That would absolutely be true. That is one reason I don’t mind supporting him from well outside his district. If his district was in line with Scozzafava, I would be more hesitant to involve myself.
Fu-fu2 wrote:
I couldn’t believe that I heard one of the talking heads on the Sunday morning talk shows mutter that Hoffman is closer on the issues to the person in office than Scozzafava?
The guy who was elected to this seat in 2008 had a 71.55% lifetime rating from the American Conservative Union. The R in the race, the “big R” libeRal democRat has a 15% rating from the New York conservatives, and is more liberal than 46 Democrats in the New York state House.
You haven’t read the positions of their previous congressman, John McHugh. And remember that 71.55% lifetime rating from the American Conservative Union. This man won the district last year with 65% of the vote.
east1234 wrote:
A conservative cannot win up there, unfortunately RINO’s are necessary in local elections, NEVER AGAIN for national office.
On the same ballot, John McCain, perceived as a RINO and copromiser, lost this district.
This district votes for conservatives and against RINOs. The RNC and the RCCC made a huge mistake in this race, and they are doubling down and tripling down on it with money donated by conservatives who thought they were supporting the Republican platform. That is fraudulent and corrupt.
Once this election is over, we really need to clean house in the RCCC and the House leadership who supported this libeRal democRat who got the “R” in this race.
We also need to clean up the RCCC, the RNC and other “leaders” who chose to give this woman the “R” in this race.
annalex wrote:
The only way for the GOP to re-gain power on any level is to dump the leftist trash like that.
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Thanks for the information...I’m not familiar with the district. The Illinois RINO’s are working at jamming their candidate down out throats, but there are some solid conservatives also running. With Blago’s fumbling D replacement currently in the governor’s office, the R’s have a good chance of winning the office in this one party state with unemployment over 10% and new taxes and fees being introduced on almost a daily basis.....
It is, of course, true that it is hard for a conservative to win in a left-leaning district.
Still, two things are also true: We don’t know who will turn up and vote if there had been a real conservative in the race. The notion that a district is too liberal to be won is a self-fulfilling expectation.
Second, a conservative who ends up losing still helps the conservative cause by educating the electorate (and not only in his district) and by pulling the entire GOP to the right. Remember that a RINO who wins in, say, NYC, doesn’t just provide a vote that might be useful from time to time. She also has input on the national party platform and the media props her up as a good republican. All that fosters a left-leaning mentality in the GOP, infects others, and does nothing but harm. If NYC is so damn liberal, let them elect their liberal democrats and stop the kabuki dance that damages the entire conservative movement for the sake of one house vote that cannot be counted on anyway.
That the likes of Olympia Snowe pollute the GOP is the fault of the GOP apparatchiks, with their big tent foolishness.