NY Republicans pick Scozzafava for McHugh seat

The Hill ^ | July 22, 2009 | Aaron Blake

[Clintonfatigued]

Republican leaders in New York have chosen state Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava as their nominee for the special election to replace Army Secretary-designate John McHugh (R-N.Y.).

County chairmen for the 23rd district made the selection on Wednesday. The chairmen choose their nominee in lieu of a primary process for special elections in the Empire State.

“I congratulate Dede Scozzafava for receiving the nomination to represent our party and make the case for tax relief, economic development and opportunity,” state party chairman Joseph Mondello said. “We desperately need her voice to oppose the Democrats’ plans to stifle our economy, tax business out of existence and constrain individuals’ potential for success.”

[Clintonfatigued]

WTF IS WRONG WITH THEM???!!! If Scozzafava were running to succeed Carolyn Maloney in the silk stocking Manhattan district, we’d be lucky to have her. But to nominate a NARAL-endorsed social liberal to run in this mostly rural area is absurd.

The Republican establishment has learned the wrong lessons from the last two elections. Too bad.

[ExTexasRedhead]

Time to whisper reality in some of these schmucks ears. Cut off their donations and cut off campaign workers.

[darkangel82]

In NY, a Republican is a Democrat, and a Democrat is a batsh-t crazy communist.

[duckman]

“Scozzafava”
Just love the sound of that name!

[neverdem]

thanks, bfl

[fieldmarshaldj]

Well, looks like Aubertine is getting my endorsement. His election will put the State Senate back in play again (with the GOP a good bet to reclaim the seat), and we’ll get to watch the fun all over again in Albany. When our party decides to nominate Conservatives, I’ll endorse them. I’m done endorsing liberals in the Republican party. Speaking of Carolyn Maloney, I expect at the rate we’re going, she’ll have the Republican line for U.S. Senator next year.

[Clintonfatigued]

I have to back you on this one. However, Aubertine might not run. ‘Rats are also aware of the state Senate situation and there’s pressure on him to stay put because of that.

If the ‘Rats were to actually nominate a pro-life, pro-gun candidate, he or she could get the endorsement of the Conservative & Right To Life Parties.

[Impy]

Guilty.

I make no endorsement, unless the Conservative Party chooses to nominate a conservative (they have pretty low standards but Dede doesn't pass their muster) in which case I hope all freepers will support that conservative. I will make a prediction, the rat state senator will win if he runs. Rat pickup? In a seat held by the GOP for the entire 20th century? As Barry's poll numbers shrink? Humiliating.

From the article: "Scozzafava is an interesting choice, given that there was some talk about Democrats recruiting her to run on their line."

Gag me with a spoon.

[Impy]

I wouldn’t support a potentially strong “blue dog” rat who could hold the seat for 20 years.

Ideally the rats nominate a moonbat who beats the RINO and loses to a credible Republican next year.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Well, now’s her chance to get both lines. The RINO line and the Marxist line.

[BillyBoy]

The NY GOP has been so pathetic when it comes to federal races now that I have to wonder if they WANT to lose the RATS. First they managed to lose a Congressional seat that Patterson handed them on a silver platter (and as an added bonus they had a really solid credible conservative politician as their nominee -- as least on paper!), and now another freakin' RINO joke is their candidate in the 23rd district)

Looks like the NY GOP is aiming at reducing their delegation in the U.S. Congress to ZERO seats.

The only interesting scenario here is if RATs nominate a crappy liberal candidate and the district elected a Conservative Party candidate with a plurality of the vote. I don't see that happening. And of course the scenario that Field mentioned, the RAT winning and the control NY State Senate being in play again because of the vacancy that would result.

[BillyBoy]

That's actually one of the nicer photos of her, the one you just posted.

The ones on her website make her look like one of those overweight butch lesbians who head abortion advocacy organizations like NOW/Planned Parenthood/NARAL... I'm just sayin' :-)

[Impy]

Eww. The younger version that had yet to scarf down 5 puppies is hereby released on probation.

Funny how bull dykes can be rabid abortion supporters seeing how they only get pregnant voluntarily via an applicator that looks like Jodie Foster’s knuckles.

[Clintonfatigued]

There’s been a new development in this race. Democrat state Senator Darrel Aubertine has announced that he won’t be a candidate.

http://thehill.com/campaign-2008/dems-lose-top-contender-for-mchugh-seat-2009-07-23.html

Winning Aubertine’s vacant state Senate seat was the strongest case for opposing Scozzafava. I was hoping that Aubertine would defeat her so that we could get the state Senate back. But this changes everything.

