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In a secretly taped recording, Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle badmouths the GOP establishment and wheedles a minor-party candidate to support her campaign, offering help opening doors in Washington if she's elected.
The roughly made recording offers an unvarnished look into back-room politics, with tea party favorite Angle alternately nudging and cajoling candidate Scott Ashjian, whose support could be crucial in her bid to oust Majority Leader Harry Reid.
"I'm not sure you can win and I'm not sure I can win if you're hurting my chance, and that's the part that scares me," Angle says on the recording obtained by the Las Vegas Sun newspaper.
Angle is a tea party favorite with a history of breaking from the GOP ranks — in the state Senate, she was known for casting lone, dissenting votes on bills. She defeated the party's preferred candidate, Sue Lowden, in a come-from-behind victory in the June primary.
At one point she laments that the GOP leadership has "lost their standards, they've lost their principles." She refers derisively to "that good old boy thing" and depicts herself as an underdog David fighting Goliath — the constricting machinery of the national party. She tells Ashjian she wants the GOP leadership "to leave me alone," confident she knows how to defeat Reid.
Ashjian says that since 2001, he has considered Democrats and the GOP interchangeable.
"They are all thieves," he says. Angle adds, "It's really been since 1991."
Originally posted by The Sword
The Tea Party is nothing new to this country. Just wolves in sheep clothing.
I guess that's why they appeal so much to the sheeple, what with looking and acting just like them!
Originally posted by Quadrivium
Originally posted by The Sword
The Tea Party is nothing new to this country. Just wolves in sheep clothing.
I guess that's why they appeal so much to the sheeple, what with looking and acting just like them!
Nothing new? Hmm, when have you seen a conservative movement as large as the TP?
Sheep? The TP?
Seriously?
Originally posted by mnemeth1
Angle is the real deal.
Angle: “… only thing that’s different between you and I is I guess I was pragmatic enough to know…that third parties can’t get traction….so I said all right, I’ll work with it. just show me what the rules are and I’ll work with it…the rules are there are Democrats and Republicans…so I moved myself up within the Republican ranks…..”
Angle: Says the grass roots movement “gives me juice. That’s really all I can offer to you (Ashjian) is whatever juice I have, you have as well…You want to see DeMint, I have juice with him….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.”
Originally posted by mnemeth1
reply to post by maybereal11
That's a bribe?
Originally posted by maybereal11
Angle: Says the grass roots movement “gives me juice. That’s really all I can offer to you (Ashjian) is whatever juice I have, you have as well…You want to see DeMint, I have juice with him….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.”
Originally posted by mnemeth1
reply to post by maybereal11
I suppose you could consider that a bribe if you want, although it sounds like typical politics to me.
edit on 5-10-2010 by mnemeth1 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Quadrivium
Look brother the Progressives have got you totally fooled. Look at the votes of the Dems before 1965. OOOOOHH They were conservative!! WOW So in 1965 the Repub. and Dems swapped places?
Naa.
Educate yourself!!!! Stop being a TOOL.