An ACORN-Friendly, Big Labor-Backing, Tax-and-Spend Radical in GOP Clothing
Yes, it’s time for the upside-down elephant. The Stupid Party is at it again. The subject of today’s column: An abomination in the NY23 special congressional race to replace former GOP Rep. John McHugh, who accepted President Obama’s Army Secretary position. Way to go, Beltway GOP establishment. Grass-roots fiscal conservatives are fired up over ACORN, the SEIU, tax-and-spend radicals. Grass-roots social conservatives are battling radical abortion and gay marriage policies. You have been asking movement conservatives to give you money to fight the ACORN-friendly, union-pandering, tax-and-spend, radical Democrats.
Then you use their money to try and elect Dede Scozzafava, an ACORN-friendly, union-pandering, tax-and-spend radical Republican. And you use that money to fight Doug Hoffman, a viable, bona fide conservative candidate in the race who is closing the gap in the polls.
Watch your campaign coffers dry up, NRCC.
The GOP establishment: Always, always its own worst enemy.
Get out your air sickness bags. Guess who endorsed Scozzafava this morning? Newt Gingrich. I hear Al Sharpton and Nancy Pelosi approve!
Fight the GOP Beltway establishment. Contribute to Doug Hoffman today.
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An ACORN-Friendly, Big Labor-Backing, Tax-and-Spend Radical in GOP Clothing
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2009
Here’s the dirty little secret about political candidates and officeholders labeled by the mainstream media as “moderate Republicans”: There’s usually nothing moderate about them. Consider the case of “moderate Republican” Dede Scozzafava, the GOP nominee in the New York 23rd congressional district’s special election.
Handpicked by local party pooh-bahs and supported by Beltway GOP leaders, Scozzafava is vying to replace former GOP Rep. John McHugh, who abandoned his seat to accept President Obama’s nomination as Army Secretary. There’s certainly no urgency to tack left. The upstate New York district is as safe a Republican district as they come. The GOP has triumphed in every election there since 1871. Obama eked out a victory in the district last fall, but the Democrats have no real traction on the ground.
And the mood of the electorate near and far is far from electric blue. It’s not just Tea Party activists and health care town hall protesters displaying discontent with Big Government in Washington. A recent Gallup Poll reported that self-identified conservatives now outnumber self-identified liberals in all 50 states — and that more Americans nationwide now say they are conservative than have made that claim in any of the last four years.
Scozzafava is an abortion rights advocate who favors gay marriage. It would be one thing if Scozzafava balanced that social liberalism with fiscal conservatism. But as a state assemblywoman, she voted for massive tax increases, Democratic budgets and a $180 million state bank bailout. She also supported the trillion-dollar federal stimulus package — which every House Republican voted against.
More troubling, Scozzafava in past elections has embraced the ballot line of the Working Families Party — a socialist outfit whose political DNA is intertwined with scandal-ridden ACORN. ACORN and the WFP have shared office space in New York City, Arkansas and Illinois. ACORN head Bertha Lewis, a close Scozzafava friend and political supporter, wears a second hat as vice chairman of the WFP. The WFP has been listed in ACORN documents dating back to 2000 as an “affiliate.”
Under fire for her cozy relations with organizations that have shown lifelong hostility toward the Republican Party, Scozzafava now claims she would have voted to de-fund ACORN in the wake of the multiple BigGovernment.com sting videos showing ACORN employees advising undercover journalists on how to evade tax laws, lie on housing applications and smuggle underage illegal alien prostitutes.
But there’s another inextricably linked ACORN and WFP affiliate that Scozzafava would not likely disavow: Big Labor.
Refresher: The Service Employees International Union is co-located with several key ACORN offices across the country. ACORN founder Wade Rathke founded influential SEIU Local 100. As John Wilson reported in the New York Post this spring, the WFP’s largest donors are the SEIU, which pitched in more than $300,000, and the teachers union, which donated $200,000. These organizations have worked together to increase left-wing political clout, undermine capitalism and ensure “social justice” on the public’s dime.