[campaignPete R-CT]

Aubertine dropped out today!
Hopefully, the Conservative Party will give us a candidate or we will have to back the Libertarians.

Picture a tennis match, where your favorite player sits down on the court the entire match. He loses 6-0, 6-0, 6-0. No big surprise. Can’t blame his opponent.

The conservatives, pro-lifers, etc. sat down and boycotted this nomination process. Dede and NARAL went after it aggressively. Conservatives have nobody to blame but themselves.

I called NYS Right to Life in May about this. They had ZERO interest in hearing about it. I might as well have been calling them about the Virginia Governors race.

[campaignPete R-CT]

You are correct. She has been NARAL endorsed for the legislature, signed the NARAL pledge, 100% pro-abort voting record. Publicly supports so-called “gay marriage”.

This is a pathetic defeat by the conservatives in the Northeast who avoided participation in the nominating process. I take full responsibility. But it is too late.

[Know et al]

“Scozzafava”?

I need to see her birth certificate. LOL

[campaignPete R-CT]

We cannot help but notice that NARAL specializes in special elections. And National right to life specializes in boycotting.

we never reviewed CA-32, Judy Chu
turnout 25,000 which is 7%
Chu 62%
GOP Chu 33%
Libertarian 5%

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%27s_32nd_congressional_district_special_election,_2009

If the GOP had a decent Latino candidate in that East L.A. district and put minimal money into it ... they could have made a run at 45% and made Chu work for it.

[campaignPete R-CT]

http://www.harmerforcongress.com/index.php/site/press/53/

In CA-10, I hope Harmer isn’t expecting the GOP to act like a major party and give him support. He would surely be disappointed.

[rmlew]

is David Vickers running again as a Conservative?

[campaignPete R-CT]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York’s_23rd_congressional_district

no sign of Vickers.
for info, go to link, look at 2000 results. Vickers, Conservative 21%

[fieldmarshaldj]

David Vickers ? ;-D

[fieldmarshaldj]

Hey, the party is asleep at the wheel. Or... maybe it's pining for the fjords.

[campaignPete R-CT]

i have no idea what that parrot is doing in this thread!
This is serious business, my friend!

Susan Estrich and Doug Schoen were on Hannity today, baffled about how we got an extremist in the White house.

[fieldmarshaldj]

I chuckled when I saw the name David Vickers. He’s the infamous, but charming roué on “One Life To Live.”

Susan Estrich was going on about an extremist in the WH ? And it wasn’t Dubya she was referring to ?

[campaignPete R-CT]

“Estrich was married to screenwriter, professor and former speechwriter Marty Kaplan.[citation needed] She is Jewish, having been Bat Mitzvahed at Temple Israel in Swampscott, Massachusetts, and has written about her religion in her column.[7]

Estrich was very outspoken during the 2008 presidential race, particularly on the subject of women in politics in light of the candidacies of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin. Estrich supported Clinton in the Democratic primaries”

is it possible that Jewish Dems are turning on Obama because of Israel and they are using other issues, i.e. healthcare, to attack him? Is they go after him on Israel, it wouldn’t be nearly as effective.

[fieldmarshaldj]

I wonder, however, if the ‘12 matchup is between Palin and the False Messiah if Estrich could pull the lever for Palin... Jewish Democrats, unfortunately, tend to wear the second word as a religion more than the first.

[Impy]

I’d still rather she lose so she’s not entrenched. Hopefully then a Republican will be nominated in 2010. She looks pretty bad.

[Impy]

Estich? The shrill witch who was drunk of her @ss on election night 2004?

She’s not on the Barry express? LOL

[Clintonfatigued]

If Scozzafava wins, she can be primaried next year. Remember, it wasn’t long ago when Mark Walberg removed one-term RINO John Schwarz in Michigan.

[Impy]

It’s all too rare for a RINO incumbent to fall in the primary. The party bosses and NRCC would back her.

It’s certainly possible she could lose the primary seeing as how she didn’t even have to go through one this year. Schwartz was the only big RINO is a crowded field and won much less than 50%.

But if she lost that might send a wakeup call to those morons.

We know she’s a BIG-time social liberal. If she could convince me she’s a strong supporter of free market polices which I doubt since very few big-time social liberals are, then I’d give her my meaningless endorsement. She looks like she’s worse than Mark Kirk, she could be the biggest RINO in the house if elected (dems wanted to recruit her?). As you said if she were running in Manhattan, or Montco Maryland like Connie Morrela the biggest RINO in recent history that would be another thing.

