[AnglePark]

And the shockingly disloyal Republicans who STILL voted for Scozzafava...

[techcor]

Way to pick them , Newt.

[Conservateacher]

Ben, Ben, Ben

Aren’t you the guy that donated to Al Franken?

Not that I don’t agree with you about 23

[posterchild]

What is disloyal about it? Her party no longer had a candidate in the race once she dropped out. Her liberal philosophy did have a candidate - Owens. She supported him.

[KeyLargo]

The Republicans will now have to come up with a real conservative to win the election next year since the Democrat will only be there for one year.

[TruthBeforeAll]

Plus, Hoffman came across (to me) as somewhat weak and timid. He didn’t exude a lot of confidence. A stronger conservative personality would have beaten Owens easily. IMHO.

[RJS1950]

She proved one more point and that is the election run was all about her and not serving the constituents.

[Hildy]

The republican who went over to the Obama ain. He was liberal, no? So why did wveryone think this was a conservative district?

[Liberty Valance]

In 1930, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, in an effort to alleviate the effects of the... Anyone? Anyone?... the Great Depression, passed the... Anyone? Anyone? The tariff bill? The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act? Which, anyone? Raised or lowered?... raised tariffs, in an effort to collect more revenue for the federal government. Did it work? Anyone? Anyone know the effects? It did not work, and the United States sank deeper into the Great Depression. Today we have a similar debate over this. Anyone know what this is? Class? Anyone? Anyone? Anyone seen this before? The Laffer Curve. Anyone know what this says? It says that at this point on the revenue curve, you will get exactly the same amount of revenue as at this point. This is very controversial. Does anyone know what Vice President Bush called this in 1980? Anyone? Something-d-o-o economics. "Voodoo" economics.

Ed Rooney: I did not achieve this position in life by having some snot-nosed punk leave my cheese out in the wind.

Cameron: [singing] When Cameron was in Egypt's land...?let my Cameron go!"

Cameron: Ferris Bueller, you're my hero.

Economics Teacher: Bueller?... Bueller?... Bueller?

[popdonnelly]

Scozzafava played the turncoat role to perfection. She took the importuning of Rahm Emanuel and Chuckie Schumer. She whined about the “hate” and “lies” that were directed at her. Strange, the only party I know that routinely engages in hate and lies is the Democratic Party. And she let herself be used for robocalls endorsing the Democratic candidate. And we are supposed to believe that this woman was a Republican? Odd, she seems to find the Democratic Party awfully congenial.

[Carley]

It was the uninformed republicans who gave Scazza over five thousand votes.

Truthfully tho, she only dropped out a week ago. Her name was on the ballot Absentees no doubt voted for her and useful idiots made up the rest.

She was no repub and most voters hardly knew a thing about Hoffman.

He did quite well for only being promoted for about ten days.

[Antoninus]

Dede is a typical RINO liberal in the best tradition of Christie Toad Witless. If she can’t win, she will work her butt off to make sure the conservative loses.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Of course, Ben Stein endorsed Al Franken, so I’m not sure he’s the one to make the charge of “disloyal”.

But DeDe was certainly disloyal. She was chosen as the Republican nominee. The officials in the party supported her throughout the process. They sent her workers to help, they sent her almost a million dollars.

That apparently wasn’t enough for her to get the support of the voters in the district. But that’s how it goes. And instead of fighting for the Republican Party til the end, she QUIT at the last minute, when it would do the most damage, and then endorsed the Democrat, violating the oath she took when she ran for our nomination to support the eventual nominee (which in this case was HER).

So to that freeper who argued that Hoffman didn’t deserve support because he violated his pledge to support the republican nominee, what does it mean that the actual republican nominee violated HER pledge to support the republican nominee?

[marvlus]

The people of District 23 voted for liberalism, with or without Scozzafava.

[headsonpikes]

Younger and better-looking versions of this woman routinely make hundreds of dollars per night - I’ll bet Dede’s doing better than that for her efforts here!

In politics, there’s no whore like an old whore.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Scozzafava and others like her have no business in the GOP in the first place, they are like enemy agents.

We absolutely must have some standard in the party, some lines not to cross. Scozzafave is almost 180 degrees away from me politically, that's just too much "big tent". If someone is working against you 80% of the time they aren't worth keeping for the 20% support.