Scozzafava Collapses, Republicans Refocus

New York Daily News ^

[wk4bush2004]

This is great! GO DOUG GO!!!!

[Cicero]

Can we put straitjackets on the Republican Leadership and drag them, kicking and screaming, back into the land of sanity?

And if we do, will they stay sane when we remove their straitjackets?

Stay tuned.

[Matchett-PI]

bttt

[wolfpat]

The political world is scrambling to make sense of all this.

I can make sense of it in three words: NO MORE RINOs!

[ReneeLynn]

It’s both hilarious and maddening to see them try to figure out WHAT is going on. Good Lord, they didn’t pay attention to the march on Washington at all, did they? This shouldn’t surprise any GOP’er who was paying attention to the base.

[ClearCase_guy]

a Hoffman win - which seems to be more than just a possibility at this point - won't really be a victory for the GOP, although it will surely be spun that way, but proof of a growing anti-incumbent sentiment

I do recognize the anti-incumbent sentiment. BUT if the GOP sees that as the primary takeaway here, then the GOP is even more stupid than I thought.

At this point, Steele, Newt, and ther rest of them need to support the Conservative Party candidate, and declare that the GOP is make a strategic choice for the future.

[Eccl 10:2]

DeDe, Newt, et al:

Do the right thing.

Newt - withdraw your support.

DeDe - just withdraw.

We will thank and respect you.

Cordially,
Eccl 10:2

[TribalPrincess2U]

Now I know FreeRepublic is on their “to read and take heed list”

Hoffman it is!

[bigbob]

Since I don’t live in the district, I really don’t feel I have a right to an opinion - but from a purely political standpoint, I’d much rather see that seat go to the Democrat than to yet another RNC-sanctioned RINO.

It’s time these Smart Guys like Newt and Michael Steele get schooled.

[Mr. K]

I keep saying it..

THE NEXT TEA PARTY MARCH SHOULD BE ON GOP HEADQUARTERS

[Mr. K]

If Scuzzi does not withdraw the GOP should demand it

[Dick Bachert]

How about just dragging them OUT THE DOOR? If allowed to remain, they’ll simply be back up to their crap in a short time.

NEW BLOOD!!!

[Ann Archy]

I guess Romney and the Huckster can endorse now. What weaklings.

[MrB]

I had to realize that God “knows the end from the beginning” and that He has a sense of humor when I first read that verse...

“The heart of the wise inclines to the right,
but the heart of the fool to the left.”

[Dick Bachert]

[z3n]

Some of their actions could make you wonder if the libs infiltrated republican party hierarchy over the last 20 years with moles and double agents.

The recent flip away from the liberal RINO to the conservative might on it's face seem as if it's a redemption, but I gotta wonder if they are just trying to cover from being exposed as insider RINOs secretly strategically placing key liberals who will cohort with the socialists.

I mean, do you seriously think that trying to win back the congress one seat at a time with democrat clones will result in anything better than the democrats themselves?

It's time to grow a spine. Win the seats with real conservatives, or LOSE THEM, and don't be afraid to LOSE THEM. This timidity turns you into unwitting pawns for the liberal agenda.

[dawn53]

My husband had talk radio on in the kitchen this morning and I didn’t hear the whole report (really have no idea who was giving it.) But the person mentioned something I hadn’t thought about.

He said in the case of NY, and NJ, for that matter, when a voter sees that their candidate has no way to win (i.e. Scozzafava, and Daggett)...they’ll go with another candidate at the last minute. Whoever the reporter was believed this tendency would put Hoffman winning by a good margin, and possibly do the same in NJ, resulting in Corzine’s defeat.

[MozarkDawg]

Good Lord, they didn’t pay attention to the march on Washington at all, did they?

Considering how many of them attempted to co-opt the movement, starting back in April, you'd think they'd have a much more sensitive *finger on the pulse*, wouldn't you?

They'd better pay attention now and understand come next summer that they need to support conservatives in the primaries, else they will see this same thing occur come November.

[Cicero]

Second the motion.

[Senator Goldwater]

Since I don’t live in the district, I really don’t feel I have a right to an opinion

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Why not? The national Left isn’t withholding theirs.