Posted on 10/24/2009 4:19:43 AM PDT by Libloather
Top Republicans jump ship in NY-23
Andy Barr – Fri Oct 23, 7:12 pm ET
Some of the most prominent names in national Republican Party politics are lining up against the GOP nominee in a key upstate New York House special election, the latest being former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, who weighed in Friday.
In endorsing Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman in the Nov. 3 contest, Santorum joined former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, Minnesota Rep. Michelle Bachmann, former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson, and former presidential candidate Steve Forbes, all of whom announced their backing for the conservative third-party candidate this week.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty suggested Friday that he might be the next well-known Republican to break with the party establishment and support Hoffman. When asked about the race Friday during an interview with ABC, he expressed frustration with GOP nominee Dede Scozzafava and said he will “probably” endorse in the race.
Scozzafava, a state assemblywoman who supports gay marriage, abortion rights and has a close relationship with leading labor officials in her region, has been the target of sustained criticism from conservatives who claim that she is so liberal that they cannot in good conscience support her candidacy. As evidence, they point to her unofficial endorsement from the leading liberal blog Daily Kos.
While Scozzafava can point to many other prominent conservatives who support her bid—including former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Republican leaders on Capitol Hill—this week’s surge of leading conservatives to Hoffman’s camp is a troubling sign for her campaign and the national GOP establishment since several of the recent Hoffman endorsers have significant followings and represent the most energetic part of the Republican base.
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Tine for Newt Gingrich to jump ship as well!
This is good news from two fronts:
First, it is great to see conservatives rally around another conservative.
Second, it shows that Sarah Palin is the political leader of the conservative movement.
10 days to go ‘til the election. If Hoffman can keep momentum he should just squeeze out a win. I’m not sure who would be more upset about the win, Obama or the Republican National Committee.
What?
LOL!
Andy you couldn't catch a clue if Blue showed you where it was!
Did you notice the order of the list.....Madame President, then the others.... seems like a trend is developing
It doesnt matter if she wins or the dem nominee wins, they will both vote liberal.
So sending the message to the democrats that we will only support the conservative candidates
will send a chill up their spine that wont quit.
Opps. I think you screwd up. LOL!
Excellent point.
Is Newt a true conservative? He jumped on the global warming train.
I hope she isn’t getting funds from the GOP.
So, maybe you need to pick your candidates a bit more carefully in the future. We will be watching you.
Scozzafava? Yes, she is. Bucket loads.
Palin will have to leave the increasingly socialist Republicrat party if she is to have any chance of advancing the Conservative cause.
Conservative Republicans? Mmm-maybe they are starting to get the message. Re-adopt conservative values or go for a hike. Can you hear us now Michael Steele?
Newt's well within current standards.
Still, the whole GW crowd are begining to look pretty stupid ~ hasn't been any for the last 11 years.
Worth reading up on are the science news stories about how certain viruses INFECT cyanobacter in the ocean and cause them to ramp up their oxygen production.
The implications of that particular piece of knowledge are truly profound ~ first of all, the researchers tell us this combo provide HALF the oxygen in our atmosphere. Further, there are probably other combos pulling apart CO2, and other chemicals.
The things we don't know how the great machinery of "Life on Earth" works probably far exceed what we now know.
The GW folks all suffer from extreme hubris and turn out to be anti-intellectual!
Newt’s problem is that he’s looking at the empty seat on the floor of the house, instead of the person who’s going to fill it. He doesn’t seem to realize that if she’s elected she’s going to be a reliable vote for the Democrats regardless of the “R” after her name.
Despartly trying to keep up with the Palins...
This article has reminded me of a call we got this week.
The RNC called to ask for money by invoking our great conservative senator Jim DeMint’s name. Funny, they didn’t say a thing about Lindsey Graham.
Don’t let them use the party’s few conservatives to raise money for a party that won’t yet take a conservative stand and is full of mostly RINOs.
Donate instead directly to the candidate of your choice, not the RNC.
Newt jumped the shark long ago. Now he is just an embarrassment.
Amen. Newt is all over the board which appears self-serving. Conservatives can’t count on him as a consistent leader.
We all know that if you don't have the power to organize the House you can't control anything.
Still, it would be good for the family bag lady to step down and let the Conservative win this time ~ he'll vote WITH the Republicans AND, best of all, he'll help organize the House.
Where Sarah Palin leads, the others will follow.
Become a Hoffman fan on Facebook-
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Doug-Hoffman/104731159040?ref=nf
Scozzafava 328 supporters
Hoffman 1,343 supporters
I second that. Sarah could be just what the doctor ordered.
Newt is and should be named a Chameleon
Through 20 odd years of watching his shifting he has proven it to me at least.
As for the artical GOOD going for the Conservatives to say NO MORE supporting Rino's and Liberal's getting onto the conservative ticket.
The GOP’s national apparatus has not only dumped money down a rathole for the sake of a (figurative and literal) loser, they have blundered into a situation where people like Newt Gingrich are “outing” themselves. The former is unfortunate, the latter is serendipitous.
Are we heading toward two parties, Republicans and Conservatives? It seems the Democrat party is on a course toward self-destruction and will be only a fringe movement, while Republicans will go increasingly liberal to pick up disenchanted Democrats, and Conservatives will pick up disenchanted Republicans.
