It’s come down to two candidates.
Dede Scazzafava officially endorsed democrat Bill Owens today after she held discussions with democratic New York Senator Charles Schumer.
The Watertown Daily News reported:
Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., was among those who urged Dierdre K. Scozzafava to endorse Democratic congressional candidate William L. Owens, the senator’s spokesman said Saturday.
The spokesman, Maxwell Young, said the senator called a number of north country political leaders after Ms. Scozzafava suspended her campaign and had more than one conversation with the Republican candidate ahead of her announcement. He said the senator also called other Democratic leaders about the situation, including White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.
Mr. Owens said he was “honored” by the endorsement.
“Over the course of her career, Dede has always committed to serving the people of Upstate New York before serving a partisan agenda,” he said in a statement. “Now more than ever we need bipartisan solutions to help bring jobs to Upstate New York to get our economy back on track and move our country forward. Those are the kinds of priorities I will fight for in Congress because that’s the kind of leadership Upstate New York needs right now.”
Those in the camp of the Conservative candidate Douglas L. Hoffman called Ms. Scozzafava a turncoat.
“This afternoon Dede Scozzafava betrayed the GOP,“ Senior Communications Advisor Rob Ryan said in a statement. “She endorsed a Pelosi Democrat who will spend more, tax more, and push the liberal agenda that is dragging down this nation.”
More… Bruce Kessler wonders, “What did Obama and the democrats offer Scozzafava?”
…So does Rep. Issa.
November 1st, 2009 | 4:19 pm | #1
OK, but if she really wanted to help Owens she would have stayed in the race.
She is not a Democrat. She is just a very stupid person.
November 1st, 2009 | 4:19 pm | #2
Proving her critics right.
November 1st, 2009 | 4:19 pm | #3
Turncoat and a coward.
November 1st, 2009 | 4:25 pm | #4
True colors are coming through on this lady and it turns out she’s really blue. I wonder how many Republicans who were ready to vote for her are gonna get a bit ticked off? What the hell is the problem with the OTHER Republican, DeDe?
November 1st, 2009 | 4:28 pm | #5
hehe
Good job, Newt and Michael Steele! You sure know how to pick RINOs.
So this goes to show that Sarah Palin and all other conservatives were right in saying that she was a sellout. The first chance she has to stand for the republican party, she back stabs them.
Thank God the base saw further ahead than the GOP elite. Seems like if they had listened to the base in 2008, maybe the USA wouldnt be in the mess they are right now.
November 1st, 2009 | 4:29 pm | #6
I don’t blame Scozzafava for endorsing the Democrat – there aren’t too many people who have a private discussion with Chuck Schumer, and hear first hand, the threats that Schumer lays out that would be able to say no to him. I figure if Schumer can successfully pilfer the credit report on a Republican Senate candidate six states away, he more than likely had one of his “aides” uncover something on Scozzafava that sealed her endorsement.
November 1st, 2009 | 4:29 pm | #7
So glad Dodo Scuzzball was driven from this race. She has shot herself in the foot with this endorsement. She can forget about running as a Republican ever again and what do Democrats need her for when they have their own candidates running in future races? Another useless fool for the Democrats
proved her critics were spot on 100% the entire way. I think this will motivate people that might not have come out, to come out and vote for Hoffman more than before she endorsed Owens.
She not only played Republicans but Democratic voters as well. Yup, she made fools of all you fair minded folks, regardless of your party affiliation
Kiss your fat a$$ future career goodbye Dodo!
November 1st, 2009 | 4:29 pm | #8
Somehow O/T but I personally urge to pop on the webside:
http://dissectleft.blogspot.com
and read an excellent post there: “Blokhin: History’s worst mass murderer.” This is an art about Stalin’s most profolic and efficient killer who by his own account personally murdered more than 50 000 people.
Very scary!!!
P.S:Scozzafava is a revolting traitor.
And Newt Gingrich is an IDIOT!!!
P.S.Bis: Mitt Romney has said about Sarah: “She is beautiful but not influential.”
Hey Mitt! Who is influential now?
November 1st, 2009 | 4:33 pm | #9
I direct the same question to Charles Krauthammer.
Hey Charles, what do you have to say about Sarah now?
Any apology like befitted a true gentleman?
November 1st, 2009 | 4:39 pm | #10
“Now more than ever we need bipartisan solutions … (Mr. Owens said) …”
I have a bridge for sale to you, Mr. Owens, how big is your driveway?
November 1st, 2009 | 4:41 pm | #11
[...] http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2009/11/former-gop-candidate-scozzafava-officially-throws-her-s... [...]
