Well, good luck with that...
Posted on 10/16/2009 12:34:03 PM PDT by markomalley
Republican heavy hitters are stepping up for the party’s New York special election candidate, after a poll this week showed the GOP in danger of losing that House seat.
On Friday, former House Speaker and Republican icon Newt Gingrich announced his endorsement of New York Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava, who is trailing Democrat Bill Owens in a tight three-way race to succeed nine-term GOP Rep. John M. McHugh .
McHugh vacated the seat to become secretary of the Army.
The Republican National Committee also confirmed Friday that it was making a six-figure transfer to the National Republican Campaign Committee to help in that race.
The NRCC has already spent nearly half a million dollars on advertising and other independent expenditures. And with the Scozzafava campaign on television only sparingly — reportedly because of slow fundraising — it has become the main source of advertising for the Republicans at this point.
The RNC is also giving $85,000 to the state party, the maximum allowed for a coordinated campaign, and has two staffers on the ground in the district.
In a letter to supporters, Gingrich called the Nov. 3 special election “an important test” for the party in advance of the 2010 mid-term election. Scozzafava is “Our best chance to put responsible and principled leaders in Washington,” he said.
Gingrich, who also voiced his support for Scozzafava at a GOP event last week in New York City, listed off a number of the candidate’s conservative credential, including her endorsement by the National Rifle Association, the fact that she signed the Americans for Tax Reform’s Taxpayers’ Protection Pledge and her opposition to the Democrat’s health care overhaul proposal.
Gingrich did not mention it, but his appeal was clearly targeted at those Republican voters leaning towards voting for accountant Doug Hoffman, who is running on the Conservative Party line.
Hoffman has capitalized on the backlash among local and national conservative groups, who have strongly objected to her centrist record in the Assembly. She voted in support of gay marriage and of the 2008-09 state budget pushed by Democratic Govs. Eliot Spitzer and David A. Paterson , and favors some abortion rights.
Conservative advocacy groups including the Club for Growth, Citizens United and New York State Right to Life PAC are all backing Hoffman.
In a Siena College poll released Thursday, Hoffman received 23 percent of the vote, including significant portions of the independent and GOP electorate.
Hoffman’s performance helped Owens pull ahead of Scozzafava by a statistically significant four point margin, after trailing her by seven percentage points two weeks ago.
The GOP hope to convince conservative voters that a vote for Hoffman is a vote for the Democrats.
Well, good luck with that...
Eff ewe, Newt.
You just want an (R) seat.
Conservatives want a Conservative seat, not another back-stabbing RINO like Specter, Collins, Snowe, etc.
Is the GOP really trying to run off every Conservative remaining in the country?
This is a classic example of how the GOP shoots themselves in the foot.
Compare this to the zero support they gave to Roseann Pulido last year. She was a conservative, they didn't even want to talk to her. oh and she's a FReeper.
Look at his name. He/she probably supports Snowe and Collins.
That remains to be seen.
Markos Moulitsas, founder of The Daily Kos has endorsed Scozzafava. Dede Scozzafava has also been endorsed by NYSUT, the largest labor union in New York, and an affiliate of the National Education Association.
Scozzafava also holds these positions:
Scozzafava has also run in past elections on the Working Families Party (a progressive party associated with ACORN) line on the ballot.
This lady isn’t a RINO, she is a big “R” democRat.
There are also 17 RINOs in the house who have donated funds to this Liberal democRat's campaign. They include Boehner and Cantor. I don’t have a full list, but I will be looking for it. These RINOs should be targeted for elimination in the primaries next year.
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Actually, a vote for Dede is a vote for the democrat ideology. So, their point is?
VOTE CONSERVATIVE!
Sit back down Newt
I think even the KOS clown said her social views were “further left than most Democrats.”
If I want to litsten to a a$$hole make noise ...I’ll just fart. Gingrich is totally worthless. It’s what you get when youtake an unprincipled man.
Why is it that Newt has been hang’n with the Rats lately?
The GOP needs a long-term strategy that does NOT include electing left-of-center politicians to office.
Duh, Newt.
What has happened to you?
He has been Newtered.
True that.
Significant /facepalm here.
So the nimrod republican incumbent leaves his seat to be Sec of the Army? Hussein and the rest of the left are laughing their butts over over HIS stupidity!
Why do I get the feeling that this is the hill the Republican Party wants to die on?
Clinton won with 43% of the vote. Had Bush 43 not broken his pledge on taxes, spoken of new world orders and such he’s have won. Had Perot not pulled out of the race he likely would have won. They have no one but themselves to blame.
And get your facts straight. This woman is more liberal than the Democrat candidate in the race as evidenced by Kos, Acorn, the unions etc backing HER. Not only that but she refuses to pledge she won’t run as a Democrat next year if she wins. She Is being propped up by Republican voters because of the GOP’s endorsement. But Hoffman is drawing the most independent votes. Which means if the GOP backed the hell off and supported the conservative to begin with, they’d be winning the race. So Newt is wrong. His choice is not the conservative choice and not the one better positioned to win.
Yeah, right. She’s pro-life and pro-gay marriage. Am I going to vote for this dame? Not in a million years.
AND she’s pro-choice and pro-gay marriage. Who needs that?
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