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NY23: ‘Do You Believe in Miracles’?
Hoffman gets a grassroots surge in Upstate New York.
What a difference two weeks can make. Toward the end of an Oct. 14 conference call organized by David Keene of the American Conservative Union, congressional candidate Doug Hoffman plaintively asked, “Does anybody know how to get Glenn Beck interested in this?”
Monday afternoon, Hoffman was interviewed on Beck’s popular Fox News program, evidence of the surging momentum the Conservative Party candidate has experienced in the three-way special election campaign in update New York’s 23rd District.
In the past six days, Hoffman has been endorsed by former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Sen. Jim DeMint, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, former National Republican Congressional Campaign chairmen John Linder and Tom Cole…
The complete list of Hoffman endorsers is a long one, and seems to include nearly every Republican except Newt Gingrich and Dede Scozzafava, the later of whom is Hoffman’s opponent, and the former her only prominent supporter. According to the two most recent polls, the liberal Republican Scozzafava is now in third place, while Hoffman has pulled ahead of Democrat Bill Owens.
Both of those latest polls require a grain of salt because they were commissioned by organizations (Club for Growth and Minuteman PAC) that support Hoffman. Polls or no polls, however, there is a strong sense among observers that Hoffman may be on the verge of one of the biggest political upsets of recent years.
The amazing surge of support toward Hoffman is remarkable in several ways. His grassroots campaign pits him against both the Democratic and Republican national campaign machines in a district which, as liberal media have repeatedly emphasized, went 52 percent for President Obama just a year ago. Hoffman’s evident success is even more amazing because the candidate himself gives new meaning to the phrase “not a professional politician.”
Not only has the bespectacled businessman never sought public office before, but he is far from the ideal candidate in an age where voters expect soundbites delivered by telegenic smoothies. A certified public accountant, Hoffman’s un-politician style was clearly evident in the low-key way he gave his laconic answers to Beck during Monday’s interview.
“Well, I never thought I’d be in politics, but Glenn, quite frankly, I was fed up,” Hoffman said. “I was fed up with what was happening to our country. I was fed up with the out-of-control spending, taxes, government regulations on us and business, and I thought somebody had to step up and do something about it.”
His delivery was not slick, but Hoffman’s message has clearly resonated with others who are “fed up,” including Tea Party activists like Dana Loesch, who created a special blog called “Dump Dede” to protest against the way GOP insiders handpicked Scozzafava as the Republican nominee. Loesch’s blog is part of a tide of online activism on Hoffman’s behalf that indicates how far the conservative grassroots have come toward closing the “New Media” gap with their liberal counterparts, whose Internet edge helped power Democrat wins in the past two election cycles.
Chief among the online crusaders for the Hoffman campaign has been Erick Erickson of Red State. Long a mainstream figure among Republican bloggers, Erickson has bucked the GOP establishment in recent months, joining the protest against the National Republican Senatorial Committee’s early endorsement of Gov. Charlie Crist in Florida’s 2010 Senate primary.
Erickson’s blog led a push for Hoffman that raised grassroots conservative awareness of the election to replace nine-term Republican Rep. John McHugh, recently confirmed as Obama’s Secretary of the Army. With a congressional campaign compressed into five weeks — New York Gov. David Paterson didn’t officially call for the Nov. 3 election until late September — major national media paid little attention. (It wasn’t until Tuesday that the New York Times published its first major front-page article about the upstate contest.)
Less than a dozen conservative bloggers were on the Oct. 14 ACU conference call, but within days, the Hoffman campaign had suddenly “gone viral,” as Internet gurus say. The fact that Palin’s endorsement was announced on her Facebook page shows just how conservatives have adopted Web 2.0 technology — and the staggering $116,000 in PayPal contributions generated that day demonstrates what a powerful tool online fundraising can be.
After that Thursday haul, Team Hoffman stopped announcing their fundraising totals — a good indication that the campaign has overcome the financial crisis that had previously hampered its operation. Conservative volunteers answering the campaign’s call for “boots on the ground” are reportedly streaming into the district to help push Hoffman toward the finish line.
No one at Hoffman HQ is counting their chickens yet, of course. The only televised debate to feature all three candidates is scheduled for Thursday, and Hoffman this week has been hit by TV attack ads from both the Democrats and Republicans.
Yet both the campaign staff and their grassroots supporters sense they may be approaching a victory as stunning as the U.S. hockey team’s upset of the Soviets in the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics for which Hoffman served as chief accountant. As the clock ticked down toward an American victory, ABC’s Al Michaels excitedly shouted, “Do you believe in miracles?” before answering his own question with an emphatic, “Yes!”
The clock now ticks down toward Election Day in upstate New York, and the Hoffman campaign is hoping for a similarly miraculous answer.
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Robert Stacy McCain is co-author (with Lynn Vincent) of Donkey Cons: Sex, Crime, and Corruption in the Democratic Party (Nelson Current). He blogs at The Other McCain.
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Taylor| 10.28.09 @ 1:23AM
Be prepared for an "Al Franken" type voter fraud with it this close. Ballots showing up from dead people etc. Been a democrat all my life until the last year and I would vote for Doug if I lived in the district. Millions like me, fed up with both parties and casting my vote for someone that isn't corrupt, lacking common knowledge or a leftist wannabe tyrant. Yup, one of millions of Democratic or former Democratic Tea party protester. People like Hoffman have more backing than just conservative
tom| 10.28.09 @ 4:15PM
There is no record of dead people voting you moron!! The recount process was taken to court twice and unanimously ruled that the recount was done fairly.
mike| 10.28.09 @ 4:23PM
move over tom, you clearly don't have a clue.
