Nice to see the NV GOP promoting a candidate with such
a balanced and informed perspective. We can really use more religious moderates like this!
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link to www.alternet.org]
"For most of her campaign for U.S. Senate, Nevada GOP nominee Sharron Angle's election strategy has consisted of avoiding reporters so she doesn't get tricked into saying things publicly. Last night's interview on Jon Ralston's "Face to Face" is one of the few times since winning the GOP nomination that Angle has braved a media outlet that was not a wingnut blog or Fox News.
Fortunately, Angle has already said enough crazy shit to hobble spin efforts designed to paint her as less of an extremist for the general election. In a January interview with conservative talk show host David Manders, Angle explained her views on abortion. As with most responsible policy positions, the inspiration for Angle's stance comes from God (clearly, the Old Testament God who is really into incest and rape):
MANDERS: I too am pro-life, but I'm also pro-choice. Do you understand what I say when I mean that?
ANGLE: Well, I'm pro-responsible choice. There's choice to abstain, choice to use contraceptives ... there's all kinds of good choice....
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.
Angle, whose rival for the GOP nomination was felled by the chickens-for-checkups scandal, is a particularly radical example of the ultraconservatives who have parlayed popularity with the Tea Party into GOP nominations. For six years in the 1990s Angle belonged to the Independent American Party -- the Nevada affiliate of the fringe Constitution Party, whose platform advocates a return of "American jurisprudence to its Biblical foundations." In a 1992 petition to get the IAP on the Nevada state ballot, signed by Angle and obtained by Talking Points Memo, the group calls for the federal government to cut foreign aid and welfare and "stop the financing of the New World Order." The IAP also published a virulently anti-gay newspaper insert that accused LGBT people of advocating for pedophilia and incest and claimed that HIV can be transmitted through water.
Angle ditched the IAP to become more electable. But the GOP nominee has continued to spout positions that put her comically outside the mainstream. On her campaign Web site, Angle advocates for abolishing the Department of Education, writing that the Department is "unconstitutional" and "should not be involved in education on any level." Angle has called for the elimination of Social Security, not quite specifying how this would come about but promoting privatization for young workers."
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