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Re: Scozzafava Campaign in Damage-Control Mode [Mark Steyn]
Steyn Online ^ | 20 Oct 09 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 10/20/2009 2:00:10 PM PDT by xzins

Re: Scozzafava Campaign in Damage-Control Mode [Mark Steyn]

Well, I'm with The Weekly Standard on this one. When a GOP candidate with an entourage winds up calling the cops over a reporter from a pro-GOP publication, that's one seriously dumb campaign — and the ludicrous post-911 call spin only makes it more pathetic.

But here's my bigger thought: After the great summer surge of town halls and tea parties, the Republican Party gets to take the first electoral test of the new public mood and what does it offer the public for a reliable Republican district? A pro-tax pro-card-check liberal Republican as liberal as the liberal Democrat but, unlike the latter, unable even to articulate her positions without calling in the constabulary.

Don't expect too much from 2010. On present form, even if Obamacare leads to ebola outbreaks in 43 states, the GOP will still manage to screw it up.


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: gop; hoffan; liberal; marksteyn; ny2009; ny23; scozzafava; steyn
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1 posted on 10/20/2009 2:00:11 PM PDT by xzins
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To: wmfights; blue-duncan; P-Marlowe; Dr. Eckleburg; pissant
Is the party really this stupid?

Classic Steyn

2 posted on 10/20/2009 2:01:39 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who support our troops pray for their victory!)
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To: xzins

Steyn, as usual, NAILS IT!


3 posted on 10/20/2009 2:02:24 PM PDT by piytar (This tag deleted by the Ministry of Truth. Love Big Brother. Or else!)
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To: xzins

Where is that RINO apologist Cedric when you need her?


4 posted on 10/20/2009 2:04:29 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: ellery

ping


5 posted on 10/20/2009 2:04:58 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: xzins

I love Steyn!

And while I’m still firmly in the ‘Reform the GOP’ camp, I can understand those who have given up on it.


6 posted on 10/20/2009 2:05:03 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: piytar

The only way for the GOP to be more pathetic is to find them in the streets of Calcutta being ministered to by the sisters of charity.


7 posted on 10/20/2009 2:05:23 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who support our troops pray for their victory!)
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To: xzins

Question - why didn’t someone challenge this RINO in the primaries?


8 posted on 10/20/2009 2:06:10 PM PDT by MrB (The only difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: xzins
The GOP is afraid of shaking up their current order of things. The few who are still in power are more interested in holding onto that power. They don't want new conservative "upstarts" upsetting their apple cart.

-PJ

9 posted on 10/20/2009 2:06:36 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (Comprehensive congressional reform legislation only yields incomprehensible bills that nobody reads.)
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To: xzins

Just goes to show that the East Coast RINOs would rather lose than have a conservative win.


10 posted on 10/20/2009 2:06:37 PM PDT by dirtboy
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To: MrB

This is a special election; no primary was held.


11 posted on 10/20/2009 2:08:39 PM PDT by Little Pig (Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici.)
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To: xzins

The GOP still hasn’t figured out that most of the Tea Party crowd is madder at the Republicans than the Democrats.

When your enemies act like your enemies, well you expect that. But when you “friends” stab you in the back, that produces real anger.


12 posted on 10/20/2009 2:09:49 PM PDT by Brookhaven (http://theconservativehand.blogspot.com/)
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To: xzins

Do you have a link that works?


13 posted on 10/20/2009 2:11:28 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: xzins; All
Here's the piece Mark was referencing...

Scozzafava Campaign in Damage-Control Mode

Looks like the RINO's defense is essentially that McCormack hurt her feelings. Pretty weak tonic.

14 posted on 10/20/2009 2:15:33 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: xzins

No more RINOS!!


15 posted on 10/20/2009 2:15:54 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/jimrobfr)
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To: xzins

Scofazza is to the LEFT of Olympia Snowe.

RNC: “Let’s endorse her. In fact, call Newt. He can campaign for her in that district.”

Now you know why I didn’t vote for McCain. I dare ANYBODY to give me sh!t for it!


16 posted on 10/20/2009 2:17:36 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: Jim Robinson

This isn’t any common namby pamby RINO, this is a full fledged leftist backed by KOS!


17 posted on 10/20/2009 2:18:00 PM PDT by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: xzins
Looks like the fools did an admirable job in pissing Bill Kristol off too...

Kristol: A Reporter Does His Job

18 posted on 10/20/2009 2:18:14 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: knews_hound

Steyn ping.


19 posted on 10/20/2009 2:18:19 PM PDT by bamahead (Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding. -- B.H. Liddell Hart)
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To: MrB; potlatch; devolve; PhilDragoo

“Why didn’t someone challenge this RINO in the primaries?”

The GOP selected Dede Scozzafava so they could have someone in the (R) column. Doug Hoffman, her opponent on the right, is a conservative in the (C) column. He’s on the November ballot, but so is the (D).

http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/10/08/scozzafava-v-hoffman/


20 posted on 10/20/2009 2:19:53 PM PDT by ntnychik
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