We are coming for the RINOs.
Posted on 10/16/2009 8:44:40 AM PDT by sbpublicaffairs
Mr. Hoffman has siphoned so much support from Ms. Scozzafava that their Democratic rival has vaulted into the lead, according to a poll released Thursday. The election is Nov. 3. "I am not your run-of-the-mill politician, and maybe that's why the Republican bosses didn't like me," Mr. Hoffman told a recent health-care forum sponsored by the Upstate New York Tea Party. In an interview, Ms. Scozzafava acknowledged her discomfort at the event. "I knew it wasn't going to be an easy audience for me," she said. The rise of conservative "tea party" activists around the country has created a dilemma for Republicans. They are breathing life into the party's quest to regain power.
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This is a good thing
GO Tea Party Patriots!!!
Don’t count your votes until they are cast GOP, you got to earn them.
It’s good to prove to the RINOs that they are useless.
Step aside, RINOs.
Let us choose our own candidates and lock those votes in.
Markos Moulitsas, founder of The Daily Kos has endorsed Scozzafava. Dede Scozzafava has also been endorsed by NYSUT, the largest labor union in New York, and an affiliate of the National Education Association.
Scozzafava also holds these positions:
Scozzafava has also run in past elections on the Working Families Party (a progressive party associated with ACORN) line on the ballot.
This lady isn’t a RINO, she is a big “R” democRat.
There are also 17 RINOs in the house who have donated funds to this Liberal democRat's campaign. They include Boehner and Cantor. I don’t have a full list, but I will be looking for it. These RINOs should be targeted for elimination in the primaries next year.
By the way, this article was posted earlier at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2363538/posts and http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2363665/posts. Other threads related to this story:
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The GOP is out of luck with me for quite a while yet - I won’t vote for a RINO just to win. Not going to do it again - its on them.
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. - Theodore Roosevelt
PLAGIARIZING MYSELF FROM PREVIOUSLY:
Well, if “O” and his crew want to successfully drive a wedge in the GOP they will so far polarize Americans that they’ll line them ALL up behind the MOST viable Presidential contender…. irrespective of the kind of stigma (by now comical) typically associated with third parties or gender! Like Nietche said: “If something is falling, give it a shove”.
But, “O” has pushed too, hard too fast. If he can’t bring us together SOMEHOW, (I don’t think he’s capable) he is weakening his own position.
“O” has overspent his ‘class/race schism’ dividend and only succeeded in neutering the GOP. Conservatism still lives, and will find its voice (if it hasn’t already) in time to hand him a REAL race the next time he runs for President.
The opposition to “O” is so widespread and unvarying that for once I think, a third party has a shot. After all, traditional GOP candidates have been less than stellar lately and likely to remain so long enough for Palin to succeed.
She’s connected to the population in a way no others are or have been for a long time and she is articulate. She’s the horse to beat and no GOP hopeful I can think of is doing that.
People forget… the DNC changed drastically by making “O” its nominee! BUT, the GOP both during the campaign and since, has undergone equally drastic, telling and I believe permanent change.
If the last Presidential election was a revolution, the next one will positively vulcanize this country. EVERYONE needs to LET GO of the OLD ways of thinking and getting things done, politically….EVERYONE!!!!
If the GOP wants to be dragged kicking and screaming into the next couple decades, it will render itself even more useless and irrelevant. PALIN is the future of the GOP unless and until someone can talk straighter and rally people more uniformly. I am waiting.
Steele, et al, MUST close the primaries in EVERY state!
We would be better off losing this seat now and win it back in 2010 to send a message
Well that's a good start.
Interesting. I’ve always been a critic of third party conservative campaigns as they usually result in a Democrat in office. I wonder if either the Republican or Conservative candidate (depending on which one is polling third) would be willing to drop out down the road if it looks like that history will repeat itself.
Translation: When they ran as conservatives, they won.
The ultimate goal is to take back the party by rendering these RINOS irrelevant. Definitely a goal worth fighting for.
I don't agree at all and I hope Freepers here aren't taking the bait.
Tea party activities are the only thing that can reinvigorate the Republican party and it could be done with conservate ideas.
Righty-O!
A corrupt Republican politician is no better than a corrupt Democratic (socialist) Party of America politician. That is not complicated at all - get rid of RINOs or we all lose.
It's not as clear cut as you might think.
State primaries are subject to state laws....(even though their was a recent SC ruling about Freedom of Association on the matter).
This headline has a fallacy at its center. If (BIG IF) there is a comeback strategy at all, it seems to be a combination of:-
"If I roll over, will you tickle my tummy?
