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The G.O.P. Stalinists Invade Upstate New York
The New York Times ^ | October 31, 2009 | Frank Rich

Posted on 10/31/2009 4:44:23 PM PDT by GoldStandard

BARACK OBAMA’S most devilish political move since the 2008 campaign was to appoint a Republican congressman from upstate New York as secretary of the Army. This week’s election to fill that vacant seat has set off nothing less than a riotous and bloody national G.O.P. civil war. No matter what the results in that race on Tuesday, the Republicans are the sure losers. This could be a gift that keeps on giving to the Democrats through 2010, and perhaps beyond.

The governors’ races in New Jersey and Virginia were once billed as the marquee events of Election Day 2009 — a referendum on the Obama presidency and a possible Republican “comeback.” But preposterous as it sounds, the real action migrated to New York’s 23rd, a rural Congressional district abutting Canada. That this pastoral setting could become a G.O.P. killing field, attracting an all-star cast of combatants led by Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, William Kristol and Newt Gingrich, is a premise out of a Depression-era screwball comedy. But such farces have become the norm for the conservative movement — whether the participants are dressing up in full “tea party” drag or not.

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2009; backfire; hoffman; newyork; ny2009; ny23; silly; stalinwascommie; teaparty; wrong
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1 posted on 10/31/2009 4:44:24 PM PDT by GoldStandard
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To: GoldStandard

I’ve got your civil war right here!


2 posted on 10/31/2009 4:46:03 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/jimrobfr)
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To: GoldStandard

The wussies are scared....


3 posted on 10/31/2009 4:46:07 PM PDT by goodnesswins
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To: GoldStandard

Is this guy on something? Why post this tripe?


4 posted on 10/31/2009 4:46:24 PM PDT by wewereright
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To: GoldStandard

Is this guy on something? Why post this tripe?


5 posted on 10/31/2009 4:46:30 PM PDT by wewereright
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To: GoldStandard

Is this guy on something? Why post this tripe?


6 posted on 10/31/2009 4:46:35 PM PDT by wewereright
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To: GoldStandard

Frank Rich , a commie writer for the NY slimes, will have to eat these words next week. (I pray)


7 posted on 10/31/2009 4:46:42 PM PDT by fish hawk (It's sad that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. Isaac Asimov)
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To: GoldStandard
Hehehe...written before they knew that Scozzafava suspended her New York Congressional Campaign and threw her support behind Hoffman.

LOL! NYT, can you spell...S A R A H !!! - the RINO slayer.



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"...like that grizzly guards her cubs, as a mother naturally guards her own. I will keep that vow wherever the road may lead." - Sarah Palin, July 26, 2009

8 posted on 10/31/2009 4:46:55 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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Just keep telling yourself that Frank, until next November. Then you can whine about “temper tantrums”.


9 posted on 10/31/2009 4:47:12 PM PDT by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG 49) "Freedom's Fortress")
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To: GoldStandard
Man the sour grapes are pretty sour right now that the vote did not get split and the conservatives are not “dead” like this author and lots of others have been preaching since Obama was elected. LOL
10 posted on 10/31/2009 4:47:26 PM PDT by HwyChile
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To: GoldStandard

Some serious whistling past the graveyard on that one.


11 posted on 10/31/2009 4:47:36 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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Good Lord, everyone at the NYSlimes is smoking wacky tobacky.


12 posted on 10/31/2009 4:48:16 PM PDT by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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We're the Stalinists and they're the Free Thinkers. Yeah, sure, Frank!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus

13 posted on 10/31/2009 4:49:59 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: GoldStandard
But such farces have become the norm for the conservative movement — whether the participants are dressing up in full “tea party” drag or not.

Frank Rich gettin' a little nervous, mebbe?

14 posted on 10/31/2009 4:50:30 PM PDT by stevem
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wrong...wrong...wrong....Obama planned on getting a liberal in this seat and he ain’t gonna


15 posted on 10/31/2009 4:50:30 PM PDT by The Wizard
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Frank Rich is heinous. Looks like a victory here for the Moose Shooter.


16 posted on 10/31/2009 4:50:41 PM PDT by joelt
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To: GoldStandard

Frank Rich is heinous. Looks like a victory here for the Moose Shooter.


17 posted on 10/31/2009 4:50:48 PM PDT by joelt
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I don’t know how you spin a triple loss for your side as a win - but Frank Rich obviously does.


18 posted on 10/31/2009 4:51:02 PM PDT by eclecticEel (The Most High rules in the kingdom of men ... and sets over it the basest of men.)
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To: wewereright

It’s germane to post this tripe because Frank Rich is an “influential” NY Times writer. We should be watching what the enemy thinks because when they get scared and start spinning stupidly, which is what Rich is doing, then you know you’re winning.

You might also want to avoid posting your comment three times, especially want referring to tripe.

Makes you look dumb.

heh.


19 posted on 10/31/2009 4:51:27 PM PDT by Fishtalk
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20 posted on 10/31/2009 4:51:36 PM PDT by McGruff (We're Going Rogue Baby!)
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