Over the weekend, Republican Senate candidate Sharon Angle told the founder of the Christian Coalition that her campaign was part of God's plan.
Angle is trying to build a wide coalition in Nevada between libertarian-leaning Tea Party supporters and social conservatives in an attempt to defeat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Conservative activist Ralph Reed asked Angle about her surging popularity in an interview posted to his website Tuesday.
"How do you explain all this?" Reed queried. "You're now a national story, are you kind of overwhelmed by it all?"
"I believe that God has been in this from the beginning and because of that when he has a plan and a purpose for your life and you fit into that, what he calls you to he always equipped you for," said Angle.
The Huffington Post's San Stein notes that Angle's religion has been more a part of her campaign than other Tea Party candidates. "She is devoutly pro-life, arguing against abortion in cases of rape and incest because 'God has a plan,'" reported Stein.
"I think the reason is a calling," she recently told a congregation at a church in Carson City, Nevada. "It's interesting how when you have God in your life that he directs your path."
This video is from Ralph Reed, uploaded to YouTube July July 13, 2010.
Its hilarious Reid is losing to her. Only because she is getting the "she ain't Reid,so I will vote for her" backers who don't know anything else about her yet.
Wait until they find out she is a religious loon and watch her numbers drop.
Agree with the former, I don't think the latter will hurt her as much as you seem to think.
The fact that you just found out that he's LDS should tell you that.
No, I've never met him. I have heard him interviewed and discussed however. A local radio talk show host, Rusty Humphries, a Limbaugh protege, liked him - didn't agree with him politically and supported his opponent, but thought he was a likable decent guy.
When you boil it all down, most of us don't know ANY of these people personally. What we DO know about them is filtered through a compliant or hostile media.
I try to keep that fact in mind when I evaluate a person's capability to hold public office.
If the local talk show host you mentioned can declare Reid a "likable, decent guy" even though he disagreed with his politics, then good on him.
