You do know how much they scream about porous borders, don’t you?
I suspect they’ll simply not vote at all, although it’ll still likely throw the contest to Reid.
Nevada actually has a literal “None of the above” option on their ballots. And yes, Reid is hoping that “nobody” will split the vote with Angle.
The LVRJ did a feature on the 2 candidates today, asking them each a handful of questions and printing their responses. Most of it was tepid campaign rhetoric, but I did notice that Ms. Angle’s foreign policy would seemingly consist of listening to our military leaders. Every question that touched on any other country and she whipped out the “I would listen to our military commanders” line.
We really don’t want our military conducting ALL of our foreign relations, Ms. Angle. There’s a reason we have the State Dept.
Correct, but you didn’t explain how our law works: the candidate with the most votes wins. NOTA is just a protest slot on our ballots; a candidate wins every race.
Right, I’m just saying that if a lot of folks don’t want to vote for either, they have a very formal and official way of doing so.
Okay, I LOL’d out loud.
We had 2 new Angle stories here today.
First up, Ms. Angle is trying to distance herself from comments made in April about how the nation’s entitlement programs broke the Christian religion’s First Commandment.
Asked to clarify those comments, Ms. Angle first replied:
She continued, as if it was actually explaining anything:
Let’s back up to “that’s not what I said” for a second.
Here’s what she says she didn’t say:
The other development also involves something that Ms. Angle both did and did not say: the Las Vegas Review-Journal has filed a copyright infringement suit against her.
Y’all prolly thought I was joking earlier in the thread about not even posting links to LVRJ sites for fear of copyright lawsuits, dintcha?
Angle has a new ploy "earned media strategy ". She will not talk to any media that has shown to be tough or unfriendly. She is complaining that some media have "used her words against her’. Can’t have that.
She had rejected debating Reid because she wants an “informed electorate”. How does that make sense?
Last June, she said on on Face to Face that she wanted to debate Reid.
On September 9, Harry Reid’s peeps accepted the invitation to debate on Face to Face, and Team Angle agreed to a date. So, then, on that same day, Team Angle promptly withdrew. Two hours later, they sent out a press release saying Angle was going to debate at a high school.
Jon Ralston Cite.
Angle is not the only one who’s nuts on Team Angle. Too bad. That would be one political debate I would pay to see!
Reid’s people had this quip in response to her cancelling the debate in order to promote “an informed electorate:”
“It takes an honest politician to acknowledge that listening to her for an hour would leave the populace less informed.”
Angle may have been good looking when she was young. She may have been kind of acute.
Yeah, but she’s become really obtuse now.
The US primary process has no method of selecting based on merit.
Zing!
That is a refreshingly clever comeback in the context of a political campaign.
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That is why Fox Gnus was invented.
If I ran a media outlet, and this trend of politicians, who choose not to engage, because they deem me not to be their shill, became a problem, I would start to run whatever their opponent came up with:
Some claim that Ms Engel is a “syphilitic lunatic”. Ms Engel did not directly refute the charges and declined comment.
I’m glad I stumbled upon this thread— as a Californian who comes to Vegas every two weeks for work, I’m inundated with this race for a week a month. No matter how much I try to describe its ridiculousness to my friends back home, nobody gets it. You guys get it and for that, I thank you.
I saw my first Angle commercial a little while back. Her affect was so flat, I was expecting to count her blinks in Morse code, so that we can know she is safe and her captors have not yet brainwashed her. Perhaps they could train her to be a decent Senate candidate, but I’m not holding my breath.