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The G.O.P. Stalinists Invade Upstate New York
The New York Times ^ | October 31, 2009 | Frank Rich

Posted on 10/31/2009 4:44:23 PM PDT by GoldStandard

BARACK OBAMA’S most devilish political move since the 2008 campaign was to appoint a Republican congressman from upstate New York as secretary of the Army. This week’s election to fill that vacant seat has set off nothing less than a riotous and bloody national G.O.P. civil war. No matter what the results in that race on Tuesday, the Republicans are the sure losers. This could be a gift that keeps on giving to the Democrats through 2010, and perhaps beyond.

The governors’ races in New Jersey and Virginia were once billed as the marquee events of Election Day 2009 — a referendum on the Obama presidency and a possible Republican “comeback.” But preposterous as it sounds, the real action migrated to New York’s 23rd, a rural Congressional district abutting Canada. That this pastoral setting could become a G.O.P. killing field, attracting an all-star cast of combatants led by Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, William Kristol and Newt Gingrich, is a premise out of a Depression-era screwball comedy. But such farces have become the norm for the conservative movement — whether the participants are dressing up in full “tea party” drag or not.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2009; backfire; hoffman; newyork; ny2009; ny23; silly; stalinwascommie; teaparty; wrong
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1 posted on 10/31/2009 4:44:24 PM PDT by GoldStandard
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To: GoldStandard

I’ve got your civil war right here!


2 posted on 10/31/2009 4:46:03 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/jimrobfr)
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To: GoldStandard

The wussies are scared....


3 posted on 10/31/2009 4:46:07 PM PDT by goodnesswins
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To: GoldStandard

Is this guy on something? Why post this tripe?


4 posted on 10/31/2009 4:46:24 PM PDT by wewereright
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To: GoldStandard

Is this guy on something? Why post this tripe?


5 posted on 10/31/2009 4:46:30 PM PDT by wewereright
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To: GoldStandard

Is this guy on something? Why post this tripe?


6 posted on 10/31/2009 4:46:35 PM PDT by wewereright
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To: GoldStandard

Frank Rich , a commie writer for the NY slimes, will have to eat these words next week. (I pray)


7 posted on 10/31/2009 4:46:42 PM PDT by fish hawk (It's sad that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. Isaac Asimov)
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To: GoldStandard
Hehehe...written before they knew that Scozzafava suspended her New York Congressional Campaign and threw her support behind Hoffman.

LOL! NYT, can you spell...S A R A H !!! - the RINO slayer.



MANY MORE STICKER DESIGNS HERE

"...like that grizzly guards her cubs, as a mother naturally guards her own. I will keep that vow wherever the road may lead." - Sarah Palin, July 26, 2009

8 posted on 10/31/2009 4:46:55 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: GoldStandard

Just keep telling yourself that Frank, until next November. Then you can whine about “temper tantrums”.


9 posted on 10/31/2009 4:47:12 PM PDT by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG 49) "Freedom's Fortress")
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To: GoldStandard
Man the sour grapes are pretty sour right now that the vote did not get split and the conservatives are not “dead” like this author and lots of others have been preaching since Obama was elected. LOL
10 posted on 10/31/2009 4:47:26 PM PDT by HwyChile
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To: GoldStandard

Some serious whistling past the graveyard on that one.


11 posted on 10/31/2009 4:47:36 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: GoldStandard

Good Lord, everyone at the NYSlimes is smoking wacky tobacky.


12 posted on 10/31/2009 4:48:16 PM PDT by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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To: GoldStandard
We're the Stalinists and they're the Free Thinkers. Yeah, sure, Frank!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus

13 posted on 10/31/2009 4:49:59 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: GoldStandard
But such farces have become the norm for the conservative movement — whether the participants are dressing up in full “tea party” drag or not.

Frank Rich gettin' a little nervous, mebbe?

14 posted on 10/31/2009 4:50:30 PM PDT by stevem
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To: GoldStandard

wrong...wrong...wrong....Obama planned on getting a liberal in this seat and he ain’t gonna


15 posted on 10/31/2009 4:50:30 PM PDT by The Wizard
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To: GoldStandard

Frank Rich is heinous. Looks like a victory here for the Moose Shooter.


16 posted on 10/31/2009 4:50:41 PM PDT by joelt
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To: GoldStandard

Frank Rich is heinous. Looks like a victory here for the Moose Shooter.


