The Autism Schism: Angle Angling for a Gaffe

[Lunar]

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0810/40994.html

Good ad.

[tpfkaw]

Angle has also just released a good ad - the problem being that she needed to do this ad a month ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZBkHSnE1B4

[Lunar]

Angle has also just released a good ad - the problem being that she needed to do this ad a month ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZBkHSnE1B4

Yeah she should not do any more lecturing ads, better than her last one, but they are just unpleasant.

[Brittain33]

OMG "the lockbox"?

[tpfkaw]

OMG "the lockbox"?

Next she'll be claiming she invented the internet.

[redcommander]

Perhaps Angle is becoming more politically astute.

http://www.aolnews.com/politics/article/is-sharron-angle-learning-to-temper-style-in-senate-campaign-against-harry-reid/19590480

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Only Sharron Angle could make news by not fucking up.

[Lunar]

In 1992, the Tonopah High School football coach was trying to rev up his Muckers (it’s a mining term for any city readers here) for their homecoming game. They'd been walloped by opponents from Laughlin the prior year.

Because the coach referred to the loss as "the blackest day in Mucker history," Roberts said, he suggested the players wear black jerseys.

Although some community members were riled up at the Muckers wearing anything besides red and white, Angle and others made a far different argument: that "black as a color was thoroughly evil, invoking the supernatural and especially the devil," Roberts said.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/08/sharron-angle-harry-reid-nevada-senate-race.html

[Хahar 🤔]

That's so weird.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

I'm curious about the specifics of the incident, but neither the blog entry nor the column it references seems to be especially forthcoming about that.

[Lunar]

I'm curious about the specifics of the incident, but neither the blog entry nor the column it references seems to be especially forthcoming about that.

Reid's oppo team is hard at work, brb

[King]

Angle has also just released a good ad - the problem being that she needed to do this ad a month ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZBkHSnE1B4

Maybe my speakers were just acting up but... did they just have her read a list of phrases and string it into sentences?

The real social security solutions are.  To stop Harry Reid from raiding.  The social security.  Trust fund.  He needs that money. For his own pet projects.  We have a contract with.  Our seniors.  Who have put into.  Social security.  In good faith.  

Madlib advertising.  The next lolcat from the Angle campaign.

[Lunar]

http://www.lvrj.com/news/angle-s-soft-lens-tactics-do-little-to-obscure-past-pronouncements-100963964.html

Well, you couldn't imagine a 1993 letter TO Harry Reid would have remained hidden for very long

[tpfkaw]

Angle just did an interview with the New York Times and . . . said nothing crazy.

[Lunar]

Angle just did an interview with the New York Times and . . . said nothing crazy.

a week ago.

Here's the latest from today:

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/08/sharron_angle_agrees_we_have_d.html

MANDERS: You know I talk often about this oath that they give and it is to defend the Constitution and all that. But one of the things that is very important to me in this oath that they give is that they will defend against foreign and domestic enemies.

ANGLE: Yes. Yes.

MANDERS: We have domestic enemies. We have home-born homegrown enemies in our system. And I for one think we have some of those enemies in the walls of the Senate and the Congress.

ANGLE: Yes. I think you're right, Bill.

[Lunar]

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0810/Reid_No_really_shes_extreme.html?showall

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

http://www.lvrj.com/news/angle-s-soft-lens-tactics-do-little-to-obscure-past-pronouncements-100963964.html

Well, you couldn't imagine a 1993 letter TO Harry Reid would have remained hidden for very long

Perhaps Reid took what Angle said to heart. After all, he did wind up voting for the 1996 Welfare Reform bill!

[The Dowager Mod]

Nice to see her channeling the ghost of Joe Mc Carthy.

[Joe Republic]

http://www.lvrj.com/news/poll--voters-wish-for-other-choices-101631283.html

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Yes, you read that correctly: Democrats are happier to see Angle as the GOP nominee than Republicans.  Shocking stuff.

[Lunar]

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/08/reid-ad-pits-woman-who-was-on-unemployment-against-angle-video.php#more

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Angle got 40% in the primary but now 71% of Republicans want someone else?

[redcommander]

Sharron Angle's new ad is actually really good and professional. The best from her I've seen so far.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbMmxaUh5BA

[moderaterepublican]

Sharron Angle's new ad is actually really good and professional. The best from her I've seen so far.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbMmxaUh5BA

I completely agree with you one of my favorite ads so far this cycle and this is coming from someone who is no fan of Angle

[Lunar]

I'm not sure about this ad though.  The first rule of negative attack ads is that you DISTANCE the candidate from the attacks.  You don't have the candidate self-narrate the attack to the camera!  It's possible that they were conscious of this and wanted to humanize her, but just run a F'n bio ad with her hugging her children and her dog or something if that's your goal.

And it's not like Angle comes across as likable on camera

[tpfkaw]

She used to be a first grade teacher - she seems to come across like one when she's speaking.  It sounds either kindly or condescending depending on your opinion of that sort of thing.

I think the best way to go about responding to the negative ads for Angle is with humor:

"You've heard all the negative ads about me:  Sharron Angle worships Aqua Buddha; Sharron Angle hates children; Sharron Angle wants to privatize the State Department.  The reason why Harry Reid keeps changing the subject is because he's unwilling to face the facts: [rattling off statistics].  I think those numbers are pretty extreme.  And, just for the record, I have 10 grandchildren and I love every single one of them."