Simple Questions Ignored

In reviewing the politics of the week, a normally trusted media source referred to Kentucky's Rand Paul and Nevada's Republican nominee to face Majority Leader Harry Reid, Sharron Angle, as "winning elections."

I object. Neither has stood in a state wide general election.

Dr. Paul's father, Ron, is a member of Congress from TX. But Rand Paul of KY is a complete political novice.

Likewise, Ms Angle is an ultra-conservative/libertarian former state representative from largely rural northern Nevada... Outside the more urbanized & heavily populated areas of Reno and especially Las Vegas, where the pre-recession influx of population puts the state in line for a fourth, and largely Democratic, Congressional district after 2010 Census redistricting.



Republican pollster Rasmussen conducted a survey among Republican voters on June 8th -- primary day. 41% of Nevada's GOP primary voters said they consider themselves part of the Tea Party movement... Half of them voted for Angle.

Kent Harper, editor of the editorially conservative Ely (NV) News wrote: "... Since the primary, I am receiving a half dozen or so e-mails per day from the national and state Dems, as well as Reid's campaign, accusing Angle of everything short of being the Anti-Christ. But that's how the political establishment rolls. This is going to be a nasty one... Well, it already is."