Is Sharron Angle dangerous?

The Nevada Republican once invoked the idea of armed insurrection against the government. Are critics twisting Angle's words or is she a not-so-secret extremist?

Sharron Angle's "extremist" past is haunting the Tea Party candidate — who won Nevada's Republican Senate primary and will take on Harry Reid in November — even as she heads to Washington to convince GOP power brokers that she won't let Reid paint her as a fringe freak-show. The Washington Post's Greg Sargent dug up a January interview in which Angle seemed to endorse armed insurrection against the U.S. government if "Congress keeps going the way it is." Her former membership in the far-right Independent American Party, a "pro-gun, states-rights party," and links to the Oath Keepers are also raising eyebrows. Is Angle dangerous, or are her critics distorting her past? (Watch Rachel Maddow question Sharron Angle's past affiliations)

Reid doesn't have to "depict" Angle as an extremist: She is one, says Barbara Morrill in Daily Kos. Sharron Angle is wasting her breath trying to convince Republican leaders she's not "a serial nutcase." Her military buddies in the Oath Keepers advocate refusing orders they see as unconstitutional. And she is on record as "the anti-Social Security, Medicare, EPA, Department of Veterans Affairs, alcohol and fluoride candidate." No wonder she scares people.

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