[neverdem]

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.

If Hoffman doesn't win the GOP primary, it's not the end of the world. The GOP nominee could be a turkey with scandals in the closet or commit major errors campaigning. NY needs the Conservative Party because its GOP is pretty lousy, IMHO.

[dajeeps]

“NY needs the Conservative Party because its GOP is pretty lousy, IMHO”

I can’t debate that point at all. I’m glad the Conservative party exists and that they are no longer rolling over for the GOP.

My point comes from living in a conservative district (NY-29) and being saddled with a D who does not represent me and publicly professed an intention to vote against his constiuents whenever he feels like it. I don’t like it, and should Hoffman do what he plans to do it has a likelyhood of turning out that way, just as it did in the special election because when we are united we stand and divided we fall.

The Conservative Party and the GOP need to come to terms because they need each other in order to prevail. Hoffman’s approach seems more like a scortched earth policy that loses sight of the things that really matter, like what the voters want and what they get at the end. If he really wants a seat that badly he should go do this in his own district and leave the NY-23 folks to sort things out for themselves.