How Scozzafava repays NRCC and RNC
Hey, how did that six-figure RNC donation to the NRCC plus $85,000 to the New York GOP plus nearly half-million-dollar investment in advertising and other independent expenditures on behalf of radical leftist Dede Scozzafava work out?
She repaid the GOP by endorsing Democrat candidate Bill Owens. Some gratitude, eh?
“Since beginning my campaign, I have told you that this election is not about me; it’s about the people of this District,” Scozzafava wrote in an e-mail sent to supporters this afternoon.
“It is in this spirit that I am writing to let you know I am supporting Bill Owens for Congress and urge you to do the same.”
I repeat: One thing is guaranteed at the conclusion of the NY-23 special congressional election: The Beltway Republicans who endorsed radical leftist Dede Scozzafava are going to have indelible egg stains on their faces. And GOP establishment fund-raising organizations will be the poorer for it.
Suckers.
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TCOT Report: “The NRCC and RNC Just Spent $1 Million on Dede Scozzafava. This is their reward.”
The shadow of Big Labor looms:
At 10 p.m. last night – right in the middle of the Halloween festivities – Scozzafava’s husband, Ron McDougall, president of the Jefferson/Lewis/St. Lawrence Central Labor Council issued a statement through the AFL-CIO that he is endorsing Owens against Conservative candidate Doug Hoffman.
According to his statement, it basically all comes down to support of the labor movement’s top priority, the Employee Free Choice Act and its controversial card-check provision, which Owens and Scozzafava supported – much to the chagrin of the right – and Hoffman pointedly does not.
“This has been a difficult day for my family. But the needs and concerns of the men and women of the 23rd Congressional District remain paramount,” McDougall said. “As such, I wholeheartedly and without reservation endorse the candidacy of Bill Owens.”
“As a life-long labor activist, I know that Bill Owens understands the issues important to working people. On the other hand, Doug Hoffman has little regard for the interests of workers.”
“Hoffman’s opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act, coupled with his support for the failed policies of the Bush Administration make him a poor choice to serve the citizens of the 23rd Congressional District.”
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WOW.
Just WOW.
The local GOP leadership must have just $hit in their pants.
Serves ‘em right.
Newt’s Toast on this one!
Sorry for the double post.
Thought the first one got lost on Al Gore’s Internet highway.
Yep! You could see this one coming, unless you are a poltical genius like the RNC!
At least she stopped pretending to be a “moderate”.
As I said in the other thread:
I am reminded of Arlen Specter, only Dede had the good sense to do her betrayal before the election.
You must understand that she’s a leftist mole and couldn’t care less about the NRCC or the RNC. Wake up Republican Party, you’re being used an abused.
It is time to call out all RINOs and the “establishment” Republicans. True Republicans have had enough of Newt and company.
The GOP “leadership” is disgraceful.
It’s only a matter of time before the libs, Big Tent “moderates” and MSM claim that Fuzzy Scuzzy is the “real” rogue à la Snowe.
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The GOP leadership is more about keeping themselves in power than about principles
I want my money back…
Because the GOP tent isn’t big enough for SEIU thugs and Acorn pedophile prostitution rings …
Remember yesterday in the other Scozzafava thread when I said a “Moderate Republican” is really a Liberal in disguise? Well, I rest my case..
This is also why I only send money to people like Palin, or Michele Bachmann, & others who I’m SURE about..
Smart man
Just as the emperor walked around in his underwear working hard to ignore his lack of clothes, the GOP leadership will also work very hard to ignore the mess they dumped on themselves. If they ignore it hard enough, the mess isn’t there. I predict that they’ll never admit to screwing up by the numbers on this. They’ll just keep repeating that the conservatives are to blame for causing party infighting and driving away good republican candidates. If there is any blame or fault, they’ll forever point at the conservatives.
Indeed.
She was a troll. A boil on the butt. A faker.
Newt, WTF ? We don’t need no stinkin’ moderates like this.
Chapoutier: What’s the angle on a class-action lawsuit against the RNCC ?
Oops, had the wrong time codes on my last blockquotes. Needed to be switched. Sorry.
From Hotline…
Is this why the NY state government has members going from Democrat to Republican to Democrat to Republican? Is it as simple as having no real values of their own? Is this one of those, I just want power for myself and I will use any party I can to get it for myself?
