The GOP's New York Fiasco - Republicans try to lose a House seat

Wall Street Journal ^ | 10/21/09

[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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[firebrand]

We could start here. Make people aware--most people are completely ignorant of this, relying as they do on the communist media. Check out the map, and note the remark about follow-up.

[Typelouder]

Just fired off my email to Hannity. I told him couldn’t watch his interview with Gingrich Monday night and that I’d hate to put his show on my banned list with O’Reilly.

[Henry Belden]

Incidentally, former Republican “Leader” Mondello is perpetually under investigation. His behavior makes you wonder if the democrats worked a deal for him to lose key districts to avoid indictment.

I think you nailed it. I had the same funny feeling about the Tedisco-Murphy special election earlier this year in NY-20, the other district where Republicans have a large enrollment edge.

[ellery]

What a freeking disaster. Incidentally, former Republican “Leader” Mondello is perpetually under investigation. His behavior makes you wonder if the democrats worked a deal for him to lose key districts to avoid indictment.

Very interesting.

[gorilla_warrior]

Staying at home will get an ultraliberal elected
Our political system is illegitimate. Our elections are rigged. I choose not to validate the charade.

[gorilla_warrior]

This is not the time to sit anything out. The future of our country depends on our actions now.

Neither government nor politics nor elections nor voting will solve the problem. We need to split the country to allow freedom-loving Americans to restore Constitutional freedoms. We need to repudiate the debt that the liberal fascists in both parties are using to enslave us. The Republican party elites will never allow Free Americans to control it. The two-party system is a rigged game.