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AP: Sharron Angle “is Anti-Anything Latino”

You know what would really shake things up for the Angle campaign? A little push-back against the Press that ends up with a solid hit on Harry Reid. In fact, if she could make this SOP with every little hit piece that comes along, I’d bet she’d see a leap in her numbers.

For example, NR’s Jay Nordlinger’s eye recently fell on this gem of an article from the Associated Press that begins;

Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle’s conservative views on illegal immigration and her limited outreach to Hispanics have done little to endear her to Nevada’s largest minority group.

Note here that by “conservative views”, AP writers usually mean having the strange belief that illegal immigration is well … illegal.

Anyway, the whole thing went downhill from there. Given prominent place as a voice for the majority of Nevada Hispanics is one Esperanza Montelongo – a Las Vega Spanish-language political radio show host and Reid supporter, who has this to say;

For me, she [Sharron Angle] is scary … She is anti-anything Latino.

Well, if I were the Angle campaign, I’d have some fun with this and release an ad to take full advantage …

  • SHARRON ANGLE [at home at the kitchen table, looking at someone off camera]: Get this, last week, Harry Reid’s friends at the Associated Press published an article saying I’m, [makes 'quote' sign] quote, “anti-anything Latino.”
    {Sharp braking sound}
     
  • SHARRON ANGLE’S SON [revealing it is him she is talking to at the kitchen table]: That’s news to me.
    {CAPTION: Sharron’s son *John}
     
  • SHARRON ANGLE’S LATINA DAUGHTER-IN-LAW: That’s news to me too.
    {CAPTION: *John’s wife *Jane}
     
  • SHARRON ANGLE [looking at the camera]: There’s a reason why Harry Reid isn’t running on ~ his eighteen year record in the Senate, and his four year record as the Senate Majority Leader. [pause] Because it’s not a good record. In fact … it’s actually shameful.
    {[~ from this point] Screen showing graphics of charts/graphs showing deficit, national debt, unemployment, etc. over time from before and after Reid becoming Majority Leader}
     
  • SHARRON ANGLE [looking at the camera]: Which is why Harry Reid and his special interest and media buddies keep trying so desperately to change the subject – [smile and shrug] even if they have to make stuff up about me. I’m Sharron Angle, and this is what I stand for … ~
    {[~ from this point] Screen listing Sharron Angle’s position on taxes, Second Amendment, Obamacare, illegal immigration, spending, Stimulus, National Security, etc.}
     
  • SHARRON ANGLE[smile] and I approve this message.
    {CAPTION: Sharron Angle for Senate.}
  • *Note: Don’t actually know their real names and I can’t find them anywhere.

Simple, sharp, effective – and better yet, it puts the MSM on notice that they’re no longer out of range.

PS: I have no compunctions about attributing the “Anti-Anything Latino” statement to the AP – not just their fig leaf i.e. “Esperanza Montelongo” – because they obviously made no effort whatsoever, despite the extreme incendiary nature of the statement, to seek out any opposing views or facts (such as Sharron Angle actually having a Hispanic daughter-in-law) to challenge it. In a supposedly straight news piece, this amounts to a full-throated endorsement.

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  • haterinos

    She can’t run away from press jsut becuase she thinks they are liberal. I wouldn’t want a liberal politician to run away from a conservative press. Why should I expect a conservative like Angle to run away from press?

    This is democratic country. She is not running for president of commie Venuezela.

    • Martin Knight
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      • stephaniet

        The mods around here usually have very creative ways of dealing with trolls.

  • http://www.2010blog.net jsanzone

    Let’s hope they come up with something similar. The only thing they seem to have on her is alleged anti-hispanic racism. She should counter that broadside.

    • melatr7

      they should end the ad with her taking a bite of a taco-

  • deano64

    reads RS daily. I imagine they do.

  • Mary Beth

    It’s always hilarious to me to see when their identity politics/scare tactics backfire.

  • smitch61

    Seriously, I hope her campaigns is reading. Sharron can win Nevada, she has to remember that the left speak to Americans that do not pay attention to politics, therefore; the anti Latino thing can stick. Refudiate it NOW.. great thinking.

  • reno_dave

    I like the general idea of playing-off the fact that Angle’s daughter-in-law is a latina, but I would rather see the ad begin to present a case as to why Nevada voters should vote for Angle.

    She and Reid have been slamming each other for weeks, with diminishing results. IMO, she needs to start negating the “extremist” talk, and present herself as a reasonable person.

    Instead of bashing Reid, she should briefly explain why her policies would help citizens and legal residents of Hispanic descent.

