Reid Ad Attacks Angle's Second Amendment Remedies Comment: 'It's Crazy' (VIDEO)

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has released a new television ad going after Sharron Angle for one of her most provocative and alarming remarks.

With voice-over narration by a Republican NRA member, the Nevada Democrat turns Angle's repeated calls for "Second Amendment remedies" to Congressional Democratic policies against the Tea Party favorite.

"Sharron Angle goes way over the line," the narrator says. "It's crazy. But what she is actually talking about is armed resistance. Look I'm a member of the NRA and a Republican. But that kind of talk is dangerous and way too extreme."

The ad reflects the sometimes difficult-to-understand dynamics of Nevada politics, where believing in gun-rights is a true virtue but clear boundaries exist with respect to enthusiasm for the Second Amendment. It is rare, indeed, for a pol in the state to go after another candidate for their love of guns (Reid is still in the running for the NRA's endorsement). But Angle's remarks were so odd as to make them fertile electoral ground for the majority leader.

UPDATE: Reid's campaign sends over background on the narrator, Bill Ames, "a longtime Republican, NRA member and President of the Peace Officers Research Association of Nevada." They also include the following quote from campaign spokesman Kelly Steele:

Sharron Angle's repeated use of extreme and loaded rhetoric to implicitly threaten and tacitly condone violence as a political remedy is beyond irresponsible, it is utterly dangerous. The most terrifying thing about Sharron Angle's extreme rhetoric legitimizing violence as a political remedy is that it's not a gaffe - it a core belief of Angle's that has been expressed without reservation or regard for its potential consequences.

Comments

[CTtransplant]

01:52 PM on 08/14/2010

Angle's own words will sink her campaign...she doesn't need any help from anyone else.

[EbonBear]

06:53 PM on 08/12/2010

Whenever I watch Angle (or most of the Tea candidates), I always wonder when the sanity test was done away with for public office.

[Curt F]

06:11 PM on 08/12/2010

Hasn't her Weekend Pass been over-extended???

[politician818]

06:08 PM on 08/12/2010

I think that, eventually, the GOP will pressure Angle to quit and bring in a more sensible Republican who will defeat Reid.

[LCLA]

03:50 PM on 08/12/2010

Thanks, Harry, for standing up to candidate Angle's seditious, terrorist anarchy proposals.
That should be an obvious response, but with all the craziness about guns today, it is a bold response.
Angle makes Michelle Bachman sound like the calm voice of reason by comparison.

[Chucky Sly]

03:44 PM on 08/12/2010

Sounds like Reid's got a good basis on a pitch to the NRA for their endorsement.
Were they to back Angle, they'd essentially be backing her sedition.
Not that that's not what they REALLY want (snark) but they are still politically minded.
It's just a waiting game now to see if Nevada is sane enough to send her back home in November.

[CTtransplant]

06:07 PM on 08/13/2010

We are...at least, most of us, anyway! ;-)

[Bronxdude]

03:29 PM on 08/12/2010

The tea klan message: If you don’t like the outcome of an election, armed insurrection is the way to go! Republican congressmen Chuck Grassley and Phil Gingrey are ginning up fear, advocating hate inspired civil disobedience, rejecting fact-based discourse, and condoning the use of violence as a justifiable change agent. Similar to a Klan gathering, Gingrey is openly encouraging malcontents to bring loaded guns to political rallies. The Limbaugh led Republican Party has evolved into an evil force totally committed to social injustice; starting with Reagan, republican ethics have slowly devolved into a seething mass of callous and destructive self-centeredness a notch below child molesters.

[PopulistPagan]

03:16 PM on 08/12/2010

Hey Angle, we got guns too, and the law on our side. Ive been around these psychos. The vast majority of them are too afraid to do anything but bark loudly. Most of them are cowards. Unfortunately there are a few totally bonkers individuals that will probably go and do it.

If you see someone walking around with a gun just ask them "what the hell are you so afraid of?" I do it everytime I see one of these fools.

Can you imagine a platoon of TeaBaggers going up against the First Marine Division or even going up against the Detroit area hunt and fish club?

[okami]

11:42 PM on 08/13/2010

the thing is that we need to stop it before it starts. i'm speaking as a former Marine AND retired law enforcement.

one crazy is all it takes. i hate censorship of any form, more than almost anything in my life, but someone could start bringing criminal charges or civil charges--certainly federal--against these people if they had the balls to.

it'd be worth losing an election or two to get some of these people away from televisions and microphones. and the emotional sanity of the country would benefit.

[Reiziger]

02:45 PM on 08/12/2010

"Second Amendment remedies": what is this, 1865?

Ah, yes, righties - if you don't win at the ballot, all you need are a handful of bullets to get your way. Kinda undermines that fervor for thanking the military for protecting the People's right to vote, wouldn't you say?

