Posted on 06/16/2010 4:56:57 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Democrats and liberal bloggers continue to search for surprising facts about Tea Party-backed Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle, but the Associated Press has uncovered one fact the left may not have anticipated: Angle was once a registered Democrat and worked to elect a Democratic politician in Nevada.
Rather than giving any indication of her ideological beliefs, however, that fact may simply show her history of independence from the Republican party. In the 1990's, she belonged to a conservative third party. Angle won the Nevada GOP Senate primary this month, knocking out the establishment candidate to take on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
While Angle alluded to conservative hero President Ronald Reagan the night she won the primary, she in fact was a registered Democrat during part of his presidency. Records show, the AP reports, that Angle was a registered Republican until 1984, when she switched to the Democratic party. She stayed a Democrat at least through March, 1988.
Campaign spokesman Jerry Stacy told the AP Angle switched parties to work for a conservative Democrat running for state Senate, but she voted for Reagan in both 1980 and 1984.
"She's always been conservative," Stacy said. "She switched parties to help run the (Democrat's) campaign."
In 1992, Angle helped resurrect the Independent American Party, the Wall Street Journal reported. The party reportedly favors low taxes and opposes gun control, illegal immigration, abortion, gay rights and "global government." Angle rejoined the Republicans in 1997.
The candidate in Washington this week to meet with Republican Party officials and conservative activists, but she has taken some heat for avoiding reporters.
National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Cornyn (Texas) said that within weeks, reporters will have "complete, 100 percent access" to Angle, the Washington Post reports.
"I think she needs to get staffed up and prepared," he said. "The kind of scrutiny candidates undergo in a general-election race like this is far different than virtually anybody's been through before, and I just think it's a matter of due diligence and being prepared."
Lots of us were once registered Democrats. Then we got jobs, families, responsibilties and brains.
So was Ronald Reagan and that worked out okay for us!
Ok and so?
Alot of us were
Wow.
I hear Reid’s still a registered Democrat.
Sharron Angle Was Once a Registered Democrat, so was Jim Robinson and Hillary Clinton was a Goldwater Girl.
Wow, it’s been a week ans she’s starting to unravel. Fast than I would have thought. A lousy candidate.
I guess scrutinizing Democratic congresscritters that man-handle young people in public doesn't matter.....
LOL
I was once a registered Democrat. Ronald Reagan was once a registered Democrat. People get older and wiser.
Oh wow she’s just like me! Fully transformed[=
Some of us discover the truth behind politics later in life. I voted purely on appearance rather than policy in my early years.
When have to start paying taxes you almost always become a “CONSERVATIVE”
So much for trying to tar her as a right wing radical...
Quid pro quo, Angle should publish some of Reid’s dirty laundry. In fact, hit him with four or five facts for every one.
So was I..
Clinton was for Goldwater? I didn’t know that. Wow. She must have been in it for the chicks.
Un-ravel?
Barak Obama was once a Kenyan.
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