Posted on 10/26/2009 11:50:01 AM PDT by red meat conservative
s Doug Hoffman continues to surge in the NY-23 congressional race, the liberal establishment Republicans are continuing to peddle disingenuous defenses of their support for ACORN Republican Dede Scozzafava. The clowns at the NRCC are now comparing Doug Hoffman's candidacy to Chris Daggett's spoiler run for governor in New Jersey, which might cost Republican Chris Christie the election. They claim that just as conservatives are playing spoiler for Christie by running on ideological purism versus electoral realism, they are similarly deluding themselves in supporting Hoffman over Scozzafava. This argument is so preposterous and is false on every premise. Lets look at the facts:
1. There already has been a primary in New Jersey and Christie won it handily. Conservatives tried to win with Steve Lonegan and were unsuccessful. Frankly, I liked Lonegan and would have voted for him, but Christie won an election of Republican voters. If Daggett has such a big mouth and really represents conservatives he could have run in the primary. NY-23 was a different story. Being that this is a special election, there was no primary and the people never had a say in choosing their nominee. Scozzafava was picked by a few local party bosses with absolutely no transparency. This is what we are protesting with the Hoffman candidacy.
Furthermore, there is no way that we can succeed in New Jersey with a significant percentage of the Republican vote splitting two ways, but we can still win in NY-23 even with a split vote. Again, if the radical leftist Scozzafava would just drop out then we would definitely win. As for their claim that Hoffman cannot win, well there is a new poll out that actually has Hoffman leading everyone.
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I agree with what you have said.
Dear RNC,
Do you people even look at the data or do you have your inside the belt way blinders on so tight you cannot even see the plain facts?
This is a safe GOP seat. It has been in GOP hands since the Civil War.
A solidly Democrat candidate can only poll 36% in this district. Meanwhile a solidly Conservative grass roots level 3rd party challenger draws more voters then the liberal GOPer you picked. And you want the guy with the best shot at winning to quit?
Run Hoffman as an R and you carry this district with at least 52% of the vote if not more.
This is not a swing distinct, the only reason to run Dede is crony politics.
The RINOs have begun their war and naturaly it isn’t against liberals or democrats.
Daggett is not running as a conservative. He is running as none of the above. I would guess he is grabbing those who don’t like Corzine and won’t even hold their nose and vote for Christie who is campaigning on nothing more than trust me.
Hey RNCC!
You may think you are teaching us conservatives a lesson by telling us we have to stay on your reservation, but in actuality it is WE who are teaching YOU a lesson: Turn back to REAL Conservatism or get booted out!
Jim Gerghty over at National Review has info that Daggett is losing steam and is actually taking away more Corzine votes. This just goes to show that again, Daggett is not a conservative but a kind of third way type of guy like you said.
http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MjkzYmE3YTc2YzgwNmE1MTY3YTMzZDI4OGVkNmY0NjQ=
That's how I see it too. Corzine is losing previous supporters who won't hold their nose and vote for this Republican.
Daggart is Corzine stalking horse.
He will not trash Corzine but has plenty to say about Christie !Hugh Hewitt cornered him on his radio show and it was not pretty !
Daggart has been a Corzine appointee to other boards .
Daggart is on the the take from the Dems !
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