Posted on 11/04/2009 4:08:47 AM PST by Ratman83
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Democrat Bill Owens has captured the special election for a New York congressional seat that became a fight over the identity of the Republican Party.
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You could poke around here.
I didn’t read through all the comments, and this may have been addressed, but look at NY-23 this way:
Dede really did us a favor. By putting her support behind the Democrat (Owens), she displayed what RINO’s are really all about...SCREWING THEIR OWN PARTY! Scazz has effectively blown the cover of RINO’s!
The silence from McCain and Graham is deafning!
“The MSM is spining the one victory of democrats as the only race.”
Didn’t the Dems pick up another congressional seat in CA. as well.
Yeah hopefully the GOP will wake up and smell the coffee.
http://www.tcotreport.com/23ny1.html
There hasn’t been a Democrat in that seat for 100 years. It’s never even been close. A lot of people just voted for Obama last year who would otherwise never vote Dem.
Steele should immediatly resign.
There is no leadership at the RNC.
There is no leadership at the RNCC.
There is no leadershipa at the NY23 GOP Club.
Conservatives who supported Hoffman should purge NY23’s GOP club.
Worth a repost.
There is no getting the seat back! The NY RATS have already said that the district ( NY 23 ) will be eliminated by combining it with the surrounding districts. Even if Hoffman had won, the district is gone in 2010!
Why the RAT won... one factor might be that Scozza threw her endorsement to Owens, including her union affiliations, then painted Hoffman as waaay right. Next she was still on the ballot and scarfed up a critical 5% of the votes. Next, possibly, Owens made a fair case that Hoffman was “too conservative” for New York... which might be true. A NY republican is very different from a republican in say Va or Alabama. Since Scozza dropped out so close to the election, there was little time for Hoffman to woo her supporters. And perhaps there was case made that “outsiders” need to stay out of NY elections. That’s my opinion.
I don’t think it helped much that Hoffman looked and sounded more like Wally Cox, than he did Ronald Reagan ;-)
What happened in New York was a mess. it shouldn’t have gone down like it did. Hoffman should have been the candidate from the start not Dede.
I suspect the Dem coming out of the Rep closet played a major role in this.
It figures that that traitorous woman was still on the ballot so of course she would get some votes and of course those votes could have gone to Hoffman.
You're right, and that is GREAT news. He'll be a cornered rat trembling with fright, barely able to move for the next 12 months. The Democrats will try to shield him by putting him on some committees important to the district. But he still has to come out and vote for Obama's liberal agenda.
We have a time to find a large hungry conservative Republican cat to face him. Let's do this right and send him packing next November.
You're right, and that is GREAT news. He'll be a cornered rat trembling with fright, barely able to move for the next 12 months. The Democrats will try to shield him by putting him on some committees important to the district. But he still has to come out and vote for Obama's liberal agenda.
We have time to find a large hungry conservative Republican cat to face him. Let's do this right and send him packing next November.
Whether we win, we win unto the Lord; and whether we lose, we lose unto the Lord: whether we win therefore or lose we are the Lord's.
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