November 1st, 2009 | 4:43 pm | #12
No surprize! Now it’s up to the folks in 23 to close the door on the Dem’s and elect Hoffman. Get the vote out. Nothing changes unless you do. Get the ball rolling now for a take back in 2010.
November 1st, 2009 | 4:44 pm | #13
See after you spent 900,000USD supporting Dede. This is what you get. She should return all the money spent on her.
November 1st, 2009 | 4:47 pm | #14
What lesson will the NRCC draw from this fiasco? Will they learn that potential candidates should be vetted to insure they have at least decent conservative credentials? Or will they learn that conservatives shouldn’t rock the boat?
November 1st, 2009 | 4:48 pm | #15
I apparently got this one wrong. I figured Scozzafava betrayed her party after getting a call from Obama.
You know, a kind messianic divine intervention.
November 1st, 2009 | 4:51 pm | #16
Welcome home Dede!
Don’t let the HATERS win. I have my own in http://www.DumpChrisDodd.com
November 1st, 2009 | 4:52 pm | #17
Whoever convinced her… your guy is going to lose FOR SURE!!!!
November 1st, 2009 | 4:54 pm | #18
Keep ‘em coming out of the closet.
No more FAKE conservatives!
As for the so-called republicans that endorsed her….
November 1st, 2009 | 4:55 pm | #19
Dede,
With you, YES WE CON! YES WE CON!
http://www.LIVESHOT.cc
Great to have on the team…officially!
November 1st, 2009 | 5:04 pm | #20
Sorry, any “Republican” that listens to Senator Schumer does not deserve the GOP’s support. Goodbye and good riddance.
November 1st, 2009 | 5:16 pm | #21
Hopefully the republican leadership who picks candidates has awakened from their stupor. Rush is right–the revolt is just one year away.
November 1st, 2009 | 5:21 pm | #22
The next thing I want to hear from Newt is a long, heartfelt apology. Unless that is forthcoming, I want him to stfu.
November 1st, 2009 | 5:25 pm | #23
what did schumer (obama/reid/pelosi/rahm/axelrod) PROMI$E her?
November 1st, 2009 | 5:29 pm | #24
Joe
November 1st, 2009 | 4:52 pm | #17
Whoever convinced her… your guy is going to lose FOR SURE!!!!
Babbling, spewing terror and rage. I love it.
November 1st, 2009 | 5:35 pm | #25
Hey, Joe:
Looks like your guy–our president–is the one losing for sure. No need to make a guess; his loss is already here and growing like a tumor:
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/11/024848.php
Very impressive collapse, I must say. From Messiah to inept clown in less than a year.
November 1st, 2009 | 5:44 pm | #26
It is pathetic!
November 1st, 2009 | 5:56 pm | #27
Dodo’s livid because she got outed and is no longer a useful idiot. Just like Specter, once she no longer was able to stay in the closet under the Republican name, she serves no purpose. Why would Democrats run her as a candidate when they already have their own established candidates?
Dodo no longer has a career in politics with either party. At least this has effectively killed off any chance of her holding public office. Awwwwww, poor Dodo
November 1st, 2009 | 5:57 pm | #28
Scozzafava + Frank Rich + Stalin = Ghost Light Out!
Why? See:
Frank Rich: Ghost Light’s Out
November 1st, 2009 | 6:04 pm | #29
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November 1st, 2009 | 6:06 pm | #30
Another RINO who killed her political career.
November 1st, 2009 | 6:07 pm | #31
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November 1st, 2009 | 6:09 pm | #32
Hypogean
Very impressive collapse, I must say. From Messiah to inept clown in less than a year.
I’ve never seen anything like it. He dropped like a stone in just a few months.
N.B. the trolls on here are utterly toxic in their rhetoric — it’s no longer jumping for joy (”we won, yeah!!!), but mean-spirited projectionism that masquerades a palpable sense of defeatism.
In other words, they are coming apart right before our eyes.
November 1st, 2009 | 6:35 pm | #33
Newt Gingrich goes to the political mat for the GOP and this gal Scoz and ends up eating crow. Wow, what a lesson, in so many ways. Newt would be wise to admit and broadcast his mistake openly if he is to maintain his conservative based supporters going forward. Many are already steering clear and going for Palin and more independant conservatives. Nothing to see here folks.
November 1st, 2009 | 6:35 pm | #34
So the elite of the GOP put up another embarassing example of why we should what? Trust their judgement?
Newt, Michael, et al, take a hike. We’re tired of your act and don’t want to hear you anymore.
November 1st, 2009 | 6:46 pm | #35
That’s what we need.. a republican house member who is buddy buddy with Chuck Shumer and takes his advice.
