{"id":5645,"date":"2010-06-28T08:37:25","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T15:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/?p=5645"},"modified":"2010-06-29T09:25:06","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T16:25:06","slug":"angle%e2%80%99s-mission-impossible-putting-gop%e2%80%99s-humpty-dumpty-back-together-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/angle%e2%80%99s-mission-impossible-putting-gop%e2%80%99s-humpty-dumpty-back-together-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Angle\u2019s Mission Impossible: Putting GOP\u2019s Humpty-Dumpty Back Together Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Chuck Muth)<\/em> – When an NPR reporter asked me on Friday if I thought Sharron Angle needed to start reaching out to independents and Democrats for the general election, I said \u201cno.\u201d The reality is Sharron still hasn\u2019t secured her base – and until she does that, there\u2019s no sense trying to reach outside it.<\/p>\n

And I\u2019m not just talking about moderate Republicans here; I\u2019m talking about conservative Republicans.<\/p>\n

You\u2019d be hard-pressed to find a more respected, card-carrying Nevada conservative than former Rep. Barbara Vucanovich – but according to a story in Sunday\u2019s Las Vegas Review-Journal, Vucanovich \u201csaid she isn\u2019t sure she\u2019ll vote for Angle on November 2nd.\u201d<\/p>\n

No, she won\u2019t be voting for Reid\u2026.but she might vote for \u201cNone of the Above.\u201d Vucanovich said that Angle is \u201ca very difficult person\u201d and that she\u2019d have to think \u201clong and hard\u201d before casting a vote for the GOP\u2019s U.S. Senate nominee.<\/p>\n

This is a HUGE problem for Angle. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s also the problem of easing the unease of many Ron Paul-type libertarian-conservatives (count me among this group). Sharron talks an excellent limited-government game; however, her recently revealed predisposition to use the power of government to regulate morality is causing deep suspicions which also may result in \u201cNone of the Above\u201d votes.<\/p>\n

Oh, and there are now plenty of Republicans over the age of 65 who are now deeply suspicious of Angle\u2019s professed antipathy towards Social Security and Medicare. Sure, the Reid camp is behind the disingenuous efforts to raise doubts about Sharron\u2019s actual position on these two programs\u2026but it worked.<\/p>\n

Republican seniors are now casting a wary eye Angle\u2019s way\u2026.and seniors vote. Big time.<\/p>\n

And then there are Republicans – conservative and moderate alike – who simply don\u2019t see Angle\u2019s path to victory and have resigned themselves to being for what\u2019s going to be. <\/p>\n

Unless Angle articulates and demonstrates a CREDIBLE winning general election strategy, many Republicans are apt to simply sit this one out and stay home – especially if it looks like Republican Brian Sandoval is running away with the governor\u2019s race.<\/p>\n

As Guy Rocha, Nevada historian, put it in the RJ on Sunday, Angle \u201chas to get the Nevada Republican Party to rally around her campaign. If she can\u2019t, I don\u2019t think there are enough disgruntled Democrats or independents to make up the difference she needs to carry the state.\u201d<\/p>\n

Angle will get a chance to do just that; to rally the split factions of the party to her campaign at the Nevada GOP convention in Las Vegas in two weeks. But she\u2019ll need to deliver a barn-burner of a speech that salves the primary wounds, allays the doubts of seniors and libertarian-conservatives, and demonstrates beyond a shadow of doubt that she can win in November.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a pretty tall order. And it\u2019s not much of an exaggeration to suggest that the hopes and dreams of the entire \u201cdump Reid\u201d movement will be riding on that one speech. Sure glad I\u2019m not the one who has to give it! <\/p>\n

Or even write it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Chuck Muth) – When an NPR reporter asked me on Friday if I thought Sharron Angle needed to start reaching out to independents and Democrats for the general election, I said \u201cno.\u201d The reality is Sharron still hasn\u2019t secured her base – and until she does that, there\u2019s no sense trying to reach outside it. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5645"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5654,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5645\/revisions\/5654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}