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From: Leroy N. Soetoro on 14 Jul 2010 12:11
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/02/AR2010070
203977.html

By George F. Will
Sunday, July 4, 2010; A19



LAS VEGAS


Sometimes provocative people become that way because they were provoked.
Sharron Angle, 60, could be enjoying the 10 grandchildren she loves even
more than her .44 magnum. Instead, she is the Republican nominee against
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's quest for a fifth term as senator.
Her campaign began, in a sense, three decades ago, when a judge annoyed
her.

When her son was depressed about having to repeat kindergarten -- "He
was a 6-year-old dropout" -- she decided on home schooling, which Nevada
law permitted. But a judge construed the law to require that parents who
home-school must live at least 50 miles from a public school.

She and many kindred spirits descended on Carson City to get the
Legislature to correct this. One legislator, irritated by such
grass-roots impertinence, said, "If I'd known there would be 500 people
here instead of 50 and it would take five hours instead of 30 minutes, I
would have thrown it [the legislation] in my drawer, and it would never
have seen the light of day." Angle asked a cowboy standing next to her,
"Can he do that?" The cowboy said yep. She has been politically
incandescent ever since.

Even when asked where she was born, she is on message: "I was conceived
in Lovelock [Nevada] but -- if you're not pro-life -- I was born in
Klamath Falls [Oregon]." During her four terms in Nevada's 42-seat
Assembly, many votes were "41-to-Angle." She wears as a badge of honor
having been voted Nevada's worst legislator, a disparagement she says is
always bestowed on a conservative because the voters are members of the
press and the political class (the legislators and their staff).

Her favorite legislators? U.S. Sens. Jim DeMint and Tom Coburn and
Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann. They are coming here to help
her. She says she will be 73 at the end of two Senate terms, but notes
that her 103-year-old aunt lives in Arizona with her two sons, both in
their 80s.

The Democrats' Senate leader before Reid was from another thinly
populated state: South Dakota's Tom Daschle was defeated in 2004. Such
is the constant flood of new voters into Nevada -- only 24 percent of
residents were born in the state -- that Reid's national stature matters
less than it might in a place where the electorate has more local
memories. Perhaps 200,000 Nevadans -- in an electorate of 2 million --
have never seen Reid's name on a ballot.

He argues that Nevada now needs his Washington potency more than ever.
Angle, who laughs easily and often, does so about that: Nevada, she
says, has the nation's highest per capita bankruptcy and home
foreclosure rates, and now, for the first time since April 2006,
Michigan does not have the nation's highest unemployment rate. Nevada
does: 14 percent.

Nevada candidates buy television time here, in Reno and -- to cover
eastern Nevada -- in Salt Lake City. Reid supporters spent substantial
sums trying to ensure Angle's nomination by attacking her principal
opponent in the primary. Reid has $9 million on hand with more coming.
Angle will have ample money from conservatives nationwide. It remains to
be seen whether these resources will be squandered by a campaign
organization unready for prime time.

If the election becomes a referendum on him, she wins. If he makes it
about some of her injudicious statements -- e.g., "transition out" of
Social Security; using Yucca Mountain north of here not for storing
nuclear waste but for reprocessing such waste -- he might survive.

Nevada is a swing state. Bill Clinton carried it twice, as did George W.
Bush before Barack Obama won with 55 percent. Reid, who entered politics
in Richard Nixon's first term, is a canny realist. Although his approval
ratings are steadily in the 30s, he might get, say, 43 percent of the
November vote. This might be enough, because in addition to Angle there
will be seven other Senate candidates siphoning away dissatisfied voters
and people will vote "none of the above," which is Nevada's catharsis
for the disgusted.

Before Chicagoan Abner Mikva, now retired from the federal judiciary,
was a congressman, he was a young man who dropped by a political
clubhouse where a member of the city's machine asked who sent him. He
said, "Nobody." The machine man said, "We don't want nobody nobody
sent."

Angle is somebody nobody sent. Nobody in the upper reaches of national
or even Nevada politics, that is. But voters may not be finished sending
her places.



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Obama's black racist USAG appointee.

Eric Holder, racist black United States Attorney General drops voter
intimidation charges against the Black Panthers, "You are about to be
ruled by the black man, cracker!"

Eric Holder, prejudiced black United States Attorney General settles the
hate crime debate, "Whites Not Protected by Hate Crime Laws."

Felony President. 18 USC, Sec. 600. Promise of employment or other
benefit for political activity

Obama violated the law by trying to buy Joe Sestak off with a political
appointment in exchange for not pursuing an election bid to replace
Arlen Specter. Obama violated the law by trying to buy former Colorado
House Speaker Andrew Romanoff off last fall to see if he'd be interested
in an administration job -- instead of running against Sen. Michael
Bennet.

Nancy Pelosi, Democrat criminal, accessory before and after the fact, to
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles B. Rangel of New York's
million dollar tax evasion. On February 25, 2010, the House ethics
committee has concluded that Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles
B. Rangel knowingly accepted Caribbean trips in violation of House rules
that forbid hidden financing by corporations. Democrat criminal Nancy
Pelosi is deliberately ignoring the million dollar tax evasion of
Democrat Charles Rangel.

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