Scozzafava’s husband is a leading upstate New York union organizer. She supports the federal “card-check” legislation that would massively boost union rolls — and Democratic voting rolls — at the expense of rank-and-file workers’ free choice. And for that matter, at the expense of Republican electoral prospects. Card check is the key to a Democratic majority in perpetuity. Big Labor bosses have said as much.
Movement conservatives and limited government activists are battling the establishment GOP over its endorsement of Scozzafava’s candidacy. The Club for Growth, former GOP presidential candidate Fred Thompson and others have lined up behind a truly mainstream and viable candidate — Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman.
Meanwhile, “moderate Republican” Scozzafava has earned the enthusiastic endorsement of far-left blog entrepreneur and political strategist Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, who runs the Daily Kos website. He enthused that Scozzafava has “been willing to raise taxes when budgets require it, and is to the left of most Democrats on social issues.”
That’s not moderation. That’s extremist fringe. This race isn’t a fight over the heart and soul of the Republican Party. It’s a battle over its brain.
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Jeri Thompson nails it: “The fact that Republican Party leaders in NY-23 and the NRCC ignored just about everything that has taken place over the past six months — the fight over the Obama stimulus package, the tea party rallies, the health care debate — and put Scozzafava on the ballot, indicates that we need more, not less, common sense and conservative values in the Republican Party. Hoffman represents conservatives’ best chance to send a national message to the Republican Party that they are a force to be reckoned with, and that Hoffman appears to have the energy from the grassroots to pull off a win and help lay the groundwork for a successful 2010 election cycle. As one Hoffman supporter told me yesterday, ‘The feeling of momentum is palpable. The race is between Doug and the Democrat…we hope Dede won’t be a spoiler for conservatives in this race.’”
The Washington Times spotlights the battle: Tea Party conservatives vs. the GOP.
A new poll in the November 3 special election for the congressional seat, NY-23, vacated by Army Secretary John McHugh, confirms what knowledgeable observers have suspected for a while: The candidacy of the official Republican nominee, liberal Dede Scozzafava, selected by local party officials and supported by the national Republican establishment, is collapsing. The Republican who has a real chance to defeat Democrat Bill Owens is Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate—a Republican with a profile far more like the popular McHugh, and one far more in sync with the district. What’s more, if elected, Hoffman would caucus in Congress with Republicans—whereas Scozzafava could well pull an Arlen Specter and defect to the Democrats.
Two weeks ago, the Siena poll had Scozzafava at 35%, Owens at 28%, and Hoffman at 16%. Now Scozzafava, at 29%, trails Owens by 4—and leads Hoffman, who has risen to 23%, by only 6, compared to her 19 point lead over Hoffman two weeks ago. This despite a full-court press for Scozzafava by the state and national GOP establishment—including press releases from the National Republican Congressional Committee attacking Hoffman.
The new poll shows Democrats are coming home to Owens, and that Hoffman is leading among independents. (Scozzafava is running third among independents.) This suggests he’s a far more viable candidate than Scozzafava in the stretch run, especially if Republicans were to begin to coalesce around him—which might well happen if the GOP establishment stopped propping up Scozzafava.
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Here come the predictable whines from the noseholders: “Perfection is the enemy of the good”. “You conservatives expect ideological purity”. “The GOP tent is big enough for a variety of points of view”.
We’ve heard them all ad nauseum. It hasn’t worked. GOP registrations went from almost 40% in 2004 to 23% or lower today. Subtraction by addition. The party that stands for nothing trying to stand for everything.
This is one of the reasons that Snowe & Collins keep getting elected.
They’re the only ones the RNC and it’s subsidiaries will back.
I gave up on Gingrich a long time ago.
He seems to have gotten to the point that if it’s good for his image, it’s gonna be done. Ever since he did those stupid ads w/ Pelosi.
Unfortunately, when the RNC calls for donations, it’s not really them. They hire call centers to make the calls for them. So when I and others tell them we aren’t sending them one more cent until they stop supporting these RINOs, they probably don’t get the message.
Pasadena Phil, we don’t expect perfection. We just expect the RNC to back candidates who are not SEIU and ACORN shills.
Goal #15…
The Communists have accomplished many of their goals found in W. Cleon Skousen’s 1960 book The Naked Communist and which were recorded into the Congressional record over 46 years ago (January 10, 1963).
