Sharron Angle Left Far-Right Third Party For Electoral Expedience, Members Say

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The key to understanding Nevada Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle may be the fact that she has not always been a Republican.

For at least six years in the 1990s before she held state-level elective office, Angle was a member of the little-known Independent American Party, a right-wing party that combines elements of Ron Paul's doctrinaire libertarianism -- pro-gun, anti-tax, anti-bureaucracy, pro-states' rights -- with Christian social conservatism and fear of the "North American Union" and other forms of "global government." The small party attracted considerable controversy in 1994 when it took out a newspaper ad titled "Consequences of Sodomy: Ruin of a Nation," which suggested HIV could spread through the water.

Three members of the Independent American Party tell TPM that Angle, a Nye County, Nevada, school board member at the time, was an active member of the party in the 1990s. They say she only left the Independent American Party and became a Republican out of political expediency when she decided to seek a seat in the state assembly, to which she was elected in 1998.

"It was because she wanted to run for office. And it was difficult for members of our party to get elected at that time," Janine Hansen, executive director of the Independent American Party, tells TPM. "It was a strategic move on her part."

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/06/sharron-angle-and-the-independent-american-party.php?ref=fpblg

[WeDidIt]

1. Ah the Independent American Party. Such a noble party started by George Wallace

Yeah,...

This George Wallace:

[golfguru]

3. I thought George Wallace was a democrat?

Did he switch parties to the AIP?

[WeDidIt]

4. HE did not "switch parties" to the Independent American PArty

HE was in on the ground floor of it.

He did it in 1968 to run for president.

Curtis LeMay was his running mate.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Was there ever any doubt about this??

Just like Mayor Bloomberg, Sen Specter, Sen LIEberman and many more that I cannot name...Changing parties to get elected....
Sometimes it works..and sometimes it doesn't.

[PBS Poll-435]

5. IAP = AIP?

Alaskan Independence Party, that is.


:shrug:



How long until we hear that Ms. Angle approves of shooting strippers and casino hosts from helicopters?

[treestar]

6. The Republic party is too "corrupt and socialistic" for the

members of the IAP. Oh, my.