I wonder how much monetary support Scozzafava has been promised by the Democrats when she switches parties 1 min after this election?
What a surprise as a faux republican…
So, Newt and RNCC and RNC and Steele…EPIC FAIL!
Hell, I’m waitimg for Owen to drop out and have scuzzy take over. Where is the clown car?
Well, well, well. What have we here?
Via The Hill:
“Rep. Issa’s PAC suggests Dems promised Scozzafava favors”
Wasn’t it just yesterday she was throwing her support behind Hoffman? Not that it would help in the least bit. But I find this bit if information blood boiling if it’s true. I wouldn’t put it past the Dems to pull something like this off.
Remember, their motto is: By any means necessary.
This is some crazy stuff.
How can a Republican endorse the Democrat? Because of revenge or hatred? Did Hoffman really do her over? Is she angry? Is she so unwilling to to move to the right, that she will move all the way to the left first? Is her ideology closer to the left than the right? If you are left of center, how can you be a republican? Isn’t that the problem?
What a sham that has been exposed. Wow is right.
No word yet from Newsance “Newt” GinGrinch, R-Moscow.
Newt must scoot.
Dede must weewee.
Time for a Third Party. I suggest calling it “The Founders Party”, simply because it would piss off D’s & R’s to no end every time they had to say the name.
I’m glad the the “party” doesn’t get any of my cash.
Who else could she possibly have endorsed?
Michelle, apparently your spell check missed something in your first paragraph.
the link should say LEFTIST not LEFTIS.
Hope your Halloween with the kids was a fun one!
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Dede…The Manchurian candidate.
This whole stinking episode sort of encapsulates the problems with the Republican machine. We really need to get this stuff straightened out before 2010. Newt, and his ilk, need to get booted to the curb and disposed of.
Dud dede was all about the Employee Free Choice Act…hubby admitted so.
I’ve been a strong believer in retaking the Republican Party not trying to grow a new one at this point. If the politics in N.Y. is any indication of the party nationally maybe a 3rd party is best, eventually, 1st we need to regain every seat we can before starting all over. I just don’t see a 3rd part working, nice idea but…
This was 100% predictable. There must be some kind of Republican Party death wish. Or maybe it is just another instance of RINOs and their money soon being parted. Perhaps the day will come when one can in good conscience give money the NRCC and the RNC but for now there is simply no reason to give them anything other than the middle finger.
Whoda thunk? Dede WAS a RINO. Newt is an idiot. His credibility is shot. Get the heck out of the way, Newt. Conservatives are on the march.
That doesn’t deter Lindsey Graham…. he is still “head over heels” about Dede.
There is no question that this debacle is the fault of the Republican leadership, both locally and nationally. Accordingly, there is a real need for a reassessment of where the party gets its candidates and where it is going in terms of its principles. Power over principle is the way of the Democrats. When Republicans adopt their strategy, then the people have no place to turn but a third party.
I would be most interested to hear Gingrich explain this entire episode and apologize to the base. It ought to be obvious that this woman, selected by the Republican leaders locally, is a Democrat in Republican clothing. She now has not only abandoned the Republican Party, but all of the Republicans who worked for and with her over the years. She is an Arlen Specter.
I doubt she will be welcome in the Republican HQ and I suspect that other heads will roll here – and they should. New leadership for NY-23 is not only for elected officials but unelected committeemen and women.
I agree with you about trying to regain the Republican Party back for conservatives as a first plan…but at the moment they are setting themselves on fire-they are revealing themselves to be at least incompetent-and are allowing themselves to be overtaken by a still-amorphous third-party movement.
When the Repubs slip below a third party movement in terms of competence at waging political battle, then they will collpase..no one will take them seriously.
My prediction for NY-23. The people who voted with Scuzzyfavor were probably those who were stuck in the LOTE mode, and supported Scuzzyfavor only because she had an R after her name. I think most of those will go to Hoffman anyway.(If they really supported Owens in the first place, they could have gone over to Owens early on).
I think because of the Republican “leadership” (that is kind of an oxymoron isn’t it?) in this race, the race between Hoffman and Owens will be closer than I’d like.
I have a theory that this whole thing is deeper than I initially thought. Obama picked the congressman from the 23rd in an effort to get a “democrat” as a replacement. Scuzz was nothing but a rino, no doubt about it.
