[Philo1962]

What a great feeling. We're winning this one, people.

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.

[Brugmansian]

That is how marxists won the Oval Office. The Socialist Party, the Communist Party USA, Greens, the Working Families party and others dragged the Democratic party to where Ronald Reagan thought, in the late 1940s, he had helped prevent it from going; where JFK never imagined it would go.

[dixiedarlindownsouth]

She was forced to do the right thing. She's a walking symptom of what is wrong with the mentality of the Republican party. They think only in terms of winning, but there is irony in that. It's ironic because the only way that they can win is by running a real candidate with marked differences from the Demorats. I owe her nothing. She supported that crap “stimulus” bill as well as abortion. The “R's” need to recognize that the base of the GOP will no longer sit on the sidelines and let politics as usual continue. As a conservative, I care if you support gay marriage. I care if you do not support our troops. I absolutely care if you want to take my gun. If you support those things..find yourself a new party. I would rather win on principal, and that is what makes a conservative different.

[Texas Fossil]

Response too soon.

See this article>

“A changed race”

http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20091101/OPINION01/311019918/-1/OPINION

“During the day Saturday, she (Scozzafava) began to quietly and thoughtfully encourage her supporters to vote for Democrat William L. Owens.”