Posted on 11/04/2009 3:36:32 AM PST by markomalley
Dede Scozzafava won't even commit to how long she'll support House Minority Leader John Boehner for speaker. Faced with persistent questions from John McCormack, a conservative young reporter from the Weekly Standard, aimed at discerning her predilection for pulling an Arlen Specter, Scozzafava called the cops. Her press secretary later released an e-mail exchange with McCormack they thought would vindicate their position, only to find that even Daily Kos agrees with the Standard on this dust-up.
This prompted a virtual stampede of conservative bloggers and activists to come forward and demand that Scozzafava drop out of the race. It has sent an even bigger flood of conservatives, both within and outside the district, to support Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman over Scozzafava. A Sienna College poll found that 23 percent of the district's likely voters now intend to cast their ballots for Hoffman, a 7-point jump in two weeks, compared to 29 percent for Scozzafava and 33 percent for Democrat Bill Owens.
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For those who are buying into the Democratic spin that NY-23 was a huge b1tch-slap toward conservatives, remember what we prevented. A RINO who might not even vote for the Republican for speaker. Somebody who would make Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, and even Lincoln Chaffee look conservative.
Had Hoffman not run, she would have surely been elected to Congress. She would have been more the favorite of ABCCBSNBCCNNMSNBCWAPONYT to represent the Republican party, replacing Snowejob, McLame, and Gramnesty as the prime choice for the Sunday Morning talk shows and for prime-time analysis.
Think about it, folks.
Absolutely. Good analysis.
It’s stunning Conservatives were able to garner so much support in only three weeks. It’s a strong indication the Conservative movement is growing despite of the OP(formerly the GOP). The OP candidate, Scozzofava, took votes from the Conservative candidate causing his loss.
Concur. What conservatives accomplished in NY-23 was just short of miraculous. This really bodes ill for RINOS.
The RINOcrat-media complex will go overdrive to paint NY23 as a “repudiation” of the “teabagger Palin crowd”. Watch out for Nyuuut the Grinch pontificating about how only “moderates” have a chance.
It's bad that Hoffman wasn't elected. Electing Scozzofava would have been far worse. At least now the representation in NY23 is honest.
It's disconcerting that voters in a district described as conservative would vote for such a leftist rather than Hoffman. Perhaps they wanted a liberal.
I have posted numerous times how conservatives need to take over the Republican Party from the inside.
NY-23 is a great example where the local, state and national GOP are not aligned with conservative values.
Conservatives tried to force the issue with Hoffman, but we fell short.....just like with Toomey.
We will continue to fall short if running a third choice or imposing a candidate on a district is our only tactic.
Like it or not, we need the political machine as much as it needs us. So far, conservatives have fed the machine, but we were never really allowed to operate the machine.
Conservatism wins when we can explain our positions, not when we throw a choice out there and hope for the best.
Toomey and Hoffman lost their races because they did not have the machine with them.
Toomey and Hoffman also lost their races because conservatives, too often, sit on their asses and don’t vote.
We think that between FR and talk radio, all conservatives are “tuned-in” to what is happening.....they are not.
Many conservatives are just like the average person who gets their news from the TV and can tell you the entire lineup of the the Steelers and Penn State but not who their local representative in Harrisbug is.
Conservatives need to look ourselves in the mirror and admit to some reality.....and stop blaming everybody else for our losses and position within the GOP.
Reagan set the stage for conservatives to infiltrate and take over the GOP. Instead, we sat back and thought we had the power.
Instead, the same moderates who ran the party and blocked Reagan in 1976 were still running the show.
Until we run the show, we will never have the political success we desire. We cannot build a new third-party due to the obstacles involved. The GOP is our home, like it or not.
Our house needs renovating....that’s all.
The cleansing of the Republican Party must continue...
Absolutely. Inspiration is a fine thing, but we can't do everything on a wing and a prayer. That Hoffman could come so close without any machine help is extraordinary. He was a complete cipher 5 weeks ago, last night he almost pulled off a monumental upset. The raw material is there for a conservative resurgence, but we've got to have more organization. This in effect means taking over republican party structures and putting them at the service of conservative candidates.
I think this was good - not excellent. It would have been excellent if Hoffman had won but it still very good in that the message was clear and unequivocal. We either want a conservative or we will take an idiot democrat which we can spend a few years tearing up. The republicans better get the message or 2010 will be a loss again.
Facts are stubborn things. - Ronald Reagan
A RINO retaining a RINO seat. rat...it's the new conservatism!
Let me fix that for you:
That's better
Yea I agree, it’s not all bad. They are going to do this again next year.
A simple observation from last night and today's threads:
Freepers feel that when the Conservative wins it is a message directed to Obama but when the Conservative loses it is not a message to Obama.
Lacks some consistency, doesn't it?
A RINO being prevented from retaining a RINO seat. rat...it's the new conservatism!
Not much of a difference, but actually let me fix that:
A RINO replaced with a rat. rat...it's the new conservatism!
as close to the truth as is possible on this forum...all it's missing is the four letter swears I'd like to post between each word...x@#$ conservative #$X% you're #X%*ing with my children's future.
Did you even read your post before you sent it to me?
It seems there’s a politician out there that made HER way by cleaning out the GOP establishment in her state first, then cleaning out the remaining leftist democRats in her state...
Something that I think could be applied to the country as a whole.
If I understand you correctly, the message these elections should send is to the GOP and not to Obama.
If the GOP runs Conservative candidates the base will support them; if not, they won’t.
And I’d agree with that.
Aside from that, it was an election to select a couple governors and a congressional rep and not much more.
True. He battled both the RNC and DNC mega machines, and came this close to winning. That's very good. He stood on equal ground.
I’m not even sure what side you’re on, but let me put in my 2 cents.
Better that a democRat has the seat than a RINO.
RINOs give the ‘rats “bipartisan” cover so that they don’t have the own the consequences of their policies.
Notice how the ‘rats are reluctant even to pass their decades-old signature issue without bipartisan cover.
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