Posted on 10/07/2010 9:35:57 PM PDT by VictoryGal
Sen. Bill Raggio, R-Reno, regarded as the most powerful and respected Republican in Nevada, announced Thursday he will support Democrat Harry Reid over Sharron Angle in the closely contested U.S. Senate race.
In an open letter, Raggio slammed Angle's legislative record and what he referred to as her extreme positions on the issues.
He also mentioned Angle's negative campaign against him for the Nevada Senate seat saying she distorted his record, calling him a liar and a RINO (Republican In Name Only.)
“I never heard one word from her, or a concession, or an offer of support,” he wrote. “Instead, she lent aid and comfort to an effort to recall me as state senator.”
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Reid was defended tonight on Hannity by The Huckster because of a vote for giving pedophiles viagra. The Huckster said “To be fair The Senator doesn’t read everything in every bill. WELL WHY THE F@#K NOT. Your spending our money Senators. I was shocked when Sean didn’t hammer home that message. It’s why Sharon is running because we “Average Americans” are sick of the lazy ass politicians who have a staff and volunteers in the hundreds not reading the crap their passing.
Another Repub unworthy of support.
If he just said he didn’t like her, it would be one thing. Bad enough under the circumstances. But to come right out and support the single worst Democrat in the entire Senate, this suggests that Harry has got to him. No Repub would ever support Harry Reid, under no circumstance could it happen. But it happened. Something made it happen and that something is Reid.
His public career needs to end.
Its almost as if over the years, the Republican Party has been gradually infiltrated by Democrat Party undercover agents.
I have often thought about how easy it would be for this to happen, but never really thought it could.
Now that I see all of these so called Republicans coming out for Democrats, I have to wonder.
The 2011 session will be his last because of term limits.
Damn, doesn't give the voters of NV the satisfaction of voting his sorry rino ass out of office. Oh well...
5.56mm
If Angle called him a RINO, it looks like it is being proven correct. Well, at least he didn’t try to start a write-in campaign but he is still doing his best to sabotage his party’s nominee.
Well, we see that the state of Nevada republicans is nearly-socialist.
He's a RINO so his spine has already been removed. Must be some other part of his back.
Which is why she won in the first place.
We can only hope...
It’s not just about the paycheck. RINO’s ARE liberals with a R after their names.
READ HERE (NOTE Goal #15):
Communist Goals (1963)
Documention below
Congressional Record—Appendix, pp. A34-A35
January 10, 1963
Current Communist Goals
EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, January 10, 1963
Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.
At Mrs. Nordman’s request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following “Current Communist Goals,” which she identifies as an excerpt from “The Naked Communist,” by Cleon Skousen:
[From “The Naked Communist,” by Cleon Skousen]
CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev’s promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.”
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the “big picture.” Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture—education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use [”]united force[”] to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.
Sen. Bill Raggio, R-Reno, regarded as the most powerful and respected Republican in Nevada
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If he is so powerful and respected, how did Angle kick his a@@?
LOL. Yes, for certain.
And some actually think that lamebrain should be President!
Huckabee is a frickin moron.
I saw that segment too, it is surreal, isn’t it?
Yup, but come election day, you’ll find plenty of freepers who will tell you to hold your nose and vote for these scumbags.
“MOST respected Republican in Nevada”???
WTF??
I am Republican & I live in Nevada.
Sure don’t want Raggio in the state legislature for one moment longer than necessary.
He sounds like sour grapes all the time.
I guess the infiltration did not end with Nelson A. Rockefeller. Maybe even Richard M. Nixon was a Democrat in drag.
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