Political Ruminations

Sharron Angle's Policy Positions on Iraq and Afghanistan

Asked by CBS Nevada reporter, Nathan Baca, about her foreign policy views, Angle responded with this:

You know, the two wars that we are in right now are exactly what we are in.

And that, people of Nevada, is all you will get from her, because she has now stated that she will not talk to the press until she is a senator.  

Sharron Angle Barrs ALL TV Coverage ---Refuses to Answer Questions on Positions Until AFTER the Election

What kind of a message does this send to future candidates? Unbelievable.

From Huffington Post:

The offending incident seems to have happened when CBS Nevada reporter Nathan Baca tried to approach Angle during a stroll through the airport and the airport parking lot with questions about her foreign policy views.

After going through several evasive answers, an irritated Angle replied: "I will answer those questions when I'm the senator."

Pressed as to whether she didn't think it was appropriate to further outline her position on the dual wars in which the U.S. is engaged, she came back with a memorable rejoinder: "You know, the two wars that we are in right now are exactly what we are in."

 

Morning Quote

TeaPublican Senate Candidate in Nevada, Sharron Angle, has an antagonistic relationship with the press. She just hates those pesky little questions like “What’s your position on the two wars we’re fighting?”; her solution is to refuse to answer, and to barr the lamestream media [Angle’s term, along with the GOP’s genius, Sarah Palin] press from her events.

We always say, ‘If the press comes knocking, don’t say anything’.

Source: Politico

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Sharron Angle denies the existence of the doctrine of the separation of church and state in an interview with John Ralston:

RALSTON: The separation of church and state arises out of the Constitution.

ANGLE: No, it doesn't, John.

RALSTON: Oh it doesn't? Oh, the Founding Fathers didn't believe in the separation of church and state, the Establishment Clause, the First Amendment?

ANGLE: Actually, Thomas Jefferson has been misquoted, like I've been misquoted out of context. Thomas Jefferson was actually addressing a church and telling them through his address that there had been a wall of separation put up between the church and the state precisely to protect the church

RALSTON: So there should be no separation.

ANGLE: To protect the church from being taken over by a state religion. And that's what they meant by that.

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The Republican candidate for the Senate in Nevada, Sharron Angle, speaking to a group of Hispanic students last week. She tells them that they look a little Asian. ack.

So that's what we want is a secure and sovereign nation and, you know, I don't know that all of you are Latino. Some of you look a little more Asian to me. I don't know that. [Note: it's the Hispanic Student Union. The whole room is Hispanic teenagers.] What we know, what we know about ourselves is that we are a melting pot in this country. My grandchildren are evidence of that. I'm evidence of that. I've been called the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly

The Asian thing appears to have come out of nowhere. She is not Asian.

She does have one daughter-in-law who is Hispanic.

Note to Harry Reid: I will never forgive you if this batshit crazy woman wins your seat!

 

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Sharron Angle alluding to armed insurrection during an interview in January with right wing radio show host, Lars Larson in Portland, Oregon. Larson asked her where she stands on Second Amendment issues, and this was Angle’s response:

You know, 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. And in fact Thomas Jefferson said it's good for a country to have a revolution every 20 years.

I hope that's not where we're going, but you know if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies and saying my goodness what can we do to turn this country around? I'll tell you the first thing we need to do is take Harry Reid out

She’s your typical Republican these days. A few years ago, she would have been considered very fringe. She sounds like a hick, and she sounds like she’s putting out a hit on Harry Reid.

Raped by your dad? Sharron Angle says to make lemons out of lemonade

Sharron Angle, the Republican candidate for the Senate in Nevada, is just a walking, talking cartoon. The woman gives humanity a bad name. 

In her own words, what Sharron Angle would say to a young girl who was raped by her dad, and subsequently impregnated:

I think that two wrongs don't make a right. And I have been in the situation of counseling young girls, not 13 but 15, who have had very at risk, difficult pregnancies. And my counsel was to look for some alternatives, which they did. And they found that they had made what was really a lemon situation into lemonade.

Make lemon out of lemonade.What kind of a person tells a victim of incest and/or rape to make "lemons out of lemonade" or "two wrongs don't make a right"?

A heartless, calculating moron such as Sharron Angle, apparently.

Also. too. Until one of these self-righteous, phony do-gooders walks the walk by adopting a slew of unwanted babies, I remain completely cynical regarding their motives even when they aren't talking about victims of rape or incest.

Sharron Angle tries to walk back her comments on the unemployed aka spoiled citizenry

Previous comments regarding jobs and unemployment from Sharron Angle include the following:

“You can make more money on unemployment than you can going down and getting one of those jobs that is an honest job but it doesn't pay as much. We've put in so much entitlement into our government that we really have spoiled our citizenry.”

“As your US Senator, I'm not in the business of creating jobs.”

Pretty clearly, the wretched woman has not got a clue, nor an ounce of compassion. Oh, and by the way, she promoted herself to ‘Senator’ from ‘candidate to the Senate’. Love all that hubris.

Anyhoo, now she’s trying to walk it back, make it seem less………cold, callous, mean-spirited, and oh, stupid.

Angle on John Ralston’s show:

“I would have voted no, because the truth about it is that they keep extending these unemployment benefits to the point where people are afraid to go out and get a job because the job doesn't pay as much as the unemployment benefit does. And what we really need to do is put people back to work. So if you want to ease people back into work, what we need is an unemployment benefit that pays part. You know, you go to work, you have something of a safety net, in unemployment. But just to give them full unemployment benefits and then extend those for two years or more gets them not only out of the working class but it also depreciates their skills, so they're not actually able to go out and compete in that workforce, so what we really want, is we want something that stimulates a group of people to go back into what we know as that free market.”

Kudos to Ralston, who really goes after Angle, playing clips of her previous remarks, and refusing to give her a pass. You can watch the video here.

Pat Garafolo’s response to Angle bears repetition:

Angle’s clarification doesn’t make her position look any better, and her assertion that there a multitude of jobs available for the unemployed is simply rubbish. First, the average unemployment benefit is just $290 per week. There are nearly five workers actively searching for work for every job available, compared to 1.5 per job opening before the recession began. “That is incredibly unusual, so therefore it’s premature to give up on those emergency benefits,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody’s Economy.com.

Sharron Angle against all choice for women

Sharron Angle, the Republican candidate for the Senate in Nevada, as well as a Tea Party favorite, is waaaay out there on many issues. Her viewpoint on a woman's right to choose is radical. In a radio interview from January 2010, Angle told Bill Manders, the interviewer, that she doesn't even support abortion in cases of rape or incest, rather that "God has a plan.".

MANDERS: I, too, am pro-life but I'm also pro-choice, do you understand what I mean when I say that.

ANGLE: I'm pro responsible choice. There is choice to abstain choice to do contraception. There are all kind of good choices.

MANDERS: Is there any reason at all for an abortion?

ANGLE: Not in my book.

MANDERS: So, in other words, rape and incest would not be something?

ANGLE: You know, I'm a Christian and I believe that God has a plan and a purpose for each one of our lives and that he can intercede in all kinds of situations and we need to have a little faith in many things.

Separation of church and state not withstanding, apparently Sharron Angle would like to impose her religious views on us if she is elected to govern.

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