November 1st, 2009 | 6:54 pm | #36
If the report of 900,000 dollars spent by Newt, Steele.ad nauseum… on Dede is true, these people should retire and let others who have core values that reflect Conservatives run the RNC.
November 1st, 2009 | 6:58 pm | #37
Dede is a moron. Does she think that other democrats will save her a seat in the democratic party? She will be dumped like Arlen Specter. Good riddance, traitor.
November 1st, 2009 | 6:59 pm | #38
I finally got to see her actual statement, and was stunned to see this foolish endorsement of the Democratic Party candidate. She really was a ‘con’ and I am pleased many long ago began the effort to empower Hoffman.
I strongly opposed McCain who completely undermined the sound conservatives in the Republican Party. John McCain even voted against the Bush tax cuts.
Hoffman is a huge positive, and I hope we get he and the Governor Candidates from the GOP to win in NJ and Virginia.
We have to get it together, grow a strong Party challenge this 2010 and 2012.
The NY 23rd is a good start.
November 1st, 2009 | 7:39 pm | #39
[...] want the approval of their peers more than doing what is right. They get a thrill up their leg when Chuck Schumer comes [...]
November 1st, 2009 | 7:43 pm | #40
This is fun. That endorsement of the Democrat is probably going to take the seat out of Republican hands for the first time since, what, the Civil War?
Good going, wingnuts! Goldwater in 2012!!
November 1st, 2009 | 7:56 pm | #41
Magic Dog
November 1st, 2009 | 7:43 pm | #40
This is fun. That endorsement of the Democrat is probably going to take the seat out of Republican hands for the first time since, what, the Civil War?
Good going, wingnuts! Goldwater in 2012!!
You’re thinking about political parties, while the people here are thinking about the long-term health of the nation. We’re putting our country ahead of our politics. What a concept.
November 1st, 2009 | 8:08 pm | #42
Yeah, yeah, yeah Hypogean. Put country first, or tell yourselves that. But on the way there, it’s probably not a real bright idea to so completely disrespect a loyal Republican woman, and treat her like a piece of garbage.
You people forgot about the human equation here, as zealots so often do. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, and I think when push comes to shove the voters in that district are going to extract a penalty from Mr. Hoffman and his pitchfork army for their unseemly behavior.
For “conservatives,” your crowd sure doesn’t seem to understand much about the traditional rules and customs of human interaction in the real world.
Now, once your candidate emerges from the landslide that buries him, the smartest thing the zealots could do is to abjectly apologize for their foolishness. But you won’t. You will redouble it, which as a Democrat will amuse and hearten me to no end.
Goidwater in 2012!! Purity!!
November 1st, 2009 | 8:36 pm | #43
Magic Dog
November 1st, 2009 | 8:08 pm | #42
Yeah, yeah, yeah Hypogean. Put country first, or tell yourselves that. But on the way there, it’s probably not a real bright idea to so completely disrespect a loyal Republican woman, and treat her like a piece of garbage.
There’s nothing personal in this. I know liberals love to personalize everything, like children, but we’re not required to sacrifice our nation and our way of life to keep from hurting an inept politician’s feelings.
Now, once your candidate emerges from the landslide that buries him, the smartest thing the zealots could do is to abjectly apologize for their foolishness.
You really don’t understand what’s going on here, do you? The point wasn’t to necessarily win this seat. The point was to make the GOP leadership listen and to stop nominating candidates who are no different from the opposing party.
The point has been made, and the message has been heard. It doesn’t matter that you’re incapable of grasping what happened here, because the message wasn’t being sent to you. The right people have heard the message. That’s what matters.
Go ahead and say “Goldwater in 2012!” again. It was twice as clever the second time you said it, so it’ll be three times as clever the third time.
November 1st, 2009 | 8:37 pm | #44
Magic Dog
November 1st, 2009 | 8:08 pm | #42
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I can tell by your definition of Dede that you know nothing about loyalty, the fact that you’re a libtard makes that understandable.
You are however,a putz and really quite boring.
November 1st, 2009 | 8:51 pm | #45
[...] demonstrated with her endorsement. But it’s possible she got something out of the deal. Via Gateway Pundit and Bruce Kesler comes this note from Congressman Daniel [...]
November 1st, 2009 | 9:30 pm | #46
While the media asks, “Are moderates welcome in the GOP?”, they should be asking “Will Blue Dog democrats survive these voters in 2010?” Blue Dogs are in districts with constituents that are like Hoffman supporters even more so than NY-23. What is going on in NY-23 is a microcosm of a wave of anger at the far left turn in DC. These voters don’t want to send a representative to Washington who will continue to enable this or will be ignored by their own party leadership (e.g. Pelosi and Reid). Seats picked up in conservative leaning districts by the Democrats in 2006 and 2008 will be in jeopardy.