Nick| 10.28.09 @ 4:36PM
Dearest Timid Tom;
I live in Chicago where dead people vote in every election.......fool that you are. You jest of course as was once said by Wm Shakespear.
Nick| 10.28.09 @ 4:38PM
I should say that dead people have been voting ever since people started dying!!@@##
tom | 10.28.09 @ 5:10PM
Thats because Illinois is known for corrupt politics, thats a fact!! Minnesota is known for holding clean elections, just because a polarizing partisan figure won a close race it's easy to scream fraud! If its so obvious that dead people were voting then why wasnt that any part of the appeal case?? Come on now, I just think it's a ridiculous point to claim that dead people decide the outcome of close races in Minnesota. Yeah in your dirty corrupt state of Illinois they probably do.
Joan K. | 10.28.09 @ 8:55PM
Yeah... sure right. and there are people who find abseentee ballots in the trunks of their cars all the time after elections. Right... sure right.
GlennO| 10.29.09 @ 12:34PM
I believe you are correct, Joan.
The ACORN guys that registered Mickey Mouse, the Dallas Cowboys are being tried in those states if not already...
And meanwhile in Miami:
"ACORN Workers Face Charges of Alleged Voter Registration Fraud in Florida
The FBI and state authorities were making arrests Wednesday of workers hired to register voters by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN." Sept 2009
Catpurrson| 10.30.09 @ 8:52PM
There is a very substantive difference between registration fraud and voting fraud. There isn't a soul alive who is going to go to their polling place and give them name to the election officials as Mickey Mouse. What a bunch of num-nutz the gNOp folks are.
Soothsayer| 11.1.09 @ 12:53AM
No, you are correct Cat, they are going to find out from the Demorats that work the polling place who hasn't voted and go in and vote as them. Or sometimes they will go in as a Goper who has voted Absentee and claim fraud and have their ballot tossed out.
RS| 10.28.09 @ 11:45PM
Tom sounds like an Obama-tard.
Dokken| 10.29.09 @ 9:50AM
The best thing you can do now is send money to Hoffman's campaign whether you live in his district or not.
Sil Johnson| 10.29.09 @ 1:57PM
And if you DO live in the district, contact one of the local ALL VOLUNTEER offices....we're putting our "boots on the ground" this weekend to makes sure everyone in this district is aware of the enormity of this one little upstate NY race. It's an amazing thing, folks.....join us!
holly| 10.29.09 @ 1:37PM
Tom,
Explain how the 30K Somalians ( non-citizens) where able to vote in Minnesota in Nov 2008 election?
duane| 10.30.09 @ 10:46AM
TOM: Not only did the dead vote for Frankin, but more suspicious than that was they kept finding more ballots in trunks of cars, conveniently in heavily democratic leaning districts. Almost none were found in republican districts. Specious as that was, they were counted and they always favored Frankin, by just enough votes to win the contest, too. It was as if they wanted to count all the votes until their guy won and then stop.
George| 10.30.09 @ 6:41PM
Hi, Morons. If dead people have been voting for years, they have been voting for republicans. Why else do you thing these idiots have had huge majorities for 40 years?
Christopher| 10.30.09 @ 8:30PM
No kidding. That might explain the last several years of Americans with no brains.
George| 10.30.09 @ 6:41PM
Hi, Morons. If dead people have been voting for years, they have been voting for republicans. Why else do you thing these idiots have had huge majorities for 40 years?
BMF| 10.28.09 @ 5:11PM
First, more people voted in Minnesota than are registered, but that doesn't seem to bother the courts.
Second, none of the liberal judges or elected officials were the least be concerned about the sudden appearance of previously uncounted votes that showed up in closets, car trunks, and thin air.
And finally, why do you think Senator Frankin fought so hard (and won) to suppress the mail in military ballots after they were delayed being delivered from combat zones?
You may be right that dead people didn't vote, but there were obviously unregistered voters who may well have swung the election. But since Minnesota doesn't verify voter registration, it's impossible to tell who is authorized to cast a vote and who isn't. Whether the person was alive or dead is a moot point--the vote shouldn't count if the person is not a legal citizen and registered to vote.
tom| 10.28.09 @ 5:58PM
This is getting ridiculous, but just so you know the first appeals court of the 3 judges were independent, republican, and democrat which ruled unanimously in Frankens favor. Then the appeal to the state supreme court there was (if i remember correctly) one judge appointed by a democrat, one by an independent and the other 3 by a Republican which also ruled unanimously in Frankens favor so we cant say the judges were liberal and in Frankens pocket, if anything I bet the more so called liberal judges didnt even vote for Franken as many upstanding democrats just couldnt vote for him based on his past resume.
Yes you do make a good point regarding the registration policy in Minnesota but thats how our system works, and yes maybe it could be revamped. I guess we will never really know who got more votes if our election laws were different. Plus like I said Coleman had 2 chances to prove his case in court and he didnt. If all these acts of fraud were so obvious Coleman the former lawyer should of proved his case no problem but he didnt, he got outsmarted by a comedian.
