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Here's a hard truth for the hard right
The Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | November 8, 2009 | Michael Smerconish

Posted on 11/11/2009 3:41:35 PM PST by EveningStar

Who is Dede Scozzfava? ...

"This is my party, too," she insisted. "There are a lot of moderate people - Republicans, like me - and I'm hearing from an awful lot of them. And I think the Republican Party needs to know if they don't have room for us and they don't want us working with them, we're going to find a way to work against them."

She acknowledged that many in the GOP would differ with her support for abortion rights and same-sex marriage. But she maintained that she approached those views from a conservative vantage point - a respect for individual liberties...

Her gun-rights bona fides, meanwhile, are beyond reproach. She received an A rating from the National Rifle Association in each election since 2002 (A-plus in 2000) and supported the New York Gun Owners of America in 100 percent of the relevant votes in 2002...

On Thursday, I asked former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who had called Scozzafava's nomination a "train wreck," whether the GOP was better off with Owens headed to Washington. "No, not at all," he said. "The danger of pushing third-party candidates is that you end up with a Democrat rather than a less-than-desirable Republican." ...

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


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: dedescozzafava; gop; michaelsmerconish; ny2009; nygop; republicanparty; republicans; scozzafava; smerconish
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To: SueRae
Screw Smerconish. I stopped listening to him when he endorsed the poser.

No kidding. Smerconish is not a conservative, yet he is referred to as a "conservative talk show host."

61 posted on 11/11/2009 4:25:26 PM PST by Nephi ( Bush legacy: "I had to sacrifice free market principles to save the free market.")
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To: EveningStar

Smerconish is a liar. He is as much a Republican as Colin Powell, Lincoln Chafee, and Jim Jeffords are Republicans. Ignore this pantload.


62 posted on 11/11/2009 4:27:34 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Texas Eagle
Big whoop. The NRA is like any other self-interested organization.

The NRA doesn't endorse candidates they rate them on their record for gun rights. Here in Georgia it isn't at all unusual to have 2 candidates running against each other, Dem and Repub, that both have A ratings from the NRA.

63 posted on 11/11/2009 4:28:17 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: holyscroller
No worries, we will be there in force when the RNC votes on a new Chairman, and they will look at us with the same disdain the Democrats had for the people who showed up for the Town Halls.

Tough tookies

The position of RNC is too important to be left to country clubbers to fill.

The new party chairman will be using the soviet model when it comes to toeing the party line.

64 posted on 11/11/2009 4:28:25 PM PST by Rome2000 (OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST CRYPTO-MUSLIM)
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To: Lancey Howard

I know who Smerconish is. He supported Obamarama in the election. :(


65 posted on 11/11/2009 4:29:31 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar
"This is my party, too," she insisted. "There are a lot of moderate people - Republicans, like me - and I'm hearing from an awful lot of them. And I think the Republican Party needs to know if they don't have room for us and they don't want us working with them, we're going to find a way to work against them."
  1. No, you're not a moderate. You're a liberal. When you lie about something that basic, you lose credibility. No really. I understand you're a politician but that's not a license to lie. Lying is bad. Stop it.
  2. The party has plenty of room for you. But it shouldn't give money to elect you when your opinions are opposite to those in the party platform. Do you agree that a party should have a platform and it should have meaning?
  3. Besides having registered as a Republican, what makes you a Republican? You don't support the party's goals and you don't even support the party. If you supported the party, then when you dropped out of the race you would have endorsed the guy who was going to vote with the party instead of the guy on the other side.
  4. If you don't believe anything we do and don't support people who do, why should we support you? And why should we care that you feel you're not getting any support?
  5. Quit your whining! You tried and you failed, that's all. Get over it and get a job.

66 posted on 11/11/2009 4:37:15 PM PST by irv (Live Tea or die!)
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To: EveningStar

She is more liberal than the Democrat candidate


67 posted on 11/11/2009 4:43:12 PM PST by LiteKeeper (When do the impeachment proceedings begin?)
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To: EveningStar

What? More boo-hoo waah from Scuzzy? Geez, would she get a clue already and leave?


68 posted on 11/11/2009 4:45:29 PM PST by swatbuznik
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To: EveningStar
...and I'm hearing from an awful lot of them.

They are probably liberals, not moderates (just like her), and most are probably Democrats as well (like her friend Pelosi.)

Sure, there is a place for her in the party (or there was until she endorsed the Democrat), but she's just like the Blue Dogs. Either side will tolerate them if they want to join, but neither side will ever like them or trust them. Our side is the only one that ever even listens to them, to our detriment.

