Nevada is ‘canary in a coal mine’ for election landslide 

If Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid loses to this tea party grandmother -- after spending more than $20 million defining Sharron Angle as radical, extreme and dangerous -- you can bet it's all over for the Obama agenda.

You gotta love a state where the constitution bans taxes and welcomes guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens. But starting on Tuesday, Nevada will be known as the state that fueled the tea party citizen revolution.

It all started two weeks ago, when Angle announced she'd raised a staggering $14.3 million in the third quarter -- the second-biggest haul in the history of American politics. I'd have given a million dollars to see the faces of Reid and his campaign managers when they heard the news. I'll bet "shock, awe, and violent waves of nausea" best described their reactions.

Then came the much-anticipated U.S. Senate debate. Reid had spent weeks painting Angle as radical, extreme and dangerous. Yet the grandmother from Reno came across as credible, sincere, honest and filled with common sense. She stood toe-to-toe with the U.S. Senate majority leader and never flinched.

The line of the night came from Angle when she stared down her opponent and said, "Man up, Harry Reid." I'll bet Harry's handlers got a little weak in the groin area after that line.

Harry Reid, the man who has carried the water for the Obama socialist agenda of tax, spend and bankrupt America, is the one who came across as radical, extreme and dangerous. Sharron Angle showcased common sense in proving that wanting lower taxes and to allow people to keep more of their own money isn't extreme. Wanting to raise taxes in a depression on job creators and small business owners -- now that's extreme.

Angle proved that wanting to reform and personalize (partially privatize) a failing Social Security system is not extreme. Wanting to keep the status quo for a system that threatens to implode and bankrupt the entire economy -- now that's extreme.

Angle proved that wanting to reform education and eliminate the bloated Department of Education to bring the money back to Nevada, where local parents can decide what's best for Nevada's children, is not extreme. Wanting to keep the status quo for a disastrous public education system that is miserably failing our children -- now that's extreme.

Angle proved that wanting to cut spending to reduce the deficit and debt isn't radical. Wanting big government to keep printing and spending money we don't have -- now that's extreme.

It turns out that Harry Reid voted in support of a radical leftist Democratic agenda 97 percent of the time since 2007 -- now that's extreme.

What did Harry Reid's votes as majority leader produce? A $100 trillion hole of deficit, debt, bailouts, stimulus-to-nowhere and unfunded liabilities that threatens to destroy the American Dream for our children and grandchildren. It was on Harry Reid's watch that Nevada and America went bankrupt. Could anything be more radical, dangerous, or irresponsible than sending that man back to the Senate?

But how could Reid's actions have been that toxic? Eric Singer of the Congressional Effect Fund recently explained this phenomenon with a half-century of statistical and historical fact. Eric has proved over the past half-century that when Congress is in session, the stock market is up about 1 percent. When Congress is out of session over that same period, the stock market is up more than 17 percent. Since 2000, the market is actually down 8 percent when Congress is in session (much of that time presided over by Harry Reid), and up 9 percent when Congress is out of town.

Moral to the story? These facts prove that elitist-lawyers-turned-politicians such as Reid aren't saving us when they create new laws. They are actually damaging the U.S. economy every time they open their mouths.

Eric Singer didn't know it, but he was proving why Reid should be retired. During his debate, Harry proudly stated again and again how important he has been to Nevada and the country. How many rules and regulations he's passed to "save" us all. How many jobs he's "created" by spending our money. How government helps us all in so many ways.

Singer's facts prove that we need to stop Harry from helping us. With friends like him, it's no wonder our children and grandchildren owe more than $100 trillion. Please stop helping us, Harry. We can't take any more of your help. The more you help, the worse it gets. History proves that Harry Reid and his friends in Congress are actually the cause of our misery.

The common sense of a Tea Party grandmother is just what the doctor ordered. We need a Tea Party "citizen politician" who says "no" to more spending, "no" to bailouts, "no" to bigger government, "no" to higher taxes, and "no" to digging the hole deeper. We certainly need fewer rules, regulations and laws created by the lawyers, for the lawyers, to screw the people.

And then there was the final zinger of the night from Angle: "Senator Reid, how did a poor boy from Searchlight, Nevada, become a multi-millionaire on the government payroll?" You could feel the air going out of Reid as he stumbled and stammered. A simple grandmother had ripped the privilege, power and intimidation factor from the U.S. senator who lives at the Ritz-Carlton. Suddenly the emperor had no clothes. How indeed, Harry?

On Tuesday, Nevada will show America how to throw a citizen revolution. Nevada will show America who the real radicals, extremists and dangerous thieves are -- the elitists, lawyers and career D.C. politicians. Nevadans will fire a shot heard around the world with a message to the U.S. Senate majority leader: "Harry Reid, you're fired!"

Wayne Allyn Root is chairman of the Libertarian National Congressional Committee and author of "The Conscience of a Libertarian." He writes from Henderson.