Dave| 10.29.09 @ 9:49PM
Sure Tom, whatever you say. Squeaky clean election of Al Franken. OK.
To quote from the movie, Wayne's World:
"Right, and monkeys could fly out of my butt!"
kk| 11.3.09 @ 1:57PM
Unless Dave can prove there is a fraud (which he would certainly expose for us to see), I can only agree with Tom. This is clearly a sour loser, lol.
joe fonebone| 10.28.09 @ 7:22PM
Not true. The court ruled that the GOP candidate didnt raise the right issues early on in the litigation. He was simply out lawyered by the Al. That said, I wonder how many "voters" Acorn signed up.
sloughrunner| 10.30.09 @ 12:40PM
40,000.........
George| 10.30.09 @ 6:45PM
More importantly, the largest weapons/ military contractors HAVE been CONVICTED of fraud. They took your money, and mine, and you idiots have the sense to complain about ACORN.
The contractors are still taking our money. But I bet you losers hare quite happy about that. Let the rich get richer so you can be broke. Really smart!
Richard Baxter| 10.28.09 @ 8:40PM
Well it will be interesting this next election cycle, not to mention there in NY next week with ACORN not in the picture. American appears to have wakened to all the smoke and mirror sows, circus shows with the clowns, and the LIES by the Obama adminstration.
JIMV| 10.29.09 @ 12:48AM
Yeah, sure...except that the number of acorn registered illegal votes that the state agrees were illegal is about 5 times the margin of Frankin's 'victory'
Ronald Reagan| 10.30.09 @ 6:58PM
You have as much proof of this as you have that Republicans are in power
Bydand76| 10.29.09 @ 3:27AM
Umm Tom Yeah there was !
Since I live in the land of 10,000 lakes I would suggest to you to get your facts straight.
The Al Franken victory was a gimme from the Democrat establishment that is well entrenched in MN. Almost every single official including the judges who ruled on this case in court are Democrats. Coleman never had a chance!
Not only was there dead people voting in this election, but somehow a bunch of ballots miracleously showed up out of one election officials vehicle. Kind strange there Tom, wouldnt you say? Not to mention the fact that there were people who voted in multiple districts AND who voted under the same name, in the same district multiple times.
The biggest thing that kind of stuck out and that the MSM NEVER reported is that the Sec. Of State in MN also is a past employee of ACORN MN. I would think that would speak for itself on how this case would have turned out. But hey, Since they are all democrats anyways whats the big deal right?
It was highway robbery and it was ignored!
Spare me the rant about clean elections in MN Tom because you clearly do not have a clue what you are talking about.
This crap has been going on for years in MN.
How many ballots were thrown out for Franken compared to the amount thrown out for Coleman Tom? Why was the whole review board stacked against Coleman TOM!? They were all Liberals Tom! Why did they have the initial reports coming back at election night showing Coleman with a substantial lead OVER Franken, Tom? Where did the mystery ballots come from Tom?
Why did ACORN immediatly began to deny access to the media in MN when they requested to look at their election records TOM?
Where was the Sec of State during all of this? He was the one who apponted the review board, He was the one who made the results official ONLY after it showed that Franken had an apprent lead AFTER the fact that voting officials were reporting widespread concern over balloting issues LIKE FRAUD Tom!. Why was the Republican representative shut out of all of the meetings over which ballots to allow and disallow? Why did the same standards not apply to the Franken campaign as they did to Colemans?
Seriously Tom, this was a travesty of an election and Franken is a lame-ass limosine liberal. Dont believe me? look it up, and do some research for yourself. I am not a Coleman supporter by anymeans either. He is a weak knee'd RINO who used to be a former Democrat. But seriously, Tom this was a joke of an election. And I thought it couldnt get any worse after Wellstone AND Ventura . Al Franken? Honestly!
RayJ| 10.29.09 @ 5:24AM
Your right genius! Dead people didn't vote for Franken. Live people did using dead persons' names. But there were not enough of them to require a change in the outcome, thus the recount was done fairly.
Andrew| 10.29.09 @ 11:43AM
In usual liberal fashion Tom you have your left wing attack checklist out; "slanderize and call conservative derogatory names after they present facts"... check
Acorn voter fraud was involved in the Minnesota numbers as has been reported, factually, numerous times. but you are right about one thing the original count where Frankins opponent had won was fair. However, in the usual liberal fashion the fair vote was taken to court, the challanger of course relying on an ever increasingly liberal partisan court to over-rule what the people had decided. Then what came to light was simply the fact that each voting district counted or discounted votes based on very different and in many ways suspect standards. But to liberals like yourself... thats considered fair as long as it favors you, your agenda or your ilk. The first recount once again had Frankin as the loser, albiet with closer numbers. But of course as with all you liberals losing fairly and with grace is not in your blood, it was challanged again and somehow the numbers came out in Frankins favor. What became clear however, was that this was opening a can of worms both the state of Minnesota and Acorn mutually did not want opened. So it was left at the second recount with a razor thin margin for Frankin. And yes Tom, dead people do and have voted, next time youre faced with an unpleasent FACT, instead of acting out of emotion and resorting to name calling, take those two brain cells you have doing shift work and do some reasearch.. but then again with that limited capacity.. insults just sound better dont they?
