ANGLE'S 'SECOND AMENDMENT REMEDIES' Angle won't be able to run from this indefinitely.

ANGLE'S 'SECOND AMENDMENT REMEDIES'.... Of all the issues with Sharron
Angle, the extremist Republican Senate candidate in Nevada, perhaps
the most frightening is her willingness to talk about armed
insurrection against the United States government. Her policy
positions make her appear nutty, but this portion of her rhetorical
repertoire makes her appear dangerous.

Given that Angle has spoken publicly about the possibility more than
once, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, a conservative paper, asked the
Senate candidate to explain what she means when she talks about
"Second Amendment remedies" to political disputes. Angle seemed
annoyed by the question.

"I can't believe people are even asking that," Angle said in the brief
interview. "I'm very much a proponent of the Second Amendment and the
Constitution. But what we have to focus on here is a movement, a
movement that's about retiring Harry Reid" by voting him out of
office."

This vague and unhelpful answer came the same day Angle literally ran
away from a journalist asking the same question.

This won't do. A candidate for the U.S. Senate, who has already won
her party's nomination, has talked openly about the possibility of the
armed overthrow of the government. Asked to clarify, she either flees
from journalists, or gives a non-answer. It's incumbent on all
candidates to explain their beliefs to voters, but in this case,
Angle's extremism makes the responsibility all the more acute.

Jon Chait explained, "There's been a lot of wild, loose rhetoric on
the right since Obama took office -- wilder and more mainstream than
the equivalent on the left under George W. Bush -- but Angle is really
taking things dangerously far. The protection of the law is not enough
to ensure the survival of a democracy. Democracies rely upon certain
social and cultural norms in order to survive. An important one is a
basic respect for the democratic process and a refusal to hint about
the idea of actual armed rebellion. Angle did not quite advocate armed
rebellion, but she did clearly egg it on it in a way that melds
prediction with encouragement....The alarming thing is not so much
what Angle said but how relatively little a ripple it has made.... It
really seems like a dangerous milestone is the darkening mood of the
American right."

Angle won't be able to literally run from this indefinitely.