Posted on 10/20/2009 6:36:45 PM PDT by ellery
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The November 2 contest will replace nine-term Republican John McHugh, who resigned to become Secretary of the Army. President Obama carried the district along the Canadian border with 52%, but George W. Bush carried it twice and Republicans outnumber Democrats by 45,000 or so. With voters alarmed about the economy and runaway spending, this ought to be an easy GOP retention.
Yet party bosses have managed to nominate a rare Republican who could lose: Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava, whose liberal record has caused voters to flee to Doug Hoffman, a business executive who is running on the Conservative line. Mr. Hoffman has more than 20% support in the latest poll, which is only a few points behind Ms. Scozzafava, who is only a little behind Democratic lawyer Bill Owens.
Democrats want to portray this race as a familiar moderate-conservative GOP split, but the real issue is why Ms. Scozzafava is a Republican at all. She has voted for so many tax increases that the Democrat is attacking her as a tax raiser. She supported the Obama stimulus, and she favors "card check" to make union organizing easier, or at least she did until a recent flip-flop. She has run more than once on the line of the Working Families Party, which is aligned with Acorn. Her voting record in Albany puts her to the left of nearly half of the Democrats in the assembly. She also favors gay marriage, which is to the left of Mr. Obama.
GOP county chairmen pushed Ms. Scozzafava for the job in July at the behest of GOP state party chairman Joe Mondello, who has since (and blessedly) stepped down. Mr. Mondello also hand-picked loser James Tedisco in another special Congressional election earlier this year.
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How can anybody, any organization be this fricking brain-dead.
As far as I can tell, this Modello loser is probably the reason why this is happening. Good riddance.
Dems infiltrating the R side of the tickets? I’ve often thought of registering as a conservative Dem to try and move their party back to the middle.
Not a chance--staying at home is counterproductive.
They’re not brain-dead—they’re doing this purposefully.
Sincere conservatives embarrass the current leaders of the GOP, and threaten their gad-about-town, backslapping, crony cocktail-circuit lifestyles. Overt and covert democrats play along.
Exactly—the leaders of the RNC, the NRCC, and other false-flag organizations think their congressional seats are safe, so they can do anything they want.
They need to be disabused of that notion.
While we are at it, lets clean up PA as well.
Michele Malkin comes out in June with a corruption book that hits the Republican party. This should be great.
Ginny Brown-Waite is supporting Marco Rubio in Florida. It’s surprising that she would do this.
I agree that Hoffman needs our support and all Republican and Conservative votes in his district.
Just a point of fact: New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) is an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers (AFL-CIO), not the National Education Association.
Any wonder so many of us have stopped sending money to the RNC?
Remember just a few months ago when Kantor and a few other elites had a closed kick-off party for a “listening tour” of rank-and-file voters?
We’re still waiting for Kantor and his elittist ilk to come by.
PA is beyond repair I’m afraid.
The current situation may turn out to be a blessing in disguise, after all. Remember that there is a redistricting after the 2010 census. This is the ONLY GOP seat in the NY congressional delegation, and NY will lose one or two seats. The Dems control the state legislature, and they will make this district DISAPPEAR. So, if the GOP wins, it’s a one-term hold, IMHO. However, it has caused the conservative base of the party, even in NY, to rebel against the bosses, and exert grass roots strength. It will send a message..
It is not the only GOP seat. Peter King holds the other, if you can still call him a member of the GOP.
Good post. It illuminates exactly what the GOP’s problem is.
Meanwhile, my checkbook remains slammed shut.
Amen.
You are correct..what I neglected to say is that because of the geography of Long Island..i.e, that it is an island..it is almost impossible to redistrict King out of his seat..
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