Great way to jump start a campaign. Remind everyone back home what an arrogant prick you are and then dare them to vote against you. It looks like he may well
get his wish.
Harry Reid is just looking for a little credit.
In the kickoff for Reid's campaign for a fifth term representing Nevada, the Senate majority leader limbered up with a demonstration of his political clout.
The theme of the campaign launch has been "No one can do more," and is intended to remind Nevada voters how lucky they are to have Reid.
In a year when incumbency is a toxic trait, Reid is emphasizing his insider status.
Reid is rolling out high-profile visitors from Washington and an expensive ad campaign in a bid to show that his newly minted Republican opponent, former state Assemblywoman Sharron Angle, is simply too small-time to represent Nevada.
Despite still trailing in the polls, Reid promises victory because Republicans have picked a Tea Party-style candidate instead of a more conventional nominee.
The man who heralded the opening of the new Capitol Visitors Center as a way to avoid having to "smell the tourists" is now going to dare Nevadans to vote against him.
Just when Democrats were breathing a sigh of relief about Reid drawing an underfunded right-winger for his opponent, the majority leader rolled out the most unappealing campaign for a longtime incumbent with miserable job approval ratings (33 percent in the latest poll).
Angle, for her part, is already
firing away.
Angle isn't above reeling off a list of Reid's greatest gaffes, either.
Appearing on Alan Stock's conservative radio talk show on KXNT-AM, 840, Angle made a reference to the hot water Reid got into earlier this year when a book revealed the Senate majority leader said Obama could win the presidency in part because of his style and appearance.
"I'm more mainstream than the fellow that said tourists stink, this war is lost, and light-skinned no-Negro dialect," Angle said, adding that's what a "whack-job, marginal candidate sounds like."
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