What can you say about Sharron Angle. She was judged to have “won” or at least tied in the debate with Harry Reid by not sounding crazy. I assume she can come across as sane for an hour at a time but it’s hard for her to keep the crazy in. In the same appearance where Angle claimed that her offensive ad with Latino stereotypes referred to Canadian border security, she also said this:
It’s far too soon to say who’ll win Nevada’s U.S. Senate race — with 15 days to go, the polls show Harry Reid and Sharron Angle just about tied — but a few weeks from now, we may look back at Angle’s appearance at Rancho High School as the turning point. It was her remarks at the school that helped make abundantly clear just how far gone the extremist candidate really is.
Consider these remarks Angle made during her appearance.
“So that’s what we want is a secure and sovereign nation and, you know, I don’t know that all of you are Latino. Some of you look a little more Asian to me. I don’t know that. [Note: it’s the Hispanic Student Union. The whole room is Hispanic teenagers.] What we know, what we know about ourselves is that we are a melting pot in this country. My grandchildren are evidence of that. I’m evidence of that. I’ve been called the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly.”
As Jon Ralston noted, no one’s ever called Angle, who is not Asian, the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly. She seems to have made this up.
She’s like Stephen Colbert, she doesn’t “see race” I guess. I have no idea how to explain Sharron Angle except that crazy lady is crazy.
Bonus: Daily Kos has a copy of a photo used in Angle’s ad. Remember, this is the ad where she said she was talking about Canada and the pictures looked Asian.
