Sharron Angle Suggests U.S. Should Cut Ties To United Nations (VIDEO)

AP/Huffington Post - Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Sharron Angle says federal lawmakers should consider cutting America's involvement with the United Nations.

The Tea Party-backed contender made the suggestion in an interview with CBS affiliate 8 News Now on Thursday:

"The United Nations resides on our soil and costs us money. We are -- I don't see any place in the Constitution with those priorities about the United Nations. So when we start talking about cutting programs, 5-percent per year, I think the United Nations fits into that category, yes," she said.

Before undergoing a serious make-over last month, Angle's campaign website characterized the U.N. as an institution "captured by the far left and has become ineffective and costly."

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who Angle is vying to unseat, didn't waste any time before pouncing on her latest assault on the U.N.

"Sharron Angle's extreme and dangerous agenda includes foreign policy ideas that even top Republicans say are crazy," explained the incumbent Democrat's campaign. "Republican Senator Richard Lugar rejected Angle's ideas as 'very extreme views.'"

WATCH: Sharron Angle Offers Her Take On The U.N.

Comments

[curlykidz]

05:28 PM on 08/14/2010

WOW.

[Sendil Nathan]

05:19 PM on 08/14/2010

The only reason we're members of the UN is to control it, not abide by it. There will be less ability to control as a non-member than being an insider managing the purse strings. Sharon is a foot soldier with a trench view unfit to be a general. She understands neither tactic nor strategy.

[Travis bdboy]

05:10 PM on 08/14/2010

What else would this basketcase want to cancel?....The list is getting longer.

[AlphaOmegaBeta]

10:38 PM on 08/16/2010

Yes..because the UN is doing such a great job with all those genocides down in Africa...oh wait..

[Aquest]

05:07 PM on 08/14/2010

Her campaign said the UN had been "captured by the far left and has become ineffective and costly".

I wonder how the far left managed to do that since the UN is made of more then the US.

[Javalation]

03:30 PM on 08/14/2010

It's a shame that no one can ask her questions for clarification. But if she favors this disengagement from the rest of the world to save money, does she also favor bring home all of the troops, which cost a lot more than our providing space for the UN?

[thetruth92802]

02:43 PM on 08/14/2010

"The United Nations does nothing for the American people it's just a other Tax for the American people.

[Travis bdboy]

05:12 PM on 08/14/2010

Might you be a bagger or tr0ll?....you pick I'll wait...my money is on tr0ll

[kimbanyc]

02:41 PM on 08/14/2010

But they won't let me say Sharon Angle dot com, they won't let me get 25 dollars from a million people they won't ask me the questions I want them to ask me They won't let me make women have babies by rapists, they won't let me do nothing about jobs. They won't let me get rid of social security and they won't let me take out harry Reid!!
People is this someone we want to represent the citizens of the USA? She is frightening.

[xon fedaa]

01:49 PM on 08/14/2010

Ha ha! Way to go baggers!

[Jeff Mellott]

01:40 PM on 08/14/2010

Yeah, stop sending money to that silly organization. They lost credibility with the right decades ago and should have lost credibility with the left after the massacres at the safe havens in Yugoslavia. I'd love to be a Nevada resident for a day--- Election Day.

[Black Guy at Cornell]

12:43 PM on 08/14/2010

So you're suggesting we leave the UN, but keep producing $25 million fighter planes that will continue to collect dust in remote hangars in North Dakota. Good to see where your values are, Sharron.

[TheIndependenceParty]

11:41 AM on 08/14/2010

I'm surprised she hasn't asked our astronauts to parachute out of the International Space Station, too!

Yep, ... you gotta nip this one-world government thing in the bud, ... even before it hatches if you can.

[whatisrightisright]

10:42 AM on 08/14/2010

Why should we have countries like Zimbabwe and Sudan in the UN? The UN passes these resolutions and treaties that clash with our constitution. Why are we subsidizing these unelected bureaucrats? Get us out or at least defund the UN.

This is obviously a biased report. Lugar is an internationalist and wants to ratify alot of these foreign treaties.

[ShoreSage]

11:01 AM on 08/14/2010

And you are??? An isolationist???

[LittleMittens]

10:32 AM on 08/14/2010

Just because angle has cut ties with reality does not mean the country has to follow suite. The United Nations represents the one global body that represents global democracy, cooperation, and teamwork (remember Kuwait in 1991?). If we had listened to the UN, we would not be involved in an eight year war of choice...

[HLL]

10:27 AM on 08/14/2010

Angle also wants to abolish the Department of Education ☮

[whatisrightisright]

10:43 AM on 08/14/2010

that's a great idea...education should be a local issue. 60 billion dollars saved/year

[TheIndependenceParty]

11:45 AM on 08/14/2010

How about the USDA and FDA? People should be able to sell any kinda meat they want, ... keep them Federales off your squirrel farm and all that, ... right?

And OSHA? All they ever done was come in and make it hard for them coal companies and factories to make money.

And the Dept of Transportation? FAA?

You are on a roll, righty! Keep it up and you'll have us back to thirteen colonies in no time, ... each printin' they own dollar bills, or pesos, or whatever they wanna call 'em.

[sharin]

12:00 PM on 08/14/2010

if the states individually took over the various tasks that the DofE currently does, well then it stands to reason that they would also have to take over the cost of those tasks. Hmmmm - well... I guess the states could raise your taxes to cover those newly inherited expenses

[Aquest]

05:15 PM on 08/14/2010

Education is so over-rated.

No one would claim that people like McConnell, Gingrich, Angle, Beck, Limbaugh needed much education to get where they are (were). Look at Bush, Quayle, etc etc.

Just stay away from schools, read your Bibles, be scared and above all, don't think for yourself.

[HLL]

06:49 PM on 08/14/2010

Ha! Bless you for a good laugh!!! Yes, absolutely. Don't let education get in the way of your enjoying The Pet Goat. What's a little attack on the country?! #67 :o)

[Manhattanite]

09:31 AM on 08/14/2010

The woman is getting crazier by the day.

[fromdnorth]

10:13 AM on 08/15/2010

...But the race is getting tighter...