There are Socialists in both major political parties. And make no mistake that the goal of socialists is not socialism… it is communism…
How do we avoid the specter of a 3rd Party candidate in 2012? I cannot continue to support these lame excuses for conservatives who have sold out to the left. I did not give to the GOP last year at all due to McCain and will never give them another dime as long as the party is hi-jacked by the spineless pukes who have the reigns.
Is there going to be a true Patriot rise up out of the Tea Party movement? My money will support true conservatives who embrace and enhance the core values that made this country great.
i went to : http://newt.org/EditNewt/ContactUs/tabid/159/Default.aspx
to let newt know he lost my support.
Thank you, Red Pill. I have been looking for that Congressional Record for a while not knowing what it was called.
You are right (as usual) about the Communist infiltration of the political process.
The GOP has been doing this for years! It is another in the long list of reasons that I don’t believe the RNC now when they claim to have seen the light. They are liars, scoundrels and idiots and I won’t be supporting them any longer!
I support the Constitution Party which actually believes in conservative principles!
off topic…keep the kids away from the tv sets next week…the networks will be trying to induct your children to service…breitbart.tv supposedly has a story about it (still trying to find the link)…some of the ads will urge your children to work at planned parent hood…mike church covered it this morning…I hate network tv to begin with so it won’t be a problem for me…bring on the hockey games…lol
The liberals that put the party in the crapper are still running things.
I can’t figure out why anyone still thinks Newt Gingrich is a conservative.
This is why I don’t donate money to the GOP or the NRCC. They continue to support the radical left wing of the Party. These people will not support a Conservative. Their plan is even if they win we lose.
Yea, thanks Phil…it’s always good to hear liberals telling conservatives what they should be doing. We conservatives are just against ideological insanity, but then you wouldn’t get it.
tiredofit08 said:
I have already seen one featuring the Muppets — cutesy and so hip but, aimed at the children to push the adults.
This will be a long slog. Liberalism is a truly infectious and fatal disease.
My money is on – she will win.
Good = bad
Bad = good
If a Conservative Party candidates wins a seat, that will be the camel’s nose under the tent for the GOP.
Here’s one link:
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/10/15/leaked-memo-reveals-the-white-house-has-control-of-your-television-set/
There is a really bad sit com “New Adventures of Old Christine” w/ Julia Louis Dreyfus. They are already running with this. It’s so bad it hurts to watch.
Don’t avoid. embrace!
I wrote a letter this morning to Newt Gingrich asking him to stay out of the Battle in New York.
I had already expressed many of the same sentiments in this earlier posting.
I’m trying to figure out if you understood my point. Are you defending noseholders? Your comment preceding this one tells me we are on the same side here.
Re-read my comment. Do you have a reading comprehension problem?
Go Sarah!!! (That’s Sarah Palin orlando. You can google her name if you don’t know who she is).
I agree with P-Phil, and it might help to re-read his post. He is trying to head off the appeasement wing of the GOP. I am sending my voter registration card with VOID written across it to the GOP headquarters. It is time for a new conservative party, one that is truly conservative. People want change? Let’s give them some real change. I like the name constitutional party but have never actually heard of a living, breathing official constitutional party.
Michelle, I know you are busy but maybe someone like yourself, Mike Church, Andrew Wilkow, Mark Levin, etc, could draw up a mission statement for true conservatives? Go easy on the religious aspect (don’t exclude of course) because not all conservatives are hard-core Christians.
Good for you for getting involved, Michelle!
If the leaders of the Republican Party haven’t gotten the message by now, they never will. 2010 is a pivotal electionyear for the USA, yet I do believe the Republicans will completely screw it up.
Very depressing.
On October 16th, 2009 at 10:41 am, tiredofit08 said:
On October 16th, 2009 at 11:29 am, SpeakEasy said:
Ah, more fans of the King Dude!
Found him on a rental car’s XM radio. I’m sorely tempted to get one.
Me either, but I used to so I still get fund-raising letters disguised as questionnaires. Last week I took a Sharpie and scrawled “Snowe? McCain? Graham?” across it and taped two pennies across the donation coupon. Sent it back at their expense.
