Sharron’s “Wacky” Angles: Dangerous Ideas Nevada Can’t Afford

“[Mainstream Republicans] always try to marginalize me, treat me like I don’t exist. They say, ‘You’re too conservative.’ Was Thomas Jefferson too conservative? I’m tired of some people calling me wacky"

 –Sharron Angle, 3/21/2010

Las Vegas, Nev. – Meet Sharron Angle. In eight years as an assemblywoman, she has defined herself as the most out-of-touch legislator in the state, even among other Republicans.  She wants to ship nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain, said the financial crisis was caused by "too much regulation" on Wall Street, and believes out-of-work Nevadans are too "spoiled" to find "a real job".

“Sharron Angle is a right-wing ideologue whose dangerous ideas include wiping out Social Security and giving prisoners massages," said Phoebe Sweet, communications director for the Nevada State Democratic Party. “With Sharron Angle as the Republican nominee, the choice facing voters in November couldn’t be clearer: Nevada has never needed Sen. Harry Reid more.”

Just how dangerous are Sharron’s “wacky” Angles?  Judge for yourself.

Angle was voted the worst member of the State Assembly--twice.

In a state with a 13.7% unemployment rate, Angle says out-of-work Nevadans are too "spoiled" to find "a real job" if they're collecting unemployment insurance, and that extending those benefits would be "a terrible thing."

Her desire to legislate morality has gone so far, she said alcohol should be illegal.

She’s so out of touch that she thinks that families where both parents work are outside the “acceptable and right thing to do.”

 While Nevadans know the financial crisis was the result of Wall Street abuses, Sharron Angle blames the financial collapse on "too much regulation."

In Sharron's "wacky" world the best way to deal with Social Security and Medicare is to just get rid of them.

She wants to eliminate the Department of Education and the Department of Energy.

Angle authored a bill advocating her belief that abortion causes breast cancer.

She said that when she was young and worked in her father's hotel she "did those jobs Americans don't do. We cleaned bathrooms, and made beds and swept floors and hung out laundry."

She supported the death penalty for prisoners who were mentally impaired, and when she came out against a two-year moratorium on the death penalty she said everyone on death row wants to die anyway.

While Nevada is suffering from record foreclosures at the hands of big banks, Angle voted against protecting homebuyers from mortgage fraud and "unscrupulous developers."

Sharron Angle wants to bring tons of nuclear waste to Nevada and says Nevadans "shouldn't think of ourselves as a nuclear wasteland, we should think of ourselves as a recycle land."

When she was in the State Assembly, Sharron Angle came up with a wacky idea: have taxpayers pay to give Nevada prisoners massages.

Finally, Sharron Angle has a wacky theory about the link between the attacks of September 11 and the club drug ecstasy: she thinks there is one.