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Harry Reid makes it personal
Politico.com ^ | 10-23-10 | Manu Raju and Molly Ball

Posted on 10/24/2010 12:26:21 PM PDT by Justaham

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is taking matters into his own hands.

He's run a scorched-earth campaign from the start, but until now, Reid has rarely been the mouthpiece for the attacks, preferring to leave it to his staff, surrogates and campaign ads.

Not anymore.

The 70-year-old Democrat, once not much more visible than the opponent he derided for hiding from the media, is suddenly everywhere, and he's on the offensive.

He derided his Republican opponent, Sharron Angle, as "radical," "dangerous" and "embarrassing to the state of Nevada," in a Thursday interview with MSNBC's Ed Schultz.

At an appearance earlier in the week, he asked the crowd, "Have you noticed that every time my opponent screws up, which is quite often, she goes into her bunker? ... If you can't talk to the media while you're running for the United States Senate, you shouldn't be running for the United States Senate."

At another stop, he mocked her views of the separation of church and state: "If my opponent wants to run on her constitutional expertise, she should at least know what's in it," he jabbed.

The turning point seems to have come with Reid's widely panned performance in his sole debate with Angle earlier this month. On the debate stage, the closest he came to a dig was to say, with a bemused look, "These ideas of my opponent are really extreme." It was Angle's forced but punchy "Man up, Harry Reid" that became the takeaway sound bite.

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1 posted on 10/24/2010 12:26:25 PM PDT by Justaham
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To: Justaham

Whatever, Dingy.

See ya on Nov. 2.


2 posted on 10/24/2010 12:28:18 PM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: Justaham

Now he’s just desperately flailing around. This can only help Sharron.


3 posted on 10/24/2010 12:29:48 PM PDT by hsalaw
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To: Justaham

Dingy is just a bitter old man clinging to his power and his money. Much like Georgie Soros.


4 posted on 10/24/2010 12:30:39 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Which are you voting for on November 2nd? Freedom and liberty or FREE ice cream?)
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To: hsalaw

That is what I think as well; voters can smell desperation in Nevada.


5 posted on 10/24/2010 12:31:29 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: hsalaw

Quite seriously, there are few things sadder than a tried old man trying to look young and vigorous. As my mother used to say (whenever, in my adulthood, I pursued a girl younger than me), “There’s no fool like an old fool”


6 posted on 10/24/2010 12:32:05 PM PDT by hampdenkid
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To: Justaham

So Reid thinks 15% unemployment is an honor for Nevada?


7 posted on 10/24/2010 12:32:43 PM PDT by Carley (For those who fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know.)
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To: hsalaw

The only way Reid can win this election is with ANOTHER trunk load of “whorehouse” votes! That’s how he won one of his elections, I kid you not!!


8 posted on 10/24/2010 12:32:56 PM PDT by WellyP
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To: Justaham

It’s been personal since the get go from Harry.

He has used other groups to go after her trying to appear as if he had no worries and now he sees that there is indeed something for him to worry about.

His supporters are amplifying their attacks as well.

Lord, Lord, please let us be delivered from this handmaid of the devil.


9 posted on 10/24/2010 12:33:05 PM PDT by Jvette
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To: Justaham

This is the Bolshevik fanatics at Politico writing a one sided hit piece against Angle that repeats all the Democrat nonsense.

They have been the most fanatical of all the media apparatchiks this political season. They are hysterical and insane.


10 posted on 10/24/2010 12:34:36 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: Luke21

Yep...MadCow repeated the attack on Angle today on MTP.

They are desperate that the bumbling old moron is going down.


11 posted on 10/24/2010 12:41:31 PM PDT by Kahuna
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To: Justaham
...in a Thursday interview with MSNBC's Ed Schultz.

I'm sure both viewers were impressed.

12 posted on 10/24/2010 12:44:40 PM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
Whatever, Dingy.

I've been writing "Dingy" Reid, but have noticed that the word can have two pronunciations:

1.Din-ghee, dingy.

2.Ding-ey, dingy.

Rush calls him din-ghee. I prefer ding-ey.

But either accurately describes old Dingy Harry.

13 posted on 10/24/2010 12:46:47 PM PDT by Ole Okie (American.)
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To: Justaham

Harry Reid = 15% unemployment in Vegas.
Case Closed.
Fire Him. November 2, 2010. For good.
Nothing more needs to be said.


14 posted on 10/24/2010 12:47:43 PM PDT by Shady (The Ruling Class will be overruled 11/2/10...)
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To: Justaham
Ignorant buffoon playing to his ignorant buffoon base.
15 posted on 10/24/2010 12:53:31 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Moderates manipulate, extremists use violence, but the goal is the same.)
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To: WellyP

Pimp paid for first Harry Reid campaign, former manager says; takes lie detector to prove claims
Posted on September 3, 2010 by Steve Foley

http://states.liberty.com/2010/09/03/pimp-paid-for-first-harry-reid-campaign-former-manager-says-takes-lie-detector-to-prove-claims/

“...Williams claimed that on two occasions he delivered to Reid at least $10,000 in cash from Mustang Ranch owner Joe Conforte as early as 1970, during Reid’s lieutenant governor campaign. The lie detection test, dated May 30, confirms the veracity of Williams’ statements that Reid built part of his campaign war chest with his ties to Conforte.

The Reid-Conforte relationship began when Reid asked his campaign manager to meet the brothel owner, Williams said. The Mustang Ranch operator was known in political circles as a tracker of Nevada’s races and generous donor.

“Reid implored me to take this meeting because he did not want to be spotted huddling with Conforte. I agreed,” Williams said.

The men discussed politics at a restaurant, until Conforte cut the meeting short and asked Williams to step outside. Conforte opened his car’s trunk to reveal a pile of absentee ballots. Each was marked for Reid, he told Williams. The brothel owner then directed the campaign manager to deliver a thick envelope to the politician.

“I gave it to Reid the next day,” Williams said this week. “He opened it in front of me. It was full of hundred-dollar bills.”

Reid won the election...”


16 posted on 10/24/2010 12:55:51 PM PDT by WellyP
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To: WellyP
The only way Reid can win this election is with ANOTHER trunk load of “whorehouse” votes! That’s how he won one of his elections, I kid you not!!

You can be assured of plenty of dirty tricks this time as well. The difference will be how it's handled.

Stock futures for tar and feathers are way up.

17 posted on 10/24/2010 1:06:27 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: Justaham

If it were legal...I would belt the shit out of Harry Reid in the mouth every time he opened it. But...it’s illegal so we do the next best thing...vote his ass out.


18 posted on 10/24/2010 1:20:24 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache (In a world where I feel so small, I can't stop thinking big.)
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To: Justaham
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is taking matters into his own hands.

Oh my! We have awakened a sleeping GIANT!--not

19 posted on 10/24/2010 1:24:48 PM PDT by Mark (Don't argue with my posts. I typed while under sniper fire..)
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To: Justaham

Fight back !!!


20 posted on 10/24/2010 1:28:40 PM PDT by DontTreadOnMe2009 (So stop treading on me already!)
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