Question is, has the republican party that selected her part of obama’s plan? Some payoffs involved? Notheing would surprise me with these socialists.
I laughed out loud when I heard the news this morning! I laughed at the GOP with all that indelible egg stains on their faces.
I believe the scientific term for Ms Scofflaw/Scozzafava/ DeeDee Done Gone, whatever, remarks is Hissy Fit. Obviously she did not have too large a following before so she isn’t all that influential. Yes Lindsey Graham is “head over heels” with DeeDee Darlin’ but Lady Lindsey supported the Wise Latina Lady of the Wide Butt so he has some ‘splanin to do. It is all wide butts Lady Lindsay loves or just Lady Liberals wide butts? I am trying to be non judgmental here.
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I’d bet that the local GOP would run a candidate like her again because they are either that left or that stupid. Take your pick, but the outcome is the same.
When you see the how the Republicans keep reaching across the aisle and getting jabbed in the backside for their efforts, one could get the impression that they like it! A pox on all their houses!
We already have a 3rd party. It’s called the Republican Party. We conservatives already outnumber them by two to one.
I still like calling our new (biggest party in America) the Spirit of 1776 Liberal Party. Liberal used to be a good word. Let’s reclaim it and restore it to the luster it had at our nation’s founding.
Gosh, now that Dede has endorsed the Democrat in NY-23, who frankly is to the right of Dede on many issues, I wonder who Newt will endorse? I wonder if the RNC will throw tons of money at the Democrats to help elect Owens?
I wonder what broom closet Hoffman will call his office when he gets to DC? Like I said, the GOP is probably already preparing another left-wing idiot to run against Hoffman in 2010. Hoffman is likely to be a very lonely man in DC. Maybe I he will meet some of the nice folks at 214 Mass Avenue, NE.
I wonder if the Dems are now laughing their butts off over the fact that Dede spent hundreds of thousands of Republican money only to end up endorsing the DEMOCRAT candidate. This is the political equivalent of torching the proverbial bag of dog manure on the front steps of the national and state GOP offices. I can just see Newt and Michael coming out and stomping on that flaming bag. Trick or treat!
I wonder if Michael Steele, Newt Gingrich and their buddies in Washington, DC will get the message? What am I thinking. It will take more than this to make them nominate and support conservatives…
This is the absolute best thing that loser could have said
I only wish more of these cowardly rino’s would do the same thing
This lays bare the truth of their real allegiance
They are not republicans
They are dems hiding in plain sight
Nothing more
All over the country dems infiltrated our party and have worked inside to turn the party to dem lite
Well lets out them all
God am I sick and tired of closet RINOs who insist on clutching their security blanket of the Republican party by admonishing us with that knee-jerk comment about 3rd parties being a bad idea.
Last week, a Gallup poll revealed that 50% of Americans are ready for a new party.
Call it what you want, but 50% of anything is not a 3rd party. The GOP is now the 3rd party and if it’s leadership doesn’t relinquish control to us Tea Party people, they will be gone before 2012 by sheer indifference. If we follow the logic of the closet RINOs, that will mean the Democratic Party will be the only party in America.
No it doesn’t! It means there will be a new party. Sheesh. Dense beyond belief.
When it really matters most, Republicans will show their true colors. Traitors.
Democrats are doing things the Jihadist way now.. Jihadists will dress as policemen to walk into a police station in Iraq or Afghanistan & blow it to smithereens..
Democrats will dress up like a Republican & sneak into a political contest so they can blow it to smithereens.
Jihadists think they are getting 12 Virgins as a reward, (though never confirmed to be male or female..)
Democrats think if they can appease the Jihadists, maybe they can make it to the virgins first?
In the case of either group, they are without honor & without courage.
After all, there truly is no honor amongst thieves..
Conservative, yes…Republican? I don’t know anymore… It’s not my parents party…
I wonder if Dede was kind enough to offer a handkerchief to any of the IDIOT REPUBLICANS who endorsed and supported her?
I am laughing at Dede, Newt and Steele and all the other MORONS who put endorsed this worthless turncoat!
As they say in the credit card commercials. Priceless!
I agree with most of this, except the part where she was a “turncoat”. The truth of the matter is that she was never a Conservative, or a real Republican in the historical sense anyway. Her stated values (or lack thereof) were as obvious as they could have been..
