Election: Democrats Should Be Nervous, Republicans Should Wake Up
November 4, 2009 / 9:52 am • By Dr. Melissa ClouthierQuick takes:
Hoffman loss: What She said. Michelle Malkin nails it:
Conservatives owe NY-23 candidate Doug Hoffman immeasurable gratitude. He overcame impossible odds (single digits just a month ago) to come within two points of defeating Democrat Bill Owens. Hoffman had zero name recognition. National Republican Party officials dumped nearly $1 million into the race on behalf of radical leftist GOP candidate Dede Scozzafava, who then turned around, endorsed Owens and siphoned off 5 percent of the vote with her name still on the ballot after she dropped out.
More here.
New Jersey: This election could have gone any way. New Jersey, Chicago, Philadelphia, New Orleans are cess-pits of electoral despair. Corrupt. So a Christie win is a surprise. Will NJ reduce taxes and turn from their evil ways? Somehow, I doubt it. Still, President Obama put his pride on the line and campaigned there. And the Democrats were not buoyed by his transfixing personality… So, I’m guessing that everyone is back to politics as usual.
Virginia: Now this election will cause some Democrats heartburn. Barack Obama won handily here and guess what? The Virginians ain’t buyin’ what he’s currently sellin’.
Finally, there’s the little talked about California 10 election. This is a solidly liberal district and it very nearly fell to a Republican who got no big money help. Republicans need to stop giving ground and writing off the coasts. There are many conservative spots that would turn Republican. American citizens are sick of the inside-the-beltway types dictating from on high. Everything is up for change. In that environment, everything needs to be fought.
14 Responses to “Election: Democrats Should Be Nervous, Republicans Should Wake Up”
November 4 2009 / 10:44 am
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On the NY-23 outcome, neo-neocon summed it up…
If Republicans want to win, they should nominate Republicans in the first place, not RINOs who will be challenged by Conservatives and end up splitting the vote.
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November 4 2009 / 11:19 am
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Horseshirt, pure and all too simple. If Republicans want to win, they should nominate candidates representative of the electoral district.
Instead, in NY23, idiots from around the country deposed the Republican candidate and spent tons of money trying to install the candidate of the NY Conservative Party.
Thundering bit of stupidity this, and managed to snatch a defeat in an impossible-to-lose district.
November 4 2009 / 12:08 pm
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There was no Republican nominee. There was a Republican designee.
If the Republican electorate of the district had been able to chose, Scozzafava’s flaws would have been aired. And instead, they would have nominated someone (presumably Hoffman) who would have gone on to win handily.
November 4 2009 / 2:51 pm
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Fuster,
This was a special election, there was no primary. Get a clue. Scozza received hundreds of thousands of dollars and still failed to garner support in HER district! No one in the rest of the country voted in this election, the locals did. Just because outside people donated money to Hoffman had no impact on Scozza’s positions on Abortion, Taxes, Stimulus, etc. She did not represent the local electorate, so she polled poorly and dropped out.
Thanks again for your presence here Fuster. I am not sure I would know what stupid was without your comments.
November 4 2009 / 5:17 pm
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Chalmers, old chump, I didn’t say anything about Scozzafama being nominated, did I?
You seem to have misconstrued a bit, but what of that?
Andit’s not quite true that she failed to garner support in her district. She was leading the race until the Fox asswipes and the other self-important celebrity Republicans decided to join Mike Long in the Conservative fit of pique.
It seems that you lack the self-awareness to comprehend stupidity.
November 4 2009 / 5:18 pm
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As far as I’m concerned, the RINOs in NY-23 should be taken out and shot. It’s amazing that 5% of the people are that freaking stupid.
Here’s my argument regarding the Scuzzy RINOs. Your candidate bows out of the race. That clearly means she’s done. So why would you vote for someone who’s out of a race? Ok, possible answers: because “we really like her issues”, “it was a protest vote”, “because we don’t know what the hell we’re doing (ok, that last one was my opinion, though I consider it a fact).
Ok, loving the issues…if she has no chance to win, then her issues are moot. Love her all you want, but Scuzzy’s not going to win. Period. Kind of a dumb reason to vote for her.
