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Ter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-30-10 01:16 AM
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Poll question: Who's the most right-wing Senate candidate this year?
This poll isn't about ethics, who lies the most, who gets caught with prostitutes wearing diapers, or anything like that. It is just about their viewpoints, and who is the most extreme, right-wing candidate running for election this year in the Senate (not the House or anywhere else, just US Senate candidates only).

So who is it? I've listed a few. The only current Senator in the poll is Jim DeMint. He's probably the most RW current Senator, but I don't think he's to the right of these people. Did I miss anyone?
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-30-10 01:26 AM
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1. for sheer nuttiness, Ms. Angle, hands down
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LibDemAlways Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-30-10 01:43 AM
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2. Scary group of wingnuts. Boggles the mind that any of them could
Edited on Sat Oct-30-10 01:48 AM by LibDemAlways
be elected to serve in the U.S. Senate. The founding fathers wouldn't believe how low we've sunk as a country. I think they'd be pissed.

For the record, I voted for Angle. She's not only on the extreme far right, she seems mentally unbalanced. Harry Reid is far from a dynamic candidate, but at least he's sane.
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Blue_In_AK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-30-10 01:43 AM
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3. I'll give it to Joe Miller
because he's actually educated, which makes him more dangerous, in my opinion.
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Drunken Irishman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-30-10 01:47 AM
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4. Mike Lee and what's worse - he's going to win. :(
Fuckin' hate Utah politics.
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Ter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-30-10 01:47 AM
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5. Mike Lee is way way out there
However, he gets overlooked because he's in Utah where any Republican could win. You know what's crazy? All of them could win, except O'Donnell.
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Drunken Irishman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-30-10 01:48 AM
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6. We literally posted at the same time. GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY HEAD, TER!
:P
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KillCapitalism Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-30-10 03:22 AM
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7. All of the above?
It's a toss-up, but I'd lean toward Rand Paul since he seems to condone violence against other people at his gatherings.
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deacon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-30-10 04:51 AM
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8. McCain just endorsed her. Angle.
Edited on Sat Oct-30-10 04:52 AM by deacon
LAS VEGAS -- Sen. John McCain delivered a rousing endorsement Friday of Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle and urged cheering supporters to send her to Washington as part of a historic turnaround in Washington power.

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WinkyDink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-30-10 05:23 AM
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10. He lost his sense of shame and dignity with Palin, so now it's all in.
Edited on Sat Oct-30-10 05:23 AM by WinkyDink
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WinkyDink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-30-10 05:22 AM
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9. Angle is just insane. But "my" Toomey is right up there, ugly greed-head that he is.
Edited on Sat Oct-30-10 05:22 AM by WinkyDink
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pampango Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-30-10 07:11 AM
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11. DeMint if only because he is already in the Senate and has senority over these newcomers.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2010/10/29/why_aren_t_business_leaders_standing_up_to_the_tea_party

South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint, who has emerged as the Senate’s leading Tea Party incumbent, says that his "main goal in the Senate will not only be to cut taxes, but to get rid of the IRS." Mr. DeMint’s goal is echoed by many Tea Party candidates, including Arkansas Rep. John Boozman, now running for Senate.

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TicketyBoo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-30-10 07:13 AM
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12. I'm sorry.
I can't vote in this poll.

Choosing between Angle and Paul is impossible for me.

One is just as bad as the other.
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Ichingcarpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-30-10 08:08 AM
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14. Both are dangerous but Miller was at one time a threat
to what a saw as the most hidden right wing.
Paul is the most dangerous vs Angle now
He is not afraid of showing his fascism and doesn't run from the
press like Angle who will not survive any National press.

Both are Nazis...... but Paul is the one





Now the two you mention are even more dangerous.

I agree...... hard to vote on.
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BootinUp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-30-10 07:30 AM
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13. Toomey?
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Ter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-31-10 10:54 PM
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15. Nah, not to the right of these guys
Edited on Sun Oct-31-10 10:54 PM by Ter
Some want to repeal the 17th Amendment, abolish the IRS, and get us out of the UN.
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lpbk2713 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-31-10 11:16 PM
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16. Rubio. He was groomed by BigHead Jeb.


And if Rubio wins (and he most likely will) that will validate Jeb. So watch out for Jeb in 2012.


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Angry Dragon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-01-10 12:09 AM
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21. rubio ... he is dangerous because he is as crooked as a snake
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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-31-10 11:25 PM
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17. I actually think Christine O'Donnell is the most right-wing
The reason I didn't vote for her is, you couldn't even Diebold her into the Senate.

Joe Miller is the second-most-right-wing, but there are two electable candidates running this year, so he won't win either.

I went with Sharron Angle simply because she's a Senate candidate from Nevada--a state that's funded largely by sales of alcoholic beverages--who wants to reenact Prohibition. So...she wins by default.
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Nevernose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-31-10 11:32 PM
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18. Let's not forget some of the other greatest hits...
Like how, when she was on a school board in BFE, she wouldn't let the football team wear black jerseys because black is the color of Satanists. Or how she thinks that criminal background checks for people who work with children shouldn't be mandatory bevcause of peoples' right to privacy. Or the pandering to the Scientologist constituents, with her "prisoner rehabilitation through massage" program, while voting against spending to get those same prisoners skills like basic literacy. I swear to god, as soon as my kid graduates high school, I am out of this nuthouse.
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CommonSensePLZ Donating Member (606 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-01-10 12:00 AM
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19. Other - Can't choose but O'Donnell has been very telling
Edited on Mon Nov-01-10 12:04 AM by CommonSensePLZ
Demonstrating the smug ignorance and insincerity of the tea party with her apparent belief that the constitution only has things in it she agrees with, like guns and lying.

Anngle and Miller show how they really feel about "small government" in how they address the public - They can do whatever they want, no questions, they're in charge and no one can do anything about it. Yes, the government always has too much power when it's not theirs.
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AsahinaKimi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-01-10 12:06 AM
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20. if Angle ever gets any power...
We will be in HUGE trouble..no doubt about it.
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BzaDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-01-10 12:43 AM
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22. Joe Miller without a doubt. At least Sharon Angle doesn't have ties to militia groups.
Though I do admit that Sharon Angle is definitely in second place.
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