Watertown, NY paper: Scozzafava urging supporters to vote for the Democrat

AIPNews.com ^ | November 1, 2009

[EternalVigilance]

Check this out:

Watertown, NY paper: Scozzafava urging supporters to vote for the Democrat

During the day Saturday, she [Scozzafava] began to quietly and thoughtfully encourage her supporters to vote for Democrat William L. Owens. - Watertown Daily Times

[fhayek]

Nice pick there, Newt.

[Steely Tom]

Gee. There’s a surprise.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Anyone surprised?

[narses]

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[television is just wrong]

she is a traitor and should be shamed and thrown out of the GOP.

[rintense]

*mojave on* She’s a liar!!! She pledged to support Hoffman in her concession speech!!!! WAH WAH WAH!!!!*Mojave off*

[chuck_the_tv_out]

[stephenjohnbanker]

Scozzafava : “ I will be a Republican till the day I die”

Meanwhile, vote for the liberal Democrat ;-)

[television is just wrong]

obama punished his wife twice.

[Achilles Heel]

Boy, proves “hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.”
I guess she is showing her true colors.

[jwparkerjr]

If so then it just shows that much more what poor choice she was to start with.

[reefdiver]

So Doug flushed out a traitors bitch in the woodpile.

[B Knotts]

To be fair, this liberal paper cites no source or evidence.

Although, I wouldn’t be surprised in the least to learn this is indeed factual.

[niteowl77]

Another predictable “surprise” in this comic opera.

[icwhatudo]

Saturday, October 31, 2009 11:44:20 AM · 96 of 321 icwhatudo to Windflier

Don’t be surprised to see this upset rino endorse the democrat. It happened in Maryland’s 1st congressional district when conservatives rose up to defeat the rino. NEVER TRUST A RINO! SCREW NEWT AND THE RNC!!

[rintense]

Which makes Newt even more laughable.

[Clara Lou]

So, will the local/state Republican party toss her out on her Democrat ear?

[ThreePuttinDude]

Had she been elected, she would have pulled a Specter I say.
I’m afraid they (Dems) might have had this as a strategy from
the start.

Isn’t her husband affiliated with the unions in
a big way? I thought I had heard that somewhere.

[frostbit]

Dang. If they all listen to her, it’ll be 6 more votes for the Democrats.

[SanFranDan]

The RNC PATHETIC!

[Paladin2]

Scozzafava belongs to the Arlen Specter wing of the GOP.

[techno]

This is not what a Republican spokesman for the RNC said yesterday.

[B Knotts]

The other thing about this is they imply that Hoffman is some kind of extremist. He appears to me to be nothing of the sort. He looks like a pretty mainstream conservative to me.

[Graybeard58]

This should put the stop on a few members here about how noble and patriotic she is.

Liberal scum is liberal scum.

[Daisyjane69]

Nice way for her to pay back the national party that blew all those hundreds of thousands of OUR dollars to elect her fat ass.

[Boiling Pots]

She never pledged support for Hoffman.

[Tonytitan]

"During the day Saturday, she began to quietly and thoughtfully encourage her supporters to vote for Democrat William L. Owens"

If this is true why is she not quoted as saying this. It looks to me that this newspaper is trying to make news instead of reporting it. Does anyone have her on the record supporting Owens? If not, then this is a fabrication.

[Tijeras_Slim]

LOL

[wardaddy]

man...what a wanker editorial from that paper....don’t vote your views, vote for pork...lol

[B Knotts]

Yeah...I wouldn’t trust this “newspaper,” as it seems to be little more than a leftist blog which happens to have a print version.

[reg45]

If this is true, then she was the wrong person for the Republican nomination in the first place. Who does she think she is - Snarlin Spectre?

[ThreePuttinDude]

In the sunset of his political career Newt needs to just
return to writing his books on history. He seems to be
more in his element in that circle.