Protest vote…really trying to grasp the logic of this. If you’re going to protest, then do it correctly. As far as I’m concerned, Scuzzy and friends cost the Republicans a House seat. If you’re going to protest, then vote for Owens already! Seriously! NY-23 RINOS, take the next logical step and slap a fucking D next to your name instead of pretending that you’re Republicans (yeah, I dropped the F-bomb)!
Yeah, I want the party purged. I don’t regret saying it and I have no issues with it. I want a purified party so I at least know where my enemies are. If the RINOs are going to pull this garbage every election, then they really should follow Specter and I don’t care how that impacts the Republican party in the short term because it can only help us in the long term. I can’t blame the Democrats on this one. At least they voted the way that wanted and were supposed to.
As far as the governor races: We should be winning in Virginia. It’s…Virginia. I’d be concerned if we lost that. As for New Jersey, I really do think that it was more anti-Corzine than anything pro-Republican and I think Christie is going to end up being a RINO.
However, a small yay for Republicans for winning them. It’s better than nothing. However, as far as I’m concerned, NY-23 was the crucial one and we blew it. The Left gained yet another seat in the House.
November 5 2009 / 1:06 pm
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fuster – can you EVER shut up when you’re wrong. (I doubt it)
If the RINO’s in that district has actually CHOSEN a Conservative and NOT another RINO – none of this would have happened. You’ll NEVER admit that, even though you KNOW it’s true. Hoffman wouldn’t have even put his name IN if Sckuzz wasn’t more liberal than the Democrat. I hope the Republicans of that district throw those leaders who put DeDe on the ballot – that’s more than they deserve.
And for those votes she got – almost ALL of them were absentee early voting BEFORE she dropped out. (Also remember – she was on the ballot TWICE for the SAME seat – talk about confusing for the un-informed) And just for advice fuster – if you even think DeDe had a chance even if Hoffman never entered the race – think again. The Conservatives of that district wouldn’t have voted for her and the Dem would’ve won. So go with a SURE loss, or get a REAL Conservative on the ticket and have a chance. And we know, the all-knowing centrist fuster, how listening to the Liberals tell us HOW and WHO to put up has SO helped us in the past, hasn’t it? (which is why you keep doing it)
November 5 2009 / 1:15 pm
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I’m not the one who should be shutting up, Davie. You clowns just finished stepping on your willies in NY23.
Scozzafama would have won handily.
http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2009/10/siena-on-ny-23-scozzafava-up-7.html
November 5 2009 / 1:21 pm
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Just like you to quote a LIBERAL NY paper on a LIBERAL person wining.
November 5 2009 / 5:56 pm
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You’re the one’s probably been wining. Sober up, sheepboy. The Daily News is right-center and has been for the last half-century.
November 5 2009 / 6:04 pm
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fuster, we’ve had this discussion before. You’re so far to the left, something even a little bit left SEEMS to the right to you. It’s no where NEAR Center-right.
November 6 2009 / 8:33 am
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> Thundering bit of stupidity this,
You’re right, fuster, that description does fit your blather.
> It seems that you lack the self-awareness to comprehend stupidity.
Helloooooooooo, KETTLE!!
This is the POT….
> Scozzafama would have won handily.
Annnnnd, HOW would that be different from what actually happened? Except that the Libtards would then be able to claim “partisan” support for things which were blatantly UNpartisan…?
To all except fuster:
Why do you take this bozo seriously?
I won’t call him a troll, but he plays one on TV. He does take more trouble to sound halfway rational than most trolls do, but he serves the same time-wasting purpose on the whole, and it’s clear from enough of what he said that he’s so far out there on the left side of the road that he needs a high powered telescope to even SEE the road… You aren’t going to pull him an inch towards center, and you aren’t going to get any useful ideas from that far out in the field.
Just throw a sentence of two at his most egregious blatherings and otherwise ignore him.
November 6 2009 / 8:54 am
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OBH:
I know most that do reply (especially me), reply specifically so that any new comer to this site can see that he is a liberal hack, and not just go by his wittily worded rantings, and claims that he’s the “Great Centrist” (remember that post!!!). Also the MORE he posts, the MORE it’s visible, so we actually want him posting more – so people can see how out of touch and blinded from reality they he (and most all libs) really are.