Posted on 10/16/2009 8:44:40 AM PDT by sbpublicaffairs
Mr. Hoffman has siphoned so much support from Ms. Scozzafava that their Democratic rival has vaulted into the lead, according to a poll released Thursday. The election is Nov. 3. "I am not your run-of-the-mill politician, and maybe that's why the Republican bosses didn't like me," Mr. Hoffman told a recent health-care forum sponsored by the Upstate New York Tea Party. In an interview, Ms. Scozzafava acknowledged her discomfort at the event. "I knew it wasn't going to be an easy audience for me," she said. The rise of conservative "tea party" activists around the country has created a dilemma for Republicans. They are breathing life into the party's quest to regain power.
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This is a good thing
GO Tea Party Patriots!!!
Don’t count your votes until they are cast GOP, you got to earn them.
It’s good to prove to the RINOs that they are useless.
Step aside, RINOs.
Let us choose our own candidates and lock those votes in.
Markos Moulitsas, founder of The Daily Kos has endorsed Scozzafava. Dede Scozzafava has also been endorsed by NYSUT, the largest labor union in New York, and an affiliate of the National Education Association.
Scozzafava also holds these positions:
Scozzafava has also run in past elections on the Working Families Party (a progressive party associated with ACORN) line on the ballot.
This lady isn’t a RINO, she is a big “R” democRat.
There are also 17 RINOs in the house who have donated funds to this Liberal democRat's campaign. They include Boehner and Cantor. I don’t have a full list, but I will be looking for it. These RINOs should be targeted for elimination in the primaries next year.
By the way, this article was posted earlier at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2363538/posts and http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2363665/posts. Other threads related to this story:
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The GOP is out of luck with me for quite a while yet - I won’t vote for a RINO just to win. Not going to do it again - its on them.
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. - Theodore Roosevelt
PLAGIARIZING MYSELF FROM PREVIOUSLY:
Well, if “O” and his crew want to successfully drive a wedge in the GOP they will so far polarize Americans that they’ll line them ALL up behind the MOST viable Presidential contender…. irrespective of the kind of stigma (by now comical) typically associated with third parties or gender! Like Nietche said: “If something is falling, give it a shove”.
But, “O” has pushed too, hard too fast. If he can’t bring us together SOMEHOW, (I don’t think he’s capable) he is weakening his own position.
“O” has overspent his ‘class/race schism’ dividend and only succeeded in neutering the GOP. Conservatism still lives, and will find its voice (if it hasn’t already) in time to hand him a REAL race the next time he runs for President.
The opposition to “O” is so widespread and unvarying that for once I think, a third party has a shot. After all, traditional GOP candidates have been less than stellar lately and likely to remain so long enough for Palin to succeed.
She’s connected to the population in a way no others are or have been for a long time and she is articulate. She’s the horse to beat and no GOP hopeful I can think of is doing that.
People forget… the DNC changed drastically by making “O” its nominee! BUT, the GOP both during the campaign and since, has undergone equally drastic, telling and I believe permanent change.
If the last Presidential election was a revolution, the next one will positively vulcanize this country. EVERYONE needs to LET GO of the OLD ways of thinking and getting things done, politically….EVERYONE!!!!
If the GOP wants to be dragged kicking and screaming into the next couple decades, it will render itself even more useless and irrelevant. PALIN is the future of the GOP unless and until someone can talk straighter and rally people more uniformly. I am waiting.
Steele, et al, MUST close the primaries in EVERY state!
We would be better off losing this seat now and win it back in 2010 to send a message
Well that's a good start.
Interesting. I’ve always been a critic of third party conservative campaigns as they usually result in a Democrat in office. I wonder if either the Republican or Conservative candidate (depending on which one is polling third) would be willing to drop out down the road if it looks like that history will repeat itself.
Translation: When they ran as conservatives, they won.
The ultimate goal is to take back the party by rendering these RINOS irrelevant. Definitely a goal worth fighting for.
I don't agree at all and I hope Freepers here aren't taking the bait.
Tea party activities are the only thing that can reinvigorate the Republican party and it could be done with conservate ideas.
Righty-O!
A corrupt Republican politician is no better than a corrupt Democratic (socialist) Party of America politician. That is not complicated at all - get rid of RINOs or we all lose.
It's not as clear cut as you might think.
State primaries are subject to state laws....(even though their was a recent SC ruling about Freedom of Association on the matter).
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