Trust me I vote in NY23.. so I will be very very interested in this one and in any malfiesence that may take place in this election, as I will in all future elections that determine our future. Take note, if youre an Acorn "volunteer", many of us are beginning to figure out that this is how crooks get elected and re-elected over and over. Voter fraud coupled by slanderizing voices such as yourself trying to shout down any dissenters is the tactic.. we're on to it Tom.. but please keep shouting as it makes you easy to identify.
Axlerod| 10.31.09 @ 7:39AM
You bunch of winners. Nothing compares with what George Bush did. BTW - did your son go to Iraq. A phony war and a ruined economy is what we got from 8 years of Geaorge Bush and Dick Cheney. That is why we through them out. Get over it you buch of baby's. I voted straight democrat just because of that and there are many others like me. I happen to be alive. Cry babies is all you are. I think our system works fine. If you don't like then get the %^&& out of our country
Kathie | 10.29.09 @ 6:36PM
Can you please explain why liberals always revert to name calling and personal attacks? Oh wait is it because you can't comment on the merits so therefore you need to make a personal attack so you don't look foolish....
Sharon| 10.30.09 @ 7:01PM
kathy: I guess saying "Obama tard" is not name calling
Stephen Maio| 11.24.09 @ 9:54PM
No record of dead people voting!
Gee LBJ and Kennedy would be amused.
Taylor| 10.28.09 @ 1:25AM
oops-that's having common knowledge and common sense.
Kitty| 10.28.09 @ 6:55AM
Doug Hoffman is Howard "I'm mad as hell..." Beale.
Instead of TVs getting tossed out of windows, I hope to see moldy politicians thrown out of their comfy seats in DC.
Speaking of which... Just what kind of people live in Barney Frank's Fourth Congressional District of Massachusetts, and why do they keep re-electing him?
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ExPat| 10.28.09 @ 8:09AM
Provincetown
Netherbury| 10.28.09 @ 11:34AM
Sorry, but Provincetown is not in Frank's district. I wish the explanation were that simple.
Addie| 10.28.09 @ 4:23PM
There is just one word that can truly define the people of Massachusetts who keep re-electing that moron and that word is MASSHOLES!
Sharon| 10.30.09 @ 7:04PM
kathie, note addie's comment as well. Ironically, I am from Massachusetts.
Matt| 10.28.09 @ 8:34PM
Kitty: BF's electorate keeps voting for him because they actually think he is doing a good job; which is the scariest thing of all! He won last election with 68% of the vote! My op: more than any other single individual this man's actions or lack thereof contributed the most to the housing bubble and crash...and there he is, still swinging like a wrecking ball inside the House of Representatives.
bill g| 10.30.09 @ 2:18AM
Be careful, remember the new law, "Hate crimes in a Military Budget". Sweet Barnie, will hit you with his pink hanker-chief.
Lullaby's, Legends and Lies| 10.28.09 @ 7:15AM
Hoffman: "Well, I never thought I'd be in politics, but Glenn, quite frankly, I was fed up," Hoffman said. "I was fed up with what was happening to our country. I was fed up with the out-of-control spending, taxes, government regulations on us and business, and I thought somebody had to step up and do something about it."
Well I’m fed up too, with all the spending, the taxes, the entitlements, and just the absolute lack of caring at all, about what the American people are trying to say right now (enough!!).
Washington isn’t listening, the GOP isn’t listening, and the media isn’t listening, so the ball’s in our hands now. Hike!!
Let’s Go Hoffman, and Let’s Go Yankees!!
Doug| 10.28.09 @ 4:15PM
To: Lullaby's, Legends and Lies
You had me up until to your LAST 3 Words. Go Phillies!!!
davecatbone| 10.28.09 @ 7:44AM
This election will be a watershed moment for conservatism. The Tea Party is reclaiming America for the millions who paid for our freedom with their lives. No to Socialism, No to Marxism, and NO to country club elitist Rockefeller Republicanism. That means YOU Newt, and Mitt and Huck (who are all avoiding support for Hoffman), at least Pawlenty is showing gravitas here.
Janeway| 10.28.09 @ 9:54AM
Huck is an idiot supported by Newt as I recall. I like Huck on Fox but not in politics. As for Mitt, he just needs to keep his head down for now. The Party screwed him in the FL primary and in every other way. The wanted McCain and look what we got! Go, Hoffman.
Timothy L. Pennell| 10.28.09 @ 7:50AM
Did ya hear? Newt Gingrich is thinking of running in 2012. I don't think so. Doesn't he do PEPSI commercials with Nancy Pelosi? Or were they both on a Christmas Card, together?
This is what a LUST FOR POWER looks like. This is what it does to people. He has definately been seduced by The Dark Side. Global Warming? Colin Powell? That's too bad. He coulda been a contender. Idiot.
loulou| 10.28.09 @ 11:08AM
He coulda been... but Newt has a fatal flaw or two.
Lust for power and the wish to be loved by his enemies.
Oldguy| 10.28.09 @ 5:02PM
Newt is not the only one in government with a lust for power, and not the only republican with a desire to be loved by the left. I'm from Ohio, but I would whole heartedly vote for Hoffman if I lived in NY 23rd.
