Posted on 10/27/2009 9:53:51 AM PDT by AJKauf
Establishment Republicans are shrugging their shoulders. In the special election for New York’s 23rd congressional district, conservatives are abandoning the liberal Republican nominee, Dede Scozzafava, in droves.
Smug GOP establishmentarians are proving again that their political seismographs are badly calibrated. The GOP has lined up behind the wrong candidate at the wrong time. Conservatives aren’t going to follow their lead, in New York or elsewhere, anytime soon. Party bosses need to get back in touch or risk hard-to-fix ruptures with conservatives in 2010 and beyond. Conservatives, great and small, are coalescing behind Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party nominee.
New York allows minor parties on election ballots, giving the establishment Republicans a false sense of security as most other states don’t make such allowances. But the old logic that conservatives will have to fall in line elsewhere or risk electing Democrats may not hold. Conservatives are playing by new rules now, and the GOP isn’t showing any signs of getting it.
The GOP establishment persuaded Florida Governor Charlie Crist to jump into next year’s U.S. Senate contest. The nomination process was supposed to be tantamount to a Crist coronation. But then came Marco Rubio — the young, bright, attractive former speaker of the Florida House, and a rock-solid conservative.....
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A fight we gotta have.
“Conservatives, great and small, are coalescing behind Doug Hoffman,”
Proud to be one of the small guys.
Go Doug, go!!!! Bring down the RINOs and the RATs!
If the GOP establishment does not adopt a new direction, I think the implications will be terrifying. I would hope that the GOP wants to return to power and reverse Obama's policies. But there is the possibility that the GOP does not want that at all.
Rubio “rock solid conservative”...I love the sound of that, may it hold true come hell or high water
Be afraid RINOs. If New York is going the way of the conservative, what will the rest of America do?
Thanks Barama!
Go Mr Hoffman!!!
It will be interesting to see how this pans out.
This reminds me a bit of the Joe Lieberman election of 2006. In that race, bloggers who were very very liberal mounted a challenge in the Democratic primary with Ned Lamont against Lieberman. Lamont actually won the Democrat primary thanks to the nutroot support, but Lieberman ran as an independent and won re-election.
Why is this similar? Because in New York, more mainstream or conservative Republicans may be abandoning their party nominee. In Joe Lieberman’s case, mainstream Democrats abandoned the very liberal party nominee to elect the more moderate Democrat. I know Joe is liberal; I’m just saying Joe was not as liberal as Ned Lamont, and it was liberal activists who got Lamont the Democrat Senate nomination.
It’s the stupid philosophy of the rino running the republicans in new york that has caused the pubbies to loose. Go conservative.
I am enjoying watching Dede Skeefooza be run off as a liberal.
There needs to be a clear delineation between democRats and Republicans
One fantastic article.
In 2006 after Bush and the establishment GOP pushed for comprehensive immigration reform and the GOP lost control of congress. They went for the hispanic vote and ended up losing the conservative base.
In 2008 the GOP nominated conservative bashing , amnesty loving John McCain. They went for the mushy middle, rejected conservatism and lost again. Now we have a Kenyan /Marxist usurper in the WH and a wider socialist majority in congress.
Now we have 2010 coming up and they're showing every sign of repeating the same mistakes of the last 2 cycle. Is it Michael Steele who needs to be fired? I really don't know, but the GOP better stop following the country club model if they ever want to have power again.
I caught some of the interview on Greta last night with Gingrich. He listed the things Dede would be good for, like voting against cap & trade, then said she just happens to be liberal on social issues. He said she reflects the kind of conservatives that live in that area of New York. He just is not getting “it”.....
That is their problem; they react. Their prime motivation is that they just want to stay in office, rather than acting in accordance with conservative core principles.
I’m starting a campaign to make ‘hoffman’ a verb, meaning “To elect a Conservative candidate instead of the person chosen by the Republican Elite Establishment”....
The Republican elite are bringing pillows to a rock fight. If you give the people a choice between a Democrat and a democrat (i.e., RINO), they’ll vote for the Democrat every time.
Update New York is different. People there have been pillaged and the economy devasted by the downstate vultures, aided and abetted by Buffalo and Albany allies.
Think of the companies that came from Upstate: Kodak, Xerox, General Electric, IBM. All shadows of what they once were. The global economy impacted them, sure, but the off the wall socialism-in-one-state polity didn’t help. And believe it or not, Massachusetts isn’t half as screwed up as New York State.
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