Is this true? Gee . . .
November 01, 2009
Republican Scozzafava Endorses Democrat After Exiting N.Y. Congressional Race
"Republican Dede Scozzafava endorses Democrat Bill Owens in the race for New York's 23rd Congressional District, one day after dropping out of the race.
Republican Dede Scozzafava endorsed her former Democratic opponent Sunday in the race for an upstate New York congressional seat, shaking up the contest for the second day in a row after exiting the race Saturday.
Scozzafava dropped out after Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman experienced a late-in-the-game surge. The move was expected to consolidate GOP voters behind Hoffman on Tuesday.
But on Sunday, Scozzafava issued a written statement in which she backed Democrat Bill Owens.
"I am supporting Bill Owens for Congress and urge you to do the same," she said. "In Bill Owens, I see a sense of duty and integrity that will guide him beyond political partisanship. He will be an independent voice devoted to doing what is right for New York. Bill understands this district and its people, and when he represents us in Congress he will put our interests first." " Read more here.
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Lee notes - Scozzafava has said, (or rather it says here she said): "he will put our interests first." Mmm..... So, apparently, it wasn't a three party race before she dropped out. It was a two and a wannabe party race - Dem, Dem lite and Conservative. Lib, Libbette, and Conservative. +sigh+ It became a two party race after she dropped out. Wonder how many other "moderates" would support their Lib/Dem "adversary" were they forced to drop out.
Or maybe I have misunderstood.
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November 01, 2009
Aaron Gee
It is being reported today that Dede Scozzafava is endorsing Democrat Bill Owens. In one fell swoop she proved her detractors right. Her actions also speak to the Republicans that made excuses for her such as Newt Gingrich; they were dead wrong. When Dede withdrew from the race on Saturday, many (including me) thought she was doing the right thing for Northern New York, and the Republican Party. Instead we have been presented with the quintessential example of what the label RINO means. Read more here.
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Hoffman has got to win this one. One less One Worlder would help a little.
Dirty is as dirty does...
Dede is as Dede does? ;-]
Backlash? We'll see.
LOL, think of it like Reid and Pelosi putting up a united front while Pelosi hates to be anywhere near Reid.
Newt wanted to show a united front and is payed back with betrayal. Scozzafava should have never endorsed anyone. Do you think anyone with any conservative leaning will ever endorse her again?
A Scozzafavalike person is always going to disappoint; guess I haven't been watching Newt closely enough to have seen his endorsement of her coming. Maybe it is the way he is leaning and I just didn't see it.
BWA-A-A-A-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA
Newt Gingrich, who had previously endorsed moderate Republican Dede Scozzafava in the NY-23 special election, now says he is "deeply upset" about her endorsement of Democrat Bill Owens after she withdrew from the race.
"How could she have accepted all that support?" said Gingrich, also adding: "I'm very, very let down because she told everybody she was a Republican, and she said she was a loyal Republican."
Gingrich had caught a lot of criticism on the right for supporting Scozzafava, and arguing that the Republican Party needs to have room for moderates. Now that Scozzafava has quit the race and endorsed the Democrat, due to campaign by the right to push her out in favor of Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman, Gingrich will certainly have to work hard to undo the damage from his having bet on the wrong horse.
Keep up the good work Newt. With advisers like you, the GOP will never rise from the ashes. If I were a Republican, I would tell Newt to "Ride Off Into The Sunset, Never To Be Heard From Again!"
It just shows the level of delusion these people are working with Chuck.
First, in a Republican district that the Republicans basically had locked up if they ran a leftover Halloween pumpkin as long as it had an R carved on it, they opt for idealogical purity (does that sound like Pol Pot or what) and start slamming the REPUBLICAN candidate!
They bring in a frightwing carpetbagger with no ties to the district (he doesn't even live there), who has no idea of the wants or needs of the people of the district. And pimping him out is Dick Armey, who says that the needs of the people of the district are "parochial" (party Uber Alles)!
Out of district meddlers from Alaska to Georgia interject their unwanted and unneeded opinions about the race, making a split between the so-called "Conservatives", and the so-called "Republicans", and making both parts look like idiots. On the national level, it's clearly a bit of arm wrestling between the teabaggers and the establishment.
The establishment finally gives in to the the teabaggers, and in their eagerness to display their fealty to the new boss, the former Repubs trip all over each other trying to find someone to genuflect to.
But the funniest part of all of this is that all of this political capital is being spent on a temporary seat that will be contested again next year!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
The guy who puts up post after post of Obama's illegal resident status!
He's got the gall to post:
This kind of misinformation makes your entire comment suspicious.
If I wanted the stupid old guy's comments, I'd ask for you, but I didn't:
http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20091021/BLOGS09/910219968
It's too bad that a bunch of people got taken over by a drug user and man who rubs vicks under his eyes so that he can cry on camera. I won't say supposedly intelligent, because you've never posted anything that indicates that you're more than a frightwing parrot.
