I think this race is an important test for the TEA Party movement, the 9-12ers and conservative grass roots. It is an opportunity for us to send a strong message to the RNC and RCCC. We need to push Hoffman to victory. If we do this, we have a stronger position to “clean up&rdquo the Republican party and return it to core principles and conservative positions and candidates. If Hoffman fails, the RINO leadership will blame this on conservatives, not on their own foolishness in selecting a candidate who is too liberal to hold the Republican base.
Please, send Hoffman a donation. I wish we would get behind him as strongly as we got behind Joe Wilson last month.
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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The Republican Party and the Conservative Party in District 23 need to sit down and work out a deal.
True on all points - that is your comment, not the SRM propaganda.
The worst this that could happen is Scozzafava wins. After all, if the donk wins, what difference will it make in the House? Of course Hoffman wining would be best!
Funny, how the Virginia and New Jersey governors’ races aren’t the measuring stick of how well the GOP is doing...
Dede Scozzafava takes NO conservative votes, though she may seriously split the REPUBLICAN vote.
Once again, Resident (Pres_ent) Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., or Barry Soetoro, or Mr Michelle Robinson, or Sock-Puppet, supposedly the son of an out-of-control teenager and a Kenyan exchange student, has managed to eke a vote out of a district where once even “blue-dog” was a dirty word.
All is not lost. Possibly, the conservative, Doug Hoffman, culd still pull this one out of the fire.
After all, he is not Ross Perot.
Not really a test of much of anything with a GOP candidate who holds most of the positions of a liberal Dim.
Let the Wookie (Democrat) win. We are better off with a Rat than a Kos-endorsed Specter-clone.
Let the Dem win. Screw it. He’s only in there for a year. And he’ll get wiped out in ‘10 by Hoffman (without a RINO to split vote).
Scozzafava and Hoffman are splitting the conservative vote.
No, they’re splitting the Republican vote, the conservative vote, AP, is going to Hoffman!
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Electoral fusion is an arrangement where two or more political parties support a common candidate, pooling the votes for all those parties. By offering to endorse or nominate a major party’s candidate, minor parties can influence the candidate’s platform.
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1.1 United Kingdom
1.2 United States
1.2.1 New York
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In 1864 the Democratic Party split into two wings, over the peace question. The War Democrats fused with the Republicans to elect a Democratic Vice President, Andrew Johnson, and re-elect a Republican President, Abraham Lincoln.
Occasionally, popular candidates for local office have succeeded in being nominated by both Republican and Democratic Parties. In 1946, prior to the current ban on fusion being enacted in that state, Republican Governor of California Earl Warren (a future Chief Justice of the United States) managed to win the nominations of the Republican, Democratic, and Progressive Parties.
In the 1991 Louisiana gubernatorial election, controversial white supremacist David Duke, running as a Republican, unexpectedly made his way to second place in the state’s jungle primary. Many prominent Republicans endorsed his Democratic opponent Edwin Edwards. While not a de jure example of electoral fusion, it was an unusual example of both major parties joining against a candidate.
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See also: Elections in New York and Qualified New York Parties
Fusion has the highest profile in New York, where it was a major weapon against Tammany Hall. Small parties significant in large part for their fused ballot lines include the Working Families Party, Right to Life Party, Liberal Party, Independence Party, and Conservative Party. Most judicial elections are won by candidates endorsed by more than two parties.
In the 2002 New York gubernatorial election, Andrew Cuomo got the New York State Liberal Party nomination, and was running against Carl McCall for the Democratic nomination. McCall had secured the Working Families Party nomination. Cuomo dropped out, and endorsed McCall. This led to the Liberal party not getting the 50,000 votes for governor that it needed for an automatic place on the ballot, and led to the Liberal party becoming defunct.
Please add this to your profile in as it could clear up some confusion in this race! J.S.
The Dems want Texas I was reading DU the other night and they were bragging how Texas is more blue now and that they should all concentrate on and campaign for Democrats running in any TX election.
They aren’t splitting the conservative vote. Hoffman is sttracting the conservatives. The Liberal appointed by the GOP is attracting the party first crowd.
As for Obama...LOL
Sorry Libs, try as you might but your pet blue dogs in Congress aren’t going to believe a race where the “Republican” and the “Conservative” carry the majority vote as a referendum endorsing your agenda. This is a battle between the GOP establishment and conservatives. You guys are just bystanders hoping to benefit from the fall out because your agenda isn’t enough to win it for you.
Could a Wave be Building?
Townhall.com | October 2009 | George Will
Posted on 10/15/2009 4:41:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
Edited on 10/15/2009 6:31:52 AM PDT by Admin Moderator
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