By Jessica Taylor and Alex Roarty
Nevada Senate candidate Sharron Angle expects to be added as a featured speaker to the final two days of CPAC.
"I didn't know I was coming to the conference until Saturday, so that's why they weren't able to agenda-ize me," Angle told Hotline On Call. "But when they found out I was here, they said, 'We're going to fit you in,' so I guess it's to be announced."
Nevada Senate candidate Sharron Angle expects to be added as a featured speaker to the final two days of CPAC.
"I didn't know I was coming to the conference until Saturday, so that's why they weren't able to agenda-ize me," Angle told Hotline On Call. "But when they found out I was here, they said, 'We're going to fit you in,' so I guess it's to be announced."
The tea party favorite stoked presidential speculation after she showed up in Iowa last month to attend a premiere for the movie The Genesis Code. She'll attend a screening for the same movie later this month in another early presidential primary state, South Carolina. But she laughed off the idea that she's testing the presidential waters, calling it just "press speculation."
"I guess anybody who goes to Iowa has to be running for president," she said.
Angle failed in her effort to unseat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) last year, but she's not ruling out another run for elective office at some level. She has "many, many options," she said. Angle will definitely make a presidential endorsement, she said. And it's likely to be sought-after: The backing of the Nevada tea party favorite could be key in her state's early presidential caucus.
While she doesn't have a favorite candidate yet, Angle said she'll "be looking for the one that embraces conservative constitutional principles and that will represent the values of limited government, lower taxation and less spending and personal responsibility."
Nevada's relatively new caucuses remain largely overshadowed by the traditional three early states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, but Angle said she believes her state's influence on the presidential nominating process will grow in 2012. "It's nice to be out front and not behind the rest of the nation in these picks," said Angle. "I think that it's right for Nevada to be that state that's representing the Western reason."
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"I guess anybody who goes to Iowa has to be running for president," she said.
Angle failed in her effort to unseat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) last year, but she's not ruling out another run for elective office at some level. She has "many, many options," she said. Angle will definitely make a presidential endorsement, she said. And it's likely to be sought-after: The backing of the Nevada tea party favorite could be key in her state's early presidential caucus.
While she doesn't have a favorite candidate yet, Angle said she'll "be looking for the one that embraces conservative constitutional principles and that will represent the values of limited government, lower taxation and less spending and personal responsibility."
Nevada's relatively new caucuses remain largely overshadowed by the traditional three early states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, but Angle said she believes her state's influence on the presidential nominating process will grow in 2012. "It's nice to be out front and not behind the rest of the nation in these picks," said Angle. "I think that it's right for Nevada to be that state that's representing the Western reason."
http://www.nationaljournal.com/blogs/hotlineoncall/2011/02/angle-ing-for-a-cpac-slot-10