TMC| 10.28.09 @ 9:04AM
It's about time a REAL conservative was running for office - I am sick of spineless republicans who keep giving us RINO's - conservatives do not want liberal republicans....as far as Newt goes....he is a big disappointment....and he is wrong...conservatism wins every time when it is tried....people have to stand up at some point and say enough and this is it.
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higgins1990| 10.28.09 @ 9:06AM
Regardless of the outcome, does the RNC/NRCC/NRSC/GOP get the message? I doubt it...
Lester Gabriel| 10.28.09 @ 5:43PM
Everyone who has attended a Tea Party, a Town Hall, or any other patriot event should write, call, or E-mail the RNC, the RNCC, and the RNSC to make sure they DO get the message. We need to be picking our own candidates in 2010, not them.
Matt| 10.28.09 @ 8:40PM
No, RNC does not get it. Michael Steele was on Hannity today and hemmed and hawed all over the place about how the leftie Repub candidate was properly and legitimately chosen and that, well, if you were fielding a candidate in that district you'd probably be on the moderate side anyway. Repubs are just as mothball-smelly as the Dems...like Nancy's party they have been there too long, have circled the wagons, and are owned by too many people.
Nyfarmer| 10.28.09 @ 9:19AM
Three weeks ago my wife (a rabid liberal) and I (an avowed conservative) went down to the local library to meet Mr. Hoffman. There were seven people plus a campaign manager present--five of the seven folks are activists and could not be counted as new supporters. The local TV and press did come and cover the event. Last Friday I drove through town and about 10-15 Hoffman supporters were on the street waving signs at cars and giving the 'thumbs up' to those of us honking our horns to them. To think that all it took was for a man and a few folks to stand up should make anyone proud to be a part of this Country!
serferf62| 10.28.09 @ 8:03PM
Here in HI we're screwed with dedicated Kommiecrats. But to support the Teaparty/Conservatives I've encouraged several very poor people to send $ to Hoffman...some only 5 bucks, 1 who never voted before.
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NO money to DC at all. For both parties vote in the Primaries. Vote against the incumbent...
Kitty| 10.28.09 @ 9:20AM
Let's not forget why there's a special election in the first place. It's because that Judas, Rep. John McHugh (R), was appointed Sec. of the Army. He got the appointment when he sold his vote on the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill (H.R. 2454) and, along with 7 other R's, voted with the Dems.
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curious| 10.28.09 @ 9:48AM
On the other hand, there are substantial diversity among GOP officials. Who in NRCC hidden behind the scene is blocking a conservative uprising? He/she needed to be called out to answer. This is what we call accountability. At least Newt has the gut to defend his action.
Mike| 10.28.09 @ 9:53AM
I think everyone that has the means to should be up here campaigning for Hoffman (and Christie in New Jersey for that matter). If we could pull off these two races along with Virginia it would be a message that would be heard litterally around the world. We are tired of the spending and the taxes!!! We cannot wait till 2010 too much can happen in the next year1!!!
yahoo | 10.28.09 @ 10:46AM
that's good body...
Ken (Old Texican)| 10.28.09 @ 10:58AM
Thanks Guys
Believe me, the message has been sent to the Repub. committee! Loud and clear!
Now we shall see if they read the message, regardless of NY23 results.
The time for "go along to get along" is OVER!
Every one of us needs to be calling and raising sand in our local and State Repub. committees.
They are in the phone book, folks. Start today and keep on their heels with one simple message.
Our Country is at stake! Help us or you are fired!
Al Adab| 10.28.09 @ 11:22AM
Many thanks to all those Conservatives who sent money and let the RNC know what is what.
The RNC chooses where to put their dollars. Last year they sat out AZ-1 and the Rep. Candidate, a Conservative, lost. Here they put of money and staff time for a lefty Rep. in NY-23.
Hoffman has heard our voice, make sure the RNC hears it also.
Northern Rebel| 10.28.09 @ 11:27AM
If we can sneak Hoffman through my old district, and knock out those governor races, it will be a sign that the beast within, has indeed awakened!
BTW: fuck the yankees.
Lullaby's, Legends and Lies| 10.28.09 @ 12:17PM
Northern Rebel: I hope that wasn't directed at me (I'm one of the good guys don't you know)? You see, I'm from the Bronx, so I have to cheer on my Yankees regardless. And anyway, the only reason I keep saying that is, it pisses off Toddard to no end, and that cheers me up. It turns out, he's a Red Sox fan, not much of a shock there huh? That could explain his screwed up personality? A Conservative living with the Kennedy's?
Oh yeah, let's not forget about Rubio in Florida either. Or to say, Let's Go Yankees!!
Conservativity | 10.28.09 @ 4:30PM
Northern Rebel, as to your BTW, it appears that Madonna has taken care of that already.
daboss| 10.28.09 @ 4:48PM
I concurr! screw the yanks ... although as an indians fan it pains me that both starting pitchers (and cy young winners) were from the tribe ...
only in cleveland can this happen.
tj| 10.28.09 @ 12:07PM
Want to do something constructive... VOTE EM ALL OUT 2010/2012. I just donated to Marko Rubio of Florida, Doug Hoffman of NY, and David Harmer of California. "We the People" can win this if we all take up the mantle against corruption and take back our country. I will never send the GOP any money evuh again until or when they return to conservative values....they just don't get it!!! Duh! What part of you lost the last 2 elections does the GOP NOT UNDERSTAND???
