New York's 23rd Congressional District

George_1950 · #1 Oct 27, 2009, 10:24 AM

Lots of ink and hot air expended over the role of a third party candidate and the Republican establishment. Revolutions are never easy, and are places for the bravest of the brave. The Republican establishment certainly is not brave.

"A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers." Ronaldus Maximus

1975 CPAC Speech by Governor Ronald Reagan (R-CA)

btw: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epo...tion-1119.html

tomder55 · Oct 27, 2009, 10:29 AM

did you see Hoffman needs volunteers because ACORN is mobilizing to get the Dem vote out ?

Check out other comments about this important race on Steve's OP .
http://www.askmehelpdesk.com/current...us-409012.html

tomder55 · Nov 1, 2009, 02:58 AM

update ultra-liberal Republican candidate Dede Scozzafava has suspended her campaign in New York's 23rd Congressional race and is encouraging supporters to embrace Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman.
Michael Steele ,late to the game ,has also thrown the endorsement of the RNC to Hoffman.
I'll call this a victory for the tea parties when Hoffman wins Tuesday .

NeedKarma · Nov 1, 2009, 03:39 AM

Interesting article about the republicans:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/op...rich.html?_r=1

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"The battle for upstate New York confirms just how swiftly the right has devolved into a wacky, paranoid cult that is as eager to eat its own as it is to destroy Obama. The movement’s undisputed leaders, Palin and Beck, neither of whom have what Palin once called the “actual responsibilities” of public office, would gladly see the Republican Party die on the cross of right-wing ideological purity. Over the short term, at least, their wish could come true. ... Last week it turned out that Hoffman’s prime attribute to the radical right — as a take-no-prisoners fiscal conservative — was bogus. In fact he’s on the finance committee of a hospital that happily helped itself to a $479,000 federal earmark. Then again, without the federal government largess that the tea party crowd so deplores, New York’s 23rd would be a Siberia of joblessness. The biggest local employer is the pork-dependent military base, Fort Drum. "

speechlesstx · Nov 1, 2009, 04:39 AM

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Interesting article about the republicans:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/op...rich.html?_r=1

NK, that's not an article, it's an opinion column hit job by a "wacky, paranoid" leftist named Frank Rich. What's interesting is for a guy who immediately dismisses any conservative source that you would cite a liberal nut job like Rich as some sort of authority on Republicans. Rich's response says more about the left than it does about the right. Just as Obama threw Deeds under the bus in VA 2 weeks before the election and then has gone all out to help Corzine in NJ, Rich's reaction means they're spooked. The Obamanation is in trouble so they'll be going all out in their attacks since they have no real solutions.

NeedKarma · Nov 1, 2009, 04:49 AM

I guess we'll just see how it all plays out then. You go back to rwading that wonderful Michelle Malkin and then going to church and professing your love for your fellow man.

speechlesstx · Nov 1, 2009, 04:55 AM

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Originally Posted by NeedKarma

I guess we'll just see how it all plays out then. You go back to rwading that wonderful Michelle Malkin and then going to church and professing your love for your fellow man.

Nothing like a good personal attack to start the day.

NeedKarma · Nov 1, 2009, 05:14 AM

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Nothing like a good personal attack to start the day.

Sorry, wasn't personal, was meant meant for all hypocritical republicans who spread fear, hatred and divisiveness.

speechlesstx · Nov 1, 2009, 05:28 AM

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Originally Posted by NeedKarma

Sorry, wasn't personal, was meant meant for all hypocritical republicans who spread fear, hatred and divisiveness.

Oh that makes it much better.

Citing Frank Rich calling us "a wacky, paranoid cult that is as eager to eat its own as it is to destroy Obama" while complaining of "republicans who spread fear, hatred and divisiveness" = hypocrisy.

George_1950 · Nov 1, 2009, 09:57 AM

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Originally Posted by NeedKarma

Sorry, wasn't personal, was meant meant for all hypocritical republicans who spread fear, hatred and divisiveness.

Is this an attempt to advance the conversation? There are no liberals/progressives that spread fear, hatred and divisiveness? Isn't that what liberals do, all of the time?



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