Today the field has been cleared for conservative victory in New York! Doug Hoffman will now be able to consolidate the republican votes, and with the registration breakdown in NY-23 that means a certain win.
I was hopeful that this split could be settled before next Tuesday. As more and more heavy artillery started moving and backing Hoffman it became clear that he was going to win this race but it was going to be close.
Now instead of a nailbiter, Tuesday will be a landslide.
Thank you Dede, this was very gracious of you.
Everyone, get the message out that we are united behind Hoffman... at this point with 3 days to go, the ballot can not be changed to remove candidates who are no longer running.
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What I'd watch for is if Dede's supporters decide to vote for Owens and hand the Democrats a victory in Republican NY-23... and after the way Dede was treated, I wouldn't blame her supporters one bit. And the message to the Independents and Moderates = You are not welcome in the GOP. The GOP, with a small ideological tent, will continue to be a minority of a minority. Their message is nasty, angry and it certainly isn't welcoming. As Newt said, they can feel good about their populist little selves, but in national elections, they will never win. And you will begin to see a stronger, 'big tent' Democrat Party.
Don't forget, this congressional district voted for Obama over McCain/Palin, so I wouldn't be surprised if Owens picks up where Dede dropped out. All the Upstate districts have been trending Democrat. Notice all the former GOP seats Upstate are now held by Democrats. They are not trending Conservative.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/nyregion/01upstate.html
But other prominent Republicans expressed concern that Ms. Scozzafava’s decision seemed likely to unsettle the party going into next year’s midterm elections, raising the prospect of more primaries against Republican candidates that they deem too moderate. Party leaders — including Mr. Steele and Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker — had argued that local parties should be permitted to pick candidates that most closely mirror the sentiments of the district, even if those candidates vary from Republican orthodoxy on some issues.
“This makes life more complicated from the standpoint of this: If we get into a cycle where every time one side loses, they run a third-party candidate, we’ll make Pelosi speaker for life and guarantee Obama’s re-election,” said Mr. Gingrich, who had endorsed Ms. Scozzafava.
“I felt very deeply that when you have all 11 county chairman voting for someone, that it wasn’t appropriate for me to come in and render my judgment,” he said. “I think we are going to get into a very difficult environment around the country if suddenly conservative leaders decide they are going to anoint people without regard to local primaries and local choices.”
Ms. Scozzafava, a state assemblywoman and former small-town mayor, was nominated this summer by Republican county leaders who quickly found their choice second-guessed by the party’s conservative wing. Many officials in the district, a vast expanse from the Vermont border through the Adirondacks to Lake Ontario, were deeply resentful of the outside involvement.
“They’re trying to bang 435 elections across the United States into the same mold,” said James Ellis, chairman of the Franklin County Republican Party. “It’s a detriment to democracy.”
One Republican who had spoken to Ms. Scozzafava about her decision said that she was concerned her candidacy was too divisive for the party and that the decision was hers alone.
“She didn’t want to be labeled as a spoiler,” said the person, who requested anonymity because private conversations were involved.
"Many ... in the district, a vast expanse from the Vermont border through the Adirondacks to Lake Ontario, were deeply resentful of the outside involvement"
The G.O.P. Stalinists Invade Upstate New York
BARACK OBAMA’S most devilish political move since the 2008 campaign was to appoint a Republican congressman from upstate New York as secretary of the Army. This week’s election to fill that vacant seat has set off nothing less than a riotous and bloody national G.O.P. civil war.
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 wrecking crew of Kristol, Fred Thompson, Dick Armey, Michele Bachmann, The Wall Street Journal editorial page and the government-bashing Club for Growth all joined the Hoffman putsch. Then came the big enchilada: a Hoffman endorsement from Palin on her Facebook page. Such is Palin’s clout that Steve Forbes, Rick Santorum and Tim Pawlenty, the Minnesota governor (and presidential aspirant), promptly fell over one another in their Pavlovian rush to second her motion. They were joined by far-flung Republican congressmen from Kansas, Georgia, Oklahoma and California, not to mention a gaggle of state legislators from Colorado. On Fox News, Beck took up the charge, insinuating that Hoffman’s Republican opponent might be a fan of Karl Marx. Some $3 million has now been dumped into this race by outside groups.
Writing in 1964 of that era’s equivalent to today’s tea party, the historian Richard Hofstadter observed that the John Birch Society’s “ruthless prosecution” of its own ideological war often mimicked the tactics of its Communist enemies.
The same could be said of Beck, Palin and their acolytes. Though they constantly liken the president to various totalitarian dictators, it is they who are re-enacting Stalinism in full purge mode. They drove out Arlen Specter, and now want to “melt Snowe” (as the blog Red State put it). The same Republicans who once deplored Democrats for refusing to let an anti-abortion dissident, Gov. Robert Casey of Pennsylvania, speak at the 1992 Clinton convention now routinely banish any dissenters in their own camp.
These conservatives’ whiny cries of victimization also parrot a tic they once condemned in liberals.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/opinion/01rich.html?_r=1
Jay Bookman:
Well, the conservatives went hunting for a Republican heretic in upstate New York, and it looks as though they’ve bagged one. This will be the occasion for a lot of celebration on the GOP right, but regardless of what happens Tuesday, I don’t think it bodes well for the GOP nationally.
No party gets bigger by getting smaller.
A week and a half ago, Conservative Douglas L. Hoffman was appearing on a nationally syndicated conservative talk show while Democrat William L. Owens was in New York City, attending a fundraiser with President Barack Obama.
"I was in a dairy barn that night," said Republican Dierdre K. Scozzafava. "I was talking to a constituent about the dairy crisis."
"It struck me at the time that there was a little irony in it. Our congressional race had become a referendum on issues far from here," Ms. Scozzafava said Saturday evening after announcing earlier in the day that she was suspending her congressional campaign. "Our area had become the battleground for people from outside the congressional district. And after the election is over, all of them will get back on their buses and go back home."
Even former Gov. George E. Pataki decided to endorse her conservative opponent.
"George Pataki is probably to the left of me on some issues," Ms. Scozzafava said. "It leaves me a little baffled."
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