Posted on 10/24/2009 3:11:24 PM PDT by reaganaut1
Lowville, N.Y.
At the Lewis County GOP dinner at the Elks Lodge, Republican congressional candidate Dede Scozzafava sounds defensive and even a little bit angry. "Some of us in the room might have a disagreement about a couple of my issues," she says to the 100 or so Republicans at the dinner. "I believe they're individual choice issues. I believe those are conservative values. I don't think government belongs in individual lives. I think those are personal decisions that need to be made. I think that's conservatism."
To hear Scozzafava tell it, her support for gay marriage and taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand (the couple of issues that she isn't naming) are the only things a Republican might disagree with her about. But she leans left on plenty of other issues, too. She supported the $787 billion stimulus package, favors card-check (which would do away with secret-ballot union elections), and won't say how she'd vote on the House Democrats' health care bill. Her liberalism has created an opening in this Republican-leaning district for the grassroots insurgency of conservative Doug Hoffman. A Siena poll released on October 15 showed Hoffman trailing Scozzafava 23 to 29 percent, and internal polls have them even. But both trail Democrat Bill Owens (who garnered 33 percent in the Siena poll) in the race to succeed John McHugh in New York's 23rd congressional district--which stretches from Lake Ontario to Vermont on the Canadian border. McHugh vacated the seat (held by Republicans continuously since 1871) this fall after being confirmed as Obama's Army secretary.
Scozzafava's problems as a candidate aren't limited to ideology. She simply rubs people the wrong way. The Siena poll reported that--by a 16-point margin--voters who had seen her commercials found that the ads made "them less likely to support her."
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She sounds like a Libertarian, not a conservative. There is a difference, often a marked difference.
Does anyone know what happens if none get over 50%? Does the most votes win? Or will there be a runoff.
Dede is a DIABLO.
As much as I appreciate Hoffman going after Dede, he should start focusing on Owen. Let us in the base go after the diablo, he needs to start drawing independents and Republicans to make it a true two-way contest. He has the resources, but he might need a bit more to beat both liberals in a resounding way.
most of the Washington GOP establishment is backing the official Republican candidate.
He's straight up with that, and if the OP (not GOP) loses after ponying up big dough, Thompson and Palin will wield considerable power, to the dismay of the OP insider RINOs.
You obviously don't have a clue as to what a libertarian is. Maybe this will help you with your total cluelessness (or maybe not)
“Libertarian, not a conservative”
No she is a die hard leftist.
No need to get huffy. She presents herself as a fiscal conservative with social liberal stands. That’s pretty much libertarian.
If she is not actually fiscally conservative, my bad. I didn’t know.
Conservatism is not “government out of everybody’s lives.” Libertarianism is.
And I used to be a member of the Libertarian party, so I don’t need a link.
She is neither libertarian nor conservative. These terms have no relevance in her past history as a state assembly member, as in her support for abortion, support for same-sex marriage, affiliations with ACORN, and her husband is a bigtime union leader.
What the heck, she is even more liberal than the DEMOCRAT in the race.
Which means Doug Hoffman is the only “real” conservative.
Just because Newt Gingrich has chosen to play “Don Quixote” still doesn’t make her into a Republican.
Dang Newt, he is so spotty.
Pro-abortionists will never be conservative. Move to the end of the RINO line DeDe
There are only a handful of states that have run-offs. I looked it up because of the NJ race. I don’t remember seeing that NY was one that had run-offs. NJ doesn’t.
Eight States that have runoff elections
Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas
This is big. Very big. With 2 years to 2012 the conservatives may have a real option. If Hoffman pulls this off all “Hell” is going to break loose for the RNC. A three party system may save the country regardless of what Rush says.
I think I know who Newt used to be, but I have no clue as to what he has become. Does anyone know who he is, I would like to know.
DIABLO is such a meaningful moniker!
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