Sharron Angle: More Obtuse All the Time

Image from source, Salon

I'm thinking that newly anointed GOP Senate candidate Sharron Angle may supplant Sarah Palin as my favorite politician to point and laugh at.  Of course this sort of behavior by bloggers like me will cause right-wingers to claim that we're "scared" of these strong, conservative women.  Well, yeah! Scared that they could be taken seriously. Scared that--as evidenced by the eight years of George W. Bush--that voters might be stupid enough to elect them. But mostly, we just point and laugh.

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Sharron Angle's world of paranoia

You have to say this for the Tea Party movement: it's giving some color and flavor to an depressing recession-era election year. Glenn Beck's fantasy world doesn’t seem like a great place to live, but it's certainly making for an interesting vacation -- so long as we get to go home.



The question, though, is what happens when reality punctures the bubble, or if that's even possible. In Nevada, the Republican Party has just nominated a former state legislator named Sharron Angle, one of the Tea Party's favorite daughters, and, it seems, a full-time resident of the paranoid alternate universe. . .

Read more at: Salon

Thanks again to Stupid Monkey Planet for the link.