After all, the NRA had Reid in their pocket, so we were told, and the fix was in against Angle with the Republican establishment. (Don't run a serious campaign against the Dem leadership, and they'll return the favor to us... one hand washes the other, y'know what I'm sayin'? )
She wasn't a perfect candidate, but she was a Republican candidate, however the rationale that was sold to the voters was "well, if we really support Sharron Angle against Reid and she wins, we'll get stuck with Chuckie as (at that time) majority leader."
Now we're getting Chuckie anyway, except as minority leader for now but as this article points out at the beginning, possibly as majority leader sometime in the future. Entirely plausible given the feckless Republican leadership especially in the Senate.
A sincere thanks again to the Republican machine, Chris Cox, and the NRA. Way to go, guys, you only squandered a Senate seat for six years, and substituted Dingy Harry for Chuckie for the same length of time, and confirmed the craven fecklessness of the Republican machine.
Yup. Not only did they not support Angle, but they pretty declined to run anybody against Schumer. And they won’t run anybody against Schumer again in 2016.