This was on Drudge last night from another source:
Republican in NY House race suspends campaign (Dierdre Scozzafava)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2375663/posts
Original Article here (WTOP FM)>
http://www.wtopnews.com/?nid=213&sid=1788406
She is trying to play wounded dove and HIDE the FACT that she is a total LIBERAL and as such she would govern, vote and work in that way. She knows DAMN what this was about. It was about the LOCAL GOP board selecting a LIBERAL to be in the GOP. The appeasement of the left is OVER. I will never be politie about it again. They have brought about this cut-throat effort by IGNORING us. The GOP needed this spanking and I hope they continue to get it so that the leadership at the top will come home instead of acting like the spoiled rotton prodigal son who still has a bunch of money to spend wastefully.
Jim, this type of nonsense is why your fellow reporters are having to find new jobs.
Gee with all that funding being used to distort her record. Yeah, right, but what about the $900,000 big ones she received from the RNC?
I'd bet $100 that she was "encouraged" by the powers to be to bow out such as they were scarred witless to be shown as no longer being the arbiter of who will be acceptable candidates even if they are not Conservatives and see their influence fading fast.
This could be HUGE and a springboard for "we the people" to start taking back our country and send a shot across the bow of the DC Establishment: Lead, follow or get out of the way!!!
PS: Captain Zero and his corrupt Chicago thug minions can NOT possibly afford to lose both VA & NJ so look for some shenanigans and "irregularities" in the Garden State!
She got out because she couldnt win, now she is running off at the mouth. She would be better off to just STFU.
Note that she uses the term opponent to refer to conservatives, not to the Democrat.
Here's what I have to say about RINOs: everybody who is willing to vote Republican is our friend. I don't care if they're gay. I don't care if they're pro-abortion. I don't care if they hate Bush, I don't care if they're opposed to the war. I don't care if they voted for Obama. I don't care if they want to ban guns.
I don't care.
We need every vote, every dollar, every person willing to have a GOP yard sign in their yards and a GOP bumper sticker on their cars, and every volunteer we can lay our hands on. We need warm bodies at rallies and protests, who stand up with signs in their hands and yell.
But we also need groups like mine who work quietly, behind the scenes, to convince RINOs to drop out of the race and to convince donors to write checks. This takes patience and diplomacy. We can't be seen to represent a bloodthirsty tribe of Neanderthals, and that is exactly the way MoveOn and DailyKos and Democratic Underground, followed by the Huffington Post, and then followed by ABC/NBC/CBS/CNN/MSNBC and the New York Times/Washington Post/LA Times will paint us that way if they can.
So we need to treat Dede Scozzafava with respect. She did the right thing.
And in the future, we need to be absolutely certain that we nominate true conservatives, whenever and wherever it's possible to do so. We need candidates who support genuine conservative values: strong on national security, tough on crime and illegal aliens, and speaking out for limited government, lower taxes and the right to keep and bear arms. Fearless in the face of adversity.
her opponents managed to portray her as a liberal...
HUH? Seems to me you did that all by yourself.
“Our area had become the battleground for people from outside the congressional district. And after the election is over, all of them will get back on their buses and go back home.”***
I would like pictures, and names of all those folks on buses. You must have them confused with the tactics of the party you seem much more aligned with.
“I was talking to a constituent about the dairy crisis.”
Apparently the crises of conservatism just snuck the heck up on you.
This article looks like one sided hit piece. One of the big talking points being used against Hoffman is that he is out of touch with the district and doesn’t live there, which is what the article tries to reinforce.
The Watertown editor needs to remember that this isn’t a race for County Commissioner. Everyone in the country has a stake in who gets elected to Congress because we all have to live under the laws they pass. Certainly the locals in the district have the biggest stake but there is nothing illegitimate in “outsiders” playing a role in the election. I’m quite sure the megabucks from the unions and DNC et alia were not raised locally. Even KOS was heavily involved, hardly local interest groups. Look at all the lefty blogs venting on the story on Memeorandum.
Hopefully the local paper will be equally vigorous in pointing out that it isn’t only Hoffman who has “outsiders” supporting him.
It became a referendum on policies enacted far from there that will override and supersede anything pertaining to or important to the people there, that is the problem.
There comes a point when you have to fight for what you believe. This fight is taking place now. The leaders of the Republican party look on the base as more dangerous than the left.
The GOP leaders where finally given the power to enact the conservative agenda in 2003. They failed to even try! In fact they went the other way! Unless the leadership of the Republican party comes to understand that we don't care about them, unless they care about the ideas that took them to Washington. I can support a moderate Republican in a left leaning district or state. What is not acceptable is supporting moderates in elections where a conservative can win!
You were running for a Congressional seat, not County Comissioner Dede. Holding a seat in Congress involves a lot more then just representing your district.
Hey, I didn’t get the message to go up there on the bus!! What?/s
That is true.
Thing is, whoever is elected will be voting on history changing, game changing national issues in the congress, not so much local issues. We have these massive deficits, out of control spendng, cap and trade, 0bamacare etc that need to be stopped, and Miss Scozzafava, we are not so sure you will vote the right way on these nation destroying issues, given your record in the New York State assembly.
“”Our area had become the battleground for people from outside the congressional district. And after the election is over, all of them will get back on their buses and go back home.”*** “
All true, but than she had to be stopped, for the good of the country.
re: Our congressional race had become a referendum on issues far from here
And so it should. When you become a member of an organization that decides what America does all over the world you can’t expect to run for office and have the voters consider only their own little part of that world. When you become one of a relatively few who make laws that affect every man, woman and child in America your voters are voting on a whole lot more than whether or not you can bring home the bacon. When your vote could mean the difference between the ailing health care system we have today and the absolute disaster that is being proposed to replace it those who vote for you have a huge greater stake in the future of America.
She is so typical of today’s politician. They get in office and immediately job one is making sure they stay in office. They do this by using OUR money.
She lost it when she called police on someone asking her a question.
All RINOs need to be gutted, skinned and eaten.
Well, yeah, Dede. That’s always true, to some extent. The problem is, it’s the voters in the district who get to decide, and they decided they didn’t like you very much.