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My fiance was reading some of the headlines aloud this morning and he got to one story about Sharron Angle, Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate from Nevada who is running against Democrat Harry Reid. Ms. Angle has made her mark in this years set of political loonies in all sorts of wonderful ways. She has done many unintelligent things, but the weirdest was holding a Press Conference then refusing to take questions from the reporters and then not just leaving but running away. This morning's report stated that in a new video Ms. Angle is seen making the remark to a group of Hispanic high school students that some of them looked "a little more Asian" to her. This happened as Ms. Angle was defending a recent campaign ad blasting rival Harry Reid's record on illegal immigration. The ad showed images of dark skinned men. Her defense was that she didn't know the people in the ads were hispanic. Really?! Really?! Ms. Angle, are you really that color blind?? Or are you just plain stupid??
Frankly, I don't think Ms. Angle very bright and I pity her poor spokesperson who daily has to try to clean up any hornet's nest Ms. Angle has stirred up just by opening her mouth. This is not the first such remark Ms. Angle has made, and I doubt it will be the last.
Ms. Angle is a Tea Party candidate and is one of 10 candidates that party is standing for office, the others being Christine O'Donnell of Delaware, Joe Miller of Alaska, Jesse Kelly of Arizona, Ken Buck of Colorado, Dan Maes of Colorado, Marco Rubio of Florida, Rick Scott of Florida, Raul Labrador of Idaho, Rand Paul of Kentucky, and Mike Lee of Utah. Much has been made of these candidates, but to my mind the one thing that unites these candidates is their lack of common sense. The Tea Party is working hard to polarize voters to keep them from making an informed decision.
Politics has always been a forum for debate with the winner of the debate being the one giving the most well informed arguments. Debate is something missing from the Tea Party. The members of the Tea Party are appealing only to emotions which can lead to angry shouting matches that can become full fledged fights if those involved are not able to check themselves. Anyone who has ever fought with a sibling, a spouse, a significant other or another family member knows that emotional arguments never have a winner. They just raise the blood pressure and can hurt the relationship. Healthy debate means that afterward you can still shake hands and be friends.
My little blog will not change anything in today's political climate, so I will not presume to tell these candidates how to run their campaigns. All I can do is hope that cool and wiser heads prevail. All we can do is cast our 1 vote and hope for the best. I wish the voters in Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Kentucky, Utah, Nevada, Delaware, Alaska, and Arizona good luck because, if their Tea Party candidates win, those states are going to need it. And so are we.
