Nevada Republican Party Communications pit bull Ciara Matthews is leaving her party post for a high-level communications slot on the Sharron Angle campaign. And not a moment too soon. Let’s just hope it’s not a moment too late.
In a recent interview, Sharron Angle indicated that she believes God called her to run against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in Nevada’s U.S. Senate race. But Jamshid Ghazi Askar of the Deseret News wrote this week that he believes Reid “will win his bid for reelection to the U.S. Senate because God wants him to win.”
I wish God would make up his mind. Then again, if God is picking our candidates, why do we even bother holding these silly elections?
Reid, meanwhile, continues to boast that nobody can do more for Nevada. Problem is, the country is returning to its founding roots and wants Congress to do less. Just leave us alone. “I’m from the government and I’m here to help” is once again considered a slur.
Indeed, a growing sentiment is that “we the people” no longer just want the federal government to stay out of our bedrooms.
We want it to stay out of our bedrooms, our bathrooms, our living rooms, our kitchens, our garbage cans, our gun racks, our cars, our community banks, our schools, our doctor’s office…and even our lightbulbs. ESPECIALLY our lightbulbs! Harry Reid is decidedly on the wrong side of that sentiment.
On the other hand, Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist John L. Smith wrote today that if conservative Sharron Angle defeats Harry Reid and implements her philosophy, “large sections of America today might starve.”
He repeated his claim a second time in the same column, declaring that “Millions of Americans would starve waiting for Angle’s conservative revolution.”
As if no one is starving in America today under Reid and Obama’s socialist-leaning utopia.
But beyond that reality check, the point folks such as John L. continually miss is that if the government stops handing out welfare benefits, guess what will happen? That’s right…churches and other community organizations will step up and fill the gap. Neighbors will once again help neighbors.
This notion that government, and only government, can and will help people in need is not only false, it’s a sad indictment of the liberal mentality about the generous nature of the American people and the human spirit.
FAMOUS LAST WORDS
• “Harry Reid claims ‘no one can do more’ for Nevada, but he hasn’t been able to use his famous Washington influence to help out our last-place state education system, and If Nevada sticks with Harry Reid, we’ll stay stuck in last place.” – Jerry Stacy, spokesman for Nevada GOP U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle, on Nevada not being selected to receive any federal “Race to the Top” funds, 7/27/10
• “Senator Harry Reid is so powerful that he claimed to ‘save’ City Center by making a few phone calls, but when Nevada fell short on securing additional federal education dollars the Majority Leader immediately blamed others. It really is mind boggling that Senator Reid claims to have all this pull with the banks on Wall Street, but is powerless when it comes to fixing Nevada’s schools.” – Jahan Wilcox, RNC Spokesman, on Nevada’s failure to qualify for federal “Race to the Top” money, 7/27/10