I just got two new GOP “surveys” (donation requests) yesterday. I’ve already printed up a fresh batch of McCain pesos to send back to them.
If you like Mike Church, you will really like Andrew Wilkow. Look him up on web, just spell his name correctly.
“We’re right, they’re wrong. End of the discussion.”
The RNC and the RINO establishment has no clue who it is they are opposed by. We do. As have written before, they do not realize the neighbors next door, who they share cocktails with on the weekends have become vampires.
Rather than seek to destroy them, they want to become vampires too.
With stats like those, there’s no chance the GOP is going to survive anyway.
When I wrote the Federalist Party Platform last spring, the whole point was to bring conservatives together under one banner. Maybe the Party mascot should be the turkey, since like the turkey the movement really started with the “Tea”!
So I was a little ahead of my time. Nothing wrong with that!
Also, there is a new website, that I have nothing to do with, and have not had the chance to really peruse yet, but the front page looks pretty good.
http://newfederalists.org/
Maybe we should give it a good look-see. They don’t have a platform yet, but if it has what I hope it does, maybe it’s the way to go!
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Imple.
Use YOUR power to relegate the Republicans to third-party status. They’re already well on their way.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
I just gave some of my hard-earned money to Michele Bachmann. Try it, you’ll like it!!
http://www.michelebachmann.com
Thanks to Glenn Beck, Michele is ahead in her fund-raising. Let’s keep her there!
I like the Constitution Party, and used its platform as part of the basis for mine.
The party’s name is misleading, though, as they are not so much the party of the Constitution itself as they are the party of its biblical foundation, which bears consideration, but is not the law of our land at all.
The point of the Federalist Party Platform was to put together the common ground shared by Constitutionites, Libertarians, conservative Republicans, and Reagan New Federalists. This way, we could gain the proper strength in numbers, and still have room for our own beliefs as Constitutionites, Libertarians, Republicans, and Reagan New Federalists.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Interesting quote in that one article:
My answer is…NO…I am not in it for a Republican majority. I want a conservative majority, and having idiot liberals wearing Republican clothes does NOTHING to help that. Look at those morons from Maine in the senate, Collins and Snowe. Honestly, I’d rather see a Democrat in those seats, we’d at least know we’re getting the shaft.
I just checked her issues page, and noticed this little tidbit, which is a major part of my platform (sorry to keep bringing it up, but it’s important):
This comes from the Reagan New Federalist Platform at Regan2020.org, and it is soem,thing that must be implemented if we are going to have any kind of sanity restored in Washington.
I do like what I see on that page. Maybe we can run her for President in 2012.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
The Constitution Party has been around for a long time, but would be better named the “Biblical Law Party”. They are an excellent party despite my disagreement with their emphasis on returning America to the Constitution’s Biblical roots. Perhaps my idea could work better as a “Federalist Coalition” …
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
SpeakEasy,
I did this last April. I would love to have you check it out. Consider this my humble invitation.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
The GOP establishment is either collectively becoming insane or they are infiltrated with Manchurian candidates who are actively working in concert with the deranged leftist kooks in the DNC. Newt Gingrich has been sliding towards the dark side since ever since he had to resign during the Clinton administration. I know that he knows what conservatism is, but he does not have the will to stand on what is right, and far too often he resorts to doing whatever is expedient.
And here’s what I always run into with those who support Democrats no matter what, and this is they project their mindless partisanship upon me when I have something to say about how utterly corrupt and destructive their party is. To me BOTH PARTIES BE DAMNED if they cannot support this country and the freedoms and liberties that it was founded upon. I’d much rather see the major parties crushed into dust, burned to ashes, and thrown down a sewer before THEY do that to this nation.
These leftists do not know how to handle people who aren’t beholden to a party, but rather have a passion for America and what it has stood for before the “social justice” tyrants started corrupting it. Both parties are guilty of the degrading and erosion of our liberties and freedoms, and I’m fast losing hope that the GOP will ever regain the moorings with regard to where it stood with individual freedom and liberty.
