A couple dozen supporters gather in Watertown for the Biden-Owens rally.
(NewsChannel 9 WSYR-TV)
In a rally today in Watertown, New York that was only slightly over half full Joe Biden urged voters in NY-23 to “teach conservatives a lesson” and vote for the trailing democrat.
CNN Political Ticker reported:
Former Vice President Joe Biden challenged Republican voters in New York’s 23rd congressional district to teach conservative “absolutists” a lesson in the special House election Tuesday by voting for the Democratic candidate in the race
“We aren’t asking you to switch your party,” Biden said at a rally for Democrat Bill Owens in Watertown, New York Monday morning. “We are just saying join us in teaching a lesson to those absolutists who say no dissent is permitted within your own party.”
The comments come a day after Republican Dede Scozzafava, who withdrew from the race Saturday amid heavy pressure from conservatives – endorsed Owens. Many high-profile Republicans, including Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, and Dick Armey, have already thrown their own support behind third-party conservative candidate Doug Hoffman.
Robert Stacy McCain has more from the rally.
November 2nd, 2009 | 12:03 pm | #1
Former Vice President Biden?
Freudian slip?
November 2nd, 2009 | 12:06 pm | #2
Hee, hee, hee. Ho, ho, ho. Hah, hah, hah.
ROTFL
November 2nd, 2009 | 12:06 pm | #3
It wasn’t half empty or half full. There was simply 50% more venue than necessary. Or so the MSM effectively say…
November 2nd, 2009 | 12:07 pm | #4
Did Joe take the AMTRAK?
November 2nd, 2009 | 12:08 pm | #5
The “absolutists who say no dissent is permitted within your own party.”
…Is he talking about Joe Liberman?…
November 2nd, 2009 | 12:09 pm | #6
Rush was commenting about that “Former Vice President Joe Biden”, too.
November 2nd, 2009 | 12:09 pm | #7
“Former” is probably closer to truth than we know. It is pretty clear the only reason B.O. chose Biden is that the “Walking Blopper Machine” makes B.O. look brilliant. Old Joe is like silk flowers in a home. Pretty worthless.
November 2nd, 2009 | 12:11 pm | #8
Joey Plugs is running on fumes.
November 2nd, 2009 | 12:11 pm | #9
Clearly, someone is going to be learning a lesson.
November 2nd, 2009 | 12:19 pm | #10
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November 2nd, 2009 | 12:22 pm | #11
They fact that they can’t even fill the seats at their “rallies” without busing in their paid union thugs speaks volumes.
I would not be a bit surprised to find out that they are so worried about the turn out that they do not think that their ACORN/SEIU election “officials” in a Corruptocrat owned state will not be able to steal the election for them without it being obvious to all.
The Corruptocrats know that they only way they are going to succeed with their agenda is for them to try to lull the awaking giant that is the American people back to sleep with the siren songs of their MSM choir and Corruptocrat talking heads. An election that is obviously stolen will only serve to make the awakening giant become fully awake and realize that everything that Rush, Beck, Hannity and the dextrosphere has said about them is true. Once the spell of the sirens is broken it will never take hold again.
November 2nd, 2009 | 12:24 pm | #12
Plugs provides us all with a moment of levity each time he opens his mouth. I’m shocked that he could take off such valuable time from his primary job of managing the not-so-stimulating stimulus money to campaign for a guy who looks like the proverbial deer in the headlights. Must be he’s caught up with the “jobs saved – jobs created” count. Last I heard it was twelve billion of each….and going up.
November 2nd, 2009 | 12:25 pm | #13
The only lesson Republicans should learn from NY – 23 is that when a great many people suspect a “Republican in name only” is thinking about switching parties, they are thinking about switching parties.
November 2nd, 2009 | 12:39 pm | #14
What an idiot.
November 2nd, 2009 | 12:54 pm | #15
“Former Vice President Joe Biden”
Has the CNN branch of the Ministry of Information been privy to a little inside information from their boss in the White House ?
