyn and Alexander probably want to see Dirty Harry back. Would prove its hard to run without the CFR approved hacks running a campaign and pocketing the media money. All the buttbuddies in DC think they run the show and want to hammer the TEA Party....
ymmv
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