Personally, I believe that there is a madness that has infested everyone who is in charge of ANYTHING in the world, and they are driving all of humanity towards an apocalyptic abyss. A nuclear war is inevitable, and that will wipe out billions of people, and leave the remnant in panic and utter disarray. Meanwhile, these moron politicians only care about pandering to groups an doling out stolen property to those groups. They are leading us all to a catastrophe.
The Republican Party has reached a crossroads. Go to the left and you’re heading into the wilderness for God-knows-how-long. Go to the right and you’re heading for a return to your principles.
Let the RINO hunt begin!
I don’t get the Republican Beltway Establishment, like John McCain and now Newt Gingrich.
They claim that we have to be more moderate to attract Hispanics. . .and then they endorse liberal white Republicans over Hispanic conservatives, like Marco Rubio.
Their strategy makes no sense.
You continue to miss the point entirely, Phil.
I, someone who thinks you guys who refused to try to stop Obama by voting for McCain in November were either woefully ignorant or mentally defective, despise the Republican Party.
In this case we are not electing the most powerful person on the planet, and there is a viable third party alternative.
In this case it is the people supporting the RNC candidate who are the woefully ignorant or mentally defective voters who need to drop their loser candidate and support someone who can actually beat the Democrat and give us a marginally less collectivist Congress.
You are supposed to use your intelligence to distinguish between the two wildly different situations, Phil.
Steele, Gingrich, Graham, etc. are living in Fantasyland. How did that big tent work out in 2008? Their dream candidate McCain couldn’t even beat a totally inexperienced socialist with ties to terrorists in states like Virginia, North Carolina and Colorado. We don’t need a third party; we need there to be a real second party. We need to get busy and support more like Palin, Jindal, Bachmann, DeMint. Conservatives can rule the GOP if we put forth the effort. We have to quit pandering to the left. The Dems stand for something, disqusting as it is. We need to take a stand. It’ll be socialism vs. freedom. The so-called independents will have to choos from two real choices. That’s the only way we can prevail.
Their strategy is to please the media and big money. It makes perfect sense when you realize they have surrendered to the globalist oligarchy. Like all of the Democrat politicians, they are no longer serving America’s interests.
The end of history has turned out to be the global triumph of fabian socialism.
I just don’t get Gingrich, and therefore I don’t trust him. I think that he has so immersed himself in DC treachery that he has truly forgotten what it means to be a true conservative and not just a party lackey.
P-Phil nailed it first thing. Nose-holders do the conservative movement no favors at all.
I want a “none of the above” as a voting choice, especially when the 2 choices offered are both lame. The public needs an option which tells both parties that they need to put up 2 more choices. Loyalty is to the party and not to the voters, which is why our elected officials have no problem ignoring our wishes.
Can’tCureStupid, Phil constantly confuses two very different arguments. During the primaries there were those who said we should nominate McCain because he was a ‘moderate’ who could win.
Those people were fools, or, to be generous, they were ignorant of how American politics actually works. Their concept of the ‘middle’ is wrong.
After McCain got the nomination there were those (including Phil) who argued there was ‘no difference’ between McCain and Obama.
Those people were also fools, or, to be generous and diplomatic, they were ignorant of how our system of government actually works. Their view of how to move us toward conservative government is badly wrong. Losing to the far left won’t do it.
Anyone who thought John McCain could win that election has some really serious soul-searching to do.
He was the only candidate in the Republican field with no ties at all to the perceived “base” (conservatives), and as such the only candidate the Republicans fielded that had no chance of winning whatsoever.
Even Ron Paul had a better shot.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Or, to put it more precisely for those who think fabian socialism isn’t really such a bad thing, the end of history has turned out to be the global triumph of an oligarchical, freedom gutting version of fabian socialism.
This is why we need term limits. To keep the honest folks from becoming corrupted by the system.
I believe in absolute term limits. 12 years MAX in Congress (both houses cumulative).
Also former congresspeople are forbidden to be lobbyists and not allowed to come within 100 miles of DC for more than 14 days per calendar year for the rest of their lives.
