WooHOO!!!
It’s a great day for Conservatism!
Yeah, Doug Hoffman lost.
Or did he?
Yeah… he isn’t going to Washington this year to take a seat as a Representative from New York’s 23rd District. But he would never be able to buy the vast amount of publicity and support he got as a result of his candidacy. In politics that is not considered a loss.
With true conservative supporters like Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachman, Mark Levin, Tim Pawlenty (to name a few), Doug Hoffman came from virtually nowhere to showcase the glaring differences between the traditional Conservative and more moderate Republican hierarchy of Newt Gingrich, Pete Sessions (R-TX), The RNC, The National Republican Congressional Committee, and I could go on.
Like Sarah Palin, Doug Hoffman is from the outside and thereby not truly welcomed by the Washington and ‘Country Club Blueblood’ Republican elitists. OH, if he had won they would give their congratulations, but he would not be welcomed into the upper echelon and inner sanctums of the ‘anointed ones’ of the Republican Party.
I heard someone postulate about how the Hoffman defeat will hurt his supporters… ye-ah… ri-ight…
Sarah, Michelle, Rush… these will not suffer, but will instead reap vast rewards from the Conservative base because they stood up and supported him from the get-go. I thought it funny that Saturday when Dede Scozzafava bailed and then promptly turned around and, for lack of a better word: screwed both the RNC & the NRCC. From whom she had taken over one million dollars. I guess that’s the kind of gratitude you can expect when you handpick someone as shady as she proved to be.
Ooohhh… I guess I shouldn’t be so hard on her should I?
Well, now, lets take a look at who Newt, Steele, and the rest of the “we don’t need or want Conservatives” in our Republican Party were trying to shove down the voters of NY-23’s throats: Dede Scozzafava
This woman leans further to the left than even Bill Owens!
· She is all in favor of the Stimulus Bill, a departure from her “fellow” Republicans.
· A supporter of big labors favorite bill – card-check.
· A… cozy relationship with Obama’s favorite group of community action figures: ACORN and their allies Working Families Party. Barack Obama was strongly endorsed by the Working Families Party.
· A supporter of both abortion and legislation to codify same-sex marriage she ran counter to the values of the Conservatives.
I will say this for her: she was endorsed by the NRA. Hmmm…?
And then there is the truly smarmy way she acted after bowing out of the race.
And I don’t care how Newt wants to tell it that she did the “statesman like thing in dropping out…”. Newt, Newt, Newt… you used to be a teacher. A history teacher at that, when did a TRUE statesman act as petty as this woman? You need to go back to Georgia and teaching and relearn what Conservatism really is.
But… I think that there are a lot of people who NEED to either learn or relearn what Conservatism is and how it fits in the Republican Party.
And after last night, I believe that whether they like it or not the ‘Country Club Bluebloods’ are going to have to sit up, put down their Manhattans and pay attention.
Even though Doug Hoffman will not be packing his suitcase and catching the 5:14 to Washington this time, his time is just another year away.
Both the Republican and Democrat Parties are now on notice that the liberal, money-spending, power-grabbing attitude in politics is not what the public wants.
This really puts the pressure on the Blue-Dog Democrats who now have to seriously rethink their positions and who they throw their support behind Big Barry, Nancy Pah-losi, and that little dweeb in the Senate… oh yeah, Harry Reid. **Heard where he was trying to strong-arm Joe Leiberman and lie about how Joe was onboard for the rationed government healthcare scam, I mean bill.**
Anyway, now where does that leave Screecher Nancy Pah-losi? Is she going to try strong-arming her new Representative Bill Owens? What good is that going to do? Realistically he is not going to be returned after the 2010 elections. And what tactic can she use against the Blue-Dog Democrats?
I mean, what are their options?
1.Vote for the rationed government healthcare scam and go home to angry constituents who would not vote for them as dog-catcher?
2.Or go against Pah-losi and be the walking dead in the House, not getting assigned to any committees?
The Blue Dog Democrats can see that if they plan to continue parking their backsides in those House (and Senate) seats, they need to stick to their Conservative leanings. This will pose a problem for them for two reasons: Nancy Pah-losi will render them impotent in their seats, and George Soros has already come out threatening anyone who doesn’t tow the line with backing whoever is challenging them for their position in the Democrat Party.
With that in their minds and the minds of a LOT of Republicans they have to take into consideration the impact his race has made on the political scene…
Here we have a guy who is not even given a chance by the Republican big-wigs. When the people who actually vote realized what ‘their’ Party was foisting on them they went looking at other opportunities within the Party. A candidate with values and principles aligned to theirs.
No real third party candidate, just another Republican who still believed in Conservative values. Something which has been lacking the last few years from the Republican Party of Newt Gingrich, Michael Steele, and others.
Then, with a stumbling, bumbling campaign fraught with not enough money and having to play ‘catch-up’ football, he came from behind and to within less than a mere 5,000 votes of winning. Without, in fact, with the OPPOSITION of the Republican Party.
What should this tell Newt and all his ‘better-than-thou’ Republicans?
The people don’t want his kind of Republican Party. Or a Democrat Party that is sucking the life out of this country, for that matter.
Less than 5,000 votes… That many? Wow… that’s like… what a 5 percent margin… at most… Well… color me impressed by the wild landslide Bill Owens had here. **yawn**
Gimme a minute here to wonder what Bill Owens is thinking. All the air in the room was and still is being devoted to the Hoffman/Scozzafava dustup. I doubt anyone would have noticed if Bill Owens were to have given his acceptance speech in the buff.
So? Did the Democrats really win yesterday?
Did they? Erick Erickson at RedState.com points out that “While the Democrats are crowing a bit this morning over the unusual circumstances of NY-23, they might want to pay attention to one under-reported fact: Bill Owens, the man NY-23 sent to Congress last night, campaigned against the public option.”
Back to my question: Did the Democrats win yesterday? Not really, the groundswell of Conservatism will see this as reassurance they are on the right road, and the Blue Dog Democrats are now in one heck of a tough spot. They now see that if they go along with Big Barry…
Oh, did I mention that the two other major races yesterday were both lost by Democrats who Big Barry had condescended to stump for… uht O!
Hey Bill, walking around with a sign-board over your front and back may get people to notice you. Just saying, dude…
