This is who the RNC, Newt Gingrich and John Boehner have lined up behind? Are they out of their minds?
Dede Scozzafava, NY-23 congressional candidate, had the brilliant idea of staging a press conference in front of Conservative party candidate Doug Hoffman’s campaign office in upstate New York.
In a move that…I dunno, anyone with an IQ above ‘dipshit’ could have predicted, she was promptly surrounded by Hoffman supporters bearing “Hoffman For Congress” signs. Gee, what were the odds of that happening?
The point of the press conference seems to have been to call out Hoffman for not debating her in public. Well, to add insult to her already considerable injury, it turns out that back in August, Hoffman proposed a series of debates with Scozzafava, even offering to foot the bill for the venues.
Statement by Doug Hoffman’s campaign on Scozzafava’s call for more debates:
Senior Communications Advisor Rob Ryan said:
“Dede Scozzafava is either extremely cynical or has a very short memory. On August 19, 2009 the Hoffman campaign challenged Dede Scozzafava to a series of 3-5 debates across the district. We asked the Republican County Chairs to sponsor them. The Hoffman campaign even offered to pick-up the rental costs of the venues. Both Scozzafava and the GOP County Chairs refused.
“Dede Scozzafava is desperate; she flip-flops on issue after issue, she calls the police on reporters, and now she claims she hasn’t had an opportunity debate. It’s sad, Dede Scozzafava, staff needs to tell her that she’s the spoiler in this race and that for the good of the Republican Party and her own reputation she should drop out of the race now.”
The Hoffman people couldn’t have written a better ad if they tried.
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It may be too soon to bid Dede a “don’t let the door hit you on the way out”, but if her support doesn’t tank after this it’ll be miracle.
Here is a roundup of todays developments in the NY-23 race, a special election to fill the congressional seat vacated by Republican John M. McHugh, who resigned from office to become United States Secretary of the Army on September 21, 2009
For Republicans, the real race is between liberal Republican GOP candidate Dede Scozzafava and Conservative candidate Doug Hoffman
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, House Minority Leader John Boehner and the National Republican Congressional Committee are now in the position of endorsing thugocracy. Unless they withdraw their endorsements and financial support for left-wing Republican Dede Scozzafava, they will effectively condone a blatant, unwarranted and somewhat frightening attack on a free press.
Ms. Scozzafava, a New York state assemblyman running as a nominal Republican in a three-way special election for Congress, is no favorite of conservatives. Her extreme support for legalized abortion, close ties with the disgraced leftist social group ACORN, and record of high taxing and spending put her in some ways to the left of Democratic candidate Bill Owens. more…..
With only two weeks to go, conservative businessman Doug Hoffman’s race in New York’s 23rd congressional district is becoming a top priority among conservatives nationwide.
The insurgent conservative’s gains may be due to Hoffman’s pro-life, anti-bailout, and anti-spending platform — or disgust with liberal GOP nominee Dede Scozzafava and the means in which she was given the nomination by ten Republican county chairmen – or both. more…..
President Barack Obama heads to New York City later today to raise campaign cash for businessman Bill Owens, the party’s nominee in the Nov. 3 special election in New York’s 23rd district, but the emerging storyline in the race is whether Conservative party candidate Doug Hoffman has a real chance at winning.
Hoffman, who began the race as an after-thought, has quickly risen into a national conservative cause celebre — securing considerable financial backing from the Club for Growth and winning endorsements from the likes of former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.), former Rep. Dick Armey (R-Texas) and social conservative stalwart Gary Bauer. more…..
Tonight, Dede Scozzafava, the Republican candidate for the November 3 special election in the 23rd congressional district, spoke to about 100 Republicans at the Lewis County GOP dinner at the Elks Lodge 1605. After a dinner of turkey, mashed potatoes, and stuffing, Scozzafava fended off criticism that she wasn’t as conservative as third-party candidate Doug Hoffman and urged her supporters to vote for her in order to keep her Democratic opponent Bill Owens from serving as a rubber stamp for Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama’s agenda in Washington. It was a fairly typical evening–until the speech ended and someone with Scozzafava’s campaign called the police. On me. more…..
Politicians like far-left New York Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava who have Republican congressional nominations handed to them by local GOP poobahs sometimes turn out to be lousy candidates. Evidence is accumulating fast that such is the case in the rapidly heating-up special election campaign to fill the seat vacated by Rep. John McHugh, R-NY.
New York GOP leaders could have gone with Doug Hoffman, a well-known and successful entrepreneur of clear and unquestioned conservative principles. Instead, they chose Scozzafava, who has been endorsed in years past by ACORN’s Working Families Party, and who supports the Obama-Reid-Pelosi agenda across the board, including Big Labor’s Card Check proposal to abolish the secret ballot in workplace representation elections. more…..
The campaign of Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party’s candidate in New York’s 23rd Congressional District, is clearly enjoying the bar fight between The Weekly Standard and GOP candidate Dede Scozzafava. After seeing that Scozzafava’s campaign released private emails between a spokesman and the Standard’s reporter John McCormick, a Hoffman spokesman called on the troubled Republican candidate to hang it up. more…..
The race for the NY-23 Congressional seat is heating up, with GOP-supported RINO Dede Scozzafava and Conservative Doug Hoffman both vying for the Republican vote.
Michelle Malkin has been all over this, so I’ll defer to her for the background:
From Dana Loesch and the movement to stop Scozzafava: DumpDede.com:
Republicans in New York’s 23rd District have chosen to nominate and support an ACORN-backed, Working Families Party-endorsed liberal over conservative candidate Doug Hoffman. Newt Gingrich called this shift to the left the “new revolution.” It’s not the new revolution: it’s political death. It’s indicative of a festering problem with many of the GOP all across the country. It’s an allegiance to party over America, party over conservatism. Millions have not taken to the streets since February of 2009 for nothing. The Republican party has this week to Dump Dede Scozzafava or the tea party will take over for them. Issue your statements and throw your support behind conservatism, ladies and gents; the clock starts now.
If we want to bring conservative values back to congress, we need to think and act beyond our own districts and support conservative candidates wherever they’re found, particularly in districts where the GOP puts up an actual liberal nominee such as Dede Scozzafava.
Earlier this year, Scozzafava actually considered running as a Democrat for this same seat, and for a State Senate seat back in 2008.
This is not a principaled woman.
And yet, these self-destructive idiots in the GOP….it’s like the summer of ’09 never happened.
Conservative candidate Doug Hoffmnan has a legitimate shot at this seat. According to a 10/15 poll of 617 likely voters by Siena College, Democratic candidate Bill Owens was pulling 33 percent, Scozzafava 29 percent and Hoffman 23 percent. While it seems clear at this point that Hoffman and Scozzafava are splitting the Republican vote in this normally solid-Republican district, the mounting national media attention – especially conservative media – to this race and to Scozzafava’s significant shortcomings compared to Hoffmans strong conservative values, as well as the pressure being put on the GOP for supporting a liberal like Scozzafava in the first place, could and should give Hoffman the momentum he needs to overtake Scozzafava.
We may still end up with a split vote though, but in my opinion, I’d rather see a Democrat win than another liberal masquerading as a Republican. If we don’t get the seat, we will still have achieved a very important goal, which is to let the GOP know in no uncertain terms that we can and will keep them from power if they don’t return to the core principals of conservatism.