November 2nd, 2009 | 1:00 pm | #16
Biden can relate to stupid people on a personal level.
November 2nd, 2009 | 1:01 pm | #17
Sarah has already responded to Joe’s swipe at her:
“As the vice president knows, I have always advocated an all-of-the-above approach to American energy independence. Among other things, my alternative energy goal for Alaska sits at 50 percent because Alaska reached more than 20 percent during my term in office. The Obama-Biden administration, on the other hand, recently announced a renewable goal of only 25 percent. However, domestic drilling should remain a top priority in order to meet America’s consumption and security needs.
The vice president’s extreme opposition to domestic energy development goes all the way back to 1973 when he opposed the Alaska pipeline bill. As Ann Coulter pointed out, “Biden cast one of only five votes against the pipeline that has produced more than 15 billion barrels of oil, supplied nearly 20 percent of this nation’s oil, created tens of thousands of jobs, added hundreds of billions of dollars to the U.S. economy and reduced money transfers to the nation’s enemies by about the same amount.”
This nonsensical opposition to American domestic energy development continues to this day. Apparently the Obama-Biden administration only approves of offshore drilling in Brazil, where it will provide security and jobs for Brazilians. This election is about American security and American jobs.
There’s one way to tell Vice President Biden that we’re tired of folks in Washington distorting our message and hampering our nation’s progress: Hoffman, Baby, Hoffman!”
- Sarah Palin
November 2nd, 2009 | 1:02 pm | #18
How many 23rd dist. residents remember Biden’s rally cry: “Paying higher taxes is patriotic”?
November 2nd, 2009 | 1:04 pm | #19
Picture is great. I see they didn’t bus in an amen corner or paid advocates. Makes turnout look scrawney.
November 2nd, 2009 | 1:05 pm | #20
Keep up the presure folks. Hammer the LEFT and keep going. This is the only thing they understand. DEFEAT. they will be pulling out all the stops to cheat and steal this election. This is the start of a VERY BIG SNOWBALL of conservative strength.
LETS ROLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
November 2nd, 2009 | 1:11 pm | #21
[...] At Half Empty Rally… Biden Urges NY-23 Voters to Teach Conservatives a Lesson [...]
November 2nd, 2009 | 1:11 pm | #22
I hope you grabbed a screen shot of that CNN piece because they’ve since deleted the word “Former” from his name. That original shot would be worth framing ;~)
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November 2nd, 2009 | 1:12 pm | #23
If you don’t know whether you’re a Democrat or a “right-wing extremist,” you’re too dumb to be allowed to vote.
Bravo! A well functioning democracy doesn’t require that every clueless dolt vote. The reason for so much of the current rot is that ACORN rounds up by the bus loads the disengaged and clueless and dilutes the reasoned actions of informed voters.
If you are still “undecided” in NY-23 with all of the issues laid bare for weeks now you are simply to stupid to be a participating member of a democracy.
November 2nd, 2009 | 1:13 pm | #24
Pat the First
November 2nd, 2009 | 12:09 pm | #7
Old Joe is like silk flowers in a home. Pretty worthless.
And you have to dust them all the time, too.
November 2nd, 2009 | 1:16 pm | #25
“Absolutists”, huh? If nothing else, I’m impressed with their vast vocabulary skills.
Off the top of my head, we are now:
Un-American, mobsters, teabaggers, marxists, nazis, racists, wingnuts, extremists, radicals, paranoids, and now, absolutists.
Referring to what I call “the post tea party new GOP”, Jake McIntyre of the Daily Kos cleverly labels the party “a wild-eyed, exclusionist, birther religio-beast.”
November 2nd, 2009 | 1:26 pm | #26
The problem for Obama is that there just are so many different ways to “show” the public who’s in charge.