No wonder you can related so much: you and fatbo probably share the same dealer.
You are just a nasty individual and because I'm sure you've had this particular saying chanted at you many times since you uttered your first full length sentence, I think you'll understand it when I say this ... you are one of the strongest glues I've ever had the misfortune to meet.
Ali Hussein Lopez Nov 2, 2009, 8:42am EST
George;
If I wanted the stupid old guy's comments, I'd ask for you, but I didn't:
http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20091021/BLOGS09/910219968
In the immortal words of Chairman Mao, "Bite my Crank".
Douglas L. Hoffman (born 1953) is a Lake Placid, New York businessman and accountant. He is a candidate for Representative of New York's 23rd Congressional District. He is running as the candidate of the Conservative Party of New York.
It's irrelevant. He doesn't know (and apparently doesn't care), about local issues. His pimp, Dick Armey, said that local issues are "parochial", which in English means that he just doesn't give a shit.
Ali Hussein Lopez Nov 2, 2009, 10:46am EST
Lee;
In the immortal words of Chairman Mao, "Bite my Crank
The Democratic party went through this. It took until the elections of 2006 for that party to put moderates on the ballot. Moderates won in just about every race they entered.
The Republican party is being stubborn. Just how stubborn, remains to be seen. Six years, twelve, twenty?
I also like the way the so-called Republicans threw a WOMAN under the bus so that they can elect this clown. Looks great for how they think of women in the party, doesn't it?
This will be an interesting next couple of elections to see how true it is.
If Owens wins it's a Dem/Lib win.
If Scozz had won it would still have been a Dem/Lib win.
It's not like either of those would have been a win for Conservatives in any case. We lost nothing. And Hoffman might win.
Listening to voters helped create the contract with America which propelled the GOP into the House and Senate in 1994. It was ignoring those principals that led to the GOP's decline. Instead of listening to Washington insiders the GOP would do better if it listened to the people.
Steph D. Nov 2, 2009, 9:18am EST
The way the tides are turning, maybe a legitimate third party will emerge with candidates who will actually fight for everything our constitution spells out, have integrity and will expose the corruption?
I think if we look at the big picture here, we are seeing a revolt in action. Both the Democrats and the Republicans are having a hard time this year, and the Independant parties are making a stand. I think people are getting fed up with the two party system, and all the corruption that has come from both of them for the past many decades.
The running of a Dem and a dem lite (in the guise of a Republican) is the outward representation of a system in which two parties are not actually being represented.
We may end up with three main parties but at this moment in time, at least in this particular race, there were only ever actually two parties in the running
Have you seen this article?
I agree at the foundation this isn't really a Dem vs Repub whatever issue, but for now we work within and work with the word symbols we have. Ach! My head's going to explode. Guess it's time to get off the computer and out into the sunshine for a while. :)
It's good to see politics as usual got interrupted by the people.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
All the teabagger heavyweights invaded the district, and despite Hoffman kissing Glenn Beck's butt like it was made of white chocolate, despite the moosehunter's robo calls, despite I'm not a DA but I play one on TV's commercials, despite swinging dick's army, the people of the 23rd decided that they wanted a candidate that actually knew the issues of their district.
It was victory for the people of the 23rd.
They will either win with conservatives or loose without them.
Ali, I said previously:
Win or lose a point has been made.
Even if Scozzawhatever had stayed in and had won, it wouldn't have been a Repub win since she was never a Repub in the first place; it would still have a been a Dem/Lib win.
That should be the lesson taken here.
Now that Owens has won, it's a Dem/Lib win. Owens ... Scozzawhatever ... same same win or lose; no difference there.
The point that was made that you can't arbitrarily inject candidates into local races without repercussions.
Idealogical purity may be important to the fringe, but it doesn't work on a practical level.
Please learn the difference between loose
and lose.
Loose is what Rush's bowel's did when he discovered that all his frightwing bloviation didn't deliver the election to Doug Hoffman.
Lose is what happened to Doug Hoffman in the election.
Losing is what will continue to happen if the Republicans don't value a diversity of opinions in their party.
So you are saying we should keep all the hypocrites in the Republican party. LOL!
The fact a seat was lost was due to the RNC's misstep in the first place of thinking that in this climate a RINO would be a good candidate.
And the point is, they better get on board and start choosing actual opposing candidates instead of liberal candidates with Repub stickered to their foreheads, or they will be responsible for a lot of losses just like this one come future elections.
Ali Hussein Lopez Nov 5, 2009, 11:51am EST
Lee;
The point that was made that you can't arbitrarily inject candidates into local races without repercussions.
Idealogical purity may be important to the fringe, but it doesn't work on a practical level.
not sure that's a recipe for success.
McCain was another liberal politics as usual Republican, that recipe did not work...