    BTW, I’m a Nevada resident who will vote for Angle.

    • Martin Knight

      … should handle some of your concerns, I should think.

      PS: Political Campaigning 101 – If your opponent and his surrogates are calling you a racist, and you’re responding with your ideas on reforming the Alternative Minimum Tax, you are going to lose.

  • reno_dave

    Martin,

    I wouldn’t touch the AMT discussion either.

    Most of Reid’s ads try to define Angle as “extreme” on various issues. Having met Angle, in person she across as a “nice lady”. I think she should use this quality to knock down the manufactured view of her.

    IMO, her best ads were the ones where she speaks in front of a group of retirees, calmly talking about an issue.

    In the case of latinos, an ad where she tells of group of Nevada hispanics that enforcing the borders will mean a higher quality of life for them by reducing the wage lowering effect of competition from illegals and lower state expenditures on social services.

    Or, to get it off race, perhaps a commercial where she speaks to the camera saying something like:

    Against the will of the American people, Harry Reid forced a Christmas Eve vote on Obamacare. As your Senator from Nevada, I will work with other Republicans to overturn Obamacare and replace it with a system that gives you the power to better control your own health care.

    Or on her “extreme” position on Social Security:

    Social security now requires X workers to pay for the benefits for one recipient. In Y years it will require Z workers for each recipient. That course is unsustainable. As your senator, I will work to strengthen social security for anyone receiving it now, or scheduled to within the next ten years, and work with Republicans to build a set of options for people under 55.

    On her “extreme” position of shutting down the Dept. of Education;

    Since it’s creation in 1979, we have spent X trillion dollars on the Dept of Education, yet our schools have not improved. Is it extreme to want to get our money’s worth?

    BTW, I just heard a radio ad for Reid, where he talks about being a great proponent of gun rights. I don’t believe Sharron is mentioned at all. He is now running ads that try to present his positions in a positive light.

    Angle needs to do the same.

  • greyhawk

    The only people that we should be electing to local, state and federal office are those who have as their mission the Dismantling of The Bureaucracy.

    Local and state governments are but a mirrored reflection of the federal government on a smaller scale.

    Before the wholesale takeover of Washington by Big Government Politicians in the modern era, which was started by Lyndon B. Johnson, the United States Government was fairly conservative as were the local and state governments in most states.

    When LBJ created the so-called Great Society Programs (Institutionalized and Nationalized Welfare Programs) this started the downfall of this nation as it created a system of Entitlement that has totally destroyed poor families, destroyed family values, destroyed work ethic in several generations of what would have been hard working and productive citizens, destroyed individual self worth in the recipients of welfare, destroyed self respect in individuals on welfare and in turn, these same folks who have no self respect, also do not respect others and they do not respect resources of any kind, and they have no gratitude.

    And, at the same time, the Federal Government has Squandered over ten trillion dollars in running this Federal Welfare System that has caused great harm to the country and more importantly to the lives that it has destroyed. And, of course, the Federal Bureaucracy mandated that State And Local Government’s put into place these Federally Mandated Welfare Programs that have proliferated over time, and the numbers of Victims To Serve Keeps Growing as the Bureaucracy Keeps Growing and Creating More Victims To Serve as a Means of Expanding the Bureaucratic Social Welfare Empire.

    You can apply the above analogy of the so-called Great Society Welfare Programs to all the Other Federal Agencies, Bureaus, Commissions and Departments and the results are the same.

    Once a Federal Agency, Bureau, Commission, or Department is established, the Federal Bureaucratic Machine Cranks Up and soon Becomes An Empire Builder and in order for the Specific Agency To Grow in Size and Power, it has to Find and Or Create New Problems to ostensibly solve, or it has to find or created New Victims To Serve as a means of expanding It’s Own Size, Power, Expenditures and numbers of workers and buildings it can accumulate.

    Once established, these Federal Bureaucratic Empires, they become Totally and Completely Fascistic and Despotic, and like all Despotic Empires, they will Never Willingly Give Up Their Empires, and in fact, they Will Purposely Sabotage Every Effort of anybody who attempts to do so, and they will use all the power and force at their disposal to destroy their opponents. All Empires Seek Growth with any means necessary.

    And, as all these Federal Agencies Grow in Size and Power, the states and local governments are given mandates by the feds by blackmail that says, “You get on board with us, and establish your own little kingdoms, or we withhold Federal Dollars and Funding to you.” And, the states fall in line, never questioning the Federal Regimes Authority to Blackmail them into submission and compliance.

