Sharron Angle – Republican Rock Star Gets It.

Nevada Republican Senatorial candidate Sharron Angle was very well received on Capitol Hill yesterday as she lunched with a group of Republican Senators. According to Elizabeth Letchworth, our guest last night on The ANDREA SHEA KING Show, Sharron was treated like a rock star.

Letchworth, founder and editor of GRADEGov.Com and former 26-year elected Secretary of the US Senate has kept her connections and contacts on Capitol Hill.  She now joins us each Wednesday night as a regular contributor to update us on “insider” Capitol Hill happenings.

Letchworth said last night that Republican Senators are so thrilled with Sharron Angle, many of them offered her funds from their own campaign war chests. Listen to the interview here.

Angle received the endorsement of the Tea Party Express/Our Country Deserves Better PAC at a news conference held at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on April 15th, the final day of our national tour.  It was then I had the pleasure of meeting her and her husband.  First impressions are lasting ones.  Both are Gold Star — A+ in my estimation.

An article in today’s Las Vegas Sun hyperventilates about Angle’s accurate observation on the mood of America toward the current Administration and Congress:

There’s no doubt a chunk of the electorate is angry at the federal government. But are voters willing to take up arms?

U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle seemed to raise that specter in three interviews in the past six months, suggesting that some would seek “Second Amendment remedies” if Congress isn’t reined in.

She said the purpose of the right to bear arms is to check the federal government. But she stopped short of saying that she would support an armed uprising.

“Our Founding Fathers, they put that Second Amendment in there for a good reason, and that was for the people to protect themselves against a tyrannical government,” Angle told conservative talk show host Lars Larson in January. “In fact, Thomas Jefferson said it’s good for a country to have a revolution every 20 years. I hope that’s not where we’re going, but you know, if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies.”

Also that month, she told Reno conservative talk show host Bill Manders she hoped her opponent, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, would be defeated at the ballot box before the electorate resorted to more aggressive measures.

“I’m hoping that we’re not getting to Second Amendment remedies,” Angle said. “I hope that the vote will be the cure for the Harry Reid problems.”

And last month she told the Reno Gazette-Journal “it’s almost an imperative” that conservatives win.

“The nation is arming,” she told the newspaper. “What are they arming for if it isn’t that they are so distrustful of their government? They’re afraid they’ll have to fight for their liberty in more Second Amendment kinds of ways. That’s why I look at this as almost an imperative. If we don’t win at the ballot box, what will be the next step?”

Is she simply tapping into an intense mistrust of the federal government? Or is she advocating something?

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Angle spokesman Jerry Stacy stressed Wednesday that Angle is not “advocating for a revolution.” But he didn’t back away from Angle’s comments that trouble could be brewing.

“We should all be worried, but again, she’s not advocating or suggesting a revolution,” Stacy said.

In the Gazette-Journal interview, Angle said she prefers to fight at the ballot box.

“That’s why I’m in the battle the way I’m in the battle,” she said. “I still have a great deal of faith in our political system and a great deal of faith in the American people and voter.”

The armed revolt sentiment doesn’t belong to Angle alone.

Rick Barber, a candidate in a Republican congressional runoff in Alabama, is airing an ad in which he appears to conspire with 18th-century revolutionaries to stage an armed revolt.

[…]Bob List, a Republican national committeeman and former Nevada governor, wouldn’t speculate on the meaning of Angle’s comments. But, he said, “people are far more riled up about what’s going on out there than I’ve ever seen in my lifetime.

“They’re furious.”

He said he doesn’t think an armed revolution is coming.

“What will happen is people will go to the ballot box and vote out the incumbents who are doing this,” he said.

Larson, host of a nationally syndicated talk radio show, said he agreed with Angle’s sentiment that the purpose of the Second Amendment is a check on the federal government.

“That doesn’t mean she was advocating war if she loses,” Larson said. “She was saying at some point, the purpose of the Second Amendment wasn’t first for hunting, or personal protection. It was to make sure government never got out of control.”