Bob Belvedere | 10.28.09 @ 12:08PM
Quoted from and Linked to at:
23 SKIDOO VII
scythe| 10.28.09 @ 1:46PM
Does anyone doubt the dark corners in Uncle Newtie's soul anymore? This man is such a political schizophrenic that one can only logically conclude he is attempting to achieve the opposite of that which he claims to stand for. Time and again he is winking at conservatives as he is comfortably ensconsed in left wing territory. Back in the '90's he was pushing Heidi and Alvin Toffler as his intellectual gurus. These are two individuals who would not be uncomfortable in the current White House and a couple of globots to boot. Who is Newt Gingrich? From where I stand he is a Janus-faced fraud who talks on both sides of his mouth, who saying a lot of things to hide who he truly is and right now is trying like hell to co-opt the Tea Party Movement for his own, all the while pushing this left wing harlot as a Republican. Gingrich is the Grinch who stole conservatism.
kerry| 10.30.09 @ 2:32PM
:) good one.
David Jack Smith | 10.28.09 @ 1:57PM
Looks like it's not good to be called either Dede and Deeds this November.
Mr Deeds and Mrs Dede Don't Go To Washington.
Blackwatch| 10.29.09 @ 12:37AM
Well said. I appreciate your wit sir!
Jim McCrory| 10.28.09 @ 2:05PM
Hoffman can win. In New Mexico incumbent Congressman Runnels died unexpectedly just before the election in 1980. Carpetbagger David King got on the ballot as the only candidate. Joe Skeen ran as a write-in and won even though Runnel's widow also ran as a write-in. It too was a three way race.
It is harder to fool the people than generally thought. It is just hard to get their attention sometimes. Hoffman has peoples attention!
marion palner (MIMI) | 10.28.09 @ 3:04PM
If , Doug Hoffman wins this, we will have a true miracle! It reminds me of old hollywood (Jimmey Stewart) movies ie MR> SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTONand I'TS A WONDERFUL LIFE" only in AMERICA folks , only in AMERICA! The N.Y. Post endorsed, people from all over the counry have sent checks the rest of us are praying for him and wishing him well , and a record turnout. ONLY IN AMERICA!!!!!!!!
ATLmedia| 10.28.09 @ 3:04PM
It's a Win-Win for the Democrats.
In all likelyhood Owens will win because the
'principled' uber conservatives shot themselves in the foot w/ their brilliant "most people are just like us" nonsense..
>>Teabaggers motto "Better no loaf than 1/2"
Tim| 10.28.09 @ 3:10PM
Shut up Keith.
Al Adab| 10.28.09 @ 3:27PM
Don't know how the TEA Party movement got into the conversation, but it is time that we realize if we fail to stand for something we stand for nothing. Let Owens win, inchallah, and the blame will fall where it belongs on the bloody hands of the left.
Conservatives must stand for Liberty and Constitutional government against this rush to tyranny. Only by demonstrating the alternative might future generations rediscover the value of Freedom and sometime, somewhere, recreate a free society. Our posterity deserves no less.
Blackwatch| 10.29.09 @ 12:47AM
ATLmedia,
You sir are projecting your own insecurities with your use of the invective term "teabaggers."
Your type of sniperish commentary is not wanted here. Go back to your vermin infested coffee house lifestyle or mommies basement and suck your thumb like usual. Idiot.
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mike| 10.28.09 @ 3:26PM
It's a Win-Win for the Democrats.
In all likelyhood Owens will win because the
'principled' uber conservatives shot themselves in the foot w/ their brilliant "most people are just like us" nonsense..
>>Teabaggers motto "Better no loaf than 1/2"
-Please explain how having a core set of principles is a bad thing? This is not NYC, with an overwhelming Democratic constituency. This is a center-right district, where a strong Republican can win. Dede, get out of the way!
Northern Rebel| 10.28.09 @ 3:26PM
Lullaby:
Yes it was directed at you, but it comes from a frustrated yankee hating Sawx fan, so don't take it personal. :o)
As long as you are a thinking American, we'll get along fine, despite your deviant sports preferences.
GO CELTICS
GO COLTS
Lullaby's, Legends and Lies| 10.28.09 @ 4:05PM
Oh no, not you too Rebel? Another Red Sox fan? But don't you just hate it that Toddard is a "Sawx" fan too? That has got to totally suck!! But you know what really sucks for me, I haven't had the chance to even watch "one" Yankees game in its entirety this year. You see, I don't have cable on this side of the globe (and to catch it live? you have to stay up to 4 A.M. or so). And by the time they rebroadcast the games for us the next day, I've already heard who's won the game already. And there's no use in watching a game, when you know the final score (it pointless).
Alright so, we'll agree to disagree on sports. But we'll stay on the same American Team okay? And right now, I think the Nov 3rd (special) elections, are starting to turn our way, or at least that's what Rasmussen is saying.
So I can live with a sports truce, that is, until the next time Boston comes to town!! Then all bets are off!! L,G,Y's, We're #1, USA, USA!!!
Northern Rebel| 10.28.09 @ 3:34PM
Mike is right.
This is a district that leans right, and has many solid conservative counties, especially Madison county, where I lived for 10 years.