November 1st, 2009 | 10:24 pm | #47
Poor doc75! So traumatized by Rahm’s devious plot in NY-23 that he can only talk about Blue Dogs. doc, did you remember to set your clocks back by 150 years last night?!
November 1st, 2009 | 10:31 pm | #48
++
Magic Dog
heh, no magic can save you from whatever
traumatized you no matter what time it is..
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November 1st, 2009 | 10:32 pm | #49
[...] Gateway Pundit reports that Chuck Schumer was in on the fix. [...]
November 1st, 2009 | 10:32 pm | #50
Magic Dog
November 1st, 2009 | 10:24 pm | #47
Poor doc75! So traumatized by Rahm’s devious plot in NY-23 that he can only talk about Blue Dogs. doc, did you remember to set your clocks back by 150 years last night?!
Why are so many liberal pundits, columnists, and trolls suddenly giving the GOP advice on how to win elections? Does anybody really believe that Frank Rich or Magic Dog here have our best interests at heart when they tell us that the GOP is wrong to purge the party of squishes?
If the GOP were really self-destructing and embarking on a course that will leave the Democrats in power for decades to come, why would liberals try to dissuade us?
Why are you so eager to show us how to win elections, Magic Dog?
November 1st, 2009 | 10:35 pm | #51
Let’s not be fooled into believing Scozzafava is a “moderate” Republican. That’s been repeated lately by Democrats to mislead and deceive.
Anyone who receives the endorsement of the Daily Kos – over a liberal Dem opponent – is nowhere near the center. A look at her positions on a number of issues confirms it.
This incredible lack of character and integrity comes as no surprise. Americans had better wake up to what is bottom line important. It’s trust.
People signal that level of trust with every word and deed, so look at their history closely. Newt might have a good mind and be a great problem-solver, but is he a man to be trusted? I think his first wife could answer that.
We should be able to count on a man’s word.
Public servants either work to serve their own self-interests or work to serve you. We’d better start recognizing who is who.
November 1st, 2009 | 10:39 pm | #52
Magic Dog,
Is your real name BO? Are you that magic dog?
You know, the one who crapped on Air Force
one?
November 1st, 2009 | 11:25 pm | #53
Ooops, cancel my doubts about the little lefty NY rag’s earlier reporting on Dede throwing support to Owens, she went and done an Arlen Spector.
What a witch!!!!
And, the NY GOP think you wasted almost a million on her? Stupid!!
November 1st, 2009 | 11:34 pm | #54
If the GOP were really self-destructing and embarking on a course that will leave the Democrats in power for decades to come, why would liberals try to dissuade us?
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because they want the GOP to take power from them of course! That’s why they offer so much “helpful” advice.
Actually even a moron can figure out the liberal and Democrats advice is nonsensical desperation. Trolls aren’t even smart enough to be morons. It’s easy to see it, the louder they yell and go after someone, the more effective that person really is. Like Palin. They are terrified of her like no other. She scares the living hell out of them and the amount of damage she will do to their party if people listen to her-and they are.
November 2nd, 2009 | 12:46 am | #55
Hey nutbags, I just want you to know that I’m not here to save you from yourselves. I am here to laugh in your faces! Ha ha ha! No matter what happens in NY-23, you’ll look like a pack of rabidly stupid whackjobs arranged in a circular firing squad.
Do you realize just how cute you are when you’re hoppin’ mad?
November 2nd, 2009 | 1:09 am | #56
Magic Dog
November 2nd, 2009 | 12:46 am | #55
Hey nutbags, I just want you to know that I’m not here to save you from yourselves. I am here to laugh in your faces! Ha ha ha! No matter what happens in NY-23, you’ll look like a pack of rabidly stupid whackjobs arranged in a circular firing squad.
Not much of an argument, Dog. Even if we win, we lose? Actually, if we win, we win. And we both know it’s a huge win. And if we win in Virginia, New Jersey, and New York, that’s horrendous news for Obama and the Democrats.
By the way, how do you explain this graph?
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/11/024848.php
Looks like we’re not marginalized “whackjobs” and “nutbags” after all, huh?
November 2nd, 2009 | 9:14 am | #57
[...] it became apparent that wasn’t going to work, the left-of-center Republican dropped out and endorsed the Democrat. When you look at the whole picture, what you see is an attempt to purge a conservative candidate, [...]
November 2nd, 2009 | 12:49 pm | #58
By the way, how do you explain this graph?
Rasmussen knows where his bread is buttered.
November 2nd, 2009 | 1:11 pm | #59
“Magic Dog” has a “magic mirror”.
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