Besides …
In the end, Obama will have been one of the best things ever to have happened to America. If you can’t get someone to fix the problem, you at least might as well have someone who will wake up the people to the foolishness they have been engaging in for so long.
Obama will wind up trying to run in 2012 on the platform “yeah that’s really what I was trying to do all along” – thanks to the Tea Parties and Town Halls that will ultimately have brought the Democrat/Republican agenda down.
with only 24% of the electorate now Republican, and not much more of that Democrat, now is the time to move on. As I said before, both of those parties are toast.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
The astounding thing was that he almost did win. If he had suspended his campaign to go fight against Bush and Obama in the Senate to stop the TARP, he could well have won, even if he had failed to stop it.
But that was not who he was. Instead he went along with adding another +100B pork more to what the House sent the Senate.
The man’s clueless.
A lot of us on “the other side” thought he would win. The one and only thing that assured he wouldn’t was selecting Governor Palin as VP. If he’d picked an established name – Romney, maybe? – I believe he might well have pulled it off; at the very least, it would have been a lot closer than it was.
I think you need to look a little closer into that soul of yours.
Palin was the reason he got so close in the first place, despite the efforts from both parties to demonize her.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
His whole party is clueless.
All you have to do to prove my point is ask yourself if you were in any way surprised that he suspended his campaign to support something the American people didn’t.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
… or the Constitution for that matter.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Yeah, that’s why so many people were poised to vote for Mickey Mouse until Palin was selected.
Gingrich? sigh…. Why is he even consulted by anyone anymore? He was infected with the virus years ago.
Palin was the ONLY reason I voted for the Republican ticket – THE ONLY REASON!
The Republican Party sometimes reminds me of a quote from the Movie “El Cid,” when someone wistfully remarks of the main character’s heroic and largely unsupported efforts to rid Spain of the Moors:
“Such a worthy subject! If he only had a worthy king…”
The conservative base is fired up, primed and ready to run the donks out of DC for a generation or longer — yet too often the Republican leadership seems either oblivious to or contemptuous of what they are sitting on top of.
What Hope-a-Dope and the donks have done is to set up the volleyball; the question is whether the Republicans are going to whiff on the spike attempt.
Not only is the party leadership squandering what they should consider a Godsend, but in so doing they are setting themselves up for disaster in 2012: read all the futile third-party comments above, and realize that we could easily end up with Hope-a-Dope cruising to re-election by a plurality, just like Clinton in 1996.
To paraphrase Lincoln,
“Only the Republican Party leadership could manage such a coup, snatching one last disastrous defeat from the jaws of victory.”
I’m being very sincere saying this. I hear the pent-up frustrations of the system in MM’s and Beck and Hannity’s words. I’d like to see a balloon-poll of how well the above would do if they ran for office. When I see how Ventura and Arnold swept in with almost zero political acumen it really ticks me. So I’d like Townhall or some blog to see how well MM and her peers would do as candidates. Yes, I know where that leads, but why not? If the numbers look good, why not put a run to change where your mouth is? The late great Arthur C. Clarke always said, the best people who ought be running things must be dragged kicking and screaming into office.
James Greenidge
Queens NY
My sentiments exactly. I was in a state of disbelief that McLame steam-rollered through the Repub primaries.
Of course, I can see clearly now what the plan was all along…. divide and conquer.
You’ll be hearing from Chap.
Give money to candidates you like, not the RNC.
another example of why the ‘other side’ is uneducated and easily led.
I got a call from the rnc the other day and told the gal I do not give to the rnc but to people that hold my views. This gal from NY the rnc is backing is why I do not give to the rnc. I do not belong to aarp for the same reason, they use my money for things I do not agree with.
Gingrich is wrong on this one. Hoffman is the only candidate who would really give the Republicans actual momentum. A win for him would generate a lot of needed excitement in a state where there is none at all.
This sort of thing is why you have to laugh at all those idiots (such as David Frum) who claim the GOP has been taken over by “far right extremists”. The truth is that the GOP leadership would be much happier running the Democratic Party. They are not conservative in any sense, fiscal or social.
I’ve never given a dime to the RNC. Never will. I give to the candidates directly. Since the amounts were talking fit that framework, there’s no need to let the RNC have anything. Ever.
