Sharron Angle is not a nut. She is one awesome woman, who was inexperienced. Akin is a good man whose ego got in the way of his stepping aside, the only rational decision after his faux pas. There were much better candidates in Mo. Claire won a gift second term. Bob
Sharon Angle only God knows how got THE extremely critical position as the GOP NV Senate candidate challenging Reid who was VERY unpopular at that time in NV 2010, and 2010 was a GOP wave win election, yet still she (Angle) gave the seat to Reid and Obama by spitting out of her mouth endless stupid stuff
Cruz is nothing like that. He is a lethal weapon very careful and precise, not a self destructive one. He nails them so it hurts. You can look forward to what he does next.
Several of us here were warning folks that Angle was a bad candidate. She had already blown two races before getting the Senate nomination and was already prone to making strange comments and unproven allegations (she accused Dean Heller of voter fraud, which almost cost us a safe House seat). “Nut” is not too harsh a word, and sore loser (after her 2006 loss to Heller) is another. She was just about the only GOP candidate in NV who could lose to the unpopular Reid. A ficus plant could’ve beaten Reid, yet Angle blew it.
Ken Buck in CO also blew a winnable race against a far-left seat warmer non-entity. We can’t nominate candidates like these and hope to win.
As for Akin, he is a good man, had an excellent voting record, but he broke the Clayton Williams rule of never joking or talking about rape. No matter what you say, it’s going to get you in trouble and no good will come of it. Mourdock fell down the rabbit hole with Akin on that same rule. If you get asked a media gotcha question about abortion and how it relates to rape, you say you’re pro-life and you leave it at that.
“Sharron Angle is not a nut. She is one awesome woman, who was inexperienced. Akin is a good man whose ego got in the way of his stepping aside, the only rational decision after his faux pas. There were much better candidates in Mo. Claire won a gift second term. Bob”
Wrong on both counts! Both of these people are right wing NUTS! They hold some very screwy views in critical areas of thought. As a consequence, neither of them appealed to even mainstream conservatives, so they lost. We have family in Las Vegas, all of whom are conservative. They had to hold their noses to vote for Angle. When Sharron was in the Nevada legislature, she did her dead level best not to get along with anyone who didn’t think exactly like she did. Every time she opened her mouth, she managed to stick her foot all the way down to her a$$. These people are what you get when a bunch of amateurs think they know how to pick winners. God bless the Tea Party, but they really screwed up where these two are concerned.
Claire spent more money promoting Akin than Akin did on his own campaign. Akin was and is a certified moron.