Yep.
Posted on 11/01/2009 1:01:39 PM PST by Sen Jack S. Fogbound
GOP nominee endorses Democrat after stepping aside under pressure from right By Tony Romm - 11/01/09 03:28 PM ET The Republican in a New York House race that has become a symbol of the divisions within the GOP endorsed her former Democratic rival Sunday, a sharp snub to the third-party conservative who forced her out of the race.
Dede Scozzafava, who'd been chosen by local Republican leaders to try to hold the seat for the GOP, instead threw her support behind Democrat Bill Owens -- only a day after she unexpectedly backed out of the tough, three-way special election.
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This could be career suicide for her. She has no future with the GOP, so she needs to switch parties. But how likely is this district to send her back to the state assembly after she does that?
I don’t know, but I have a feeling the only reason she became a Republican is that she felt she couldn’t win as a RAT in that district.
Post of the month.
This traitor B*TCH should be forced to repay all the RNC money she got to run in the first place. Repubs in the NY Assembly should shun her and get her to replace the (R) behind her name with a (T) for TRAITOR!
Yep.
Gingrich was on FOXNEWS this morning, and he couldn’t conceal his bitterness. Believe me, this is a HUGE defeat for him.
It is the end for him. No one will listen to him now, and nothing he does or says will ever remove this stain from his track record. Conservative? Wise man? Loyal and steadfast? Fail. Fail. Fail.
He has played every card as wrongly as possible in this race.
Vince Foster and Monica Lewinsky are lesser shackles than this train wreck is for Newt. He really should just go home and enjoy retirement. Will even Hannity attempt to rehabilitate this wreck?
Typical northeast female rino too, first sign of trouble and they take their ball and go to the Donks.
We need to purge the GOP of these Limo Repubs as soon as possible.
Newt is finished.
Steele is useless.
...and it all out war on these Country Club maggots. I despise them more than Obama...at least Obama believes in his socialist ideal. The CC GOP does not believe in anything...Reagan would be ashamed of what the GOP has become.
We need to purge the GOP of these Limo Repubs as soon as possible.
Both Newt and Steele should be kicked out of the party. Is there a such thing as a NO vote of confidence? If so, how is it done?
I just happened to get a letter from the RNC yesterday. The timing couldn’t be better. I plan to send it back with a big fat ZERO and my opinion in large red letters: “You people endorsed Scozzafava, who is now endorsing the Democrat nomineee. You’re crazy if you think we’re giving our hard-earned money to the group that pushes quasi-Democrats. Maybe when you start backing Conservatives we’ll think about giving money to the RNC again.” They’ll have to pay the postage when I sent it back, so my net contribution will be -$0.44.
” This makes her look like a jerk and Gingrich like a fool.”
And Sarah - pretty smart...........
” This makes her look like a jerk and Gingrich like a fool.”
And Sarah - pretty smart...........
They also need to bounce those local Pubbie officials who put this poser up for election.
I really hadn't thought of that angle, but it's very possible.
If this is true, the GOP is signing its own death warrant. Hey Steele - what part of BASE do you not understand?
NY-23 is really a rarity in modern politics - seldom do you see differences between candidates so clearly defined. I know it's late in the contest, but Hoffman should stress the clear choice voters will be faced with on Tuesday.
And I really hope the GOP notices, too, and comes in on the right side of this battle.
Ahem! Here at FR, we prefer the term "swinging richards".
Right.
And I should have added that this shows that Sarah Palin’s judgment and political astuteness to be so much better than Newt’s that he is a laughing stock at this point.
And to think that he was so kind as to take the time and the trouble from his very busy life to give Sarah Palin advice as to how she should handle herself if she wished to be a serious candidate.
I love it.
I’d love to hear what Newt and Steele have to say about this turn of events.
Keene gave Specter a under 50% ACU ratings.
Are you starting to see a pattern here, folks? RINO's won't go for conservatives, no matter what. ACU,self appointed by oddly listened to hack, David Keene cuts out the legs of conservatives when he can.
WE, conservatives are the enemy. We are not financial elite, we are not political elite, we are the the population and the soldiers, and other than a little mimeograph ATTAH BOY certificate, we're supposed to pay up, work off, shut up and follow edicts from grand big thinkers( snicker ) like Newt and company.
You are going to see a lot more RINO's showing their true colors. Good. They sap our brand image. The media uses them as a foil against us, of which they are more than too happy to oblige.