…echoing Aloha’s point….
I donated $9.12 to Hoffman. The amount sends the message of tea party/9-12 support and expectations that we have from that candidate.
Help our district (KS) to draft a free market conservative to run for Congress by signing the online petition or join the Facebook group.
the only reason my wife and I voted was for Plain . most others we know said the same thing.
Isn’t it so nice of the “other side” to help us pick our best candidate? You don’t think they could be ribbing us, do you? They will warn us that only Romney has the broad appeal necessary to win. Then when he is nominated these very same people will throw mud at him on religeon and anything else they can make up. Hey, I’ve got an idea … let’s don’t let the MSM pick out candidate this time! PALIN 2012
I posted a comment over at Mikey’s new site asking why the GOP was supporting Dede Scozzafava a radical ACORN big tax and spend lefty in the NY23 special congressional race when a fine Conservative Doug Hoffman is in the race.
My comment has not been posted and I am just going out on a limb here saying they never will.
http://www.gop.com/index.php/chairman_steele/comments/let_me_ask_you/
I’ve defended Gingrich in the past, not with great enthusiasm, but I felt it was still worthwhile to honor his achievement in 1994. Since then he has become increasingly erratic, but I figured nobody’s perfect. Surely he can’t be as bad as some have said. Guess what? I was wrong. As far as I am concerned, Gingrich must go. If he wants to hang around Sharpton, that’s fine by me, but if he attempts to gain entry to the 2012 republican convention he should be barred. Our own people are betraying us! The grim irony is that at least the Democrats are honest with us. They will enslave us and/or kill us, but FWIW, they aren’t lying to us. It is the Republican establishment that is our primary enemy, the traitors in our midst, and we must do everything we can to bring them down.
Steele is an Obama supporter. That is not a rhetorical flourish. It is the truth.
It is not a reasonable goal to sit down and have lunch with the Gingriches and Steeles of the world (a lunch we will be paying for, BTW). The great goal is to render these clowns impotent over our party and its politics. Then we will have a united front to go after the democrats.
Note: I’m not totally happy with Palin, but it is clear she is making rapid progress. It is also clear she has what no other republican contender can come close too: charisma and integrity. I wish there were more like her.
1. I’ve been telling the RNC that they need to get real conservatives before they get a penny from me for more then two years now.
2. I told McLame that the only reason I sent him ANY money at all is because he grabbed Sarah-cuda, and he didn’t get a penny from me afterwards.
3. Gingrich’s “people” called me last night. I told them “I can’t send you ANY money, I’M ALREADY TAXED TO DEATH!!!” and hung up on them!
4. I’ve sent Sarah-cuda $20 and Michelle Bachmann $20 already.
Oh yeah, I live in San Diego so neither of them are in my district!
Absolutely. I’m really tired of this 1-1/2 party system (democrat and democrat-lite). Bring forth the conservatives! To He77 with the beltway and all who work within it. They have created a steaming cesspool and have the guts to tell us it’s a sauna!
I changed my voter registration to “no party affiliation” when Juan McCain was nominated by the press. No more money for Nat’l Republicans. None, zero, zip.
Haven’t given to the Repubs in years. We give directly to candidates only, like Coffman, etc.
Sarah Palin/Ted Nugent 2012
I find it mind boggling that the GOP has seen day after day the exact same outrage by voters and yet they still don’t get it. They truly believe that we want Democrats out of office so badly that we will fall for the same old B.S. from them. I am done settling for what they are trying to shove down my throat.
valleygreaser, the “old” republican guard is still too entrenched. We need a third party to replace them and become the new second party. We have three years, let’s roll.
I’m liking Bachmann a lot better.
Palin doesn’t give me the clarity of purpose that I get from Bachmann.
Then there’s the situational support issue. Having been the VP candidate under John McAmnesty, she is on record supporting a number of HIS positions that I will not tolerate. She will have to clarify a lot of things to make it.
She’d be a bit of an improvement, but she does come across to me as a Republican and not so much as a conservative.
In other words, she may stop the bleeding temporarily – MAYBE, but she’s DEFINITELY NOT the answer.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Having had time to research this situation, I’ve decided to make a contribution to Mr. Hoffman’s campaign.