These people despise Albany, and wish NYC would secede from the state, and stop sucking money from our farming community, to pay for liberal indoctrination, in the city schools!
Spartanfan| 10.28.09 @ 4:05PM
I'm from Buffalo and we HATE Albany too! All of us in Western New York wish we would secede from New York City and Albany.
We pay some of the highest electricty rates in the nation... despite sitting next to the biggest electro-power generator in the world with Niagara Falls.
Why?
Because the state government continually sells us out so that NYC can get cheap power.
Go Hoffman! Take down the Democrats AND the Liberal Republican Leadership...
Spartanfan| 10.28.09 @ 4:09PM
Oh yeah... Fuck the Yankees... Fuck New York...
Go Sabres!
Lullaby's, Legends and Lies| 10.29.09 @ 6:12AM
Spartanfan: I hope you only mean "F" New York City, and not the rest of the State (being from Buffalo that is?). New York State is one of the most beautiful in the Country, but the City does drag it down by sucking an inordinate amount of resourses from the rest of the State for its survival. Yet to outsiders, you'd swear, that New York, is NYC. But it's not, there's so much more to the State of New York than just the lower 30 miles.
I'm completely bummed out today, because the Yankees dropped game 1.
t jefferson| 10.28.09 @ 3:50PM
Go to your Republican meetings as a conservative. In 2010 we CAN take the party of Lincoln back from the "anything-to-be-re-elected" wigs.
Blackwatch| 10.29.09 @ 12:53AM
Well said!
Long live the Republic!!
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daniel| 10.28.09 @ 4:52PM
The Republican is a democrat trying to get in so they get another left vote. Its sad they just can't come out and say who they are now. Pathetic how she acts and hides like a kid of her identity. Look at beliefs , they're all liberal based. Is this what the Democratic party is coming to?
philip| 10.28.09 @ 5:08PM
anyone who is back the conservative should know that mitt romney is one of those ellite NE republicans, every time he ran as a conservative he pushed and signed bills for higher taxes, gay marriage. after promissing not to.
Huckabee by law is limited on what he can do politically, i think he should get involved, but he is working hard in the south/east. if it werent for the tea-party activist Palin wouldnt have gotten involved, pewlenty wouldnt have gotten involved either. im glad they did, but politicans endorsements are like sprinkles on birthday cake.
dANO| 10.28.09 @ 6:38PM
You're right phillip...Just look at Mass. and health care....that way Mitt's Baby!!
DaveS| 10.28.09 @ 6:18PM
Just a bit of debate/campaign advice for Hoffman: do not indicate with whom you'll caucus.
dANO| 10.28.09 @ 6:37PM
Janeway....I agree..Now will you all come down to Arizona and help us get rid of McCain? It looks like he's gonna cruise to another six year term...Help us!!!!
bill g| 10.30.09 @ 2:25AM
Tell everyone to remember , The McCain/Kennedy bill ....pushed for illegal's to become citizens. Did not care how they got here, still Illegal's, didn't know how many, between 12 and 20 million, just give them citizenship. Give them Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare...what the hell too damn long in a prison camp...number one RINO...
St Reformed| 10.28.09 @ 6:52PM
Kitty asked: "Just what kind of people live in Barney Frank's Fourth Congressional District of Massachusetts, and why do they keep re-electing him?" I heard many of them like to vacation in San Francisco. Does that help?
sharon| 10.30.09 @ 7:12PM
Why are so many conservatives homophobic. He actually has a pretty diverse district - working class towns, upper middle, mostly white. He ran as a gay candidate when gay bashing was rampant. I am not in his district, but I would vote for him.
KateT| 10.28.09 @ 6:53PM
Has any one asked(demanded) DeDe to step aside for the good of the party??? I am sure I know the answer. If she is 3rd, than she should withdraw and support Hoffman.
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Gryphon| 10.28.09 @ 7:50PM
As much as I am praying for a Hoffman victory, I am not expecting one. I dont think this is critical for the conservative movement, its pretty clear this is a moderate to liberal area, else the Republican candidate would not be so liberal. On the other hand, if a conservative party candidate were to win, it would be a resounding slap in the face to MaObama and the liberal left. The tea party and conservatives can only lose an election this race, the Democrats and MaObama can be Decimated. Pry Hoffman wins, but dont let a loss break your spirit, this is a long shot!
John OB| 10.28.09 @ 9:35PM
Scythe wrote that Newt is trying like hell to co-opt the Tea Party movement. He also co-opted much of Ross Perot's United We Stand and it became the Contract with America. This started out well but later morphed into Republican Big Government and it has failed. This failed model is apparent in what you are now witnessing in the State of New York. In the death throws of this failed model maybe a new, more principled, model can be born out.
Blackwatch| 10.29.09 @ 1:04AM
John OB,
This is why we need to back Conservatives--be they Democrat or Republican, or Whig/Big Green whoever. We need to start with the insane by design government spending and election fraud reform. Everyone who votes should have to supply a thumb print and a legal photoID. Congress can enforce this by stripping the federal courts of their jurisdiction in this matter. Then Every conservative politician should sign and support a no new spending plan/freeze of the Federal Government. We are $12 Trillion dollars in debt. That's about $400,000 per person in this country. (Please forgive my math errors it is 10pm in my time zone.--you get my point anyway I hopw.) We need to whack--I mean whack with a hatchet 12% out of every damn department in the Federal Government in 2010 and keep doing that every year until we can pay off the Federal Deficit.