What's our biggest asset - we need to destroy it
I will go on TV and talk absolute rubbish in a measured voice that sounds important
The GOP leadership needs to listen to some 'beyond the Beltway' voices and act on what they are saying.
Third party runs don't usually work and I'm normally against them.
That said, this case is different. Two things;
Hoffman did try to seek the Republican nomination.
It wasn't the rank and file Republican voters who voted against Hoffman it was instead a small number of county party chairman who made the selection.
Indeed. This may be a special case. Is the Republican actually worse than the Democrat in this election?
When Democrats were in the minority, they turned more pragmatic in their choice of candidates starting in 2006, and were rewarded with two election victories.
IOW they stopped veering so left and turned more RIGHT to win the middle. True.
next sentence from the article:
In preparation for 2010, many of the picks of Republican leaders in key races have records designed to appeal to middle-of-the-road voters, which also make the party faithful cringe.
False. If Republican "leader" picks were designed to appeal to the middle they would also have to turn RIGHT, as they have been heading off the cliff on the left for decades. That would make the party faithful happy. What makes the party faithful cringe is that Republican leaders continue to want to veer left by picking candidates like; Ms. Scozzafava, he noted, was pro-choice, backed gay marriage, supported Mr. Obama's stimulus plan and favored making it easier for unions to organize; simply because the liberal media who write the stories the elites believe couch the arguments in wordspeak such as the conservative values of the far right. Conservative values are common sense middle of the road. Liberal values are the ones of the far extreme , but you'll never see that in driveby prose.
Nah the rat will win this
We are coming for the RINOs.
The Democrats won in 2006 primarily because of their opposition to the war. Those Democrats who were most successful often combined antiwar stands with conservative rhetoric on domestic issues. IMHO, that is a winning prescription for the GOP in 2010.
Here we have your basic democrat reporter throwing the anchor to the Republican party with his advice.
No, I don't think they have heard our voices:
They don't answer the phone - an assistant does (or doesn't)
They don't read message boards
Reduced donations are obviously an economy fallout thingy!
They have NOT heard them but if they did, they wouldn't care.
The GOP leadership IS corrupt, but they DO sound important on TV! They need the King Edward II treatment (look it up - it's not fun)
To the best of my knowledge, I would rate the Republican nominee as about a 4 out of 10 conservative. The SEIU endorsed stealth Democrat who will probably win, will probably turn out to be a 0 or a 1.
What a mess.
If the Republicans want to save themselves, then the GOP has got to announce its AGENDA. Where’s the Republican Agenda Mikey?
No one knows what Republicans stand for . . . Mikey and the GOP won’t put anything in writing.
Mikey Steele is destroying the GOP with his apathetic lack of leadership.
And Gingrich is endorsing that ???
What the ....
~~PING!
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THE REAL PROBLEM: “hand-picked by GOP leaders”
THE SOLUTION: take your hands off & let the energized, ground-swelling, ideologically pure future of your base pick the candidates.
“The tea-party movement, in my judgment, has proven to be very real, but it’s precisely the fact that it’s real that makes it [i.e., them tea-party go-ers] difficult to take advantage of.”
let???? I say we pick them and let them know who they will be.
Now there's a line that had to have been written by a real genius.
/sarc
You’re right! that’s what I meant to convey, but as a tea-party activist, I’ve obviously not yet adjusted to my newly acquired power.
I laughed when I saw your correction. :)
I see the R party is pulling out all the stops in getting Newt to back up the RINO Scozzofava rather than the conservative in the race, and by pouring in tons of money. Now, why didn’t that money go to a conservative republican candidate in a different, more winnable race? Because the RINOs have coopted the party.
Dede Scozzafava is not moderate. She’s an out-and=out liberal.
NEW YORK IS OUR WATERLOO.... Either we kick the RNC *ss or we lose our freedom to the DNC/RNC cabal. VOTE CONSERVATIVE. Even if the Dem wins, we’ll have another crack at that seat in 2010. FIGHT FOR CONSERVATISM.....
I didn’t know the GOP turned him down = okay they are totally stupid.
What the H does our vote do - just select between the candidates that a bunch of old out-of-touch country club types give us. I’ve been on the inside of the abomination.
Primaries are a must. What gives with Newt endorsing this worse-than-RINO? No more insider candidates. Here in Florida good old Charlies thinks he’s a shoe-in.
The problem with a third party is the blind Rs that vote straight party ticket.
What to do, what to do?
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