    This sort of Governance was First Tried in the Modern Era with LBJ. LBJ got away with his Fascistic Takeover of the USA and He Put The Boot of the Federal Government on the Throat of State’s Rights and Nobody save for George C. Wallace said a thing, and in fact, the other states and the Mainstream Media Networks came down on George C. Wallace and Branded Him and Alabamians as a bunch of backwoods racists. The MSM and Government Branding of George C. Wallace and Alabamians as Racists was A Big Lie and Was Nothing But Propaganda, and the MSM and the Government Knew They Were Lying, but they sold the Lie Via Television, Movies, Sit Coms, and Propaganda Reporting posed as News.

    LBJ also started the Federalization of Public Education and in a mere 44 years, this Federal Intervention has Taken The Public School System in the USA from being in the top 3 best in the world in 1966 to Number 28 in the world today.

    There is a direct correlation with Incompetence, destruction and wasteful spending with the amount of federal intervention.

    Federal intervention into local and state matters has destroyed the American Family and the Members of those American Families, and it also Destroyed the Credibility of the Public Education System as it purposely Dumbed Down and Brainwashed the Country and It’s Citizens. This Dumbed Down Brainwashed Citizenry is the reason that the Obama’s, Pelosi’s, Frank’s, and other Incompetents keep getting elected.

    And, until we Begin the Abolishment of Many of the Federal Bureaucratic Machines such as the U.S. Department of Education as a start, we will never turn this Despotic Federal Bureaucracy and Government around. Sharron Angle, U.S. Senate Candidate from Arizona who is challenging Harry Reid, suggested the Dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education, and the MSM, including Fox News attacked her as if she had suggested burning down the White House. When, in fact, Abolishing the U.S. Department of Education is the perfect place to start in Dismantling the Federal Despotic Bureaucracy because this single Department now has an annual budget of over 200 billion dollars and is in the process of mandating that your children be taken from their homes at earlier and earlier ages and mandated to attend government run Pre-Schools (Daycares with Brainwashing). The Socialist Marxists now in power do not want to leave even one child behind who has not been Totally and Completely Raised By The Government Handlers who Can Thoroughly Brainwash and Dumb Them Down To Be Little Mindless Robots and Subjects or Slaves to the State.

    Wake up America. Obama and this gang in the U.S. Congress are trying to Finish Putting The Final Nail in the Coffin of this Republic. A job that was started with Lyndon B. Johnson after he and his fellow conspirators pulled off a coup de etat in 1963 after the assassination of JFK.

    November 1963 marked the End Of The Innoncence in America, and an end to Prosperity and the Advancment of the Middle Class. November 22, 1963 was the beginning of the End of the American Dream. And what we are facing in America today is the Nightmare that the Dream Turned Into.

    And, on Novemeber 2, 2010, we can begin Righting this Ship that LBJ and the other subversives Hijacked in Novermber 1963. If we do not turn this Ship Around 180 degrees and return to the Constitution and the Principles upon which this nation was founded and if we do not do it quickly, this ship of fools now in charge will take us to a point of no return.

    That is if we have not already arrived at that point?

    You decide? Are you going to continue to allow this nation to be run by a Ship of Fools, Subversives, Criminals, and Perverts? Or are you going to Demand Responsible Government Run By Responsible Citizens? As long as the Bureaucracy Is In Place, the Corrupt Politicians and The Paid Lobbyists will Continue to Purchase Legislation and Legislators. And you cannot depend on the TV Networks or Cable News Channels Talking Heads who are bought and paid for to give you good, useable information in making decisions. In fact, they, more often than not, will purposely mis-lead and lie to you, because they are owned and operated by the same folks who own the Lobbyists who Represent their Parent Organizations who Benefit From Government Legilsation which is legislated by bought and paid for legislators and presidents.

    After abolishing the Bureaucracy, we also have to Abolish Lobbyists who are the Real Brokers of Power in the USA today. We, the People, mereley Elect The Politicians who when they get to office, Do the Bidding of the Highest Bidders who are Bought and Paid For By Lobbyists and the People Behind the Scenes who Hire the Lobbyists.

    It is no more complicated than this. But, do we the people, have the courage to Take Our Country Back from these Incompetent would-be leaders who are working for Very Effective Lobbyists with Deep Pockets who have Deep Pockets because Our Elected Politicians Have Taken The Monies from You and Me through Taxes with a Boot On Our Throats, and Redistributed to Companies and Individuals Who Lobby Them For Their Favors?? It is a Zero Sum Game for You and me, the Citizen who works for a living, and a Win-Win situation for Congressmen, Presisdents, Lobbyists and the Deadbeats who Live On The Dole.

