How can the GOP be serious about Sharron Angle?

Mr. Maven and I watched Jon Ralston’s interview with Sharron Angle this evening.

Oh, my.

If gawd really had a plan for my life, as Angle says, then I would hope he/she would spare me from Sharron Angle and her simple-minded platitudes, Tea Party catch-phrases and gross mis-interpretations of history, the Constitution and life in general.

This woman is living in an alternate reality.

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.”

Yup. Tell that to a young girl who’s been traumatized by Mom’s latest boyfriend. Angle is giving christians a bad name.

Ralston had great fun with Angle - simply trying to keep her on message. If the GOP has been fluffing and prepping Angle, they’ve done a miserable job of it. All she had to do was have three rational bullet points for each hot button issue. Instead, she flipped and flopped back and forth between her well documented positions in the not so distant past, and a more moderated (but not well thought out) current position.

You almost have to applaud her delusional persistence on the ‘Lock Box’  idea of social security funding.  A college course in economics might have saved this woman from saying stuff this incredibly silly.

Normally, I don’t like Ralston, but at least he made a valiant attempt to hold Angle accountable for statements that ‘want it both ways’ such as condemning Harry Reid for not providing jobs for Nevada and in the same breath saying it’s not the job of a senator to provide jobs.

It’s also obvious that Angle is completely out of touch with the same working class Nevadans that support her. She really thinks that extending unemployment benefits is wrong, stating that Nevadans would rather collect unemployment benefits instead of getting a job. Angle says that out of work Nevadans are afraid to go get jobs, and so stay on unemployment. Is she crazy? And, she probably still believes the urban legend of the high living welfare queen.

Watch her try to weasel around Ralston’s questioning on her bizarre remarks about Nevadans being spoiled - too spoiled to go pick tomatoes in California’s fields is probably what she meant.

Then it goes on with nutty talk about separation of church and state, the Second Amendment and more. You’d think she would be embarrassed. I know I was just watching her get caught out on each issue with actual documented audio and video of her baseless claims, insane positions and radical remarks. It was almost painful to watch. Don’t you love how she has completely new information from Thomas Jefferson - who she’s maybe channeling, about church and state?

At the end of the day, Sharron Angle is exactly what you get from a candidate who has no intellectual foundation for any of her positions, relying instead on empty slogans designed to thrill idiots like the following who left comments on the KRNV site:

From Al B: “Never watched your program face to face before but who is the individual getting so tough with angle… I did not vote for her and she will never get elected but …..I am rancher who has a small 40 acre spread and guy who is acting so tough with angle would be flat on the ground with me….. respect is something you or he do not know anything about.It’s pretty obvious he is a far left democrat….. me I only need the government to do two thing… take care of the infrastructure and keep Obdul from bombing me… is that racist??? too bad as I beleave in truth.. pragmatic truth not ideology.. but tell your man not to act like an ass…it doesn’t work with hard asses like me… certainly does nothing for your network. oh yeah you are and NBC network …..NOW I KNOW WHY HE IS AN ASS”

From Steve M.: “Bravo to Sharron Angle for putting the dufus host in his place. He deserved to be talked over based on his biased questions and endless babble. Ms. Angle is a very tough woman, and will be a breath of fresh air in D.C.”

From Melissa P.: “I think Sharon did a great job considering what an a$$ Jon Ralston is. He is an obvious left wing wacho who trys to control any conversation. Good for Sharon for trying to finish what she was trying to say without that idiot interrupting her. I wanted to hear about serious issues concerning Nevada, not whether or not separation of church and state is in the Constitution - which it is not. Nonetheless, rather than listening to this idiot who only likes put words in people’s mouths, takes things out of context and who LOVES to hear himself talk unless he is interviewing a Democrat; I would rather be something more productive…”