Posted on 11/01/2009 11:45:14 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
Republican Dede Scozzafava endorsed her former Democratic opponent Sunday in the race for an upstate New York congressional seat, one day after Scozzafava dropped out of the contest.
Scozzafava dropped out after Conservative Party candidate Dough Hoffman experienced a late-in-the-game surge. But on Sunday, Scozzafava backed Democrat Bill Owens -- the announcement was made in a statement send out by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
"I am supporting Bill Owens for Congress and urge you to do the same," she said. "In Bill Owens, I see a sense of duty and integrity that will guide him beyond political partisanship. He will be an independent voice devoted to doing what is right for New York. Bill understands this district and its people, and when he represents us in Congress he will put our interests first."
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And now a word from Mojave...
I hope the Republican Party suspends her registration, and kicks her out.
Probably not. :^)
"But the GOP elite, regaining control away from it's voters was a disaster for all of us."
A *disaster*?
If a disaster's in fact what's happened, my friend.
It's the *new* world order, don'tcha know. LOL
And the first talk of "New World Order" ad naseum was from none other than Bush Sr, remember.
The GOPer "elite" take orders, we just don't want to believe our own eyes when we see said orders carried out. Maybe. ~eh? LOL
"I am at a point that I am against anyone from the Ivy League. But I may be too late, as the Ivy League seems to control the thoughts of our youth all across the country."
HA!!
I hear ya. Despise the ingrates of NYCity, the sewer Hollyweird's become, San Fran for several reasons. Seattle...the latte drinking dweebs. IL for their *contribution* to the body politic. MI...because it's MI and oh!! WI, my home state. Lousy political climate to match its weather.
In fact y'know what, I'm at the point I dislike anything, except me. Of course. LOL
Is that a disaster, or deliberate?
You see, I used to be a fairly nice fella. ;^)
I hear where you're coming from, just have a notion you're not focusing the righteous anger where it's deserved. The GOP, like the other side, is I suspect as much a beard as their boy in the WH. Kind of a *club*, y'know?
Looked at that way at least the malaise makes *some* sense.
Enjoy your meal...
“Im staying republican until after the primaries”
I am with you.
At one point, when I was young, I was a registered Democrat (college years). As I got older, I registered as an independent. Eventually, I registered as a Republican. Now, I going to register again as an independent.
I don’t ever see myself registering as a Democrat again.
Doug pledged to support her, not me. Lemme know how it tastes.
This is actually GREAT for us. Better to have an enemy in plain sight, than one undercover or wearing a mask!
GOP ARE YOU WAKING UP YET???? WHAT’S IT TAKE????
And Newt thinks she was a Republican, UGH.
Is it wrong for me to hope she chokes on some food and dies? I mean, it’s not something I’d pray for or anything. Just...I might LOL a bit if it happened.
I knew about it long before Sarah jumped in. I’m glad she endorsed him, because I think it’s very important that we all go on the record to support Conservative ideals.
The fact is that people in New York already knew the score. So while Sarah’s support was nice for the reasons mentioned, I don’t see her endorsement as quite as important as you and others seem to.
Vices are wrong and cause problems, prohibitions are worse.
And I must clarify - no person who believes in anything resembling small or big ‘L’ libertarianism would ever join this Rat party.
This is not a party of small government, nor individualism. Neither is the Big Tent GOP.
People in MD might even be glad to have him back home.
Will a switch to “I” keep you out of the 2010 primaries where your vote would have more weight than in a general election? Democratic leaders would be glad to know that you are going “I”.
And who defines "perversion"? Oh wait, in a nanny state, the Government defines what constitutes "perversion."
The typical approach of a short-sighted, outcome-based social conservative (and this is not meant to construe that all social conservatives are short-sighted and outcome-based) is to just turn over the keys to the Government. The problem is that the Government is not always guaranteed to be controlled by social conservatives, but occasionally falls into the hands of social liberals, who then proceed to commit all sorts of acts of "perversion" whilst social conservatives wail and moan and gnash their teeth.
If someone wants to watch pornography or smoke pot in their basement, that's their own judgement call, so long as they don't come running to me to pay for any unintended consequences of their lifestyle choices. Note very well that I am not endorsing the use of pornography or marijuana here but am simply endorsing the right of the individual to make the choice for himself, so long as he or she also accepts personal responsibility for any unintended consequences to himself or herself stemming from said choices.
They won't, and they don't.
Effective and efficient enforcement of "prohibitions" inherently requires a large, powerful, centralized, highly-intrusive government. In other words: a "nanny state" or a "brother's keeper" state.
Only if Hoffman wins.
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