From the article:
What that local official overlooks is that the outgoing Republican Representative, John McHugh, had a 71.55% lifetime rating from the American Conservative Union. John McHugh won this seat last year with 65% of the votes cast in his race. John McCain, a compromising Moderate, lost in this district.
It’s worth asking whether that dynamic was at work in upstate New York, where GOP elders in a conservative-leaning district selected as their congressional candidate a person with pro-gay marriage, pro-choice, pro-stimulus views, who favored making it easier for unions to organize as a Republican congressional candidate. (She has subsequently been endorsed by the NRCC.) Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, one of the local party chairmen involved in the decision dismissively characterized the other, more conservative potential candidate as “unelectable” because he “uniformly stands for all the conservative values of the far right.”
The candidate they selected for this race has a 15% rating from the Conservative party of New York, and she is more liberal than 46 of the Democrats in the State House in New York.
On the issues, Doug Hoffman is much closer to John McHugh's positions than either of the other candidates in the race.
This should have been checked out by the RCCC before they supported the choice of Scozzafava. There was a serious breakdown in the vetting process at the RCCC. If this decision was made by staffers, it isn’t the staffers’ fault, it is a problem with the people who delegate decision this important to staffers.
I don’t insist on complete ideological purity. But I do insist that Republican candidates, supported by donations from all over this country, donations that are supposed to support the Republican platform and agenda, candidates who get these national funds need to support most of the platform.
This race in the 23rd district in New York is an opportunity for the TEA partiers, 9-12ers and conservative grass roots everywhere to demonstrate that they do have political power in addition to their principles. This is a district where Doug Hoffman can win, with enough support from the grass roots everywhere. But it has become a national race, with national money from the RCCC, the RNC, the DNC and their congressional committee. Even Barack Obama is getting involved with a fundraiser for Bill Owens. We need to get some conservative support to Doug Hoffman to keep this race interesting.
Political power without principles is worthless. But principles alone – devoid of any political power to defend or enact them – don’t achieve much, either.
The good news is, if he can get 2/3rds of the votes that John McHugh got last year, he is in a good position to win the race. On the issues, he is closer to John McHugh than anyone in the race.
Please, send Hoffman a donation. I wish we would get behind him as strongly as we got behind Joe Wilson last month.
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” libeRal 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.
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