17 posted on 10/31/2009 4:50:48 PM PDT by joelt
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To: GoldStandard

I don’t know how you spin a triple loss for your side as a win - but Frank Rich obviously does.


18 posted on 10/31/2009 4:51:02 PM PDT by eclecticEel (The Most High rules in the kingdom of men ... and sets over it the basest of men.)
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To: wewereright

It’s germane to post this tripe because Frank Rich is an “influential” NY Times writer. We should be watching what the enemy thinks because when they get scared and start spinning stupidly, which is what Rich is doing, then you know you’re winning.

You might also want to avoid posting your comment three times, especially want referring to tripe.

Makes you look dumb.

heh.


19 posted on 10/31/2009 4:51:27 PM PDT by Fishtalk
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To: GoldStandard

20 posted on 10/31/2009 4:51:36 PM PDT by McGruff (We're Going Rogue Baby!)
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To: GoldStandard

Obama thought by appointing a Republican he could turn the seat to dem because everyone is so happy with Hope N Change. The backfiring happened to Obama, not the Republicans.


21 posted on 10/31/2009 4:51:47 PM PDT by keepitreal ( Don't tread on me.)
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To: goodnesswins
The wussies are scared.... - very scared!
22 posted on 10/31/2009 4:51:54 PM PDT by Free_at_last_-2001 (A country can survive its fools, but it cannot survive treason from within.)
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To: GoldStandard

Where’s the barf alert?


23 posted on 10/31/2009 4:51:56 PM PDT by wastedyears (Clyde Shelton is my hero.)
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To: GoldStandard

yikes...rich is a nut case.


24 posted on 10/31/2009 4:52:25 PM PDT by stylin19a
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To: GoldStandard

LOL! There are none so blind as those who will not see.


25 posted on 10/31/2009 4:52:39 PM PDT by Hildy
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To: fish hawk

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26 posted on 10/31/2009 4:52:45 PM PDT by jessduntno ("Faux News" to "Foe News"..."they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." - Ghandi)
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To: GoldStandard
Rino Slayer
27 posted on 10/31/2009 4:52:54 PM PDT by Tawiskaro
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To: GoldStandard
BARACK OBAMA’S most devilish political move since the 2008 campaign was to appoint a Republican congressman from upstate New York as secretary of the Army.

When you start with a faulty premise you're sure to arrive at a faulty conclusion.

28 posted on 10/31/2009 4:53:36 PM PDT by highlander_UW (To anger a conservative tell him a lie. To anger a liberal tell him the truth.)
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To: GoldStandard

No civil war here (anymore), it’s just been decided. There WILL BE a core set of principals that Republicans will have to support if they want to be left alone (either in the Primaries or General Elections)...unlike what the liberals want the country to believe, there is some flexibility...for example, a person trying to win statewide as a Republican in Maine will be given a wider berth than a person trying to win statewide in South Carolina (i.e., watch out gramnesty).

But there are limits, and having a husband who’s a big-time union thug, and then supporting Card Check, are beyond those limits - especially in a Republican-leaning district.


29 posted on 10/31/2009 4:53:42 PM PDT by BobL
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To: GoldStandard
This week’s election to fill that vacant seat has set off nothing less than a riotous and bloody national G.O.P. civil war.

GASP! No wonder they want to trample on the Constitution!

Civil discourse via political promotion is now bloody and riotous according to the NYT. ; )

Bring it on you anti-American way, soon to be destitute financially, (in a free market anyway) worthless rag of "news"paper.

30 posted on 10/31/2009 4:53:46 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: GoldStandard

Since when are the NYT and the Dems opposed to Stalinism?


31 posted on 10/31/2009 4:54:33 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: GoldStandard
Mr. Rich! Put down the crack pipe and step away from the table!
32 posted on 10/31/2009 4:54:36 PM PDT by JaguarXKE
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To: The Wizard

I think you hit the nail on the head.


33 posted on 10/31/2009 4:54:37 PM PDT by silentreignofheroes
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To: GoldStandard

Oh yes makes perfect sense we win the seat but we are still losers? I don’t think so and the truth of the matter is that we may have just woke up the national RNC about what we the people want!


34 posted on 10/31/2009 4:54:59 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: GoldStandard

He left out Rush, darn it!


35 posted on 10/31/2009 4:55:40 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (demonicRATS, the party of taxes and death. Is this what you want?)
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To: GoldStandard

Rebellion is in the air (and it’s about time)!


