[Grunthor]

Good? Bad? What say you?

[gov_bean_ counter]

OBE.

[freeangel]

I’m REALLY rooting for Hoffman. And if the others win it would be gravy. At the very least, it may push some “moderate” GOPers back to a more conservative stance.

[MNJohnnie]

Good News if they are running against Leftist RINOS, bad new if they are pay for play Democrats pretending to be “Conservatives” only to aid the Democrats in tough districts.

[Nam Vet]

I'd say the GOP had better wise up and kick a few RINOs to the curb in the national/regional offices. They make p*ss-poor choices when it comes to candidates. Conservatives are fed up to their toncils and have called, "ENOUGH !.

Nam Vet

[Dr. Sivana]

The third parties will never be a political force unto themselves. They can, however, be a check against the Republicans being too cute, picking “moderate” (which always means pro-abort) candidates. The threat is empty if it is never exercised.

[MissMagnolia]

Good overall. The GOP has been smug in their confidence that regardless of the candidate they put up, voters will hold their noses and vote for them to keep a Dem from winning. No more. If the GOP puts up non-conservative candidates and a more conservative third-party candidate is running, the GOP will lose a lot of votes to that 3rd party candidate. They have only themselves to blame - they were warned by over a million fed up conservatives who marched in Washington 9/12 and now they ignore them at their peril. Even if it hurts at first and Dems win, conservatives need to stay strong and vote conservative, not GOP. Either the GOP will get their act together and start putting up conservative candidates in self-defense, or the 3rd party conservatives will start to win. Hoffman gives us hope that the strategy of voting conservative first will work!

[jmaroneps37]

This WOULD be bad IF it happened in a general election and caused a blood bath election night. BUT it is NOT bad but rather a GOOD thing because it seems to have rudely awakened the GOP establishment in Washington as to what COULD happen and what DID happen if they don’t start running conservative candidates. This is a BIG “GOOD!”

[Anima Mundi]

People could also run as conservative Democrats and split that vote. Overall that could pull the whole process back towards the right side. The lunatics running the Democratic party right now have been allowed to get away with positioning themselves as the “normals” somehow.

[AD from SpringBay]

As African-American voters are to the DNC, Conservative voters are to the RNC. The Conservatives are waking up. Let us pray that the African-American voters also wake up.

[HighlyOpinionated]

It's All Michael Steele's and the GOP's FAULT.

They have no one to blame but themselves. The Republican base is Conservative, not Moderate. If Mikey and the GOP can't submit a Conservative GOP Agenda to Voters, they're going to lose the best and the brightest Conservatives to Third Parties.

If the GOP doesn't wake up soon, they're going to become obsolete.

[Mount Athos]

If conservatives energize PRIMARIES to overthrow leftist weasels within the republican party, it will be a great advance for the cause.

If a conservative party gains prominence nationwide, and takes away a significant number of votes from Republicans, it will be a huge gain for leftists. George Soros would write a big check to help it along.

The Hoffman race was a special case, because there was NO primary, the candidate was chosen by party officials according to a special case of election law there.

[Brugmansian]

Good? Bad? What say you?

Don't know the candidates so can't say. But it is certain some of these will be leftist plants or funded by leftists. Going to be quite a job figuring out who is real and who is not. For instance, here in CT, we now have 5 "GOP" candidates running against Dodd. One, Linda McMahon, is an Obama plant in my opinion. Going to be up to the grass roots to vet all these newbies and third party people. Which is as it should be.