Posted on 10/17/2009 9:47:52 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
The media is all over the new Siena poll which shows Dede Scozzafava's support collapsing in New York's 23rd Congressional District. This is a special election in November in a district that has elected a Republican since 1871. But party bosses saw fit to nominate a woman who is not only pro-gay marriage and pro-abortion, she has an economic record that has lead the Club For Growth and the American Conservative Union to target her and endorse the Conservative party candidate Doug Hoffman, in spite of Newt Gingrich's endorsement....
What's at stake in this race? As Michelle Malkin has written, it's not just the heart and soul of the GOP, but its brain. Whose idea was it to nominate an extreme ACORN-friendly liberal for this seat? Their silly heads should roll.
(Excerpt) Read more at corner.nationalreview.com ...
This is New York and people are surprised? They have no true Republican Party there, just superliberal democrats and regular liberal democrats, called RINOs in normal states.
No, Steele is head of the RNC, which doesn’t pick congressional candidates. But he has recently said, loudly and publicly and several times, that he supports pro-abortion Republican politicians. That doesn’t help.
In some districts you may need such people, but they should keep quiet about it. And so should Steele.
The Conservative Party leaders in NY really don’t want to split the vote if they can help it. For instance, when Rudy was running against hillary, they didn’t require him to pretend to be pro-life or pro-family, since he seemed to be the only person who could beat her. All they asked was that Rudy should KEEP QUIET during the campaign about his known support for partial birth abortion. Rudy stupidly refused. Then he had to back out with marital and health problems, so the issue never came to the crunch.
We really, really don’t need pro-abortion candidates from districts where a pro-lifer could easily get elected. It weakens the party and violates the principle that conservatives should have three legs (metaphorically). Because we need that coalition to win on the national level.
I wish. They, the Republican elite, are evil just like the Democrats and working hand in hand to destroy the country.
That I’m now an Independent
and donated to her opponent.
Luckily, we have two diametrically opposed parties in America: The Communist Democrats, and the Socialist Republicans.
What is worse is that the Dems will win a seat they should not have. Only a miracle would get Hoffman elected. So with Dede dead, the Dem dials in at that district. Yipe.
Another way to put it, HOT vs. NOT!
Re#19 It worked. Scozzafava dropped out today. ;^)
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