It's on like Donkey Con in NY23 [View All]

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http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2009/11/scozzafava_endorsing_dem.php?ref=fpblg
Scozzafava Endorsing Dem?
Josh Marshall | November 1, 2009, 10:47AM
In its endorsement of Democrat Bill Owens today, the Watertown Daily Times said that over the course of yesterday Dede Scozzafava, the regular GOP nominee who bowed out yesterday, "began to quietly and thoughtfully encourage her supporters to vote for Democrat William L. Owens."

The Times itself didn't leave much room for doubt about its views. The strongest line: "It is frightening that Mr. Hoffman is so beholden to right-wing ideologues who dismiss Northern New Yorkers as parochial when people here simply want to know how Mr. Hoffman will protect their interests in Washington."

This is a reference to an incident we noted a few weeks ago when Hoffman showed up to a meeting with the paper's editorial board with former House Majority Leader Dick Armey and then got defensive and abrupt when he wasn't able to answer questions about the district or the issues that faced it. Armey stepped in and chastised the editors for focusing on "parochial" issues.

Another TPM NY 23 story with Owens and hoffmans statements. Link below:
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/10/owens-hoffman-seeks-scozzafavas-moderate-gop-voters-in-new-statements.php?ref=fpblg

Also Frank Rich made some great points in his NYT column about NY23 and the state of the gop and how it will help dems.
Link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/opinion/01rich.html?ref=opinion

Frank Rich wrote," The right’s embrace of Hoffman is a double-barreled suicide for the G.O.P. On Saturday, the battered Scozzafava suspended her campaign, further scrambling the race. It’s still conceivable that the Democratic candidate could capture a seat the Republicans should own. But it’s even better for Democrats if Hoffman wins. Punch-drunk with this triumph, the right will redouble its support of primary challengers to 2010 G.O.P. candidates they regard as impure. That’s bad news for even a Republican as conservative as Kay Bailey Hutchison, whose primary opponent in the Texas governor’s race, the incumbent Rick Perry, floated the possibility of secession at a teabagger rally in April and hastily endorsed Hoffman on Thursday.

The more rightists who win G.O.P. primaries, the greater the Democrats’ prospects next year. But the electoral math is less interesting than the pathology of this movement. Its antecedent can be found in the early 1960s, when radical-right hysteria carried some of the same traits we’re seeing now: seething rage, fear of minorities, maniacal contempt for government, and a Freudian tendency to mimic the excesses of political foes. Writing in 1964 of that era’s equivalent to today’s tea party cells, the historian Richard Hofstadter observed that the John Birch Society’s “ruthless prosecution” of its own ideological war often mimicked the tactics of its Communist enemies. "



One thing you can say positive about the repubs, they know how to put on a hellava show. You can't make this shit up! Ladies and gentleman get your popcorn out and watch the train wreck of the party that was formerly know as the GOP. It ain't so grand right now.