Posted on 11/03/2009 7:29:18 AM PST by Alaphiah123
Why would a Republican Congressional candidate after dropping out of her Congressional race endorse the Democrat remaining in the race over the Republican remaining in the race? (see story)
Just as Republicans suspected Dede Scozzafava was just another Democrat RINO mole attempting to burrow her way into the National Republican Party to undermine it from within. Could it be that her decision to endorse the Democrat in the race for the 23rd Congressional District in New York is an indication of what type of Republican she is and what kind of Congressional representative she would have been? I think yes!
Alren Specter’s ignoble defection from the Republican Party earlier this year capped a long career of poking Republicans in the eye with a stick when they needed him the most.
Dede Scozzafava didn’t get the opportunity ...
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“Alren?” Did I miss something?
Pawlenty, Palin Shun Republican in N.Y. House Race
Several Republicans mentioned as 2012 presidential candidates are taking sides in a key congressional race in New York that pits the Conservative Party against the GOP.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has backed the Republican Party’s choice in the 23rd Congressional District, Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava.
But Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin have voiced support for the Conservative Party candidate, accountant Doug Hoffman.
The two candidates, along with Democrat Bill Owens, will square off on Nov. 3 in a special election to fill the seat vacated by Republican John M. McHugh, who resigned in September to become Secretary of the Army.
Pawlenty has criticized Scozzafava as being at odds with basic Republican values.
“We cannot send more politicians to Washington who wear the Republican jersey on the campaign trail but then vote like Democrats in Congress,” he said in remarks reported by The Washington Post.
Pawlenty, who is stepping down after two terms as governor to pursue a prospective White House run, was asked by Fox News’ Neil Cavuto on Tuesday why he has gotten involved in a race that does not affect Minnesota.
“This is a federal congressional race, so it ultimately affects the whole country to some manner or degree,” Pawlenty answered.
“And in this case, as a party, if we’re going to endorse candidates for major office, there have to be at least some minimum requirements that that candidate meets in terms of his or her beliefs and positions on issues. And the endorsed candidate in this case, in my opinion, with all due respect, just didn’t meet even the minimum standards in that regard...
“I think you have here a very just poor decision by the small group of party leaders who made this decision. It wasn’t a grassroots decision. They endorsed a candidate who has voted to raise income taxes in New York, who’s in favor of card check, who’s voted in favor or supported the stimulus bill, has voted in favor of bank bailouts, has voted in favor of all sorts of other issues that just are inconsistent with being a Republican.”
Scozzafava supports abortion rights and same-sex marriage and was called a “profligate tax-and-spender” by the New York Post, which has endorsed Hoffman.
Palin said her endorsement of Hoffman would be a message to party leaders of “no more politics as usual.”
She wrote on her Facebook page that the GOP “has decided to choose a candidate who more than blurs the lines, and there is no real difference between the Democrat and the Republican in this race.”
But Gingrich said his endorsement of Scozzafava was about respecting local party leaders, The Washington Post reported.
He warned in an e-mail of the “grave danger of establishing the precedent that every faction can run a third party candidate if they lose a primary or a convention,” stating that such a move is “the road to re-elect Obama and make Pelosi speaker for life.”
Scozzafava has reportedly received almost $1 million in support from the National Republican Congressional Committee.
Several other potential GOP presidential candidates in 2012, including former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, and Indiana Rep. Mike Pence, have not taken sides in the race. But former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson, a presidential candidate in 2008, has endorsed Hoffman in the traditionally Republican district in upstate New York.
Scozzafava spokesman Matt Burns said: “Everybody who has endorsed Doug Hoffman has something in common with him, and that is that none of them live in the district.”
She is a Spectre and Jeffords together.
How much money did the GOP and its various orgs spend on her campaign a half million bucks? A million?
Alren Sepctra DU-Pansylvania
Nobody should give a penny to the NRCC
Haha that's what I figured.
Probably not - he's a registered Republican running on the Conservative ticket.
Personally, I would like to see all of the RINOs go D so that there is a bold distinction between the Rs and Ds, instead of Rs being D-lites.
The NRCC spent all that money for Dede and she turns Democrat, predictably. How much money did they spend on the GOP candidate in Calif-10?
How much money will they spend next year on real conservative candidates in tough districts? I bet not even close to what they’ll spend for “DIABLO’s” like Dede.
Why do you think the Rats keep saying the Republicans need a big tent? It is because they do not want the Republicans to stand for something, just like them.
The BEST way to differentiate Republicans from Democrats is to articulate and enforce some fundamental values and positions that resonate with mainstream, slightly right of center Americans.
We have allowed the Democrats to define “mainstream” and “centrist” to be almost radical leftist in ideology. That point needs to be hammered home by Republican candidates ad nauseum. If Republicans won’t do that, I am ready to identify with an new conservative party.
Time to hoe the garden and get the weeds out...
Good riddance to a lying politician...
Because the NY state legislature is the most dysfunctional body politic in the entire country.
All the dems are for sale to the highest bidder.
IOW, all the dems are whores and proud of it.
I may sound sexist, but when is the last time ANY women was a true conservative after serving in office for awhile?
Sarah has a chance of being that way, but can someone name others?
My Senator Kay Bailey, who is arguably the most conservative woman in the Senate, is not really conservative at all.
My point is if we wish to promote conservative values, should we not preferentially promote men instead of women, based upon history?
I hope Dede Scozzafava encourages more RINOs to follow in her footsteps. Get the losers out of the GOP before it is ruined forever.
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