And now I just discovered that Scuzzyy DEDE just endorsed the non-Republican, namely the Dhimmicrat-Democrat, Whatever his fu==ing name is.
Newt's support of this beeyatch and Dubya's of Specter suggests to me that it's too easy to fall into an in-group, political elite frame of mind. We may not win this fight, we might could lose next year, but Reagan conservatism lives and is a force to be reckoned with.
I wonder if Dede’s decision to support Owens was made in part to sow further dissension between conservatives and the GOP establishment.
Would probably only be possible if she was directed to do so by democrat party officials because I don’t believe she is that clever.
Newt did that himself 14 years ago. Many Republicans followed right along with him too. Dole X2, Snowe, Spectre, Chaffee, Jeffords, Lott, Collins, Hatch, Malanari, Whittman, Stevens, McCain, just to name a few. Newt sold out Conservatism in mid to late 1995 and his new liberal masters he was soon to learn didn't play very nice.
Good old useful Newt the brunt of the DEM liberals jokes and he's still as clueless & gullible as ever. Maybe Fox will let him sit around the 6:00-7:00pm table and play make believe conservative with the rest of the puppets on strings phonies.
Tape the envelope to a brick.
How’s that “Big Tent” workin’ out for us, Newt?
Reading the polls of the last few days it makes one wonder if the folks in NY-23 didn’t have a better handle on the candidates than Steele and Gingrich. And, it sure doesn’t say much for the “Republicans” that chose her. I think I’ll continue to send my donations to the individual races, and Not D.C.
SHOCKING!
Dede Scozzafava is definitely scuzz.
If Steele has any Brass he would file a lawsuit and get the wasted 900,000 back he dropped on this RINO! Watch his actions and we will know this mans soul. Is he with us or against us?
Time for open-season against the RINO’s, all of ‘em— Graham, Snowe, Bennet, Hatch, Collins, Crist, that RINO-in-waiting Hutchison and, of course, the uber-RINO of all RINOs, Juan the Jerk McCain! We need to hit them hard, get primary candidates against them, harass and humiliate them in public, heckle their speeches in Congress, hang them in effigy at the next Town Hall. No mercy!
This witch Dede Scozzafava in New York shows just how dangerous RINO’s are to our cause when they gain public prominence— they’re like parasites, eating away the Republican Party from within. Time to take them all down!!!
“She’s probably a Democrat mole. I suspect there are a lot of them in the Republican Party.”
And the Hallmark Card Hall of Fame award goes to none other than: NurdlyPeon for his remarks which come closest to our motto, “cared enough to say the very best”.
Congratulations, and Mahalo
“Wasn’t there a certain high ranking Republican who voted for Obama? I can’t remember his name right now: but it was certainly a black mark against him, generally speaking.?” (Should I have used a comma instead of a colon?)
I real traitor to the RNC!
Glad that Newt and Steele have taken notice!
Wow. Newt sure is a great judge of character.
Endorsing Owens is a snub to Hoffman?
I’d just say it’s all the proof needed
that she was NOT a republican candidate.
So long ms. scuzzyflava don’t let the
republican door hit you on the way out.
Be careful, conservatives are on the MARCH!
Not how it is none in this country.
Can not put Newt and Steele in the same category.
He looks like the twin of Elton John in that picture. Yuck!
“I wonder if Dede’s decision to support Owens was made in part by this sow to sow further dissension between conservatives and the GOP establishment.”
This quote is definitely in the running for “QUOTE OF THE DAY”
Mahalo, and keep ‘em coming!!!
I wonder if Dede’s decision to support Owens was made in part to sow further dissension between conservatives and the GOP establishment.
Would probably only be possible if she was directed to do so by democrat party officials because I don’t believe she is that clever.
Possible. Another possibility is that this is just another example of dimwitted resentment and clumsy retaliation, like her imbecilic posturing in front of Hoffman’s campaign headquarters.
Hard to say. Very shortsighted though, whatever the motive. What party machine will trust her now?
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Newt = Socialist
You make a valid point.
Thank you
;)
Trying to shift the blame, GOP screwed up.
Steele in trying to bring in Democrats to run as Republicans without consulting the party regulars should be fired. She was hand picked, she wasn’t selected though any process.
If the process was working correctly, Hoffman would have been the Republican Candidate in the first place. But Steele and their ilk wouldn’t have that, we had to be the progressive GOP now and ignore the majority of Americans.
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