Harry Reid's Dingy Gambit

Written off as politically dead by the pundits mere months ago, the repugnant-yet-wily Senator from the state of Nevada, Harry Reid, may yet rise again, phoenix-like, from the perhaps-too-soon-imagined pile of ashes that Republican talking heads had consigned him to.

The two "mainstream" Repubicans vying for the opportunity to unseat "Dingy Harry" next November, Sue Lowden and Danny Tarkanian, are joined in the Republican primary by "Tea Party candidate/ Republican," Sharron Angle who, until very recently, wasn't given the proverbial snowball's chance in hell of winning.

Lowden, long the front-runner, seems to be succumbing to the relentless barrage of attack ads waged by the Reid campaign.

Democrat mouthpiece Keith Olbermann has been attacking  Lowden  mercilessly  (fast-forward to about the 2:10 mark in this third video), as well.  Luckily, almost no one watches MSNBC, so I don't think Edward R. Olbermann's naming Lowden "Worst Person In The Wooooorld" over and over and over again is having that much of an impact on the race.  I include the Olbermann reference here because his positions are indicative of MSNBC's overall stance while, with straight faces, their on-air "personalities" hilariously refer to the biased, all-white Obama-promoting-network as... "The Place For Politics." I occasionally force myself to watch MSNBC so that you won't have to.  Like Bill O'Reilly, I am only trying to look out for you.

Pundits have held for months that Reid's only chance to be elected would be if, somehow, Republicans were stupid enough to nominate the far-right Angle for the statewide general election instead of either of the other, much more mainstream candidates.  The Reid campaign was at a loss as to how ro bring this about.  Their only strategy seems to have been, "destroy Sue Lowden, destroy Sue Lowden;" I'm sure it became their mantra.   They seem to have never really worried about Tarkanian; it was Lowden that they needed to destroy in order to get Angle to begin rising in the polls.  Destroy one woman to get support to increase for the other woman in the race.

And...

Beginning to rise, she is, as she continues to chip away at Lowden's lead

Three weeks ago, EVERY poll (even the dubious left-wing nonsense commissioned by the Daily Kos) showed Lowden beating Reid in every matchup.

Reid's relentless hammering of attack ads are taking their toll -- Angle is, as noted, closing in on Lowden...

...just what Reid and the Democrats prayed for.

After remaining conspicuously silent about candidate Angle while aiming their big guns at Lowden, now that they believe Angle will win, they are ALREADY starting to attack her, calling her "extreme" and "outside the mainstream" of American politics.  They are criticizing the Angle website for being "...full of typos."  And, the coup de grace... hope you're sitting down... playing the RACE CARD (I'm shocked, just shocked!) because of Angle's tough stance on illegal "immigration" and her embrace of Arizona's new illegal alien legislation.

Hopefully, these pie-in-the-sky dreamers who are sure of Lowden's defeat and Angle's victory are starting their attacks on Angle too early.

I still believe that Sue Lowden will win, and I hope that I am right.  I was thinking about driving over to Las Vegas to vote for her illegally, but that would be too much like something ACORN would do! 

(just kidding about the illegally voting part, doncha know...)

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