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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.