[johnjam101]

12:40 PM on 08/12/2010

I think it was Gail Collins on Rachel last night who said the winner in the upcoming election will be the candidate with the best F E A R pitch.
It would be hard to out F E A R the Republicans but hey the Dems should try.
They give such wonderful material to work with.

[CTtransplant]

11:45 AM on 08/12/2010

Angle should not be anywhere near ANY public office!

[GoodJuju2]

12:12 PM on 08/12/2010

...or guns.

[kaptaintripps]

12:05 AM on 08/13/2010

...or brandy...or little girls who are raped by their fathers ("you just have to learn how to make lemonade out of lemons") ...as she said to the little abused, pregnant girl)...

[picaman]

11:42 AM on 08/12/2010

He shouldn't worry so much about it. We are going to review the 2nd amendment at the same time we review the 14th.

[JFB]

01:39 PM on 08/12/2010

Hey, why not just scrap the whole thing and replace it with the Old Testament.

[vegaspauli]

02:53 PM on 08/12/2010

the Latin version....

[Darrel Lyons]

11:32 PM on 08/13/2010

While we are repealing the second amendment, let's go ahead and repeal the first amendment too! Then there won't be ANY of this kind of inflammatory and dangerous talk!

What, you don't think that's such a good idea?

[Ramirez]

11:12 AM on 08/12/2010

From the Las Vegas Review Journal:
****************

Harry Reid and those stupid Nevada Hispanics
Posted by Sherman Frederick
Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010 at 05:34 AM

Here we go again. Sen. Harry Reid, who is starting to establish a bad pattern for himself, managed to step into the mud yesterday with a racially charged statement that questioned how anyone of Hispanic heritage could possibly vote Republican. You can read the story about it here. You can see the actual clip at the end of this blog.

Not quite as explosive as Sen. Reid's previous foray into racial analysis when he opined that Barack Obama would be a good Democratic candidate for president because Barack was "light skinned" and "with no _Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one."

But still pretty ugly. The idea that a group of people, like Hispanic Nevadans, can only be of one mind politically is an idea born out of arrogance. It goes to what most ails Sen. Reid in Nevada -- his profound disconnect with the diversity of the people he represents. ...

read more at:
http://www.lvrj.com/blogs/sherm/Harry_Reid_and_those_stupid_Nevada_Hispanics.html

[CTtransplant]

11:47 AM on 08/12/2010

I rarely read the LVRJ because it leans right...not very 'impartial'.

[KatieBeGood]

12:02 PM on 08/12/2010

I see nothing wrong with Reid's asking how any Hispanic could vote Republican. It's simply a fact. Any Hispanic who votes Republican doesn't have much of a sense of self-worth and will be voting against their own best interests. The same goes for the Tea Baggers. Most of them would benefit greatly from Democratic policies and yet they are willing to vote against their own best interest because or their pre*judices.

[GoodJuju2]

12:11 PM on 08/12/2010

Well said. Fanned!

[johnjam101]

12:37 PM on 08/12/2010

this might help explain it.
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/08/05/the-limits-of-reason.html
a bit complex so read twice.

[righttba]

11:04 AM on 08/12/2010

PERhaps? . . I'm reminded of the marches in Selma, streets of LA, Columbia U . . were you there?

Didn't think so. They were a little "extreme" (bombs, looting, armed resistance). . .using your logic it should have "coffined" the Libs. Our Founders were extreme. Read your history. Nothing new here . . . http://www.2ndamendmentpa.com/

[liberallioness76]

10:31 AM on 08/12/2010

This ad states the simple truth, she is too extreme... all of the TP candidates are. They swept in the primaries because the far-right is all hopped up on anti-Obama, we're takin' our country back rhetoric and, the fact of the matter is, they are doing their cause more harm than good.

I've been saying this for months: The TP is the final nail in the GOP coffin. Once the general public hears more of what these candidates stand for, the TP will be far less palatable to them. Moderates and Independents might not like the Dems right now, but they aren't going to vote in a bunch of far-right, fringe candidates.

They may hold their nose while doing it, but they will vote for the saner of two evils.

[Fretslayer]

11:00 AM on 08/12/2010

If you want to see something rather unsettling, watch the show 'Gangland' on History Channel.
Catch the episode about the Aryan Brotherhood.
Listen to the things they say.

Then watch the TeaBaggers.
Listen to the things they say.

I'll tell you this much... If you were to just read the quotes and try to pick out which one was TeaBagger and which one was from VolksFront you'd be getting a lot of them wrong.

The costume has changed from sheets to 'patriot pants' but the message is still the same.

[SouthernJewel]

12:13 PM on 08/12/2010

Truth!

[natchez]

12:28 PM on 08/12/2010

fanned and faved......you are so right