Posted on 10/05/2010 8:01:22 AM PDT by randita
Ping
Very good news.
Would have been nice if he had done this when his name could have been removed from the C line and given them a chance to endorse.
Good move by Hoffman.
Wow!! Someone that figured out life is not about him/her. He did the right thing by dropping out and giving a good candidate a chance.
Would have been more right if he’d done it earlier.
good news but might be too late
Hoffman did the correct thing.
Good but should have done it earlier
Hoffman was right to stay on last year. This year, he was completely wrong. The Republicans of NY-23 had spoken and Hoffman should have never considered this run after the primary. I’m glad he’s seen the light. Now he has to campaign hard for Doheny to make amends.
Is Hoffman the one who ran against Scazafava for this seat last year?
Good news bump!
I was following this since the primaries. According to news on the web, the GOP kingmakers didn’t like Hoffman making fools of them in 2009. Their boy Doheny won the primary. Hoffman went for the Conservative ticket again because Doheny was perceived as loyal to the same bunch of geniuses that backed ScuzzaI’maffaker. But as it turned out, after the primaries Hoffman was considered a sore loser going third party. More than that, he lacked the national attention (and funds from that attention) that Rush, Levin, and others gave him on his first go round, as one of the original salvos in the tea party movement.
I could be wrong but that’s how I was reading the articles.
With one month, it is great timing. That will give the supporters to flock to the GOP. Had he done this at the last week, then timing would have been a liability since some voters would not have heard about Hoffman dropping out and endorsing the GOP.
Hoffman was one of the first, if not the first, salvo in the tea party’s move to oust RINOs from the GOP.
Someone on his campign staff probably whispered this in his ear:
“Hey, have you seen anying about Scozzafava’s rising political star in the news for the last two years?”
Well, one year...
Good news. Now, if we could just get Maes to drop out and endorse Tancredo, we’d have both of the splitter races taken care of.
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