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What? What? I thought Sharron Angle was imploding.

I also thought she was out there on social security.

That’s what the Democrats have been telling us. Heck, that’s what some Republicans have been telling us.

And then she went and produced this bit of brilliance. An imploding campaign does not produce stuff like this.

I like it.

Sharron Angle can win. We must help.

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  • IJB

    I’m convinced of it.

    And every day Harry Reid opens his mouth, he only makes Sharron Angel’s mission easier.

    Every Republican in the country should be scrambling to shove a microphone in Harry Reid’s face – he’s going to do Sharron Angle’s job for her!

    Can’t wait!! :)

  • http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/ reaganiterepublicanresistance

    Good job, Ma’am…

    And keep it up, we need this one!

  • rec0n

    I like Sharron too. A lot. But as a slogan the above doesn’t have much of a ring, really. :)

  • eburke

    What a great ad!!!

    Got to admit that I was looking for signs that Sharron’s media team had the ability to use the treasure trove of campaign material that Harry’s given us in an effective manner (if Harry keeps it up, he’s going to give Gaffemeister Biden a run for his money).

    This ad demonstrates that they do.

    Got a solicitation from Sharron yesterday.

    The check’s in the mail.

  • dambama

    Send her a check now! I do every month.

    Sharron is a true Constitutional Conservative. She understands the Constitution and the importance of limited federal government power.

    Harry Reid has failed Nevada and America.

    We need true Patriots like Sharron Angle in the Senate!

  • partyof1

    on the scrolling list of donors

    things are going to start happening to me now

  • coldair

    I like her very much – and agree with all the “ridiculous” “far-out” things she’s saying.

    And I like what she says here. Only problem is: there is no money to put into the lockbox. The “lockbox” (i.e., the trust fund) was raided years ago by the Big Spenders; it’s all gone!

    She certainly has the right idea; keeping the lockbox-key out of the hands of Congress is the right thing to do. But she’s conning people with this ad, saying that’s the way to fix it now. It would be if the money was around to put back in the box – but it isn’t. We’ll have to do something else to fix the problem now. And whatever it is, it ain’t gonna be pretty.

    No matter what – she’s certainly a lot better than the Hollow Reed.

  • redtillimdead

    Of her huge ad buys this week. In the next few weeks, she will be placing ad buys that are traditional for October- not August. She needs to to take the race back from Reid and his shadowy 527′s. However, she has been spending a ton of money on smaller ad buys in the last few months, and she needs help to keep placing these big ad buys and to let voters know who she REALLY is, not who Reid wants them to think she is. Donate NOW and get other people to donate to, use email, FB, twitter, whatever, to get her some money. She needs it more than anyone right now.

  • BA Cyclone

    Particularly when this is a higher profile race by definition – running against the Senate Majority Leader – she cannot wait until 30-60 days out of the election to target the focused spread of ads. Her opponent can have a bully pulpit of sorts (especially when Congress is in session) and she has to make and keep it interesting, if not capture leads ASAP.

  • BA Cyclone

    Particularly when this is a higher profile race by definition – running against the Senate Majority Leader – she cannot wait until 30-60 days out of the election to target the focused spread of ads. Her opponent can have a bully pulpit of sorts (especially when Congress is in session) and she has to make and keep it interesting, if not capture leads ASAP.

  • danielbdp

    By next week. Likely won’t be able to match the $25 million Harry says he’s gathering to “vaporize” Sharron, but recent races have proven voters will still vote for the right candidate above all the propaganda, provided there’s is a “right” candidate, and she is it.

    Despite Dingy Harry’s obvious and multiple shortcomings (least of which is his sincere racism mixed with political incorrectness), and Sharron’s campaign getting it just right of late, never count out the wealth and power of his multiple corrupt friends nationwide to protect their own unpatriotic interests in upholding the “Obama whisperer”.

