Known by the company you keep (Part II): Sharron Angle

What are Sharron Angle's qualifications to replace Harry Reid as a US Senator from Nevada?  (Don't get me wrong, I am NOT a Harry Reid fan, but he does have a hell of a lot of experience in national politics.)

Angle holds a BFA from the University of Nevada.  She worked as a substitute teacher for 25 years (while raising two children), ran a small Christian school for a couple of years (she's a Southern Baptist born and raised), and lectured on art for a few years at a Nevada community college.  She also served as a member of the Nevada Assembly for 6 years. 

Angle was so often the contrarian "no" vote in the 42-member state legislature that Nevada political observers started referred to Assembly votes as "41-to-Angle."  She was a dependable opponent to any measure that would raise state taxes.

Angle won the Republican Senatorial primary with the endorsements of the local Tea Party, the Tea Party Express (a California-based political consulting firm), conservative talk radio personality Mark Levin, Joe the Plumber, and Phyllis Schlafly.   Recently, she was endorsed by Nevada's largest newspaper, the Las Vegas Review-Journal.  (Anti-incumbent sentiment is very strong in Nevada, which has been hit particularly hard by the foreclosure crisis and the recession.) 

Angle's publicly stated positions and beliefs include the folloowing:

• The Constitution does not require the separation of church and state;
• There is no scientific evidence of anthropogenic global warming;
• The US should withdraw from the UN, because it is a proponent of liberal ideology and "fraudulent science such as global warming";
• The US Dept of Education is unconstitutional and should be abolished because "the best education is the education that is controlled closes to the local level as possible";
• The IRS, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae should be eliminated;
• A "militant terrorist situation" exists in the US and has resulted in the institution of Sharia law in Dearborn MI and Frankford TX;
• Citizens are distrustful of their government and are arming to "fight for their liberty in more Second Amendment kinds of ways. . . ";
• Medicare should be privatized and Social Security should be "transitioned out" and presumable replaced by a private retirement system;
• The answer to America's energy needs is to drill oil and gas and burn coal without regulation or taxation;
• Abortion should be illegal under any and all circumstances;
• The US Constitution should be amended to prohibit same-sex marriage; and
• the best way to raise a family is in a single-income household.

Angle has dismissed persistent rumors linking her with the Church of Scientology as attempts to discredit her by "marginalizing" her.  Given her positions, wouldn't marginalizing her be redundant?

PS:  Angles and Reid will be debating tonight.  C-Span will be broadcasting their debate, inter alia, in marathon political coverage beginning at 7:45 ET.  CNN is covering the debate, but I'm not sure they will be broadcasting it.  Good times!!