Sharron Angle Takes on the Establishment and Wins

Sharron Angle is Harry Reid's opponent in the Nevada Senate race.  Reid is doing everything he can to portray her as "extreme" and "out of the mainstream", or even "crazy" if he can get away with it, but as Mark Tapscott points out in his piece she has a history of taking on the big guys and winning:

"Sharron Angle's first foray into activism was when her son was held back in kindergarten in 1983 and 'the poor little guy was made to feel like a failure. He hated school.' She wanted to home school him, but the school system and the courts said no. Her response was to open a one-room school with a Christian-based curriculum. It soon had 24 students.

"'I didn't realize how many other parents were angry with the school system,' she recalls. She charged $125 a month to cover the cost of supplies but taught for free. (Mrs. Angle has a degree in education from the University of Nevada, Reno.)

"In 1985 she rallied hundreds of parents behind her successful effort to pass a bill through the Nevada legislature allowing parents to home school anywhere in the state. The result of her effort is that in Nevada home schooling has become a popular alternative to the public schools, and Mrs. Angle is referred to as the 'home school heroine.'"

You want change to believe in, there it is, friends and neighbors. One concerned citizen resolves to make something right and overcomes all the opposition to make it happen.

But the home schooling effort wasn't Angle's first encounter with obstinate politicians and unresponsive government. In 2003, she drew national attention with her steadfast opposition as a state legislator to a massive tax increase proposed by Nevada's governor, who was a Republican.

She fought the governor and his legislative allies to a draw, only to see the state supreme court step in and over-rule the state constitution. At that point, I suspect that most politicians, including the majority of those who call themselves conservatives, would have meekly backed off and accepted the allegedly inevitable.

Not Angle. Moore describes what happened next:

"When the bullying failed, the Nevada Supreme Court, in a spectacular abuse of the constitution, allowed the tax hike to go through without the two-thirds vote. The justices decreed that the money was needed for the schools and that the right to an adequate education took precedence over a procedural safeguard.

"The next day, Ms. Angle recalls, 'I went into the conference room and was told there's nothing you can do, Sharron. It's all over. The Supreme Court has the last word. And I said, No, it's not over.'

"She spearheaded a movement to get the Supreme Court replaced. In the next election in 2006, voters threw out five of the seven members of the Nevada Supreme Court; the other two had retired. 'It was a referendum on that tax increase vote,' she argues. 'And the new court came in and reversed that decision and made our constitution whole.'"

That's precisely the kind of political guts and mettle that is in too-short supply in politics. More important, such inner political strength will be absolutely essential after November if the GOP regains a majority in one or both chambers of Congress with a voter mandate to stop and reverse the liberal train wreck at both ends of Pennylvania Avenue.

Harry Reid is such a despicable little rodent of a politician I don't think even the big money from liberal special interest groups will keep his career alive. He's rightfully to blame for advancing so much of Obama's destructive agenda and he'll pay for it with his job in November.