Showing posts with label Sharron Angle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sharron Angle. Show all posts

Thursday, July 29, 2010

2 Angles on Angle

FrumForum notes that even the Republican friendly Rasmussen polls have Angle trailing Reid. WE are talking about a sitting Senator with negatives in the 48% range. You can run the Easter Bunny and probably beat him. This potential unmitigated fiasco feeds into the greater narrative that the Tea Party fringe has overreached even before it comes to power. Right on cue comes Erick Erickson saying essentially that Angle has Reid right she wants him. Really? Is there any politician in the planet that wants to be down on the polling to an overwhelmingly unpopular Senator?

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Dear Harry Reid, Be Careful What You Wish For...

Stephen Moore has a predictably fawning piece on Sharron Angle in WSJ. Truth be told I would have preferred anyone but Angle to go toe to toe against Harry Reid but something in Moore's profile caught my attention. Moore notes that Reid backers are "gleeful", in Moore's words to be facing a "right-wing extremist." It is hubris like this that gets politicians in trouble. Jimmy Carter's people were thrilled that RR got the GOP nod and that didn't turn out so hot for them. Pretty sure that there