Both can “expletive deleted”.
LLS
LLS
LLS
When they swear to uphold it, they need to be able to mean that oath.
Sadly, George Bush, (both of them) Newt Gingrich, Bob Dole, The two Maine-iac senators and a whole lot of other Rinos are not and never were true constitutionalists.
If Hoffman ends up winning this, will we see a major shift in the party? This is interesting - even more so than the gubenatorial races in NJ & VA.
This is a gamble for the GOP and the “Palin” conservatives. The status quo GOP sees the writing on the wall and is desperately trying to hang on to the party reins.
This is the first battle in the war for the GOP.
The bottom line issue is knowing who is on your side.
What good does it do to have Snowe in the Senate, when on important votes she abandons you, does not protect your back. In fact, she isn’t with us on most votes. What is really gained by keeping an acknowledged sympathizer of the enemy camp free to roam within your camp?
Why have Scozzafava if she’s simply going to vote against you? Why not have the lines drawn so you can at least count your votes accurately?
If your supposed friend shoots at you from within your own lines, all you’ve done is aid the enemy.
Once we have that back where it belongs, we can get to work on the really heavy lifting and take our country back, too.
I find it fascinating to see who has endorsed up front. Those will be the names of the future leaders. Everyone else who endorses now will just be an “also endorsed”.
with the blue dogs failing to fall in line thus far you can probably argue both parties are in a splintering process. To my way of thinking,the 2 party system is not enough. I don’t want 6 or 7 like in some European countries but 4 could be perfect. I suspect the centrist dems would knock off quite a few libs and the conservatives would do the same to the Republicans.
And before i’m flamed,yes,i know theres a conservative party already but as of yet, and its not like its been a short time,they’ve not made an impact on the national stage. A few good men and women such as Sarah,DeMint,Thompson would give them plenty of standing nationally.
“While Scozzafava can point to many other prominent conservatives who support her bid—including former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Republican leaders on Capitol Hill—this week’s surge of leading conservatives to Hoffman’s camp is a troubling sign for her campaign and the national GOP establishment since several of the recent Hoffman endorsers have significant followings and represent the most energetic part of the Republican base.”
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‘If you won’t represent our views.
Don’t claim to speak for us!’
I wish he would jump ship and swim far away. He is a "pseudo conservative" and a hack who is only in it for the money.
I am afraid that from now on, after this endorsement, Newt Gingrichs’ reasoning shall always be suspect in my mind.
vaudine
Now that global warming is starting to fade away, I wonder what their next panic area will be.
I believe Newt has aligned himself with Cantor, Jindal, Jeb, McCain, Mitt, et al, ... GOP-lite.
Proving that Pawlenty "might be" a good to fair "follower", someday, but never a "leader".
It is always thus with moderates.
The two parties will be the ‘Democratic People’s party’ (AKA, the Marxist party) and the other the ‘Constitutional Republic party’.
One party striving for complete government control of your life and a one world government.
The other a party for and by individuals who believe in limited government and a return to the principles of the Constitution. Their motto being ‘He who governs least governs best’ and ‘Live Free or Die’.
If Santorum made the same stand in PA against the Specter nomination, Pat Toomey would be a Senator from PA and perhaps Santorum would as well.
I noticed that. But the reality is that several of the others endorsed Hoffman before Palin. Some were on with Hoffman a week or more before Palin.
The Wizard wrote:
Did you notice the order of the list.....Madame President, then the others.... seems like a trend is developing
Many have “followed’ in advance of Palin. Fred Thompson, Dick Armey, Michelle Bachmann all endorsed Hoffman before Palin did.
allmendream wrote:
Where Sarah Palin leads, the others will follow.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad Sarah made the endorsement. But she wasn’t the trailblazer here.
Though her facebook post endorsing Hoffman went beyond just endorsing Hoffman. She is calling for Conservatives to take back the Republican party and make it actually stand for conservative principles. She is trying to take a leadership role on that front.
Has everyone seen this: “The Most Important Number in Politics Today.” Still, the Democrat is way ahead of everyone in fund raising in this important race in upstate New York.
Doug Hoffman is the Conservative alternative in this race (or Hoffman by PayPal).
Markos Moulitsas, founder of The Daily Kos has endorsed Scozzafava. Dede Scozzafava has also been endorsed by NYSUT, the largest labor union in New York, and an affiliate of the National Education Association.
Scozzafava also holds these positions:
Scozzafava has also run in past elections on the Working Families Party (a progressive party associated with ACORN) line on the ballot.
This lady isn’t a RINO, she is a big “R” libeRal democRat. Mark Steyn has coined the term DIABLO for her and others like her. Democrat In All But Label Only.
There are also at least 17 unprincipled DIABLO enablers in the house who have donated funds or otherwise supported to this LibeRal democRat's DIABLO’s campaign. They include Boehner, Cantor, Sessions, Hensarling, Brown-Waite and McCotter. I don’t have a full list, but I will be looking for it. These unprincipled enablers should be targeted for elimination in the primaries next year.
Also, perhaps those of us who donated to the RNC or RCCC should ask for our money back so we can support the conservative candidates of our choice.
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That should be the kiss of death for her, among conservatives.
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