But they’re also waging war on some candidates hand-picked by GOP leaders as the most likely to win [-LIE We are waging war on all LIBERALS].
In upstate New York, Dede Scozzafava, 49 years old, is the choice of local party leaders to defend a Republican seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, an abortion-rights candidate who could appeal to independents. Doug Hoffman, 59, is a local accountant backed by tea-party activists who has jumped into the race declaring himself the real conservative.
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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.
Republicans are poised to pick up a number of seats in next year’s congressional elections, pollsters estimate, on the back of a deep recession, public unease about the growth of government and the size of the nation’s deficit. Anti-Obama activism manifested in rallies and town-hall meetings has galvanized conservatives, injecting enthusiasm into the Republican base.
But these newly energized conservatives present GOP leaders with a potential problem: The party’s strategy for attracting moderate voters risks alienating activists who are demanding ideological purity, who may then gravitate to other candidates or stay at home. It’s a classic dilemma faced by parties in the minority — tension between those who want a return to the party’s ideological roots and those who want candidates most likely to win in their districts [That is a false statement, it implies CONSERVATIVES cannot win, and that is patently false since whenever Conservatism is truely tried; it wins more than not!].
“That is a false statement, it implies CONSERVATIVES cannot win, and that is patently false since whenever Conservatism is truely tried; it wins more than not!].”
Absolutely true... as the RINO Repub leadership never takes a risk to try running a real conservative - how the hell would they know if a real conservative could win or not...
Nearly 100 million people - adults have not voted in each of the past several Presidential Elections — nearly 100M — all we have to do to win is get several million previous non voters to show up and vote and WE WIN...
There is no need to kiss the behinds of La Raza types — LULAC, MALDEF and the other socio-ethnic racists ... we need to recruit just a portion of the nearly 100 million previous non voters ... to subdue Obama, Reid and Pelosi...