Team Reid continues playing hardball with another ad in the continuing “Extreme Angle” series:

Three of the four “extreme” positions highlighted in the ad restate, omit details, or slightly embellish for dramatic effect.

Angle did once express concern with the direction of Congress and refer to possible “Second Amendment remedies,” a quote Reid is exploiting for all it’s worth. Angle has defended her original remarks in a variety of ways, including saying she was “speaking broadly” about the Constitution and the Second Amendment. You can see a prior Reid ad on the issue and read a summary of Angle’s related remarks and follow-up statements here.

As for abortion policy, Angle is a purist. She does not support it under under any circumstances, even in cases of rape or incest, saying she believes if we err, we should do so “on the side of life.” But the claim that she’d “force” teenage rape victims to carry a baby is inflammatory; it’s hard to imagine a world, even without Roe v. Wade, where such a restrictive law would be passed–whether or not Angle is a member of the U.S. Senate.

The massages-for-prisoners claim contains some truth because the prison drug-rehabilitation program Angle once supported as a state legislator did involve detox methods promoted by Scientology. In addition, Angle’s website once named prominent members of the Church of Scientology with whom she was working on a piece of legislation prohibiting schools from requiring students to take psychotropic medications. However, Angle was raised as a Southern Baptist–indeed, the same ad alludes to her Biblical fundamentalism–so any attempt to link her with Scientology is a big stretch.

Regarding the claim that Angle said “Social Security and Medicare violate the Ten Commandments,” she did say that Democrat-supported entitlement programs are “built to make government our God” and spoke of the nation’s dependency as a violation of the First Commandment:

And that’s really what’s happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We’re supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.

This was a general statement which is now being taken to its most radical emanation by the Reid campaign.