Posted on 02/09/2010 6:08:31 PM PST by neverdem
“If they put up another Scozzafava, he should run 3rd party.”
You mean if the voters in the district select in the primary?
So a conservative Republican is standing up to the GOP insiders who screwed him last election, when they chose instead to support an eventual loser RINO?
This is the kind of “rift” I can support.
He’s not really a carpetbagger since they re-drew the district and he’s no longer in the district with the new map. It’s a lot different from the Harold Ford situation.
“I’m going to climb out on a limb and state here on FreeRepublic that if John McCain were to lose the primary to JD Hayworth, HE might go independent!”
It worked for Joe Lieberman.
But isn’t the reverse question relavant? If JD Hayworth loses the primary, will he/should he run as 3rd party, and likely hand the election to the dem?
Maybe it's assumed. Politico just described Scazzafava as a liberal. I bolded it for that reason. She was usually described as a moderate.
Why can’t he run for his district seat? The map was chanaged 8 years ago, it’s not like it happened yesterday.
I’m not sure it really matters though. He’s coming out saying he isn’t going to respect the voters’ choice and if they don’t pick him they could very well end up with a D. That speaks volumes about why he might be running in the first place. What and whom is this about, him or them?
Going independent meant something before the last election cycle. Since then, the independents are coming over to the tea party movement and to have any chance he would have to take major numbers of Dems away from their candidate which is not going to happen because McCain was villified rather soundly and tied to Bush.
Sure. Someone has to stand for the constitution, regardless if they win or lose.
That's only part of the story. It's also about the NYGOP and the NY Conservative Party. If the NYGOP had not been so chock full of RINOs, NY Conservative Party would not have a reason for being.
Doug Hoffman, last November's Conservative Party nominee in New York's 23rd District who is vying again for the seat, is refusing to rule out running as a third-party candidate this year if he fails to win the Republican primary. And his leading backer, Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long, told POLITICO that he refuses to endorse any candidate other than Hoffman...What's the link to contribute? Thanks neverdem.
“That’s only part of the story. It’s also about the NYGOP and the NY Conservative Party. If the NYGOP had not been so chock full of RINOs, NY Conservative Party would not have a reason for being”
That was true when the party bosses picked the candidate for the special election. But when there is a primary and voters like you and me pick who we want to run, it’s an entirely different thing to just disregard it. Before he was fighting that party bosses and this time around if he loses, he’ll be fighting the voters. It might just be me, but I thought that selfish, condescending politicians were what we were protesting, not our own will.
I think maybe originally it was the intent.
The one difference with Rubio now is that Jeb Bush is backing him since Jeb dislikes Crist. Jeb’s of the establishment in his own way and really Marco’s rise hasn’t been as difficult because of Jeb using his connections to support him behind the scenes.
Look at the difference between Toomey’s first run and his second run before Specter left the party. The GOP did everything it could to run him off including bring the sitting Republican President and PA Republican Senator in to support Specter. Club for Growth was public enemy number one to them.
In contrast the more of a threat Marco has posed to Crist the more the GOP has backed off and left Crist sort of floundering alone out there.
The one I think the GOP will really try to nail to the wall if polling shows a gap closing will be J.D. Hayworth. If J.D. can give McCain a scare it’ll make the primaries against Specter and Chafee seem cordial in comparison.
” Hoffman ... leading state Assemblyman William Barclay 56 percent to 24 percent in a head-to-head matchup. The poll shows Hoffman with a strong 63 percent favorability rating among Republicans, with just 19 percent viewing him unfavorably. “
Oh, yeah, that’s one hell of a split. Jeez, the Pubbies are so fragmented the Rats should just pop the champagne now.
Give me a break. Desperate reporters, and stupid ones at that.
they just don’t get it, on so many levels the republicans in this state are just plain stupid.
I lived in CT at that time and I can tell you that it worked for him only because the voters did not want a Communist like Ned Lamont. Lieberman was the rightmost candidate of that day. McCain is a different story. He is seen as a closet liberal and a weak guy.
I have been out of Florida for 4 years, so I don’t have the closeup view anymore. The GOP does seems to be backing off.
But I just can’t bring myself to trust them. I still believe it just galls them to no end for conservatives to win.
Thanks for the ping!
this WILL BARCLAY character runs for the state assembly each year as the NARAL endorsed candidate. Endorsed over his DEM opponent.
Nuke him.
Right now, it is just big party-line donors that are keeping Crist afloat.
Talk to any Florida resident who is fully-informed as to the differences between Crist and Rubio and I guarantee you that they'll at least agree that Marco Rubio is the More COnservative and thus more-appealing candidate.
Marco has literally taken his message straight to the people face-to-face while Crist has stayed closer to the politicians.
Eschew JUANnabies.
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