    We can give the single biggest non-Negro dialect black eye to the Obama agenda by helping Sharron win. She?s definitely one of ours and will NOT corrupt in Washington.

    Give to Sharron’s campaign till it hurts! Our nation cannot afford Harry past November!

    http://sharronangle.com/

    Watch a brilliant Sharron Angle ad on U-tube:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGUN9PsbKgc

    http://sharronangle.com/videos/2010-07-20/sharron-angle-tv-ad-right-here-right-now

    Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

    Ronald Reagan

  • danielbdp

    By next week. Likely won’t be able to match the $25 million Harry says he’s gathering to “vaporize” Sharron, but recent races have proven voters will still vote for the right candidate above all the propaganda, provided there’s is a “right” candidate, and she is it.

    Despite Dingy Harry’s obvious and multiple shortcomings (least of which is his sincere racism mixed with political incorrectness), and Sharron’s campaign getting it just right of late, never count out the wealth and power of his multiple corrupt friends nationwide to protect their own unpatriotic interests in upholding the “Obama whisperer”.

    We can give the single biggest non-Negro dialect black eye to the Obama agenda by helping Sharron win. She?s definitely one of ours and will NOT corrupt in Washington.

    Give to Sharron’s campaign till it hurts! Our nation cannot afford Harry past November!

    http://sharronangle.com/

    Watch a brilliant Sharron Angle ad on U-tube:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGUN9PsbKgc

    http://sharronangle.com/videos/2010-07-20/sharron-angle-tv-ad-right-here-right-now

    Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

    Ronald Reagan

  • http://itsaboutfreedom.proboards.com IronDioPriest

    … but a return to algore’s Social Security “LockBox?”???

    Really???

  • deano64

    about privatizing social security. She needed to cummunicate this so that those who are at or near retirement age don’t think they are going to lose out. Good ad. Though Algore did come to mind for me too.

  • skorrent1

    Not only is there no money, there’s no “lockbox”.
    The idea that the federal government can collect money and stuff it away in a shoebox somewhere is a silly simplification pointed at an ignorant electorate. Revenue must either be converted to in house debt by buying T-notes (IOUs), or used to pay off existing public debt. God forbid that they should actually invest by buying an interest in the private sector! Isn’t Government Motors bad enough?

    Forcing the government to admit unfunded obligations by converting in-house debt to public debt may sound like good “transparency”, but it does nothing to solve the cash-flow problem. SocSec must be restructured.

  • indylawyer

    Maybe I’ve just seen a bad sample, but all of the ads I’ve seen from Sharron Angle seem pretty shallow. Basic message seems to be “I’m a nice lady” with each ad including some non-controversial policy statement that means little or nothing. Maybe that works to counter Reid’s efforts to tar her as a right-wing loony, but I think some more substance would help.

    She ought to be explaining the many horrid effects of the health care bill Reid rammed through. Or what his “cap & trade” bill would do to Nevada’s economy. Or reminding people of Reid’s oft used tactic of negotiating an enormous bill behind closed doors until he buys off enough Senators to pass it, then ramming it through within hours before anyone has a chance to read it. Or his role in ramming through the many “stimulus” and “bailout” programs. Or his “the war is lost” declaration. And can’t she and Sandoval (GOP candidate running vs. Reid’s son for governor) do a press conference or something denouncing Reid’s recent comments about Hispanic Republicans?

  • rainmaker1145

    I heard she was dissin’ the Tea Parties and then I heard she had the nerve to stand up and say it was time to privatize Social Security (as if there was any real choice in this matter – it’s either privatize it or close it up).

    She has a golden opportunity to not only take down Harry Reid, but to destroy the Democratic Party on a national scale, end the race card politics game and destroy liberalism for a generation. I don’t know who’s advising her, but she makes me nervous. She’s either picking old-school insiders who are already corrupt or she has signed on with idiots. Either way, chances like this aren’t going to last forever and then what? They’ll cry and beg for more money to try again after they never listened and never stopped the ruling class games.

