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Rick Santorum's Crystal Ball
| Sun Nov. 1, 2009 1:41 PM PST
When Assemblywomen Dede Scozzafava suspended her campaign because it appeared that her Conservative-party opponent, a Republican, stood a better chance to win on Tuesday she noted that she was a proud Republican....Her announcement today is a lesson to all of us — that even those in our party who may not agree with us on many of our core principles and positions not only still want to be on our team, but want us to win.
State Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava (R), who dropped from the special election in Upstate New York yesterday, has now thrown her support to Democrat Bill Owens.
"It's not in the cards for me to be your representative, but I strongly believe Bill is the only candidate who can build upon John McHugh's lasting legacy in the U.S. Congress," said Scozzafava in a statement released moments ago.
Italics mine. Apparently Santorum's version of the Republican Party is not quite so popular as he thought.
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I am thankful that sane
Submitted by Mark Robbins (not verified) on Sun Nov. 1, 2009 2:38 PM PST.
I am thankful that sane Republicans feel their closer analogs are the Democrats rather than the Constitution Party.
Why so many Republicans would work so hard to help a dude who isn't in their party is baffling to me. The Eric Erickson's of the world don't belong in the Republican Party. They belong in the Constitution Party, which is hopefully where they're going.
It's like if ideological purity on the left was measured by how closely you followed the platform of the Green Party.
It's the Conservative party
Submitted by Christopher1974 on Sun Nov. 1, 2009 5:23 PM PST.
It's something we have here in NY, where we have lots of small ideological parties with long histories. In fact, it's this sort of grouping and regrouping that makes NY politics a lot more like parliamentary systems.
christopher // inaudiblenonsense.com
Owens is still going to lose.
Submitted by Another Brad (not verified) on Sun Nov. 1, 2009 2:49 PM PST.
Owens is still going to lose.
Owens is still going to lose.
Submitted by Julia Grey on Sun Nov. 1, 2009 5:11 PM PST.
Yeah, so? A Hoffman victory means even more Republican civil war, now new and improved, given the supposed "proof" that wacky nutcase carpetbaggers are what they need more of.
BWAH-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
The bad thing is, the
Submitted by pol on Sun Nov. 1, 2009 6:49 PM PST.
The bad thing is, the Republican Party is looking at a sweep of the top three offices in Virginia. If they also win this House race, and the governor's office in NJ, they're going to call this a rebuke of Obama. We know it's not... it's just that the whackos have all aligned.
I think it's really quite scary to think about. The moderates are being driven from the party, but the whackos have the support of the party and big business... Even if the Republican Party is nuts, it can win because of all the money behind it.
McDonnell, in Virginia, is masquerading as a moderate -- lying through his teeth -- and everyone is buying it. Perhaps other Republican candidates will try this trick as well???
Why are they buying it? ...
Submitted by Calvin Jones an... on Sun Nov. 1, 2009 7:41 PM PST.
because too many Virginians still want to believe it ... that's why .. and Deeds is trying to be too much Republican-lite
"They're going to call this a rebuke of Obama"
Submitted by Julia Grey on Sun Nov. 1, 2009 7:34 PM PST.
Let 'em. As you said, we know it's not. We're working in reality, they're fooling themselves.
I don't see the downside, except for the grim bits of time that certain voting populations are going to have to put up with the wackazoids in order to let them demonstrate, once again and extra-clearly, that they are, you know, wackazoids. It will be coming into particular focus just in time for the next set of elections.
What it Shows...
Submitted by Trashhauler (not verified) on Mon Nov. 2, 2009 10:18 AM PST.
What it shows is that the backroom choice of a liberal Republican is no longer what the rank and file Republicans expect to see. The wisdom of their rejection was shown by the speed with which Scozzafava turned her coat.
How did Scozzafava turn her coat?
Submitted by QMF (not verified) on Mon Nov. 2, 2009 5:56 PM PST.
She didn't reject the Republican candidate. Republican Bigwigs rejected her. They trashed her, called her names, and embraced one of her opponents. After she quit the race, she endorsed the candidate who lives in the district and knows about the local issues.
It seems to me that the turncoats in this whole episode are Palin, Giuliani, et al.
