Sharron Angle Called 'Extreme,' 'Uncompassionate And Non-Caring' By GOP Gov's Ex-Wife (VIDEO)

(AP/Huffington Post) -- The ex-wife of Nevada's Republican governor is slamming GOP Senate candidate Sharron Angle who is vying to unseat Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

Dawn Gibbons blasted Angle's education agenda Wednesday during a campaign appearance to drum up support for Reid in his re-election fight. She called Angle's ideas dangerous and extreme in a speech echoing attacks fired by the four-term incumbent's camp.

The Las Vegas Review Journal reports:

"I still consider her a friend," Gibbons said of Angle when asked by a reporter whether she had a "personal vendetta" against the Tea Party favorite during a news conference arranged by Reid's campaign.

"I think the world of both of them," she added. "But this is about the future of the state of Nevada. And we can't really afford to have someone that is so extreme and so uncompassionate and non-caring about our citizens. We need someone in the United States Senate that will stand up and fight for us."

Dawn Gibbons faced Angle in a three-way congressional primary in 2006. Neither emerged victorious. The Nevada Republican, however, signaled that's when she first became familiar with some of the conservative contender's more controversial positions.

Gibbons, a former Republican state legislator, was among Reid's earliest Republican supporters last year. Her divorce from Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons was finalized in July.

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Comments

[MarkInTexas]

11:21 PM on 09/03/2010

"Extreme", "Uncompassionate", and "Non-Caring". Isn't that the GOP party platform?

[kaptaintripps]

10:22 PM on 09/03/2010

From Nevada:

Oh, no kidding SHARRON! You took...and took...and took (and your old man, too, though no one else seems to recognize this) from the State System here in Nevada to make your living.

And now...? You are just ...oh "so ready to dump it for the rest of us!"

You SUCK!

[Pennsanic]

09:59 PM on 09/03/2010

I still can't believe somebody actually married Jim Gibbons.

[ramsha]

09:13 PM on 09/03/2010

Nice endorsement for Harry Reid.

[coolaid8]

06:59 PM on 09/03/2010

Well, if the governor's ex-wife says so, it must be true. Here in Illinois, we live and die on the words of our ex-governor's wife, Patty Blagovitch

[vegas4reid]

06:03 PM on 09/03/2010

And Dawn Gibbons knows about extreme, uncompassionate, and uncaring. She was married to it.

[eva belle]

05:42 PM on 09/03/2010

Aaah, but don't dare tell her she has a bad angle that Sharon.

[jobrien1950]

05:17 PM on 09/03/2010

Meanwhile, there is a list of 177 prominent Nevada republicans who endorse Harry Reid. They're called Republicans for Reid. Too much.

[coolaid8]

06:58 PM on 09/03/2010

They are endorsing Reid this year because they want to ensure total republican victory in 2012.

[freddychef]

11:16 PM on 09/03/2010

could you post something based on some form of the reality that the rest of the world (excluding neobaggers) live in?

[bibimimi]

04:50 PM on 09/03/2010

Dawn Gibbons is hopelessly hot. I congratulate her on her divorce.

[Paisley Izzy]

04:20 PM on 09/03/2010

Angle is a product of the Liz Cheney school of hard harts and dead feelings. Who let her out?

[kimbanyc]

03:44 PM on 09/03/2010

Angle,Riddle,O'Connell,Lowden, McMahon,Brewer,Fiorina, Whitman, The gal with the machine guns, Foxx, Myrick,and Liz Cheney. And Please don't get me started on the men.

[freddychef]

11:17 PM on 09/03/2010

tawd Pee, hiding behind his wifes skirt?

[murphysgirl]

03:43 PM on 09/03/2010

With the momentum the GOP has, I find it it odd that would embrace such nutjobs..As a Nevada resident, I'm still shocked that people think Sharon Angle should win. Their blinded rage against Reid has clouded all forms of sound judgment..

[pagangrandma]

04:44 PM on 09/03/2010

There are Angle yard signs all over the "over 55" community where I live. I can't believe there are so many Seniors who would 'cut off their collective noses to spite their faces'. Scary.

[RevRaid]

08:14 PM on 09/03/2010

Hope they all have good relationships with their kids, 'cause guess where they'll be living if all these ... kill all federal program (but I so want a job in it!) people get their way.

I don't get it either ... and I agree pagangrandma it is scary. I like your user name!!

[Right TryEngels]

10:27 PM on 09/03/2010

Keep in mind, the people like Angle who want to cut Social Security and Medicare always target the cuts 15+ years out, so they don't affect the current seniors, who vote so reliably.

[bibimimi]

04:53 PM on 09/03/2010

I guess these same people are bumming over Lowden's chicken implosion. Sue was vacuous, Sharron is the vacuum.

[Fi]

03:19 PM on 09/03/2010

Oh please America, please reassure me, these nuts are not going to be in your Government.

[Nichole Boultas]

04:33 PM on 09/03/2010

I'm afraid the US might turn into an open air inane asylum with Sharron Angle as their leader...be afraid, be very afraid....

[bibimimi]

04:55 PM on 09/03/2010

"inane asylum"

IF U MEANT TO SAY THAT, BRAVO! if it was a typo, bravissima!

[Fi]

06:04 PM on 09/03/2010

I'm not the one who should be worried, I don't live anywhere near the USA, where I live, the UK, if anyone hears voices in their heads, we tend not to vote for them, in fact we tend to steer a very clear of them.

[SUPPERMAN]

12:28 PM on 09/03/2010

Wake up you Nevada people!! This lady is so stupid! Please think before November! Please!!!

[Nichole Boultas]

04:34 PM on 09/03/2010

I'm stunned Nevada let her get this far! I feel for nevadans....I'm in California...

[LincolnBrigader]

11:43 AM on 09/03/2010

We should be grateful for the honesty of this crop of Tea Partiers. At least they come right out and speak aloud what has been the unspoken but self-evident agenda of the Reptilians: to benefit their wealthy clientele by attacking every one else's standard of living. The pauperization of the middle class has been no coincidence, but rather the goal of Reptilian policies. They've overseen a transfer of wealth upward. "Trickle down economics" has been a sham perpetrated on the American people; rather, there has been a vacuuming up of wealth to those at the top. The Reptlians have always done their best to strangle the goose that laid the golden egg--the American middle class, which has seen real wages fall precipitiously under their policies. Those policies have benefited only those at the top, and have proved anathema to everyone else and to the economy in general. Americans simply cannot afford to buy what they produce, and now charge to credit what used to be paid for through wages. So Angle, Miller, Paul, et al., when they speak of gutting Social Security, or Medicare, or Unemployment benefits (while extending tax cuts to the wealthy), are expressing openly what has been the stealthy goal of Reptilian policies: to wage class warfare against the many to benefit the few. "Extreme, uncompassionte and non-caring" is an apt description of Reptilian policies, whether spoken or unspoken, and "free market" has become a euphemism for "bend over."

[lovedr]

11:57 AM on 09/03/2010

"Free market" = "bend over"
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