Sharron Angle is the Republican candidate running for Sen. Harry Reid's (D-NV) seat. You know her primarily for her advocacy of armed insurrection by right-wing extremists against the U.S. government if they do not get their way in our next election (i.e., "Second Amendment remedies"). As it turns out, there are plenty of other things you should know about Sharron Angle and her plan for America:
- Angle's energy plan involves deregulating the oil industry, the same industry currently bringing us the worst environment disaster in U.S. history.
- Angle has ties to the far-right Constitution Party, promoters of Christian Reconstructionism (i.e., they want to impose biblical law on the U.S.). In fact, Christian Reconstructionist groups are helping to fund her campaign.
- Just like George W. Bush, Angle wants to privatize Social Security. Going way beyond what Bush would have tried, she also wants to privatize the VA!
- Angle has publicly stated that she thinks alcohol should be illegal, and her website lists banning pornography as one of her goals. At least, it used to.
- Angle opposes a woman's right to abort a pregnancy even in cases of rape or incest, believing that pregnancy even in such awful circumstances is part of God's plan.
- Angle appears to be an anti-gay bigot.
- It appears that Angle only became a Republican when she realized that she was unelectable running as an Independent American Party candidate.
- Angle believes that unemployed Americans are "spoiled" and that job creation would not be one of her responsibilities as a U.S. Senator.
Despite increasingly desperate attempts to rewrite her own history to appeal to a larger audience, this is Sharron Angle. She appears to be a dangerous Christian extremist who would be bad for Nevada and the U.S. as a whole. This Christian Reconstructionism stuff, as I understand it, is about as extreme as Christians get. Even many on the Christian right consider it too far out.
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