She blended in as a Republican about as well as Vanilla Ice (Robert Van Winkle) did as a hardcore rapper in the 80′s..
RNC = Really No Clue
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She is no traitor or turncoat. She is a loyal agent. She is a sign of the times and a demonstration of the nature of our enemy.
You think this will finally wake up the GOP and force them to realize you can’t trust these kind of people?
Nah, I didn’t think so either.
http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm
Sorry, forgot the link.
Should have just sent the dough to Team ObaMao. At least that way they could get a White House visit, and maybe bowl a couple games on the White House Lanes. This way they get squat.
Here’s a partial answer: John Boehner clearly doesn’t get it. He refers to the NY-23 race as an unusual situation. The GOP is looking for “moderates”.
Clearly, the GOP has a death wish.
Do you remember in the presidential campaign how many times Juan McAmnesty defended Obama? I was soooo damn angry at the little lousy pilot each time. I hate these RINO bastards!
NOBAMA!
There was never any doubt she was a “D” from the get-go. The RNCC and Beltway Republicans got taken — again. Sort of reminds you of all the hoopla for John McCain, doesn’t it? That worked out well, too. If the GOP can’t find conservative candidates, the party is doomed, period.
Yeah, I just sent Boehner a “personal note” on a survey from him. I told him “NOT ONE CENT” until they start supporting actual conservatives. Scozzafava was no moderate! What a bunch of putzes!
*As I have said before, DeDe is doo-doo, and the NRCC/RNC has really stepped in it this time; I will continue to send them Bush Pesos, as he is the one who saddled up this socialism horse for P-BO; The real coin I send to Palin, DeMint, Hoffman, Inhofe, and others I can halfway trust to remain principled conservatives.
*Remember GOP, Lindsay Grahamnesty is the poster boy for “Moderate Republican”, and the liberals loves them some Lindsay; Enough said?
If the GOP had nominated Obama these MORONS would be calling Obama a ” moderate Republican.”
I don’t think they are clueless. I think they are after one thing and that is building their own power at our expense.
Should Hoffman pull this off on Tuesday he will be the loneliest man in DC the day he is sworn in…
Did someone say “workers” and “working people”?
Do you all recognize the code words?
Yep, Bill Owens understands the issues important to
working peoplethe Communist Party, and card-check is one of their top priorities!
Scozzafava’s whole purpose was to secure the Republican nomination so that regardless of whether the Democrat or RINO won, Nancy Pelosi (and SEIU, and CPUSA) would be a guaranteed a vote for card-check from the Representative of NY-23.
Thank God for Hoffman and people like Michelle Malkin who are fighting (and winning) the battle to wrestle control of the Republican Party away from RINOs and back into the hands of conservatives!
You’re a good soldier, RedPill.
On November 1st, 2009 at 9:33 pm, Ron said:
On January 3, 2008, John McCain came in 4th place in the Iowa Primary. (Hardly becoming of a “presumptive nominee”)
Less than four weeks later and ahead of the Super Tuesday primaries,
the RNC was trying to twist arms to increase support for McCain:
Naw. The media is busy writing their own narrative wondering if “moderates” (as they define them) are welcome in the GOP.
Note to AP, there was NOTHING moderate about Scuzzy in comparison to what the GOP is supposed to stand for.
I have yet to see a single issue she supported that suggests she was a moderate or a Republican.
McCain was the preferable nominee for the “progressives”. In the event of a Republican victory, he would not endanger the communist movement when he was not promoting it.
This was a definite stab in the back. She could have at least helped the GOP establshment by backing Hoffman over a Democrat? Or not endorsing either. She has no scruples and is a snake in the grass.
Where did my leaders come from? Steele was not elected. Who runs these things? Newt, Graham, McCain, Rove, Bush, Pelosi?
This is why the lesson HAD to be learned now rather than just after the 2012 election and the GOP elites blithering on about what happened and how they got shellacked again.
RNCC
Stuck on Stupid
This is all good, it exposes how deep the infestation in the GOP truly is.
On November 1st, 2009 at 10:18 pm, b-cat said:
Thank you, b-cat. You’re a good soldier, too. This is definitely a battle for the survival of our Constitutional Republic and Freedom worldwide. If they could take down the U.S., there would be no one to stop them from taking down the rest of the world.
