Kookster B - #452

#452 SHARRON ANGLE
TEABAGGER AND GOP COCKSUCKER SENATORIAL FRUITCAKE

The word was that the GOP had Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid beaten and beaten badly. GOP Cocksucker #381 (SUE LOWDEN) was going to be their candidate and she was going to beat the stuffing out of Reid in November by as much as 20%, All she had to do was win the GOP Nomination.

Then she made the 'Chicken Gaffe.'

Seeing the democratic moves toward health care reform, a confident Lowden said offhand that if we really wanted to bring health care costs down, we didn't have to use money, we could use barter, just as our grandparents did and pay our doctors with chickens. Then she repeated it the next day when given a chance to walk the remark back.

The democrats couldn't believe their luck. They went after Lowden. They created a website mocking the entire idea, they called it 'Chickens for Checkups,' they hired someone to appear at Lowden's rallies dressed in a chicken suit.

Suddenly, Lowden looked at her internal polls and they showed her dropping like a hot air balloon with a leak in it. Nothing could stop the fall. Everywhere she went, all people wanted to talk about were chickens, chickens, chickens. Worst yet, they were doing the one thing politicians fear the most: they were laughing at her.

When the primary came and went, the winner was Angle, the ultra-conservative that Reid had polled the best against of any of the challengers. Reid's camp was delirious with joy even though Angle led Reid at the time by 11 percentage points. They wasted no time striking at Angle, and when they did, they picked a haymaker designed to knock her right out of the political ring.

Angle's more conservative positions on her website--the one she had campaigned on in the primary--were losers in the general election. The GOP took them down, forced Angle to scrub her website and then put her new, improved views back.

They hadn't reckoned with the democrats having taken a screen shot of the OLD website. They put it up with the headline 'TheRealSharronAngle.com.' It had all her statements there about getting rid of social security, about getting rid of the Department of Education, about leaving the United Nations, about using the Second Amendment (the legalization of guns) to handle politicians along with others.

Angle was enraged. So was her campaign. To the democrats' glee, Angle tried to sue the Reid Campaign for violation of copyright unless the website was taken down. The Reid Campaign did...for a day...then put it right back up again, saying they just wanted to take off some fundraising information Angle had on the old site. When Angle threatened them a second time, the Reid Campaign simply laughed in her face and dared her to sue. Nothing happened.

Now Reid leads Angle by seven points in what is being called the biggest political turnaround in history and the margin is growing. Meanwhile, Angle's strategy is to avoid the legitimate media at all costs.

With thanks to TPM Muckraker, the New York Times, Politico.com, the Las Vegas Sun, the Washington Post, and the Las Vegas Review-Journal

S. Olson