Markos Moulitsas, founder of The Daily Kos has endorsed Scozzafava. Dede Scozzafava has also been endorsed by NYSUT, the largest labor union in New York, and an affiliate of the National Education Association.
Scozzafava also holds these positions:
Scozzafava has also run in past elections on the Working Families Party (a progressive party associated with ACORN) line on the ballot.
This lady isn’t a RINO, she is a big “R” libeRal democRat.
There are also 17 RINOs in the house who have donated funds to this LibeRal democRat's campaign. They include Boehner and Cantor. I don’t have a full list, but I will be looking for it. These unprincipled RINO enablers should be targeted for elimination in the primaries next year.
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I support Doug Hoffman for Congress (PayPal). Please, spread the word about this important election on November 3, 2009 in New York’s 23rd congressional district. |
LOL. He was simply asking about her stands on certain issues. Honest answers would have made her look pretty bad. And that exceeded her comfort level.
Betting on the underdog has always made the game more fun to watch, so what the hell. I sent Hoffman $20 bucks and now I’ve got a horse in this race.
Calling Newt G. Calling Newt G. Need more money for your canidate in NY!
The GOP/RNC will do anything to keep CP Hoffman out.
No freek’n way do they want a ‘Conservative Party’.
Just the very idea of a conservative party is way way more scary than a total Obama commi/socialist Democrat party.
Like a flash, the GOP/RNC could lose 1/3 or more of Republicans, with I feel, more than half defecting to a Conservative Party with in a few years.
Then the GOP will have to align, fold into the Democrat party where they will be most comfortable with big government, big finance, anti-Constitutionalists that in fact the GOP is.
Right now we and the idea of a Conservative or Conservative Populist party is the biggest worry and threat to the RNC. Obama is very much their friend, as with no effort, nothing Obama has driven, forced voters to say on the liberal GOP political plantation.
There is definitely something unprecedented here, and I have thought so from the beginning. This Dede woman is a rare kind of political animal way beyond the usual RINO we’re all used to. I can’t think of many nominal Republicans who could garner as many Democrat votes as she may very well garner:this is apparently some kind of conscious, and idiotic Republican strategy, or maybe a Democratic strategy——in which case it’s conniving, cynical, and self-serving.Whose strategy it is depends on how she fares vote-wise, unless she drops out. THere HAS to be some logic to it. Think about it: she’s like an Arlen -Specter-in-waiting, just as if she was meant to REPLACE him after his “defection”. Point is, she has ALREADY defected, but still wears the wrong label.
She can pretend to be Republican, and somehow “fit in” with the current flabby parameters of what it means to be a Republican, with the blessing of Michael Steele, did I hear, and NEWT GINGRICH???????, and passing that test, be counted on to behave legislatively in a certain acceptable way, even if barely acceptable......in any event, she is perceived by the still-official “leaders” of the Party as being a more “electable” candidate than Doug Hoffman.
THat’s what it comes down to. I live in New Jersey, and know lots in NY, but don’t know how many up in the 23rd District. It doesn’t matter: this race has rightly been pegged as very important and will surely be symbolic of where Steele and his minions want to take the party and its elected representatives. I think it would be stupid for any of us to “beg” or try to coerce the Establishment Pubbies to change their minds and get behind the real Republican/Conservative. They have ALREADY shown their hand. Let’s take them at their word, and accept what they’ve already shown us THEY ARE. THEN , we can start pressing to get rid of them, STARTING with the ludicrous and irrelevant Steele.
For those who would like to bet on Hoffman, Intrade just opened a contract on that race. Support your conservative candidate AND make money doing it if he wins. Pretty cool.
Special Election: NY 23rd District (to replace John McHugh)
Contract Bid Ask Last Vol Chge
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Democratic Party candidate to win M Trade - - - 0 0
NY23.SPECIAL.REP
Republican Party candidate to win M Trade - - - 0 0
NY23.SPECIAL.OTHER
Any other candidate to win M Trade 10.0 - - 0 0