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Sharron Angle Caught on Tape Blasting GOP Leaders
October 04, 2010 8:12 AM
ABC News' Jonathan Karl reports:
Nevada political analyst Jon Ralston has obtained a secretly recorded audio tape of a meeting Sharron Angle had with a third party candidate she wants to drop out of the race.
On the tape Angle can be heard, both boasting about her clout in Washington and blasting Republican leaders for their lack of principles.
“The Republicans have lost their standards, they’ve lost their principles,” Angle says. “Really that’s why the machine in the Republican Party is fighting against me. ...They have never really gone along with lower taxes and less government.”
But Angle says her grassroots support gives her “juice” with Republican leaders in Washington.
“I go to Washington, DC and want to see Jim DeMint, he’s right there for me. I want to see Tom Coburn, he’s right there for me. I want to see Mitch McConnell, he’s there,” she says.
Angle spokesman Jarred Agen offered this reaction to ABC News:
“Sharron expressed what many working families in Nevada and across the country are feeling. They are angry with Harry Reid, they are angry with Washington DC, and they want blunt plain-spoken leaders who are willing to shake things up. Sharron represents the interests of Nevada, not the interests of Washington DC like Harry Reid does, and that's why she is going to win.”
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I thought Sharrron was against "backroom deals". What does she think this is?
Posted by: BernardWebb | Oct 4, 2010 8:38:05 AM
She is just echoing the Tea Party sentiment about the Republican leadership that lost touch with their conservative values. There is nothing new here. After the election of 2008 the Republicans have started wising up, and now, according to recent polls, 70% of all the American people of all parties, support their values of limited government, lower taxes and limited spending...
Posted by: DL13 | Oct 4, 2010 9:13:41 AM
Angle is not good for Nevada or anyone
else. She hasn't got a clue about
reality and how to change things.
I've listened to her and she is so
off her rocker.
Good Luck Nevada if this is what you
choose for your state to represent
you. You are going to need all the
luck in the world with this woman.
We get what we deserve when we vote
wrong. Angle will have Nevada going in
the wrong direction and spending for
the big companies and not for the working class citizens of Nevada.
Posted by: Sharon | Oct 4, 2010 9:28:30 AM
That's understandable. The party has gone very astray.
Posted by: Rick McDaniel | Oct 4, 2010 9:53:52 AM
Petard, meet Hoist. Gotta love it. Pass the popcorn.
Posted by: BobbyG | Oct 4, 2010 10:25:53 AM
REID MUST GO...
Enough of corrupt, incumbent, career, politicians who sell votes for favors.
Reid/Pelosi and Obama have fundementally tried to turn America into a Socialist State and Economy.
Where people turn to the government for nurturing...
Big, inefficient, corrupt Government is NOT THE ANSWER... IT IS THE PROBLEM!
Posted by: btrask3 | Oct 4, 2010 11:19:28 AM
to all the people that want to privatise Social Security, REMEMBER WHEN THE STOCK TANKED UNDER BUSH, do you want to risk your monthly income that way, I notice most of the tea parties are older white seniors, are they ready to give up Medicare. If we ban abortion and birth control are they ready to SUPPORT all these families who will go on welfare, food stamps, etc., etc.,
Posted by: irene | Oct 4, 2010 12:11:14 PM
No, irene. They are NOT willing to support those who will suffer as a result of their policies, and the strange thing is that, unless all of these supporters are independently wealthy, they, too, will suffer right along with the rest of us. Their reasoning is so unsound that it boggles the mind. I lost thousands from my IRA account when the market tanked back in 2008, and it has yet to recover.
If this happened to my IRA account, it could happen to these "personalized retirement accounts" since the money in them would be invested in the stock market, too. And since there will be no further financial bailouts, these accounts would leave millions without any funds with which to retire.
Posted by: majii | Oct 4, 2010 12:25:38 PM
Obama, Pelosi, Reid, and the rest of the Democrats in Congress still do not get it and probably never will:
The American people and American small business want lower taxes for EVERYONE while Obama, Pelosi, Reid, and the rest of the Democrats will raise taxes on some and probably everyone to pay for the reckless spending they put in place.
The American people and American small business want smaller government while Obama, Pelosi, Reid, and the rest of the Democrats have and plan to continue to greatly increase the size of government.
The American people and American small business want less government intervention into their lives and private affaires while Obama, Pelosi, Reid, and the rest of the Democrats will continue to expand onerous regulation which raises costs, reduces the standard of living, and inhibits job growth.
The American people and American small business did not want the so-called healthcare reform while Obama, Pelosi, Reid, and the rest of the Democrats continue to ignore how this law will cost the American people and small businesses more, reduce choice in healthcare, and restrict access to healthcare for many people.
The current Administration and current Congress must realize a large portion of the American people are fed up with high taxes, big government, and obtrusive government meddling in the private lives of people, business, and the economy. The American people what lower taxes, lower government spending, and smaller government.
