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N.Y. GOP rift spreads to races in other states (GOP Establishment vs Tea Party)
Washington Times ^ | 10/29/2009 | Kara Rowland

Posted on 10/29/2009 3:25:47 AM PDT by markomalley

Doug Hoffman's insurgent campaign in New York's special House race, which had already split national Republican leaders, is now turning into a litmus test for other Republican congressional candidates running in 2010 to prove their conservative credentials.

Liz Lauber, running in the Republican primary for a House seat in Missouri, this week made support for Mr. Hoffman a campaign issue, calling on five-term Republican incumbent Rep. Todd Akin to endorse and donate money to the Conservative Party nominee who is running in a special election Nov. 3.

Mr. Akin did endorse Mr. Hoffman, though his office said it was not a response to Mrs. Lauber's challenge but rather to calls received from constituents asking where the congressman stood on the race.

"The New York special election is becoming a referendum for the heart and soul of the Republican Party across the country," said Mrs. Lauber, a former congressional staffer. "I stepped up to the plate and threw my support [behind Mr. Hoffman] because I'm listening here to what people are saying at home."

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In a sign of Mr. Hoffman's growing support, Democrats appear to feel more threatened by him than Mrs. Scozzafava.

In a new TV ad, a group called Accountable America attempts to link Mr. Hoffman to the Wall Street financial crisis. The liberal group MoveOn.org e-mailed its supporters Wednesday asking for money to defeat Mr. Hoffman, who it said represents "tea-baggers and hate groups."

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


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To: lquist1
Let’s have a national Conservative Party that can either endorse the Repub candidate or run someone as a Conservative Party candidate.

I like "Conservative Forum" better than "Conservative Party". It sounds more like a gathering of thinkers and ideas and less like what we already have - a herd of money-chasing cattle who eat what the grass roots produce while dumping on the grass what cattle dump on grass, all the while being prodded by addle-brained party bosses on horseback.

21 posted on 10/29/2009 4:11:52 AM PDT by Tonytitan
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To: lquist1

You correctly understand the problem—the GOP is accountable to no one. Conservatives are plantation slaves.


22 posted on 10/29/2009 4:12:20 AM PDT by Huck ("He that lives on hope will die fasting"- Ben Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac)
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To: paulycy

Nice graphic. But you might think about changing it a little bit (considering the connotation)


23 posted on 10/29/2009 4:12:45 AM PDT by markomalley (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus)
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To: markomalley
considering the connotation

Screw the connotation. That is for the infantile to giggle about. The tea bag gives the message clearly, is used at the protests and is not going to be sullied by the scum on the left.

95% of decent people in the United States don't even know about that connotation.

So, I understand why you might say that but I strongly disagree, FRiend.

24 posted on 10/29/2009 4:19:24 AM PDT by paulycy (Predatory Pricing = Public Option = Unethical Competition.)
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To: Conservativegreatgrandma

really?

name more than 2 republicans that even come close to actinga nd voting conservative, as has pretty much been the rule for republicans since I was born 56 years ago


25 posted on 10/29/2009 4:43:11 AM PDT by SF_Redux
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To: markomalley
A sign in the boys’ locker room of my high school in the 50’s read “Experience is a tough teacher. She gives the test first and the lesson afterward.” How true. And we're administering the test to the NRC now. The lesson is that we might not be able to win on our own, but we can damn sure keep you from winning too! In other words, we are going to see to it that you HAVE to listen to us if you have any hope of winning. Part two of the lesson is that we can last longer than you can. Our lives go on day to day with politics being a sideline for us. It's the other way around for you, politics is your life and if you don't win no one will contribute to you.

So, even if we don't win the whole shebang this time, we'll have made the point. And we'll keep making it until you get it.

26 posted on 10/29/2009 4:51:51 AM PDT by jwparkerjr (God Bless America, and wake us up while you're about it!)
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To: Landru; Condor51; stephenjohnbanker; maggief; GOPJ; Just mythoughts
Stupid Repubs still don't get it----they held power for a generation b/c of conservatives.

Then power-mad pukeneos started squatting in the party with their malevolent plan to takeover----kick conservatives to the curb and cleanse the party of religious voters. Braindead pukenoes figured that worked "so well" for Dems all those years (/sarc). The pukes are responsible for ALL Repub losses---they are a cancer in the party and they must be excised.

Any candidate who wants conservative support MUST punblicy renounce the pukeneos.

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ATTENTION CONSERVATIVES---PASS THE WORD to tea partiers, 9/12 marchers, pro-lifers,defense of marriage; 2nd amendment, anti ObamaCare; anti-amnesty, anti-cap/trade. These are the terms under which we permit solid conservatives to earn our support:

(1) Your conservative group holds an official position within the campaign;

(2) Your group's issue is affirmed in the candidate's platform;

(3) Your group is in attendance at all campaign strategy meetings;

(4) Your group holds a paid job in the campaign;

(5) Your group holds a position in the winning candidate's elective office.

