Reid lost the debate to Angle (from LV Sun)

Las Vegas Sun ^ | 10/15/10 | Jon Ralston

[paudio]

I know we Nevadans get our backs up when the national media condescends. We are a proud bunch; we love our state. But as I surveyed the post-mortems in the 140-character world, where concision often yields brutal truth, you could almost sense the head-shaking as the national types opined:

NBC’s Chuck Todd: “Reid’s problem tonight is that while Angle wasn’t great, his performance made her look passable.”

Politico’s Dave Catanese: “Utterly subpar.”

Political Wire’s Taegan Goddard: “Reid didn’t knock out Angle but she had him on the ropes. Have to give the edge to Angle ...”

Political writer Taylor Marsh may have summed it up best: “Sharron Angle passed the ‘I’m not crazy test’ with flying colors. Focused too. This lady just might pull this off. Reid didn’t take her out.”

[paudio]

This is great... If even MSM 'journalists' give to Angle, including LV Sun who endorses Reid, it's clear who won...

[FloridaSunrise]

Ouch. Jon Ralston is one of Reid’s biggest boosters.

If he says Reid lost the debate .. that says it all.

The next Senator from the state of Nevada,

Sharron Angle.

She did impress me and shattered the low expectatons most people had of her.

[Red Badger]

Reid the Tea Leaves, Harry....................

[FloridaSunrise]

Harry Reid’s best line of the night. When challenged by Angle on how he got so rich as a Senator and lives at the Ritz Hotel.

“I live on a fixed income.”

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

In the vice presidential debates, Dan Quayle wiped the floor with Al Gore. I listened, live on the radio, even the Boston Globe (!) gave the debate to Quayle. For all the good it did.

Debates mean very little.

[sodpoodle]

Now for the FReeper test;)

When an elected GOP representative (Michael Steele, Mitt Romney, GWB, Guiliani, Huckabee, McCain, Sarah Palin, et al) falls from grace with an itty bitty or big-a$$ boo-boo - we pile on and chuck ‘em under the bus.

Will Nevada Dems be as tough on Dingy Harry?

I doubt it!!!!!

[jocon307]

“If even MSM ‘journalists’ give to Angle...”

And per NRO even some real lefties, like folks from Mother Jones and The Nation. (from memory, so it’s my error if either of those is wrong).

But, I must say I’ve always found the far left journos more honest that the total shills in the MSM.

[ontap]

These liberals really hat to own up to the truth so for them to say this much means she cleaned his clock....bye bye Harry!!!

[ontap]

hat=hate

[GoMonster]

I saw it. I think she came off fine and what she said made sense I think to most people in Nevada. He came off as a Whiny

[ScottinVA]

Sharron is a bit hard to listen to for an extended period of time, but she landed the harder hits. Reid, like Coons on Tuesday, was condescending and arrogant.

[Redleg Duke]

Reid’s comment that he said that the war in Iraq was lost based upon what the general told him, it was clear that he saw the train coming at him.

[vietvet67]

The other day Reid said he was not responsible for the high unemployment.

Last night he said his job as senator was to create jobs.

Go figure..

[fedupjohn]

bmp

[ScottinVA]

Reid, like Coons on Tuesday, was condescending and arrogant.

Wednesday

[RockinRight]

But Angle, as she often does, when confronted with previous positions from abolishing the Education Department to phasing out Social Security and Medicare, just plows ahead as if her reinvention project is perfectly believable. If she says she never said it, maybe she never did — unless, as has so often happens but could not Thursday, someone plays Warren Wolf and goes to the videotape.

There really is a simple way to address this. Say this:

"I believe that education in this country was better before we had a Department of Education, for many reasons, one of which is localized control. Social Security is in danger of going bankrupt at some point and we have to address it, there's no way around it. Don't misunderstand this to mean that the day I enter office I'm going to simply cut off millions of people, there's no way I could endorse such a plan, and it's insulting that people have suggested that. All I've said is we have to have this discussion on what to do so our children and grandchildren have stability. It doesn't take a genius to know that Social Security is unsustainable.

[BigSkyDream]

Being one of those smelly tourists that has boycotted Nevada since Harry’s “the war is lost” comment. I have to admit that not only am I smelly, but I must also be slow headed since it took me almost three times of him inserting the word “extreme” into his comments before I realized that he must think I am really stupid.

[RockinRight]

“Fixed” at 200 grand a year.

[traderrob6]

A poor analogy.

Angle needed to do one thing and one thing only, pass the ‘I’m not crazy test’. She did that and more.

[popdonnelly]

It’s long past time that this slug got defeated. And there are many other Democrats about whom one could say the same thing.