Posted on 06/16/2010 4:56:57 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Democrats and liberal bloggers continue to search for surprising facts about Tea Party-backed Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle, but the Associated Press has uncovered one fact the left may not have anticipated: Angle was once a registered Democrat and worked to elect a Democratic politician in Nevada.
Rather than giving any indication of her ideological beliefs, however, that fact may simply show her history of independence from the Republican party. In the 1990's, she belonged to a conservative third party. Angle won the Nevada GOP Senate primary this month, knocking out the establishment candidate to take on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
While Angle alluded to conservative hero President Ronald Reagan the night she won the primary, she in fact was a registered Democrat during part of his presidency. Records show, the AP reports, that Angle was a registered Republican until 1984, when she switched to the Democratic party. She stayed a Democrat at least through March, 1988.
Campaign spokesman Jerry Stacy told the AP Angle switched parties to work for a conservative Democrat running for state Senate, but she voted for Reagan in both 1980 and 1984.
"She's always been conservative," Stacy said. "She switched parties to help run the (Democrat's) campaign."
In 1992, Angle helped resurrect the Independent American Party, the Wall Street Journal reported. The party reportedly favors low taxes and opposes gun control, illegal immigration, abortion, gay rights and "global government." Angle rejoined the Republicans in 1997.
The candidate in Washington this week to meet with Republican Party officials and conservative activists, but she has taken some heat for avoiding reporters.
National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Cornyn (Texas) said that within weeks, reporters will have "complete, 100 percent access" to Angle, the Washington Post reports.
"I think she needs to get staffed up and prepared," he said. "The kind of scrutiny candidates undergo in a general-election race like this is far different than virtually anybody's been through before, and I just think it's a matter of due diligence and being prepared."
Yep!
You are trying to horn in on Nevada politics even tough you are a KALIFORNIA resident!
I too am from Kalifornia, and have supported her with my hard earned $, All you want to do is slander, slime, and create a web of negativity.
Where’s your cold hard cash going!?!
Zell ain’t near the conservative as he puts on...
Got an email a while back from some guy claiming to run the Tea Party-says he’s an ex-liberal.
Some do wake up and smell the coffee.
You know nothing about my support for candidates. You would eat your words if you did.
Your words mean nothing!
Bring it on or STFU!
Just in case you decide to post your weak assed list..
I have to go feed my family, but will return tomorrow to read all you have to say.
So was Ronald Reagan...
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No, the analogy would be similiar to all of the Republicans who jumped to the Democrat party in the last presidential race to influence the Democrat party primary. In this instance she stated she jumped to influence one election. No different.
Nice try but no. Your argument is without merit. There are issues that could harm her, maybe, but this isn’t one and not evidence of a fraying campaign.
Lastly, I don’t really care if she was your favorite.
She won the primary. She’s a conservative. We support the election of conservatives here. Not try to tear them down because you think someone would make a stronger candidate.
Show her advancing liberal causes and that changes things. You haven’t shown that.
But I do. That's my opinion, and that's what we do here...opine.
That was my whole point. I think she was the weakest of the candidates; the easiest for Reid to defeat.
Youthful indiscretion.
Why would you be at a loss for words? Palin & Carly aren’t exactly my idea of conservative chicks. Bachmann and Blackburn and Angle are more to my liking.
The good news is that, if this is the worst they can find about her, she’s probably clean.
You’re so right on a number of levels. Excellent...
So was I, but I saw the light. Many people have.
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