As long as our government continues the reckless spending, high taxes, and unprecedented meddling with businesses, we cannot expect real long term growth.
The Congress and current Administration have put the country on a course of reckless government spending that has mortgaged the future of all Americans especially future generations. The only way to fix this long term structural problem is to create a pro-growth atmosphere for business. To do this we must reduce taxes NOW. How many different taxes does a business or individual pay on a regular basis? We must eliminate number and complexity of all these taxes and reduce the tax burden.
We also need to end the micro-management of business and the economy. Until we GREATLY reduce the tax burden on business and consumers and remove the senseless regulations that accomplish little in relation to the cost they impose, our future is bleak.
REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER...VOTE THEM OUT!!!
Posted by: AngryMobVoter | Oct 4, 2010 12:33:23 PM
I have just one statement.
The Republican Party and the Tea Party
their real agenda and I repeat their
real agenda is to do away with the
middle class Americans in this country.
If you don't believe me take a look
at the Bush Era and listen to the
Republican Party and The Tea Party.
They will continue to ship your jobs
overseas, get rid of Social Security,
Medicare, they are for Big Companies
and the Rich.
There will no longer be an America
with the middle class.
President Obama and his Administration
are trying to save the Middle Class.
The Republicans and the Tea Party do
not even want to give unemployment to
the workers of this country who have
lost their jobs. They call them
UnAmerican. Please wake up before
it is to late for our country and the
hard working Americans of this great
country.
Posted by: Sharon | Oct 4, 2010 1:08:35 PM
If the Tea Party is so vehement about lowering everyone's taxes and getting rid of "wasteful" spending, do they want to get rid of Social Security, disability payments, Medicare, public road services, FEMA, disaster relief and all those other big government services that regulate air travel, food, water and air quality? I don't think so. These are the services that set us apart from many Third World nations where people die in childhood from preventable diseases, industrial accidents and pollution. They just want to eliminate support for services and programs they and their friends don't imagine using or ever needing and screwing the rest of the county. They are in denial about the amount of government welfare and support that the upper-middle class and truly rich recieve. It's selfish, short-sighted and stupid. It's also immoral. Just my opinion, of course.
Posted by: Carol Brydolf | Oct 4, 2010 1:33:53 PM
The so called GOP leaders have no other choice but to support Ms Angle because she is the 'lesser evil' than Reid.
Posted by: austin | Oct 4, 2010 4:01:54 PM
Regardless, I don't see how we Republican's figure we could ever again, win another election, who will vote for us; not the gay, not the Mexican, not the military, not the young, not the elderly, not the black, not the Jew, not the Muslin, not the poor, not the unemployed, not the middle class, not the educated, not the well-informed, no woman in her right mind, no rational person with reasonable expectations. I think we're toast. (white toast)
Posted by: david moore | Oct 4, 2010 4:13:52 PM
This makes me want to vote for her even more. Unfortunately I do not live in NV.
Posted by: SeeTheLight | Oct 4, 2010 4:40:23 PM
If you are sick and tired of the way
Bush and Cheney ran this country then
vote the Democratic way. Otherwise
suffer the same pain and debt and wars
that got us here in the first place.
We are on the right track stay the course and lets never turn back the clock. Keep marching forward or we
will lose our greatness in the world.
We once were the greatest nation on earth and other countries looked up
to us. They are beginning to again.
Keep on the right course.
Bring the wars to and end or continue
them for years and start new ones under
the Republican plan. Lets get our
health care for all Americans and
their familes. We are the only developed country that is not moving
forward. We will be left behind in
health care, techonlolgy, keep us
going. Don't go backwards.
This is America we must become the
greatest country again. We must!
Posted by: Sharon | Oct 4, 2010 6:43:22 PM
I wonder which is "worse" losing your "principles" or losing your "mind"? I always thought the former you could "get back"...while the latter...LOL...LOL This is exactly what the GOP deserves for pandering to and unleashing these right wing, extremuist, unintelligent morons.
Posted by: CND FOX | Oct 4, 2010 8:06:01 PM
"Extremuist" is mispelled.
Namecalling is a trademark of liberals, who now prefer the term progressive. politically
Posted by: Tom | Oct 4, 2010 8:30:39 PM
Angle: "They have never really gone along with lower taxes and less government..."
LOL.... "Duh!"
1. It took 205 years for the national debt balance to reach $935 billion (January 1981)...and after JUST 6 years of Reagan and a Republican senate, the national debt balance was at $2.2 TRILLION (more than 2 X 935 Billion).
2. January 1995, we put a Republican congress (Senate and House) in for 12 years. The debt balance in January 1995 was $4.8 trillion. 12 years later...LOL...the debt balance was 8.7 trillion.
...and some brain-deads still believe that Republicans are "fiscal conservatives"...too funny.
Posted by: Georgie_Bushie | Oct 4, 2010 9:25:11 PM
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