As it stands my advise to freepers in that district is to vote for the Conservative party (their standards are NOT high, they’re mostly a patronage outfit nowadays, and they won’t back Dede) or if they don’t field a candidate to smear dog doo on their blank ballots.

I believe this is the first race in my time here where I have specifically advised not voting for the ‘Republican’.

I don’t see the upside to having another super-rino in there for a year, considering the downside is she could be there for 10 years.

[campaignPete R-CT]

if it is accurate to say that Obama is showing himself to be hostile toward Israel, his support among some of the establishment will disappear very fast.

They WILL destroy his administration if that is their conclusion. Schoen is a long-time consultant for Likud, despite the fact that he is a liberal DEM. I think it is not insignificant that he was on Sean Hannity ripping Obama. Of course, he’s also a Clintonite.

[darkangel82]

“It’s all too rare for a RINO incumbent to fall in the primary”

Unfortunately it is. But we saw it happen in 06(Walberg over Schwarz) and again in 08(Harris over Gilchrest). I should happen more often, but most of the Main Street RINOs lost their seats already anyway.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Yes, but this is NY. There’s only been 1 NY House Republican taken down in a primary in at least 3 decades, and that was freshman David Levy by Dan Frisa on L.I. in ‘94 (and that was a “grudge” rematch).

[campaignPete R-CT]

2009 CA - 32 special election

Judy Chu 15,238 61.67%
Betty Chu 8,185 33.12%
C Agrella 1,287 5.21%

[campaignPete R-CT]

This is a great opportunity to run somebody excellent on the conservative Line. In a special election, in this climate, it could become a 3-way race. Perhaps a pipedream, but worth the shot.

[campaignPete R-CT]

Looks like conservative Maroun almost made it. They held Dede under 50% for 2 ballots with Maroun in second place. I called him a month ago to offer my full-time help. He never returned the call.

“The party chairs met at Serge’s Restaurant in Potsdam Wednesday afternoon. There were four ballots, said Franklin County Republican Chairman Jim Ellis; the fourth made the results unanimous.

Ellis said Franklin County Legislator Paul Maroun of Tupper Lake came in second in the first two rounds, and Watertown businessman Matt Doheny also did well”
http://www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com/page/content.detail/id/507692.html?nav=5008

[Impy]

Check this out:

"Yet some Republicans are already signaling that they would rather lose the seat than win it with a standard-bearer whom they view as a milquetoast moderate (Impy: liberal) — one who has acknowledged that she discussed running for the seat as a Democrat last month with state Democratic Party officials. She’s also married to a leading labor official in the region who has close ties to local Democratic leadership."

Trojan horse. A picture of a donkey (or rat) in an Elephant costume would be appropriate. I thought they just tried to recruit her, she actually seriously considered it and her husband is a union hack so obviously she doesn't like the free market.

[Impy]

Post 39

Definitely not a “hold your nose for her” situation. She has a bright red D carved on her chest.

[fieldmarshaldj]

My concern is that this lady, if elected, runs an exceptional chance of switching to the Democrats. I find it astonishing she could be chosen over more reliable applicants that didn’t set off such warning signals. If I were the local Democrats, I’d only put up desultory opposition, because they gain either way.

[darkangel82]

Arlen Specter redux.

[campaignPete R-CT]

the only reason she was chosen was that the votes were cast only by the county chairs. Not the rank and file. 11 people only.

And some of the 11 are feminist GOP women who love Dede. When normal people don’t get involved in local county politics, feminists and other weirdos take over.

[fieldmarshaldj]

This is also a demonstration why there should be a special primary. Frankly, whichever county party chairs voted for this rodent trojan horse should be promptly removed.

[Clintonfatigued]

“My concern is that this lady, if elected, runs an exceptional chance of switching to the Democrats.”

Good point. If I’m not mistaken, the County Republican organizations choose the nominee and whoever wins the most counties gets the nod. But I’m also surpised that she got it, and not in a happy way. This sucks.

[campaignPete R-CT]

the Chairman asks his county committee their opinion on the race, he can even do a straw poll. But he casts all the votes anyway he/she wants.

Some of the large counties had feminist GOP chairwomen who were ENTHUSED big time about Dede and they cast unanimous votes from their county for her. Some counties split their votes.