His political past should be just that, past

[dangus]

On the one hand, the only reason I’m at all surprised by this headline is that I had heard precisely the opposite reason cited for her withdrawal; “big tent” Republicans have sided with Democrats against conservatives at every turn for my entire lifetime. (Christine Todd Whitman, Arnold Schwartzenegger, William Weld, Pete Wilson, Michael Bloomberg, and on and on and on)

On the other hand, “quietly” in this context means that she has done so without any public statements. In other words, the news article cannot back up its own assertions. This is the old “unnamed sources” gambit, and is entirely worthless.

[GCC Catholic]

If Hoffman loses, the blame needs to be put squarely where it belongs: on the RNC leadership that chose Scozzofava in the first place, on know-nothings like Newt and Steele for letting it happen, and on cowards like Huckabee and Romney for not stepping up and supporting the conservative.

If Hoffman wins, the same people need to be chastised for letting it become an issue in the first place.

We can’t let this keep happening between now and 2012.

[WellyP]

That “brood mare” didn’t feel a thing!

[EternalVigilance]

Nice way for her to pay back the national party that blew all those hundreds of thousands of OUR dollars to elect her fat ass.

Shoot, considering the blizzard of press releases they put out promoting this woman and trashing Hoffman, they probably spent that much on cartridges for the fax machines alone.

Only half kidding.

[slumber1]

During the day Saturday, she began to quietly and thoughtfully encourage her supporters to vote for Democrat William L. Owens.

Quietly and thoughtfully??? Don't you love how these liberals are always characterized as "thoughtful"

How about this version: During the day Saturday, she began to secretly and vindictively encourage her supporters to vote for Democrat William L. Owens

[behzinlea]

Amazing. The national Republican Party spent all that money and support on Scozzanitwit only to see her endorse the very Democrat that she was running against. They should have seen this coming.

Next time the Republican Party calls and asks me for money, we're going to have a chat before I tell them to go to hell.

[raybbr]

If this is true why is she not quoted as saying this. It looks to me that this newspaper is trying to make news instead of reporting it. Does anyone have her on the record supporting Owens? If not, then this is a fabrication.

I agree. They could well be making it up. On the other hand, let's see of Scozzafava denies it.

[leapfrog0202]

Correct! Also they’d approached the Dems also just in case she could gin up support there first. So that tells me she just wanted to run regardless of which party affiliation it took to do so....

[rintense]

"It is my hope that with my actions today, my party will emerge stronger and our district and our nation can take an important step towards restoring the enduring strength and economic prosperity that has defined us for generations."

Now which party is she talking about? The one that has the R in front of it, or the one she truly represents?

[EternalVigilance]

Yeah, it’s pretty bad.

[ProfoundMan]

If so then it just shows that much more what poor choice she was to start with.

You beat me to it...

[Blood of Tyrants]

As we have been saying all along, Scozzafava is more Democrat than Republican.

[curth]

Again, without citing a source, this paper says she is supporting Hoffman:

http://www.auburnpub.com/articles/2009/10/31/latest_news/10latestnews.txt

By: The Associated Press

Saturday, October 31, 2009 11:27 AM EDT

ALBANY — Republican Dierdre Scozzafava is suspending her campaign in New York’s 23rd Congressional race and is encouraging her supporters to embrace Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman.

Campaign spokesman Matt Burns says she thinks its for the best of the party.

[dangus]

BTW, did anyone see the completely lame columnists. One actually had titles like, “I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired,” “How to... 101” and “The Buck Stops Here.” Biologists have found neurologically impaired shellfish capable of creating more meaningful titles.

[Servant of the Cross]

um .... would you call this “breaking a pledge”?

[GCC Catholic]

man...what a wanker editorial from that paper....don’t vote your views, vote for pork...lol

That's why we still have Murtha. Real slogan from his last campaign signs: "He delivers for us!"

[EternalVigilance]

Yes, perhaps one might.