First, you can always use the Chicago method (which these days is a key factor in stimulating fish head sales and saving/creating hundreds of jobs). Or there’s the method White House Motivational Consultant Bill Ayers uses to “convince” opponents through political discourse (and a whole lot of things that go boom!).
And don’t forget DHS and the new state surveillance powers that Obama extended after “getting rid of” the Bush spying on terrorists. Indeed, we’re not really concerned about those foreign terrorists anymore. But god help you if you’re waving a Gadsden flag, buying ammo at WalMart, attending church outside of Christmas and Easter or attending parent-teacher conferences.
So many options.
November 2nd, 2009 | 1:29 pm | #27
Democrats are so flawed its not even funny. IQs higher than 30 need not apply.
November 2nd, 2009 | 1:30 pm | #28
Pat the First
November 2nd, 2009 | 12:09 pm | #7
“Former” is probably closer to truth than we know. It is pretty clear the only reason B.O. chose Biden is that the “Walking Blopper Machine” makes B.O. look brilliant. Old Joe is like silk flowers in a home. Pretty worthless.
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Biden wasn’t chosen…..it is another ‘pay to play’, the Chicago way…..Biden’s son filed false charges against Larry Sinclair to stop the public from discovering the homosexual/cocaine encounters between O. and Sinclair before the election.
A few promises to others for that position got put to the back burner.
November 2nd, 2009 | 1:31 pm | #29
Only in government can a half-wit like this succeed and, indeed, prosper. I can’t wait for the next installment of the Biden genius as the blue-collar son works his way out of Delaware and onto the national scene supported all along the way by the federal government parasites that infest our society.
November 2nd, 2009 | 1:36 pm | #30
I wonder how many ‘homeless’ he lets sleep in his living room at night? Charity is supposed to come from the heart, not the barrel of a government gun, after being stolen from someone else.
November 2nd, 2009 | 1:38 pm | #31
Aghhh, that comment was meant for the Rev Wright Marxist post. So very sorry…too many open windows.
November 2nd, 2009 | 2:01 pm | #32
I hope Joe spent some money on a local dinner,unlike Katies in Delaware.
November 2nd, 2009 | 3:05 pm | #33
‘those absolutists who say no dissent is permitted within your own party:’ — Biden
So Bozoden is going to switch to Republican for a while or is this more empty jestering?
November 2nd, 2009 | 3:30 pm | #34
[...] Democrat in NY-23 and Palin on Scozzafava’s withdrawal: Now we must unite Gateway Pundit: At Half Empty Rally… Biden Urges NY-23 Voters to Teach Conservatives a Lesson and RINO Season Officially Opens– SCOZZAFAVA SUSPENDS CAMPAIGN! (Video) Mike Flynn, Big [...]
November 2nd, 2009 | 3:41 pm | #35
[...] to comfort Americans when the stock market crash, decided to slam Sarah Palin while speaking to a half-empty “rally” for Democrat Bill Owens in NY-23. “The fact of the matter is, Sarah Palin thinks the answer to [...]
November 2nd, 2009 | 5:18 pm | #36
[...] Biden made a campaign appearance in Watertown today for Bill Owens. He urged the attendees of the half empty rally to teach conservatives a lesson. CNN Political Ticker reported: Former Vice President Joe Biden [...]
November 2nd, 2009 | 6:20 pm | #37
[...] Jim Hoft has the skinny on a rally headlined by Joe Biden in NY-23. [...]
November 2nd, 2009 | 10:17 pm | #38
[...] · At Half Empty Rally… Biden Urges NY-23 Voters to Teach Conservatives a Lesson [...]
November 2nd, 2009 | 11:06 pm | #39
Hey Joe, if you get to read this: You were there because Hussein did not want to be in the spotlight when your candidate lost.
So what is the lesson? Don’t be a Vice-President, it’s a lap dog title.
November 3rd, 2009 | 2:01 am | #40
I hope former Vice President Joe Biden gets the lesson that being sent as a lapdog by Dear Leader Brobambi to a half-empty hall in upstate NY and then seeing your DNC puppy wacked hard by a CONSERVATIVE will remind him that he’ll never have to worry about running for POTUS himself.
