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    Default Third Party Candidates Shake Up Local Races, Send Warning Ahead of 2010

    about time.

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    'Cause we still play that same game yet,

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    Quote Originally Posted by ncboman View Post
    about time.

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    I do not think these results are quiet as significant as you might wish to believe NC.

    In the New York case the state party must have been wacked out the night they selected Dede Scozzafava to run. There was no primary by which she was selected, but rather a simple appointment by party leaders as the candidate. As a supporter of gay marriage, abortion, and other liberal causes she could hardly be called mainstream Republican. By the way she has dropped out of the race as of this morning.

    What did make Doug Hoffman viable was directly a result of the actions of a mainstream party. Without that support he would not have been a blip on the radar. Supported by a number of prominant Republicans against Scozzafava he became basically an alternative Repulican candidate more than an independent. In fact with Dede's resignation it took Micheal Steele about a nano second to throw the national parties support to Hoffman who is now an independent in name only.

    In the New Jersey case Dagget is at this point little more than a spoiler since he has no chance to win. In fact even with him in Christie is neck and neck with Corrizine, perhaps the most corrupt politician not in jail at the moment. That had been possible only because the Democratic party has outspent both other candidates combined by tremendous amounts including Corrizine throwing about $20 million of his own into the campaign.

    Therefore Dagget more resembles the big eared quack from IBM who split the vote to give us Bill Clinton. However, this morning I heard he is starting to slip in the polls as elections near and voters are deciding not to squander their vote. So he is really nothing new but one more example of the argument agaist third party viability.

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    she could hardly be called mainstream Republican
    -in NY she could.

    Remember the Republican Hilary ran against in her last senate race?

    Nobody else does, either; a statement to the effectiveness the Republican party in NY enjoys.

    The NY Republican party is a joke, made all the more laughable by George Pataki, Clown-in-Chief prior to Skeevy Spitzer and the blind m**********r.

    Hoffman in NY is a breath of fresh air, a true conservative, and maybe, maybe, the start of a wave of sanity that will wash through the Republican Party.

    I sent him twenty bucks, there's still a day or two left to donate.

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    Wink With an ounce of integrity....

    Dagget would throw his voters to Christie! ANYTHING to get CorSLIME out of the State House.


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    Quote Originally Posted by tincan View Post
    -in NY she could.

    Remember the Republican Hilary ran against in her last senate race?

    Nobody else does, either; a statement to the effectiveness the Republican party in NY enjoys.

    The NY Republican party is a joke, made all the more laughable by George Pataki, Clown-in-Chief prior to Skeevy Spitzer and the blind m**********r.

    Hoffman in NY is a breath of fresh air, a true conservative, and maybe, maybe, the start of a wave of sanity that will wash through the Republican Party.

    I sent him twenty bucks, there's still a day or two left to donate.

    https://www.doughoffmanforcongress.com/
    Which of course begets the question is the New York Republican Party "mainstream Republican".

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    Quote Originally Posted by Altjaeger View Post
    Which of course begets the question is the New York Republican Party "mainstream Republican".

    Alt, I've said for years that if you want to find a real Republican, look in Montana

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    I am laughing at New York this morning. It says Scozzafava has endorsed the Democrat despite the fact that the National Republican Party is backing the conservative. I suspect her feelings are hurt. If she stays in politics she needs to either have an awakening or follow Arlan Spector.

    On the bright side that "Republican" district that voted for Obama and for Hillary Clinton for the Senate seems to have woke up for the moment. The poll announced on FOX news this morning shows the Democratic candidate behind 38% to 54%.

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    The NY Rep. Party needs to have a fire lit under it's ass. But for Conservatives to run away and quit is not helping at all. They need to dig in and change it..not run. This is a very rare example of a third party really amounting to something. A fluke if you may. Altjaeger is right. Usually third parties are spoilers and usually help the lib. Dems.


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    JMO, fellas... The hard-line social conservatives are taking the Republican party so far out of the main stream that it's going to become totally irrelevant, and then where are you?

    I'm not gonna debate anybody on the right or wrong of their religious or moral beliefs, but if the GOP can't find a way to make room for the independents and other middle o' the roaders, they may as well change their O-fisshal Critter from an elephant to a Mastodon, 'cuz they're headed for extinction. It's not the Red or Blue that wins elections anymore, it's the Purple.

    Do you wanna live in a Republic where you're free to hold and to voice your moral & religious opinions, and where you can argue that people should hold themselves to a higher standard than required by law, or do you wanna live in a mobocracy as a voiceless minority with no influence on the whole?

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    Angry As for Scuzzyfuzzy....

    BEAT that bee-yotch on the snout with the NY Post till she sees double THEN run her out of politics for life!!!!
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