(6) The candidate publicly renounces pukeneos.

27 posted on 10/29/2009 4:59:56 AM PDT by Liz (ALL FOX---ALL THE TIME---24/7)
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To: SF_Redux
Redux, I'd be glad to do it if you would open your eyes and stop believing whoever it is that is feeding you this propaganda you believe.

My congressman is Steve King. Do you know what he did yesterday?

This guy is all over TV consistently and yet there was a poster here on FR who claimed they had never heard of him.

Do you not think it possible that you're looking at the overall picture through a very small tube?

If you open your mind, and take a look at congress, you're going to find a core of very conservative Republican senators and representatives.

Did you see this thread today? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/2373517/posts

Now, read this and continue to hate Republicans!!

28 posted on 10/29/2009 5:00:02 AM PDT by Conservativegreatgrandma (Al Franken--the face of the third-party voters)
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To: markomalley

“considering the connotation”

I too didn’t have a clue what that connotation meant until all the liberal talking heads started giggling about it. Of course they would understand it, they are more likely “tea-baggers”!
Leave it in there, we need to force some remembrance of history! Let it repeat itself!


29 posted on 10/29/2009 5:00:41 AM PDT by vanilla swirl
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To: markomalley

Going Rogue Baby!


30 posted on 10/29/2009 5:00:52 AM PDT by McGruff (We're Going Rogue Baby!)
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To: Conservativegreatgrandma
"If you open your mind, and take a look at congress, you're going to find a core of very conservative Republican senators and representatives. Did you see this thread today? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/2373517/posts Now, read this and continue to hate Republicans!! "

no thanks to you, I hear the same exact wording from liberals about their man

31 posted on 10/29/2009 5:04:21 AM PDT by SF_Redux
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To: lquist1
I think we should take the NY model and nationalize it-should have done that long ago actually. Let’s have a national Conservative Party that can either endorse the Repub candidate or run someone as a Conservative Party candidate.

Better idea would be to have the Conservative organization focus on the primaries, ensure that a solid conservative runs in as many Republican primaries as possible, and push conservatives to fully fund conservative candidates.

Make the Party Establishment irrelevant. Conservatives should cease to send money to any Republican Party organization, but only to individual conservative candidates.

32 posted on 10/29/2009 5:05:49 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Public healthcare looks like it will work as well as public housing did.)
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To: Conservativegreatgrandma

republicans today are further left of cennter than democrats were in the 60’s


33 posted on 10/29/2009 5:06:28 AM PDT by SF_Redux
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To: SF_Redux

You couldn’t be more wrong. You have a lot of emotion invested in your point of view and you’re enjoying it and have no intention of opening your eyes. Too bad.


34 posted on 10/29/2009 5:09:14 AM PDT by Conservativegreatgrandma (Al Franken--the face of the third-party voters)
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To: markomalley
Money, in of itself, isn't working to change the GOP from the inside. Getting involved in the apparatus is.

Lack of attention to the apparatus is how we get RINOs.

The way it works is that you get people in the local party who are lawyers, developers, business people -- people who may occasionally need some strings pulled on their personal behalf.

To such a person, a RINO who can trade favors with the Dems is more valuable than a conservative who stands on ideological principles.

35 posted on 10/29/2009 5:10:49 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Public healthcare looks like it will work as well as public housing did.)
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To: Conservativegreatgrandma
" You couldn’t be more wrong. You have a lot of emotion invested in your point of view and you’re enjoying it and have no intention of opening your eyes. Too bad. "

have you looked in a mirror lately? your talking points come straight out of a liberal play book, you only change the name of the party you promote

36 posted on 10/29/2009 5:13:19 AM PDT by SF_Redux
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To: markomalley

First the GOP/RNC RINO purge, slaughter. Then the Democrats.


37 posted on 10/29/2009 5:17:00 AM PDT by Leisler (It's going to be a hard, long winter)
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To: SF_Redux

Do you know what Congressman King did yesterday?


38 posted on 10/29/2009 5:18:55 AM PDT by Conservativegreatgrandma (Al Franken--the face of the third-party voters)
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To: Huck

May I ask a question. Are you a Huckabee supporter?


39 posted on 10/29/2009 5:21:10 AM PDT by Conservativegreatgrandma (Al Franken--the face of the third-party voters)
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To: deaconjim

I agree. I think the GOP and Republican brands have been demonized by the Demrat left to the extent they are no longer viable labels. In any case, I don’t think either of those labels really enunciate what conservatives are about.

I would prefer something along the lines of Constitution Party. That document, and its relevance to America today, is really what the political fight is about right now.

Of course, if conservatives were able to take back the GOP they could change the label—and the mascot. Anybody have any ideas for a Conservative Party mascot? I’m thinking the bald eagle would do nicely. One reason is obvious. It has been our national symbol for a long time. Another is that it, too, is rising from near extinction.


40 posted on 10/29/2009 5:25:32 AM PDT by dools007
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