Posted on 11/02/2009 3:33:01 AM PST by Scanian
New York's 23rd Congressional District has become the site of a showdown between RINOs (Republicans In Name Only) and conservatives. The conservatives are winning -- but the RINOs are not being gracious in defeat. Now the RINOs are showing how much party unity means to them. They have no loyalty to conservatives; why should conservatives have any loyalty to them?
The latest showdown came when ultra-liberal State Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava became the Republican candidate in that district. The ACORN racketeering arm, the Working Families Party, backed her. Yet the Republican old guard backed this useful idiot. Newt Gingrich backed this tool. The name "Republican" was all that mattered to them. Not principle.
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When all the facts come out, I’ll bet we’ll learn that Scuzzofava was a Democrat plant from day one.
I’m thinking that Daggett is too. I’m thinking that’s where some of Corzine’s money is going. Maybe money from somewhere else, too.
I wonder if anyone else in NJ is realizing this.
I wonder how many “third party candidates” there will be in 2010. And where their campaign funding will come from.
Put two and two together.
NY23 has been a treat, though. I can see why the Republican Committee may have supported her if she stepped forward when no one else did. If they recruited her or there were other choices at the time, then the committee needs to be replaced, or at least those who voted for her. They need to be replaced ASAP.
I wonder how Newt feels knowing he backed a candidate who, in DC, would have caucused with the Democrats. Do such things matter to him these days?
I always wondered that about Perot.
Perot made his billions off of taxpayers. Yet his minions were anti big government types. Makes you go MMMMMMM......
Count the votes first, gloat second.
You may miss those RINOs after all.
Her replacement will be a communist.
Snowe is going to vote against nationalization of health care. Her replacement will work actively for it.
I have a question for you, Mr. Noble.
Do you have any guiding principles? Or is any law that is passed OK with you, as long as it’s (R)’s that pass it?
Kansas senatorial candidate Todd Tiahrt explained the choice: "The Republican Party is either going to return to the party of fiscal responsibility and consistent conservative principles as it was under Ronald Reagan or it will continue down the path of ‘sporadic moderation.'"
If I had my way no "conservative" (scare quotes because you and I and Jim Robinson, and the Constitution, favor liberty and progress, not the status quo) would never attribute virtues such as moderation, liberalism, and progress to people who in fact oppose all such.
You betcha.
The Republican Party is finished as a national organization, and I've never been one.
So, I have no interest in what (R)'s pass - except that most things they passed from 2001-2007 were disastrously bad ideas.
I agree with part of Mr. Noble’s statement
Count the votes first
Gloat second.
The part I dont agree with is ever missing the RINO’s.
I wont miss someone stabbing me in the back, at least with Democrats I get to see it coming.
Do you think Dede Scozzafava would have been better for NY-23, or worse?
Newt just shot his wad. Conservatives need to forget about him though that will be a bit hard since he’s a “Fox News Contributor.”
That’s like missing termites. Or a case of the hemorrhoids.
The Republicans had 8 other candidates to choose from, including Hoffman. He only got slated with the Conservative party after the committee chose Scozzafava.
I still think that calling her a RINO is an insult to RINOs...who very often DO support Republican principals (such as voting for Bush judges, and Specter single-handedly getting Thomas on the Court) - and often supporting filibusters on key issues (as Snowe and all of the other RINOs seem ready to do on health care).
This lady, on the other hand, was none of the above...she was simply a liberal DEMOCRAT that somehow got on our ticket (and that REALLY needs to be investigated).
A better term is simply Trojan.
How about DIABLO?
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