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Hilarious Ladies Sharron Angle, Michele Fiore Both Lose Nevada Primaries. Wonkette Bereft.
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That was a really long 15 minutes
The primary election votes have all been counted in Nevada, and while the news is pretty good for The Republic, its a sad day for political comedy: perennial Nevada loonypants ladies Sharron Angle and Michele Fiore have both lost their bids for national office. Ms. Angle will now go back to whatever it is she does between losing in elections, and Ms. Fiore had to give up the chance for reelection to the state Assembly to run for Congress, so theres no telling where in the Fox News lineup shell eventually land.
As pretty much everyone predicted, Angle was squooshed like a bug in the Republican primary for the Senate seat that Majority Leader Harry Reid is retiring from. Rep. Joe Heck won with 65 percent of the vote, and Angle managed only 23 percent. Heck will go on to face former Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto, who easily won the Democratic nomination with 81 percent of the vote against three other candidates. For all her advocacy of Second Amendment remedies in the past, Angle is not expected to actually shoot Rep. Heck. But were waiting eagerly for whatever weird crap she does next.
Michele Fiore, Yr Wonkettes favorite one-l Michele since Bachmann, also lost badly in her run for House District 3, the seat previously held by Rep. Heck. She came in third behind Daniel Tarkanian (son of the famous UNLV basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian), who finally won an election after five consecutive losses, and state Sen. Michael Roberson. In November, Tarkanian will run against Democrat Jacklyn Rosen, who was endorsed by Harry Reid.
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Of the losses by Fiore and Angle, Jon Ralston, the God Emperor of Nevada political journalism, says,
As if to put an exclamation point on a night in which so many fringe types with no agendas and only nastiness lost, two women who scarred the Nevada political landscape are departing. Even though two national publications saw fit to profile her in the waning days, Assemblywoman Michele Fiores short, sad political career ended as she ran third in a southern congressional primary. She will never win another office in Nevada; a reality show seems a better bet. Or perhaps, a medical program showing how cancer is a fungus or a program teaching 5-year-olds to fire rifles. Also gone and soon forgotten: Sharron Angle, who tried to resurrect herself after her U.S. Senate embarrassment in 2010 but was destroyed by Heck. It wasnt close, and Angle once again left behind a wonderful legacy as she sent out a piece that accidentally directed people to a pornography site. She also ran TV ads with bunnies and tried to compare Heck to Nancy Pelosi and Reid. That, as always, was the wrong angle.
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annabanana
(52,791 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,167 posts)What more can I say?
Haha.
It was worth another one.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)trotsky
(49,533 posts)Dangerous, unhinged, lunatic. So glad she lost.
Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)rjsquirrel
(4,762 posts)Maybe we really could have a throw the bums out kind of year.
We need to relentlessly crush the GOP. No sleep til Brooklyn.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)how much money Adleson and Wynn dump into Tartanian's pocket. Tartanian is a real piece of work,much like Trump,he has a history of Bankruptcies as was a Ponzie scams. But,what the hay,it's Vegas Baby.