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We have no chance in this race.

Turner is the most credible candidate therefore I back Turner.

And I’m with you that piece of crap Michael Long can go straight to hell.

NY law is pretty silly for not allowing someone to give up a nomination.

Sarah Palin, and other strong conservatives, endorsed Doug Hoffman when he ran on the New York Conservative Party line, because the GOP Establishment wanted RINO Dede Scozzavave in NY’s 23rd district. Was Sarah Palin wrong to endorse Hoffman?

Now don’t get me wrong, I hear you. I quit the NY Conservative Party because they are only against partial-birth infanticide, and back pro-”choice” candidates (as well as pro-life candidates). HOWEVER, when they do something right like support CONSERVATIVE Doug Hoffmann, and CONSERVATIVE Wendy Long, we should not discourage the NY Conservative Party at that time, or take it out on the candidates.

I like Bob Turner, too, but when I listened to the forum, he said he was for a debt ceiling increase, and Wendy Long is NOT. Plus Wendy Long is an incredible candidate, and I started this thread about her, if anyone is interested:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2898552/posts

“NY law is pretty silly for not allowing someone to give up a nomination.”

Texas law is even worse—the candidate pretty much has to die for him to be replaced on the ballot. Remember the TX-22 race in 2006? Tom DeLay actually moved out of state so as to be ineligible for election and allow the GOP to replace him, but the courts ruled that his name could be removed from the ballot but that the GOP could *not* designate a new nominee. The GOP, in its infinite wisdom, selected someone names Shelley Sekula-Gibbs to be the party’s official write-in candidate, so Republicans had to learn that hellacious name and remember to write her in. Oh, and many (perhaps most) precincts used some sort of lever for write-in votes where you had to pick out the letters one by one, making write-ins even more difficult.

I understand the need stop last-minute candidate replacements (i.e., Torricelli maneuvers), but the time limit should be related to the timing of the printing of ballots and the mailing of absentee ballots, not placing unnecessary burdens on people who wish to drop out for health or other reasons.