Posted on 10/31/2009 4:46:45 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
I've had it with progressive media outlets out there talking up third parties as the route for conservatives.
Please tell me that all of you see through this. We here on FR have to be largely immune to these attempts at misdirection by the media.
Here is one example: The Doug Hoffman Effect Strikes in Two Key Races for GOP
With Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman running neck and neck with the Democrat in Tuesday’s special election in New York, some other disaffected Republicans are seeing the third-party route as more viable.
Here is the clinton news network doing it, here is some NYDN "third party" propaganda, and here is AP Obama as well.
I can't be the only one here who sees this. This is a scam by the media that's aimed directly at republicans and conservatives. DOUG HOFFMAN IS A REPUBLICAN. The only reason all this is happening is because there wasn't a primary. Had there been a primary fight, Hoffman would have likely defeated Scozzafava and we wouldn't even be talking about this. And next time around, there aren't many doubts that Hoffman will run on the republican ticket. Here:
The state's cross-endorsement policy means that the Conservatives (and its left-of-center mirror images) generally function as pressure groups, supporting major party candidates they like or undermining those they don't. But sometimes the major party picks a candidate so egregious that the minor party must and can go all out.
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I believe that political success of the principles we believe in can best be achieved in the Republican Party. I believe the Republican Party can hold and should provide the political mechanism through which the goals of the majority of Americans can be achieved. For one thing, the biggest single grouping of conservatives is to be found in that party. It makes more sense to build on that grouping than to break it up and start over. Rather than a third party, we can have a new first party made up of people who share our principles. I have said before that if a formal change in name proves desirable, then so be it. But tonight, for purpose of discussion, I'm going to refer to it simply as the New Republican Party.
- RONALD REAGAN 1977: "THE NEW REPUBLICAN PARTY"
Third parties lose.(with a handful of exceptions) If Roosevelt couldn't do it, then it isn't a winning formula. And that's exactly why the progressive media is now pushing third parties toward conservatives.
Only people there were RTC members and GOP candidates for local office this Tuesday. In a town where 2,500 is good voter turn-out, we got 400 out for a Tea Party in May but could not get 75 to listen to Simmons.
Tom Foley, also in the race, is a Greenwich Country club Republican. Sam Caligiuri is a social conservative but is getting little attention.
That leaves Peter Schiff. He's for real, he knows the only way to win is to run on the GOP ticket. If he keeps his mouth shut on social issues, he could pull it off. But he has to get off the internet and TV now and then and go meet with the grass roots.
-PJ
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