As far as it being "her party too," no it's not. She's a party-crasher who can stay as long as she doesn't cause too much trouble. (She might have crossed that threshold already.)

69 posted on 11/11/2009 4:51:21 PM PST by Gil4 (Sometimes it's not low self-esteem - it's just accurate self-assessment.)
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To: EveningStar

Weren’t her positions to the left of the Democrat? If so then we are better off.


70 posted on 11/11/2009 4:53:44 PM PST by TigersEye (0bama is our first Port of Entry President - I hope he goes home.)
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To: EveningStar

First of all, Dede isn’t a moderate anything. She is a liberal, and out in the left field of liberalism at that. Second of all, things have changed. The political landscape that encouraged this debate in the Republican Party back in 2006 has changed dramatically. What the so called moderates need to explain is how far they are willing to go to the left to make compromises that mean anything. The Democrats have gone off the deep end. Do moderate Republicans want to follow them over the edge in their attempt to catch up? Democrat-lite just doesn’t cut it anymore. People are looking for a contrast. ...But, Dede doesn’t care about the future of the Republican Party. She is a Democrat, a liberal Democrat who wore the Republican label to advance her political career, and now that gig is up. The Republican Party doesn’t need her or others like her who call themselves Republicans and vote for Democrats. We are better off with conservative Democrats who vote for Republicans, and there are plenty of them, so long as the Republican Party offers real alternatives. There are also plenty of independents who are changing their minds about Obamao’s hope and change, and they aren’t looking to people like Dede for answers.


71 posted on 11/11/2009 4:56:48 PM PST by pallis
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To: EveningStar
"This is my party, too," she insisted. "There are a lot of moderate people - Republicans, like me - and I'm hearing from an awful lot of them. And I think the Republican Party needs to know if they don't have room for us and they don't want us working with them, we're going to find a way to work against them."

Dede at least if you are out of the party we expect you to oppose us. When you are in the party, we first learn you are betraying us when you put a knife in our back. Go join the Dims. They are your natural home. Your positions on almost every issue could have been written by the DNC. You are a Democrat In All But Label Only. Bye.

72 posted on 11/11/2009 5:07:43 PM PST by Nuc1 (NUC1 Sub pusher SSN 668 (Liberals Aren't Patriots))
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To: jwalsh07

“Smerconish, like Scozzafava is a liberal poseur.”

He told about interviewing Obama. “I looked him in the eye and I realized that he was an honest person. I believed what he was saying.”

Smerconish is just like Jimmy Carter and all the liberals. They ignore the history of someone like Kim Jong-Il, that he murdered and oppressed millions of people, that he has never held to his promises on nuclear proliferation, etc., etc., but when they look him in the eye they conclude that he is telling the truth.

What an idiot. As if your opinion from looking someone in the eye makes up for all of their past.


73 posted on 11/11/2009 5:11:24 PM PST by webstersII
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To: Erik Latranyi

I’d go nuts without Sirius Radio. They also carry Levin’s show live and yes, you can drive across country and never turn the station.

For Free Republic’s National Convention this past September 11-13 Andrew Wilkow was one of our speakers - I’ve been listening to him for years.


74 posted on 11/11/2009 5:26:15 PM PST by Brytani (Support Lt. Col Allen West for Congress - www.allenwestforcongress.com)
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To: EveningStar

No, I do not think of myself as a one issue person, and I do believe that all issues are of the same importance. I would like to think of myself as a social and fiscal conservative. Abortion and heterosexual marriage issues are important to me. Sometimes I have to support the lesser of two evils.


75 posted on 11/11/2009 5:40:51 PM PST by Nosterrex
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To: EveningStar

Stop yer whining, loser.


76 posted on 11/11/2009 5:45:03 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Nope. Not gonna do it.)
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To: EveningStar

Didn’t this loser Smerconish vote for Obummer?

Who the hell cares what that fool thinks.


77 posted on 11/11/2009 5:50:32 PM PST by Pelham ("Badges?!! We don' need no stinkin' badges!!")
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To: LiteKeeper
She is more liberal than the Democrat candidate

What do you base your assertion on?

78 posted on 11/11/2009 5:54:35 PM PST by Once-Ler (ProLife ProGun ProGod ProSoldier ProBusiness Republican To The Core)
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To: EveningStar

Thank God we replaced a RINO with a liberal rat. That will teach Pelosi.


79 posted on 11/11/2009 5:56:38 PM PST by Once-Ler (ProLife ProGun ProGod ProSoldier ProBusiness Republican To The Core)
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To: EveningStar

RINOs are so yesterday.


80 posted on 11/11/2009 6:01:15 PM PST by kevao (I am Joe Wilson!)
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