Well, when it was made clear that the race was between the conservative and the democrat, since she could not become a congresswoman, she then made sure that a conservative was not elected and endorsed the democrat.
For while we conservatives are always told to vote for "the lesser of two evils," i.e. that electing a moderate republican is far preferable to electing a democrat, to moderate republicans, the "lesser of two evils" is electing a democrat. Foe electing a democrat is far preferable to electing a horrible, horrible conservative.
This is the game and why any and every moderate republican must be removed from power and defeated by conservatives, for conservative republicans are republicans and moderate republicans are democrats.
This year we have a similar example in Dick Lugar, "moderate" former senator, endorsing the prospective democrat nominee in Georgia.
McConnell, Cornyn, Collins, Cochran, Roberts, Enzi, Graham are of this same frame of mind, and so they should be removed from power this November, one way or the other, for they are wolves in our fold.
The democrat commies have taken over the GOP.
Let’s hope a Tea Party conservative becomes the Republican nominee in this district this year. Each additional TP Representative is another nail in the coffin of the Boehner “leadership” team.
I recall my days up in Lake Placid for Doug Hoffman in NY-23 before anyone heard of Dede and Doug ... etc. We could see the potential ...
THIS IS BIG NEWS!!!! I AM SHOCKED
Time for conservatives to man up and STAY HOME!!
The GOP establishment must have no doubt at all that they need conservatives more than we need them and their RINO Democrat enablers.
The GOP establishment has been playing chicken with conservatives for too long — betting that at the last minute, it’s the conservatives who will blink rather than lose a seat to the Democrats.
Well guess what? No more. If the GOP establishment wants to play chicken with us this time, they need to understand that they will lose.
This time, it needs to be the conservative motto — no voting for RINOs under any circumstances. If that means a repeat of 2008 with Democrat-controlled House, Senate and White House, so be it.
Scozzafava got over 8000 in the election. A dark day for northern NYS.
Some cut and paste from one of my old posts:
Just 17 members — about 10 percent of the GOP conference — have written checks to Scozzafava’s campaign. They include House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio), Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.), National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) Chairman Pete Sessions (Texas) and Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who is in charge of recruiting candidates to run next year.
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In an effort to prove Scozzafava can attract conservatives, Sessions pushed Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) to step up and endorse her. After his announcement, Hensarling took shots from some prominent conservative blogs and media outlets, with some going so far as to lob unfounded charges about Hensarling’s personal life.
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Hensarling declined to be interviewed about his endorsement of Scozzafava. A spokesman said he had nothing to add to his statement, issued last Friday.
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Wednesday night, most of the House GOP leadership, including Boehner, Cantor, McCarthy, Sessions, conference Vice Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (Wash.) and conference Secretary John Carter (Texas) hosted a fundraiser for Scozzafava at the home of ex-Rep. Nancy Johnson (R-Conn.).”
Has that silly Lugar moved to GA? I bet he stays mostly out of IN now.
LOCAL party bosses appointed her to the nomination, the NRCC had nothing to do with it.
Anyway, good news. Another surprise retirement.