June 15, 2010 10:34 PM UTC

At Least She's Not Your Senate Candidate

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• by: Colorado Pols

As it turns out, there was a reason why Colorado GOP chairman Dick Wadhams wanted his friend Sue Lowden to win that Nevada Senate primary–the Washington Post’s Greg Sargent reports:

Here’s another one that could be tough for  Sharron Angle  to explain away: In an interview in January, Angle appeared to float the possibility of armed insurrection if “this Congress keeps going the way it is.”

I’m not kidding. In an interview she gave to a right-wing talk show host, Angle approvingly quoted Thomas Jefferson saying it’s good for a country to have a revolution every 20 years — and said that if Congress keeps it up, people may find themselves resorting to “Second Amendment remedies.”

…Asked by the host, Lars Larson of Portland, Oregon, where she stands on Second Amendment issues, Angle replied:

You know, our Founding Fathers, they put that Second Amendment in there for a good reason and that was for the people to protect themselves against a tyrannical government. And in fact Thomas Jefferson said it’s good for a country to have a revolution every 20 years.

I hope that’s not where we’re going, but, you know, if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies and saying my goodness what can we do to turn this country around? I’ll tell you the first thing we need to do is take Harry Reid out. [Pols emphasis]

Are we the only ones who find it more than a little creepy that the Republican nominee to run against Harry Reid is talking about “taking him out”–you know, literally, Pulp Fiction style? Tell us all you want about unfavorable ratings and incumbent dissatisfaction. Are any of you willing to argue that Americans are really primed for an honest-to-God Latin American coup?

Look long and hard, folks. Not electable.