    But, the cash cow has run dry. This corrupt system has bankrupted the nation, and they now have to borrow from our enemies in the Federal Reserve, China, Japan, Germany, Saudi Arabia and other Enemies of The USA and We, The People.. Now, they are trying to take the last vestiges of our freedom and any assets we might have left.

    Obama’s class warfare statements are aimed at getting public support for seizing the monies and properties of those few citizens who still own private property and capital. He is not concerned with the vast majority of American Citizens as he sees us as Debt Slaves or Government Deadbeats on the Dole. He does not have to be concerned with the parasites the government created who are now on welfare as he knows he and any other socialist will always have their support as long as the free checks, food stamps, free health care, free rent, etc. keep coming. And, he believes he does not have to fear the debt slaves as he continues to offer Bailouts in the Form of Expanded and Extended Un Employment Checks, Mortgage Forgiveness, Rebates if You Buy Government Motors Cars, etc.

    The only people the Obama’s fear are those who still have enough Wealth, Power and Influence to Put Up A Real Fight to Save The Country.
    That is why he is Attacking the Rush Limbaugh’s and Others on the Right who have Wealth, A Voice and Power. That is why Obama is Doubling Down with his Class Warfare Strategies.

    Wake Up Americans, do not be duped into believing that you will be spared when these Marxists sieze complete fascistic power. You will not be spared. Right now, We, the People who are Debt Slaves or Welfare Deadbeats, are just Useful Idiots who supply votes on voting days. But, once these despots have complete and absolute power and control, elections and useful idiots are no longer necessary.

    November 2, 2010 can mark a turning point to Right This Ship. It truly depends on We, The People To Get Out The Votes To Elect Real Americans Who Have Not Been Bought Yet. And, once we elect them, we have to Martial Them and Make Sure They Do Not Join The DC Beltway Club of Criminals, Subversives, Socialists, Marxists and Lobbyists who Do The Bidding of The Power Brokers behind the Scenes who could care less about loyalty to You and Me or to A Sovereign United States of America. The Power Brokers Have no Aleigance to You and Me or to the USA or to the U.S. Constitution. They see You and Me, and A Powerful USA and the U.S. Constitution as Impediments to Their Power and Wealth.

  • stephaniet

    …and I am ashamed to confess that it is my sister. I don’t know where she learned that viewpoint, but it wasn’t from anyone in our family. I guess she feels more threatened by the surge in illegals than I’d thought! Still, as I keep telling her, that doesn’t excuse her words. At least she generally keeps quiet about those opinions, I guess, since I tell her not to be cruel to those who came here legally, jumped all the hoops, and are decent, hard-working American citizens.

    Nevada is one race I’m actually intrigued by. I’d love nothing more than to see Harry Reid go flat on his face. He deserves it, the treacherous jerk.

  • ihateliberals

    (Same ole Sh*t). It is time to get the RINO’s out of congress and the progressive liberals. This November is not just about getting Conservatives elected itis about getting progressives retired. Unfortunately that will mean in some races we have to elect RINO’s like McCain. The GOP had better wake-up if it wants to stay in power. Carl Rove is an idiot and needs to shut up and move on. If the GOP continues to reject conservative candidates and to attack the Tea Party pretty soon the Tea Party wil be in power and there will not be a GOP.

  • tex41lb

    Reference after reference is made to Latinos attitude toward illegal immigration. Few if any qualify remarks with backup of data supporting whatever position taken.

    I live in Valencia Ca., home to about 25% Hispanic families, based only on my observation at this point, soon to be verified I believe by census data. I too have a Mexican daughter in law, with an extended family also here. What I have found interesting is the range of different opinions they have toward illegal immigration especially in regard to Arizona’s law. All English speaking, all but one sibling with college degrees. Two have masters, one a CPA , one a police officer, and the youngest a music student in Texas. And the range of opinions on this matter would make a Jewish mother proud. With all the differences though there is a consistent thread to their view of the need for a rule of law determination in regard to illegal immigration. They know the USA offers a better future for their children and grandchildren simply because of the means to anticipate and plan ones future is real here. There is no certainty in Mexico that rights or property or accumulated wealth or education, any of the results of our freedom here, will be in place the day after tomorrow there.
    Any threat to our stability will be seen more often then not as a threat to their family. The topic be it immigration, health education etc. is secondary.

    For Angle, hitting any topic from the perspective of a Hispanic family’s future
    will be attractive and attract votes. The common assumption to soft pedal around issues with Hispanics is insulting, most will see it as patronizing too