Some people thought it was just a joke when someone waved a Communist flag in celebration in front of the White House on election night 2008.
That was no joke.
They have think tanks. I think they thought what they think wouldn’t tank.
I certainly hope so. I wondered if those so energized to attend Tea Parties all over the nation would have the stamina to carry through.
For the countries sake, I hope people CAN stay energized through 2010 and beyond.
T-Bone my friend, I agree wholeheartedly, & furthermore, I think that to be quite frank, their “Think Tank” has a major stank. In fact, Mr. Steele is kind of wank..
redpill,
You think the whole reason for Scozzofava’s nomination is so the EFCA, which passed the House 241-185, is so that it could pass 242-184?
Really?
On November 1st, 2009 at 10:33 pm, b-cat said:
Agreed.
A very good friend of mine is a Vietnam veteran Marine who has been heavily involved with the POW/MIA effort ever since he returned from Vietnam. He has invested decades of his life, and thousands of his own dollars, in this effort. He tells me the following:
1) John McCain and John Kerry teamed up to betray POWs, MIAs, and their families. (Relevant WND post)
2) During part of the time that McCain claims that he was being held in “solitary confinement”, McCain was not even in Vietnam at all… rather he was being treated very well in Eastern Europe.
In my opinion, it appears that McCain worked harder to beat Romney and Huckabee than he did to beat Obama.
The only reason that I voted for the Republican ticket in November 2008 was because of Palin.
chapoutier,
Let me ask you a question:
What do you think is the real reason Scozzofava endorsed Bill Owens instead of Doug Hoffman?
Yeah. Dede….maued, then crapped all over the party on her way out.
…and the geniuses who claim leadership roles still don’t get it.
because she is pissed and Hoffman was less than gracious when she withdrew. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Dede came out of the closet before the election. You have to respect that.
So,
Did Scozzafava toss her support to the Democrat out o adolescent, immature spitefulness and anger, or is it because those who pointed our her left wing politics were right, and exposed her for what she truly is, and that she HAD to support the side that embraces the politics that she entertains, in this case, the leftists-Democrats-liberals?
Both.
Problem is, their plan hasn’t worked for some time, so they keep trying it over and over again, and wondering why they get beat by the ‘Crats.
Maybe not. One would think Lieberman would be lonely, yet he has the ability to hold up quite a few things if he chooses.
I’m not saying Hoffman, as a representative, would have the same power, but his vote may still be critical on some issues.
On November 1st, 2009 at 11:06 pm, geb4000 said:
Dede didn’t come out of the closet by her own choice.
She was “outed”.
And once she was outed and became the “3rd party” candidate, the best way for her to assure a win for her agenda was to drop out and support the candidate who supports her agenda.
The RNC has no core values as long as candidates say they’re Republican that’s good enough for them. It’s the same in California, prime example Governor Terminator. LOL!
The only thing that could keep me from voting for Bob McDonell on Tuesday, would be because I’m dead.
I’d like to see Scozzafava be forced to repay the money she was given by the NRCC and RNC!
Instead, that money will now go to help the Democrat.
Exactly.
She sees that she cannot win.
Why should she be respected just because she admits what her politics truly are?
Should we also respect the likes of Frank, Kerry, Pelosi, Reid, Hussein Obama, etc. for that reason?
No I don’t..
Roland,
I think you owe Michelle an apology…
On October 31st, 2009 at 11:30 am, Roland said:
Conservatives who give money to giant organizations such as the RNC or United Way are pissing it away. It’s the same as buying a newspaper so you can do the crossword puzzle or clip the coupons or read the sports section. You’re still supporting the enemy.
Are you telling me that if the RNC did the unthinkable and got behind Palin in 2012 that you’d send $ to them? Why? So they can use it to support dozens of RINOs elsewhere around the country. You want Palin to get some of your hard-earned money, then send it to her directly.
The same with any other donation. Find people or organizations whose values you know are your own and donate directly to them. Screw the middleman because he sure as hell is screwing you.
Would that be one of those “appearances can be deceiving” things or merely nonsense? I imagine Benedict Arnold rationalized “he was doing the honorable thing”. For one I reserve graciousness in victory for those honorable in defeat and Scozzafava isn’t.
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