HA! "Angle Met With 'Tea Party' Candidate, Trashed GOP - And Offered Him Perks To Drop Out"

[WilliamPitt]

Angle Met With 'Tea Party' Candidate, Trashed GOP -- And Offered Him Perks To Drop Out
TPM

Republican Sharron Angle is definitely worried that she could lose the Nevada Senate race due to vote-splitting with Scott Ashjian, who is running on the "Tea Party" ballot line. She's so worried, in fact, that she personally met with Ashjian last week to tell him how much she really agrees with him about bashing the Republican Party, and offered him access to the party's upper echelons if he dropped out. Oh, and there's a tape of the meeting to prove it.

As Jon Ralston reports, Angle sought to convince Ashjian to drop out and endorse her -- though Ashjian himself did not seem particularly eager to do so, thanks in no small part to the heavy-handed attacks that have been made against him by the state GOP and the California-based group Tea Party Express.

Angle clearly sought to show Ashjian that she was on his side. "The Republicans have lost their standards, they've lost their principles," Angle said. She also added: "Really that's why the machine in the Republican Party is fighting against me...They have never really gone along with lower taxes and less government."

And she made him an offer: "That's really all I can offer to you (Ashjian) is whatever juice I have, you have as well...You want to see DeMint, I have juice with him...I go to Washington, DC, and want to see Jim DeMint, he's right there for me. I want to see Tom Coburn, he's right there for me. I want to see Mitch McConnell, he's there."

The rest: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/10/angle-met-with-tea-party-candidate-trashed-gop----and-offered-him-perks-to-drop-out.php?ref=fpblg

[The Uncola]

1. So where's ...

.." a tape of the meeting to prove it"? Did I just miss it in your link?

[WilliamPitt]

3. The post at the link has more of the transcript

I'm not sure why they didn't post the whole thing. :shrug:

[The Uncola]

5. I saw the transcript.

But that isn't the same as the tape they make such a strong claim exists. Not blaming you, William, but that makes it sound a little bit suspicious.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

2. Vote for Angle. She's got the Juice!

[K8-EEE]

4. FR:" LV Sun is a REID PR front run owned by the Lib Mormons"

(shaking fist) DAMN YOU LIB MORMONS! lol....

[Jester Messiah]

8. Lib Mormons???

Funny thing is that I know of one such person, but he often confesses to feeling very lonely about it. I hold out hope of converting him to my sinful atheist ways someday. :evilgrin:

[thereismore]

6. If this guy is tea party, is he crazier than she? nt

[thereismore]

7. I don't want to see her juice. nt