  • http://www.incredibleco.ning.com Incredible

    can we get a direct link? The embeds on RS do not seem to work 1/2 the time.

  • http://itsaboutfreedom.proboards.com IronDioPriest

    Her content is fine. But the thrust of Erick’s post is that this ad is brilliant. Her recycling of algore’s LockBox nomenclature rang amateurish bells for me. That one reference came across as unpolished and unaware, in my opinion.

    There are a zillion ways to tell seniors that the Social Security they are counting on is going to be there for them without conjuring up the cartoonish image of algore clumsily driving home the “LockBox” message.

  • snowshooze

    And Harry doesn’t have any substance.
    Sharon can win at 10:1 because she is departing from status quo rather than despite it.
    True, she needs to work on her plank a bit, but let’s hope Harry spends all his money and all of the DNC dough too.
    The fact that she is a threat is enough to take some air out of their tires.

  • Coop

    …. is to keep the media and conservatives/Republicans focused on Sharron Angle instead of his abysmal record. And he knows it. Unfortunately it seems way too many on the right have been falling for it.

    There has been nothing about this race that should have surprised anyone. Angle’s 50% in the initial post-primary poll was a bump that would soon fade. Harry’s onslaught of attack ads , with the help of a complicit anti-GOP media, was going to lower the poll numbers of ANYBODY – Angle, Lowden, Tarkanian, Reagan, or even Jesus C. himself.

    And after spending millions and millions of dollars, what has the sitting Majority Leader been able to accomplish? A high of 48% in the polls. ROTFL

    I still give Harry Reid a 20-25% chance to win, no more.

    http://sharronangle.com/

  • eburke

    connect ‘lock box’ to algore is….?

    I mean, my wife is pestering me to join Political Junkies Anonymous and *I* didn’t even make the connection.

    I thought the ad was a great way to start to defuse Harry’s demonization of her as a loon while being negative on him at the same time. Her delivery could be improved a bit but it’s still an A-/B+

  • minncon

    Ooooh… has the spirit of Al Gore (if he actually HAS one) invaded Sharon Angle’s body? I agree with all of those who’ve said she ought to stop the amateur ads and start making Reid choke on his past outrageous comments. Just a few of his direct quotes;

    … “The Iraq war is lost…”
    … “How could any Hispanic be a Republican…”
    … Obama is “light-skinned, without a Negro dialect (unless he wants one)”
    .. “[the president (Bush)] is a loser and a liar.”

    Or how about some headlines to hang around his neck:

    … “Harry Reid compares Republicans to slavery supporters, anti-suffrage voices…”
    … “Even with its Senator the Majority Leader, Nevada leads the country in unemployment”
    … “Reid leads way on trillion-dollar deficits.”
    … “Reid: President should bribe through his legislation”

    God, that ought to be enough! (And that’s just 20 minutes web research on a Friday Morning!

    … :

  • southcoast

    If Sharron is really imploding why then is Harry paying so much attention to her?

    We have seen over the years just how much the statists regard us and the earnings they confiscate from us. They take our income, deposit in these so called accounts in order that we may draw from them when they tell us we can. As they pilfer more money from these accounts, or more accurately cash streams, they restrict, confine and diminish our ability to get back our own money which they purportedly have been saving for our benefit. We learn these same central planners have been for some time taking (they call it borrowing) these funds to pay for votes, to reward selected victim classes and general subsidize legislative and administrative incompetence and malfeasance. This is yet another program which must be drawn down to zero and the savings from running this scheme returned to the taxpayers.

