Sharron Angle claimed that Harry Reid stole the Senate election in Nevada repeatedly during her interview on the Today Show. Angle is making the rounds promoting her new book "Right Angle". Sharron must be targeting book buyers who are right wing conspiracy theory aficionados, like her.
Sharron Angle: Harry Reid stole the election
In the “Right Angle,” the former candidate asks the question, “Did Harry Reid steal Nevada?” and, in the interview, Angle suggests that she thinks he did unfairly take the election from her. “We have a complaint filed with the Department of Justice,” she said.
Prompted for evidence, Angle pointed to connections between Reid and the state’s casinos and the Service Employees International Union.
Republicans allege that ballot fraud by the SEIU helped lead Reid to victory last fall. Voters in Clark County reported on Election Day that their ballots on electronic voting machines were initially checked to Reid’s name. But the county’s registrar denied that there were any problems with the ballots, saying voters’ claims were “patently false.”
During the 2010 election campaign Angle did her best to back away form the charge of fraud by Reid, after first making it.
Throughout the interview, Angle encouraged viewers to visit her website and to buy her book. She also plugged her PAC, Our Voice. The PAC, she said, “is really to say we as people do not want to have this kind of thing happening in our United States,” referring to Reid’s alleged stealing of last year’s election. “What we are going to do is make sure our voice is heard in elections,” she said.
Inflammatory as it is, it must make sense to Angle as a marketing strategy to push a far fetched election fraud conspiracy theory to the forefront like this, featuring a favorite villain of the Far Right the S.E.I.U. No consideration was given to how much her reckless charge helps to damage and undermine democracy as an institution. What a disgraceful woman.
Now the question is will other Republicans still support her for more Tea cred, or will they sensibly treat her like a biblical leper?