Now that Dick Armey is likely to campaign for Hoffman, it would make very substantial statement nationally were Palin to select this race as her first to campaign for “conservatives of any party” as has Armey. For the RNC-annointed candidate to lose to a Tea Party candidate actively supported by Armey/Palin would force the MSM and the nose-holding “Republican Uber Alles” crowd to seriously question whether the GOP is still a viable party. Whether the GOP itself is not in fact, the 3rd party in 2010 and 2012.
I would like to see how many Republican voters would re-register as unaffiliated independents or conservative alternatives. The GOP simply cannot afford to drop below 20% of voter registrations and they are almost there now. There are more conservatives today than there are either Republicans or Democrats.
Go Sarah!!!
Slightly off-topic, but related…
The reason Michelle Malkin’s book did not get a review by the
New York Times?
Communist Goal #20 has been achieved…
Another reason I will be a conservative first, and a republican NEVER.
Pasadena Phil,
Just adding to it.
After I posted my comment I thought it may not sound like I thought it in my head.
I don’t doubt it Redpill!
I know it sounds….”conspiratorial” …and we all know there are no conspiracies ….but what if the republican party had been infiltrated by liberal Democrats? And are running the Show?….Isn’t that just the craziest….I mean we kind of sort of accept that they have done that with unions, “news” media , voting registration. But, NEVER, would they be so bold as to take over the gop. We cannot look at these things straight on, lest some one call out…”Conspiracy Freak” and so we look down at our shoes and accept that of course many “prominent” republicans would support liberal whack jobs, and work to destroy any Conservative? (just like James Carvel)….of course they would and of course they are “honorable” republicans….It’s a free country and if the gop leaders want to vote Democrat…who among us can say that it is wrong?
This would be enough for me to make my choice.
As Long as I have outed my self above as a possible crazy conspiracy freak ….how bout this Idea…James Carvel to openly lead the gop….he is funnier than Steal and his wife, may make him throw the conservatives a bone or two?
That’s cute. It’s easy to claim what you would have done when you aren’t eligible to do what you claim you would have done.
As for the RNC, I just received another one of their insipid surveys along with the request for a donation. My motto is no $ for people stuck on stupid.
Gigadittos.
I know this is off topic but I can’t resist
Bloomberg has a story about the plight of Harvards investment portfolio. And the president of Harvard at the time of the ill-fated investments.
Larry Summers
The irony in this is too rich
The humor in that article is unbelievable.
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Like Lady MacBeth said (kindof!), “Out! Out! Out damned RINO! Is there nothing in Heaven or Hell that can remove this damned RINO?”
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Throw ‘em off the castle wall into the alligator filled moat. NO MORE RINOS!
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John Bibb
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The Republican establishment thinks the tea party movement is a pro-republican ground swell. I don’t think so.
I am looking for someone who honestly beleives in limited government and personal responsibility.
I’m in the heart of the 23rd district.
We would rather lose for a year to the Demo liberal that set up the Rino lib for a re-election.
I would rather live in a tent in the woods and cook my food over an open fire then live in the best government controlled housing…that is what separates me from the liberals.
The Stupid Party wasn’t content to shoot themselves in the foot this time, they aimed much higher, where their nads should be, if they had any……
As far as I can tell, only the GOP women have any stones.
That’s kind of along the lines of what we’ve been saying here …
Except that liberals have been running the Republicans’ show for a lot longer than any of us wishes to acknowledge. Once you realize this is the case, you have absolutely no choice but to turn away in disgust.
… Which is why I am so confident that conservatives who are still hanging on to the Republicans will eventually grow a pair and stand either as Independents or with parties that espouse more Federalist beliefs. This kind of crap has gone on so long, and has continued right up to today, that there’s absolutely NO CHANCE that anyone who sticks around with the R’s with this kind of crap going on will be able to seriously call himself a conservative.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
This goes to the heart of what is going on in America today.
When a decision with regard to what to do hinges on some “strategy” instead of what one actually believes, the person in question is clearly unfit for public office.
Enough already.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com