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Scozzafava Withdraws!
By Chip Hanlon | 10/31/09 | 11:04 AM EDT | 14 Comments
The Hill is reporting that NY-23 candidate, Dede Scozzafava, has suspended her campaign activities in response to plummeting poll numbers just days ahead of next week's election:
State Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava (R) announced on Saturday she would suspend her campaign to fill former Rep. John McHugh's open House seat, citing dismal poll numbers just days before the much-hyped special election.
Her exit from the race offers serious momentum to Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate who has stolen from Scozzafava a slew of important GOP endorsements and donations in recent weeks.
"Serious momentum?" How about "virtually ensures victory" for Hoffman.
Congrats to Hoffman.
Congratulations to the Club for Growth, which committed to this race and provided the key financial resources.
Congratulations to the conservative blogosphere, which pounded relentlessly and eventually finished her off.
Congrats to the national figures who acted on principle and endorsed Hoffman.
It's a very big win, in fact, for principle, and a loss for political expediency and cronyism.
Amazing.
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Amazing!
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|Uh oh, Newt. How do you feel about your call now, big boy?
NO RINOS!!!!!!!!!!!!
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|Wow. Well, this is to her credit. Did she endorse Hoffman on her way out the door? That would be even more to her credit if so. But regardless she should get credit for not sticking aroudn and spoiling this thing. You should feel incredibly proud too, Chip. I say it again.........wow!!!
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|Although much of what Newt said, in your interview with him, makes some sense for where he has been, this is 2009 and the landscape has changed/is changing! Woweewowwow!
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|Newt is yesterday's news. His time has come and gone. He blew it and his predictions have invariably been wrong ever since he resigned in disgrace from the Speaker's position. It seems the only person interested in what Newt has to say is Greta. Boring. I turn the channel whenever the blow hard comes on.
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|Here's the podcast interview with Newt to which Gary's referring, in case you haven't heard it: http://www.redcounty.com/last-call-debating-ny-23-with-newt-gingrich
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|Grass-roots conservatives are declaring victory with the effective withdrawal of Dede Scozzafava, the liberal Republican and establishment GOP choice, from the NY-23 Congressional race. Do not rest yet, my friends - given her views, there is no guarantee her supporters will gravitate to Doug Hoffman. Secure victory, then declare it!
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|We primaried Wayne Ghilcrest in MD-01 in 2008 - then he endorsed the Democrat just to get even and now a R+15 seat has a Dem incumbent.
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|This is the power of the blogosphere, right here.
Kevin McCarthy et. al. should be embarrassed
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|Now Hoffman will win the election; this district leans too far to the right and the Democrat, Owens, isn't a very strong candidate. That will encourage Tea Party activists nationwide to oppose ANY Republican they don't find ideologically pure as the driven snow. The natural result will be candidates who lean much farther to the right in general elections. As Newt knew, this will cement the GOP into a long-term minority situation at the national level. The country as a whole has been moving left, especially on social issues. All the Democrats have to do is appeal to the middle and avoid pandering to the far left. Obama has been trying to do that by, for example, refusing to back the public option and refusing to back out of Afghanistan. 2010 may result in the GOP temporarily picking up some House seats while losing very big in the Senate and having no shot at all at the White House for years and years to come. The GOP House gains will vaporize in 2012 when the voters who stay home in off-year elections come back to throw out the Tea Partiers who were elected in 2010 because they are so far away from the mainstream of even relatively conservative districts. Eventually, the GOP will shed the far right which will be forced into third party status and will suffer the inevitable fate of such parties in the United States. In the Scozzafava situation, sometimes you get what you want, not what you need.
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|You wrote the comment I was trying to pull together. You are a much better writer than I am.
I think we know each other
Lee
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|That is great news! It ain't over until it's over. No point in resting now.
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|There's renewed hope for gains in 2010 and 2012, especially if Christie wins in New Jersey, Harmer in California, Hoffman in New York, and McDonnell in Virginia.
Moderates from both sides of the aisle are moving to the right after witnessing reckless spending, indecision on national security issues, and an assault on God-given liberty by the Democrats over the last nine months.
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|The armies separated; and, it is said, Pyrrhus replied to one that gave him joy of his victory that one more such victory would utterly undo him. For he had lost a great part of the forces he brought with him, and almost all his particular friends and principal commanders; there were no others there to make recruits, and he found the confederates in Italy backward. On the other hand, as from a fountain continually flowing out of the city, the Roman camp was quickly and plentifully filled up with fresh men, not at all abating in courage for the loss they sustained, but even from their very anger gaining new force and resolution to go on with the war
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