Posted on 04/25/2009 12:29:41 PM PDT by nysuperdoodle
Here's an interesting ad... Is it just me or is the DNC doing the job of the GOP's job for them? I think a lot of us are wondering how the GOP can expect to win much of anything back in 2010 if they couldn't recapture the 20th District of New York. I wanna like Michael Steele- I really do. I really, really do...
(Excerpt) Read more at evilconservativeonline.com ...
Steele does not stand alone. There are hundreds of RINOs much worse than him.
You win it by starting a voter registration drive... NOW!!!
There is a HUGE rural vote lying dormant in America today.
You win it by replacing or talking louder than ineffective representatives... NOW!!!
WE win by getting off our butts and doing something... NOW!!!
A Republican darn near won!
This is not much of a defeat, at all. We could have won it, perhaps, with more money or a harder campaign, but it says quite a bit that we even came close.
Hear, Hear! Right ON!
I like mashed potatoes, but it doesn't mean it's qualified to be party chairman.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2237410/posts?q=1&;page=51#97
Nope. Sorry folks, there’s no putting a positive spin on this. See my post at the link. This was a Bush district and Tedisco blew a huge lead.
Your mashed potatos would do a better job than McKenna.
In fact wasn’t a bag of chips party chairman in MA up until recently?
A Democrat WON that district in November, by a much wider margin.
How can you say it was a huge defeat for the GOP to come so close, now?
Because the Democrat who "WON that district in November" WASN'T running this time around, and INSTEAD we lost to a little-known limousine liberal Dem who had never held office.
I can't believe some freepers are STILL trying to spin this as a "moral victory" and a "bad sign for Obama" when we're down to a pathetic THREE Republicans (out of a delegation of 29 Congressmen!) and we failed to take back a REPUBLICAN drawn district with a 75,000+ REPUBLICAN majority after Patterson gave us a golden opportunity to do so by removing the lone Democrat who was hugely popular and well liked in that district.
It's time to face reality, folks. This election was ours to lose, and Tedisco and the RNC managed to lose it. The district is SUPPOSED to go Republican "by default", as Sweeney and Bush comfortably won this district in the 2000s AFTER it had been redistricted. Tedisco started the race with a solid lead in the polls, and SHOULD have won by a margin of at least five percentage points. If Tedisco had "only lost by 400 votes" against extremely popular incumbant GILLIBRAND, that would have been a good sign things are picking up. Instead, he lost by 400 votes to a unknown RAT who had never held office. The "reason" the Dems lost 76,000 votes between November 2008 and April 2009 is blantantly obvious: Gillibrand wasn't their candidate this time, and Obama wasn't on top of the ballot to ensure huge black Dem turnout. They SHOULD lost a great deal more votes, since again, this district has a REPUBLICAN majority.
We're never gonna gain in 2010 if we can't win special elections for seats that were drawn to elect Republicans in the first place.
The RNC made this race a priority, and had the advantage in district demographics the entire campaign. Clearly their stragedy of running against "AIG" instead of Murphy himself didn't work. Tedisco is well-known, popular State Senator with an impressive track record. He too, had a clear advantage the entire campaign and managed to screw it up with a weak, mushy debate performance against Murphy and no clear stand on the current issues.
I agree heads should roll over this failure to win back a normally GOP-controlled district, and Tedisco should not be the party nominee in 2010.
And does anyone know when the NYGOP chairman took office? I looked up his bio on the state party website and it seems he's one of the ol' moderate party hacks who got the job after years of loyalty to the GOP big wigs. Seems to me we could use some new blood there, too.
Chairman Joseph N. Mondello <--- RINO?
The sad thing is that Andy McKombine won the IL GOP Chairmanship with the blessing of many grassroot conservatives, who touted the "pro-life, pro-gun, lower taxes" platform he ran on when he was a Senate candidate in 2004, and argued that he'd be "better than Topinka" as RNC Chairman (which is like saying Khrushchev would make a good Russian premier because his predecessor was Stalin)
Too bad they were willing to "overlook" the fact McKombine had been LaHood's hand-picked "Peter Fitzgerald challenger" and the whole McKombine family had given thousands of dollars to socialist Democrat bosses over the year (especially Durbin)
I can't believe McKombine is still ILGOP Chairman after 4 years of dismal failures. Prior to his tenure, the state GOP party chairmen rarely lasted a year and would be replaced under the slightest excuse.
You must not have read my post that I linked to. Do so or read the post Billyboy linked to you.
Incumbents win big all the time, it’s irreverent what Gillibrand got in 2008, she was not the nominee.
There are several heavily (way more than this NY seat) Republican seats that have popular RAT incumbents who win huge majorities in Utah, Mississippi ect. If when one is next open the GOP loses with 49.9% would you consider than good cause it was better than the last result? Of course not because the GOP would be heavy favorite to take it back. Just like Tedisco was the strong initial fav here in aBush district (that narrowly went Obama because McCain did not compete in NY.) that only elected Gillibrand in the first place cause the Republican incumbent smacked his wife.
His bio says he’s “Known as a strict fiscal conservative”.
I find it hard to fathom he’s not a RINO if he was Nassau county chairman for 25 years.
Wikipedia says he’s been state chair since 2006 and is also still Nassau county chair. The latter point another source confirms.
http://www.nygop.org/officials/
Check out that. 5 years ago that page would have been full of Congressman instead of 3 congressman and 2 minority leaders.
http://www.nypolitics.com/2008/12/01/joe-mondello-says-hes-staying-on-as-republican-chairman/
“Mondello maintains the loss of the Senate cannot be put at his door. “This was not me,” said Mondello, “neither was it Dean Skelos,” referring to the now-lame duck Senate majority leader from Rockville Centre.”
Whoa, the dude is 70 years old. From looking at his bio, it seems to me like he got the NY GOP Chairman nod for the same reason Bob Dole got the Presidential nomination in ‘96 ... the party big wigs went with a drab, uninspiring, old-party war horse because they felt he deserved a shot at it after decades of party loyalty. One of the jobs of a party chairman should be to be the face of the party in public and to inspire swing voters to vote Republican, and I doubt Mondello even inspire hard-core Republicans to turn out.
What the NY GOP needs now is a young, vibrant, articulate, unapologetic new leader who knows how to raise money and can make an appealing pitch to people who don't traditionally vote Republican.
At least the NY GOP had the sense to dump the last Chairman after the 2006 losses, but instead of hitting rock bottom in that election, it's gotten worse under Mondello. In fact, if it got any worse, NY would resemble Massachuttes-like Dem monopoly.
Looks like the last decent NY GOP LEADER they had was this guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Powers_(politician)
The thing is, the NY GOP has a golden opportunity to make gains next year, thanks to Spitzer’s self-destruction, Patterson's screwups, an unelected Senator, and the incompetent RAT general assembly. But from what I see the NY GOP has no clue how to take advantage of it (Mondello is even part of the crowd who thinks it would be a “dream ticket” to have Peter King as Senate nominee)
I agree heads should roll, but I would say Mondello’s head should be first (and Tedisco needs to forget about running in 2010)
“In fact, if it got any worse, NY would resemble Massachuttes-like Dem monopoly.”
Step 1 towards that will occur if the rats have total control of redistricting.
I’d like to know if Mondello will endorse Bloomberg. That would be a real acid test.
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