36 posted on 10/31/2009 4:56:00 PM PDT by ArchAngel1983 (Arch Angel- on guard)
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To: GoldStandard

Good news, now that Scozzafava has called it quits, it paves the way for Hoffman to win on Tuesday.


37 posted on 10/31/2009 4:56:24 PM PDT by Biggirl (In Memory Of Jasper Howard (1989-2009),RIP UConn #6 =^..^==^..^==^..^==^..^=)
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To: GoldStandard
Frank Rich hasn't a clue.

He thinks a paradigm shift is a "civil war," because that's what he wants.

He won't get it when Palin takes over leadership of the GOP.

He won't understand it when 2010 is a bloodbath for the Democrats.

38 posted on 10/31/2009 4:56:44 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Ask not what the Kennedys can do for you, but what you can do for the Kennedys.)
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To: GoldStandard

He Frank Rich, if conservatives winning seats is actually losing, then may conservatives lose all their way into power.


39 posted on 10/31/2009 4:57:16 PM PDT by HerrBlucher
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To: GoldStandard

Frank Rich is tying his tiny mind into knots trying to deny that conservatives are on the ascendancy. It’s going to be interesting to seem him go into complete meltdown mode next November.


40 posted on 10/31/2009 4:57:48 PM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: GoldStandard
Frank Rich is an expert when it comes to Stalinists.
41 posted on 10/31/2009 4:58:33 PM PDT by JPG (NY-23...the shape of things to come.)
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To: GoldStandard

Is a ‘mega-barf’ alert still SOP for anything written by the RAT cult’s most notorious pontificator of poo?


42 posted on 10/31/2009 4:59:12 PM PDT by DaBroasta (Stop the hate--vote Republican)
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To: GoldStandard

Leftist Wetdreams, LMAO!


43 posted on 10/31/2009 4:59:22 PM PDT by DaBunny
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To: GoldStandard

Let me put this another way...THE BIGGEST FEAR among Democrats and the MSM is that conservatives again identify with the Republican Party...they know when that happens you have LANDSLIDES and Dems are set back for years, if not decades.

So everything they say and do is meant to separate us from the Republican Party. There is a REAL FEAR that we are starting to take over the party and will move it towards us.


44 posted on 10/31/2009 4:59:42 PM PDT by BobL
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To: GoldStandard

This drivel is rich.
A leftist comparing conservatives to Stalin is pure projection. It’s Obama and his leftists that engage in Stalinist tactics. Remember what Stalin did to Trotsky for party domination. There are precious few Democrat moderates now and Rich’s party is clearly run by hard leftists (or Stalinists if you prefer)
Typically when opponents criticize you on strategy, you’re headed in the right direction and exposing your opponent’s deepest fears. We all know that Palin is feared by the left much more than Newt or McCain.


45 posted on 10/31/2009 5:01:32 PM PDT by grumpygresh
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To: GoldStandard

Wait, a radical leftwinger is calling conservatives “Stalinists” for wanting their party to be less leftist??

huh??

pot meet kettle?


46 posted on 10/31/2009 5:01:56 PM PDT by GeronL (http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com .... I am a rogue nobody. One of millions.)
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To: GoldStandard

ANY article that uses the term “teabagger” goes into the bottom of the birdcage without further review, for proper treatment.


47 posted on 10/31/2009 5:02:16 PM PDT by John Valentine
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To: GoldStandard
BARACK OBAMA’S most devilish political move since the 2008 campaign was to appoint a Republican congressman from upstate New York as secretary of the Army.

This part I agree with.

I hadn't heard much about why Obama made this pick. It reminds me of when Obama picked Gregg for Commerce. What was the ulterior motive for the choice?

-PJ

48 posted on 10/31/2009 5:03:00 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (Comprehensive congressional reform legislation only yields incomprehensible bills that nobody reads.)
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To: wewereright

If the lefty was right why would they be airlifting in Biden on Monday? He doesn’t answer that one.


49 posted on 10/31/2009 5:04:31 PM PDT by reefdiver (So how's that HOPE & CHANGE working out for ya ?)
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To: GoldStandard

Silly statist says “anti-government” like it as a bad thing to be.

- JP


50 posted on 10/31/2009 5:04:34 PM PDT by Josh Painter ("Government cannot make you happy or healthy or wealthy or wise." - Sarah Heath Palin)
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