Sarah Palin had 20 thousand attending in nearby Auburn NY last fall.
November 3rd, 2009 | 6:53 am | #41
[...] to Biden as former VP. All in due time, that will come soon enough in 2012. Too bad the rally was a half empty one. Way to draw the big crowd VP [...]
November 3rd, 2009 | 9:01 am | #42
[...] and Rush: Scozzafava Guilty of ‘Bestiality’ for Screwing Every RINO in the Country (Video) and At Half Empty Rally… Biden Urges NY-23 Voters to Teach Conservatives a Lesson and RINO Season Officially Opens– SCOZZAFAVA SUSPENDS CAMPAIGN! (Video) Mike Flynn, Big [...]
November 3rd, 2009 | 3:13 pm | #43
[...] and Rush: Scozzafava Guilty of ‘Bestiality’ for Screwing Every RINO in the Country (Video) and At Half Empty Rally… Biden Urges NY-23 Voters to Teach Conservatives a Lesson and RINO Season Officially Opens– SCOZZAFAVA SUSPENDS CAMPAIGN! (Video) The Powers That Be: The [...]
November 3rd, 2009 | 3:13 pm | #44
Remember… Jumpin’ Joe Biden was one of only four congresscritters that voted AGAINST the Alaska Oil Pipeline back in 1974.
If Jumpin’ Joey had his way, we’d be buyin’ all our oil from Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez.
I guess you just can’t cure stupid.
November 3rd, 2009 | 3:15 pm | #45
Not even with gummit healthcare!
November 3rd, 2009 | 6:15 pm | #46
[...] and Rush: Scozzafava Guilty of ‘Bestiality’ for Screwing Every RINO in the Country (Video) and At Half Empty Rally… Biden Urges NY-23 Voters to Teach Conservatives a Lesson and RINO Season Officially Opens– SCOZZAFAVA SUSPENDS CAMPAIGN! (Video) The Powers That Be: The [...]
November 3rd, 2009 | 7:02 pm | #47
[...] and Rush: Scozzafava Guilty of ‘Bestiality’ for Screwing Every RINO in the Country (Video) and At Half Empty Rally… Biden Urges NY-23 Voters to Teach Conservatives a Lesson and RINO Season Officially Opens– SCOZZAFAVA SUSPENDS CAMPAIGN! (Video) The Powers That Be: The [...]
November 4th, 2009 | 7:55 am | #48
I’m sorry…you guys were saying?
Biden should be a little more kind to the Conservatives. If it wasn’t for them, a Democrat would have never been able to take a House seat held by Republicans for over 120 years. Talk about a centennial gift from the bicentennial protesters! We love ya tea-baggers!!! Keep up the great work!
November 4th, 2009 | 9:42 am | #49
[...] and Rush: Scozzafava Guilty of ‘Bestiality’ for Screwing Every RINO in the Country (Video) and At Half Empty Rally… Biden Urges NY-23 Voters to Teach Conservatives a Lesson The Other McCain: No Backing Down and NY23: SCOZZAFAVA QUITS! UPDATE: New polls shows Hoffman in [...]
November 4th, 2009 | 10:34 am | #50
I wonder how Scozzafava got the Republican nomination in the first place? She’s far from Republican and definitely far from being conservative. She’s just another Democrat.
I am so sick of lefties and moderates spouting off about how the Republican Party needs to be more inclusive. Welcoming a RINO into our party is what lost us last year’s election. Most conservatives I know didn’t even vote – or voted for Ron Paul, rather than voting for McCain. Some held their noses and voted for McCain, but most just didn’t vote or threw their vote away on Paul.
I am so sick of “moderate” or “progressive” Republicans I could just puke. I started to register as an Independent before the next election just to make a statement. However, I decided against it. I intend to fight for my party.
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