File this under are you effing kidding me?
"Harry Reid very much likes to pick his opponent. He wants to be right in the middle of the Republican primary," Lowden told POLITICO Friday. "He’s doing everything he can to influence the primary, and he knows I can beat him."
Lowden's right that the GOP primary's new frontrunner Sharron Angle is a weak candidate -- but so is she. And the idea that her demise has come at the hands of Harry Reid is truly hilarious.
True, two months ago, Reid would have salivated at the prospect of facing Angle instead of facing Lowden. But that was before Chicken for Checkups and the illegal contribution of an RV worth $100,000 to her campaign. Her campaign is such a trainwreck, she's asked courts to ban people from voting while wearing chicken suits. Seriously.
At this point, it doesn't really matter who Reid faces: Lowden and Angle are both gaffe machines. The only real difference is that Lowden has proven that she's a gaffe-prone incompetent campaigner while Sharron Angle has yet to demonstrate her Rand Paul-like ability to say stupid things (though no doubt she will).
Reid's facing a win-win proposition: either candidate the GOP nominates will be seriously flawed. Lowden was once a much stronger candidate, and the nomination was hers for the taking. But she's imploded over the last two months, a result of self-inflicted wounds. Claiming that Harry Reid is picking his opponent isn't just absurd, it's an insult to Republican primary voters. They are the ones who will pick the GOP's nominee, and if they don't pick Lowden, she's got nobody to blame but herself.