Steele had nothing to do with this nomination. I believe it was the local (corrupt) county chairman in that isolated district who nominated Dede because of her husband's money and contracting ties.
The Conservative Party in New York has only one purpose: to keep the Republicans more or less honest. They don’t like to split with the Republican Party in NY, and only do so when they must.
True, although they(the Conservative party) has endorsed Dede in the past).
This is one of those cases when they must. Because this candidate is just obscene.
The Conservative party gave her conservative ratings of between 45% and 60% in past years. This year, they gave her a rating of (yes it's obscene)15%.
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.