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.
There’s just not much you can say about what a man has not written about.
If you would just give one of those specific subjects you find lacking, then I could at least do a google search on Steyn to see if he ever addressed it.
It sure looks that way. Some people are blaming the Scuzzafava debacle on the scumbag "GOP" committee in New York that selected this liberal Democrat to run on the GOP ticket, but that excuse turns lame when you see people like Gingrich vociferously supporting her, and key Republican "leaders" in Washington DC sending checks to her. Yipes.
I found it really hard to believe that Newt made a public point of supporting her. As a party-man, he could be forgiven had it just been a matter of sending one’s monthly check. But, you’ve gotta wonder if he really read what she stood for. If he knew about her and still supported her, then he definitely isn’t the person to lead the party out of the abyss.
There was no primary; it is a special election.
Scozzafava was "nominated" by the eleven GOP county chairmen in the District.
Proving, I suppose, that it takes more than eleven GOP county chairmen to screw in the light bulb...
Oh, regardless of this latest blunder, Newt is definitely not the person to lead the GOP out of the abyss.
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