Election 2009: Change We Can Believe In (Vanity)

Our online activists have been very, very busy. Using Facebook, Twitter, e-mail and cell phones, we've been directing hundreds of thousands of dollars into the Doug Hoffman and Chris Christie campaigns. We've been calling voters, urging them to vote for conservative candidates. Personally, I've been e-mailing a few acquaintances of mine in the Dede Scozzafava campaign, asking them to convince Scozzafava to drop out of the race.

We work behind the scenes, and under the radar. Quietly and effectively, we've been directing support to the conservative candidates in these races.

A few months ago, we were working on behalf of the Jim Tedisco campaign, in a special election in New York's 20th Congressional District. Last November, Democrat Kirstin Gillibrand won with over 60% of the vote in that district. Just five months later, a true conservative lost by less than 0.5% of the vote.

But a loss is still a loss. It was discouraging, and we didn't do very much for months after that.

Then we noticed that John Corzine, the Democratic governor of New Jersey, hasn't had a job approval rating over 40% for more than a year. He keeps raising taxes. Members of his party keep getting arrested for bribery and drug possession. So we pulled out all the stops and devoted ourselves to a powerful effort on behalf of the conservative Republican candidate, Chris Christie.

Obama made three trips to New Jersey
to campaign for Corzine, who followed
the Obama campaign plan to the letter.
Obama's voice was used for Corzine's
Robocalls. Corzine spent $23 million
of his own money, outspending Christie
by a 3-to-1 margin. He enjoyed all the
advantages of an incumbent. Christie
had a third-party candidate splitting
the conservative vote.

We decided to stay out of Virginia because McDonnell was going to win without our help, and Christie needed everything we had. As it turns out, conservative GOP candidates made a clean sweep of all statewide offices in Virginia, and they increased their majority in the House of Delegates (in Virginia's state legislature).

About 18 days ago, it looked like Doug Hoffman was really coming on strong in the special election in New York's 23rd Congressional District. The key members of our group had a very heated discussion: do we keep on pouring everything we've got into New Jersey, or do we try to help Hoffman? At that point, it was a difficult decision. We were concerned that if we split our support we could lose both races. Christie was in a difficult race, and he needed everything we could do for him.

That was when I contacted my friends in the Dede Scozzafava campaign. I asked them to convince Dede to drop out of the race and endorse Hoffman. I explained that we were deeply committed in New Jersey and we did not want to split our efforts. I mentioned that Dede hadn't been picked by the voters of the Republican Party in a real primary, but by the country club members who run the party. The party belongs to the rank and file voters, not to its leaders.

I promised that if Dede did all of this, our group would support her for a statewide office in 2010, and I mentioned the New York State comptroller's office. No other Republican had declared any interest in that office, and it was a logical next step in Dede's political career.

I got very little response from them in the 24 hours that followed, and I got back in touch with our people. We made the difficult decision to shift all of our resources into the NY-23 race. It was like Patton taking a 90-degree turn with the Third Army to relieve Bastogne. I started contacting other people on the staffs of prominent Republicans at the national level.

The results were phenomenal. Right away, Sarah Palin endorsed Hoffman. Then Tim Pawlenty (2012 presidential nominee, perhaps) endorsed Hoffman. Dick Armey was on board already. And the money poured in. My friends had already given generously to the Christie campaign and now, they reached deep in their pockets and invested the rent money in Doug Hoffman. I will forever be grateful.

Then Dede dropped out of the race. I thought we had it in the bag. I finally took a deep breath, took half a day off and spent some time with my family. I was still prepared to support Dede next year, in spite of the fact that we didn't get an endorsement of Hoffman from her, and I sent an e-mail to my contacts in her campaign explaining that. Both of those moves were big mistakes (taking half a day off, and promising to support her in spite of her refusal to endorse Hoffman), and I humbly apologize for that. While I was offline and away from the phone, Dede started sneaking around and telling her supporters to switch their support to Owens, the Democratic nominee.

When I got wind of this, I was skeptical about the report. But then she appeared at a campaign event with Owens, loud and proud, and endorsed him in front of God and everybody. I was astonished. Nobody had seen this coming, not even my contacts in her own campaign. Matt Burns, her communications director and one of my contacts in her campaign, immediately sent out an e-mail announcing that he was supporting Hoffman.

During the next 48 hours, we shifted into high gear and made as many calls to voters in the district as we could. We all have "day jobs" and families. In the end, Doug Hoffman lost. But we sent a message to Republican leadership that they'd better stop nominating liberals. And Dede Scozzafava has no future in politics, unless she joins the Democratic Party and is honest about where her allegiances really are. She deserves nothing but our contempt.

I must say that 2010 is going to be a very good year. Keep your powder dry and your bayonets sharp, Minutemen.

Tell me why I should even try to have a conversation with a person like you

First of all I don't give a flee flying frig what any liberal crap trap thinks, and if you do then it just shows how insecure you must feel about being "conservative."

You're the one who brought this up first with your support and "respect" of Dede Scuzzy who you had to backtrack later when you found out she went totally liberal. And we all told you this is what RINOS do. You're the one who thinks John McCain is a good conservative with his stupidass "conservative union" rating when everything he does is practically anti-conservative. And you are STILL trying to condone his actions!

The only thing I'm trying to do is convience you conservative republicans are going to take over the republican party and we don't want help from moderate/rino's UNLESS they start agreeing with conservatives and voting accordingly. Otherwise, they can leave this party because WE DO NOT WANT, NOR NEED THEM!

You do not have to engage in this and you know that, but let me tell you this. I'm serious about this WAR I told you about. It's not with liberals right now it's with moderates/rino's and their supporters like you have made yourself out to be. See, YOU are the problem right now because of your willingness to support moderates and rino's just for their whorish votes.

Leftie bloggers, LOL, give me a break!!

You're the one who brought this up first with your support and "respect" of Dede Scuzzy who you had to backtrack later when you found out she went totally liberal.

I have made an inaccuracy in the above statement. Philo1962 never stated or indicated they "supported" Dede Scozzafava. Infact, according to previous post by Philo1962 they worked to persuade Dede Scozzafava to drop out.

Here's the statement by Philo1962 I was referencing when I made my earlier comment. This was after Dede Scozzafava had dropped out of NY23 and before she supported the Democrat, Bill Owens.

"So we need to treat Dede Scozzafava with respect. She did the right thing." (by dropping out of the race)

I wanted everyone to know this because I'm not here to deceive anyone especially about another freepers statements.

Here's what I want to know from you Philo1962 because it leads to my point. If you can't persuade moderates/rino's to support conservatives or leave the republican party by your use of "diplomacy" then what should happen if another moderate or rino gets nominated to run?

Good strategy and agreed. The main focus should be fiscally conservative issues. But I'll still consider the social issues as well.

Electing conservatives to the Republican Party, and taking back control is crucial and the only sound strategy. Going third party will only split the conservative vote and keep democrats in power.

When I was in DC on 912 I looked around and thought, if everyone thee and those across the nation attending teaparties would take over their local Republican committee we would own the party on the local, county, state and national levels. We would pick the candidates. Those Reps in DC would pay attention to us.

Of course that won’t happen because as much as we have all the teapartiers there is no one educating them on what needs to be done to acquire the power.

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