  • bwakefield

    Sharon has it right. Social Security is not an “entitlement” This is my money, I paid into a system unwillingly, against my better judgement under the color of law. I was promised it would be there when I retire. guess what, I am set to retire in two years and I want all my money back with interest. If harry reid or other politicians think they have problems now, steal my SS money and cheat me again and you will find out what real problems are, you scum bag pieces of crap.
    For the lairs and cheats in washington to suggest that those of us who have paid into the stupid system should now do the right thing and give it to the government to pay down the debt are insane lying bastards. They have robbed the SS trust for years to pay for there pork. You guys give up your salaries, retirement packages, get ride of the real “entitlements” stop earmarks, balance the budget, stop bailing out your buddies, dump Freddie and Fanny. then if you still have a budget problem come talk to me about my SS money. Until then scum bags do the right thing.

  • ihateliberals

    like you said Harry needs more mike time. These things combined will get rid of Harry once and for all. The other way to get rid of Harry for sure is for Sharon to win and for the GOP to take back the senate.

  • redt

    Here in Nevada it is plain that Sharon has two opponants, Harry Reid and the Obamedia (LSM). They are very good at taking ? of a sentence, use it out of contex, and make her look crazy. When you get the whole message, hardly anybody here can argue with her ideas. It is really hard for her to get the word out. Support this great leader! She is certainly what we need here!!

  • dambama

    Unfortunately Harry is spending $25,000,000 to attack and misrepresent everything Sharron says.

    Harry is a “true believer” in big-government, and is spending millions on any and every issue to slime her.

    He is spending millions trying to convince Nevadans that Sharron Angle is against education, and wants to fire all the teachers, because she has been critical of the Federal Department of Education. A Jimmy Carter creation.

    He does the same thing on Social Security when Sharron suggests allowing future workers the ability to invest part of their retirement funds in private investments. Now Harry spends a few more millions to accuse her of wanting to take away everyone?s social security checks. Some people actually believe this BS.

    Harry will do anything and say anything to keep his power. He spends like Obama on his campaign. $25,000,000! That is unheard of in Nevada.

    Sharron Angle is what everyone claims they want to run for office, a normal citizen. Sharron is Conservative. To Harry Reid this is the same as being evil.

    Unfortunately, like most normal people, Sharron Angle is not a multi-millionaire like Harry Reid. She does not have the resources Harry has with a snap of his fingers. She does not have the unions, ACORNs, and the Washington lobbyists, who toss rose petals in front of Harry when he walks the halls of the Senate.

    I donate to Sharron’s campaign every month. I do not know her, but I know she believes in the Constitution and she will always vote to support it, unlike Harry.

    We have to do more to help Sharron Angle defeat ?Harry the Horrible?.

  • dambama

    Harry Reid is spending $25,000,000 to attack and misrepresent everything Sharron says.

    Harry is a “true believer” in big-government, and is spending millions on any and every issue to slime her.

    He is spending millions trying to convince Nevadans that Sharron Angle is against education, and wants to fire all the teachers, because she has been critical of the Federal Department of Education. A Jimmy Carter creation.

    He does the same thing on Social Security when Sharron suggests allowing future workers the ability to invest part of their retirement funds in private investments, or trying to keep the democrats from continuing to rob Social Security taxes as they always have. Now Harry spends a few more millions to accuse her of wanting to take away everyone?s social security checks. Some people actually believe this BS.

    Harry will do anything and say anything to keep his power. He spends like Obama on his campaign. $25,000,000! That is unheard of in Nevada.

    Sharron Angle is what everyone claims they want to run for office, a normal citizen. Sharron is Conservative. To Harry Reid this is the same as being evil.

    Unfortunately, like most normal people, Sharron Angle is not a multi-millionaire like Harry Reid. Harry got rich being a Senator.

    Sharron does not have the resources Harry has with a snap of his fingers. She does not have the unions, ACORNs, and the Washington lobbyists, who toss rose petals in front of Harry when he walks the halls of the Senate. She also has a hostile media that generally HATES Republicans.

    I donate to Sharron’s campaign every month. I do not know her, but I know she believes in the Constitution and she will always vote to support it, unlike Harry.

    We have to do more to help Sharron Angle defeat ?Harry the Horrible?. Please send her a contribution.