Long Live the Republic!!
rodney| 10.28.09 @ 9:36PM
i think that Doug will win. but win or not he is a winner. this will be repeated next year with Doug as the representative of the repubs. Ever conservative has been down on the repubs leader. i will admit that in the past after the 94 elections and after George Bush won i did not hold their feet to the fire. I still remember when Newt was asked if he was going to fight for the parts of the contract with america and he said that he only promised to have a vote on them. That meant to me that he was not going to fight for it, he just voted and that was the end with the contract with america. We conservatives have a part to play from this point on and that is we must stay engaged every day and hold not only dems feet to fire but republicans. These leaders know that after their party wins that passions cool off they can then do as they want and no one will be engaged. I will stay engaged from this point on because the rights that we have taken for granted must shine to the whole world so that the dreams of millions of people in the world of being free. Just keep in mind that each american citizens are being supported by at least 10-50 citizens throughout the world that would give anything they have to just experience the light of freedom for just one day. this has made me ashamed of myself because i felt selfish for complaining for my rights and liberties being taken away. But we must protect these rights for the sake of the world. Just as Ronald Reagan said in his speach (thanks Rush) Destiny with Rendevouz, ( i cant qoute exactly) but to the extent is if we loose our freedom there is no where else to go and that we will have 1000 years of darkness. We have to keep our beacon shining bright for the world. When you go in to vote, volunteer, voice your concerns at a townhall, email elected official, or donate....remember that you are not doing this for yourself or your family...you are doing this for all the citizens around the world that can only dream of the freedom that we experience daily. Ronald Reagan had said to some effect that freedom must be fought for daily. So please never let your guard down and remember that you have millions of dreams at stake every single day. Just remember those brave souls yearning for freedom in IRAN. SHINE YOUR BEACON DAILY FOR THE WHOLE WORLD TO SEE. Live for the millions that cant.
Ronald Reagan| 10.30.09 @ 6:59PM
Rush is an idiot.
Reagan was a senile person.
Kerry Marvin| 10.28.09 @ 9:38PM
This is the Reason Mr Hoffman and the Conservatives will have, more than a Strong showing. Rush say's it's a Revolution, Here is what I said to my States representatives:
HATE CRIMES LEGISLATION, YOU SHOVED DOWN OUR THROAT.
Kerry Letter Written: Today @ 1:13pm
Dear Mr. Obama, and Dear Congressman, Senator,
I trust you received my letters, and Pink Slip’s? Though, YOU may have just thrown them away, I said What I meant, and I did Mean What I said.
The Trust and Faith in Your Leadership, and/or Representation thus far, have Not Been Up to Par. So in Order to Raise the Bar, I have been Trying to get Your Attention. It Appears, that this Attempt has “Failed”. Spectacularly!
So far, YOUR, Track Record has given us a “Stimulus” Debt, That “WE THE PEOPLE” :
Said Absolutely NO to.
A Hate Crimes Bill, which “WILL” be Challenged All the Way to the “Supreme Court” as UNCONSTITUTIONAL!
With the Congress and Senate that have, Done Only, Backdoor Deal’s in the Dead of Night, that Usurps our Rights, And Does, “Nothing for the Bill of Rights” Nor the “Constitutional Rights” and/or “Civil Liberties” of the People.
Your Presumptive, and Unethical Behavior is appalling at the Least and Treasonous to the Constitution and The People, at the Most.
This Administration,
with the Chicago MOB Mentality and;
UN-Constitutional “Czar’s” who have been running rough shod over “OUR RIGHTS” Have, made the Biggest Mistake in History;
THAT You Believe “WE THE PEOPLE” have Short Memories and Want only a FREE Handout.
FOR MYSELF, All of My Neighbors, and Your Constituents, as well as My Family and Friend’s, with Member’s of our Congregation of My Church and Pastor Who Now, Call for the Repeal of this Travesty, The President is signing today!
The Constitution and Bill of Rights Guarantee’s “freedom of speech” "FREEDOM OF RELIGION" “Freedom of Assembly” and, “Freedom of the Press”.
Who will be the First to go to Jail for your Selective Arrogance and Unconstitutional Action to Abridge or Rights?
I Hope to God, Sir it will be YOU!
For Treason to the Constitution! And The Usurpation of Authority You Do Not Have!
“WE THE PEOPLE” Resolve to Take Back our Authority and States Right’s!
As well as, our “FREEDOM” FROM:
THIS TYRANICAL ADMINISTRATION, CONGRESS AND SENATE”
So “Here” ; is My Shot Across the Bow of your hate Crimes Bill.
You Do Not have the Constitutional Right to Abridge Mine to Satisfy, your Political Agenda!
Your Tenure, and Your Letter of Resignation WILL BE REQUESTED and is Due ;
Will/You or Nill/You, come November 2010.
LET'S "ALL" BE ADULT'S ABOUT THIS. WHY NOT JUST RESIGN BEFORE, YOU ARE IMPEACHED?
Blackwatch| 10.29.09 @ 1:09AM
Resign, resign, resign..or we will remove you from office.
I'm a Blackrifle 556 "voter" if it comes to it.
Bydand76| 10.29.09 @ 4:00AM
Yes Sir!,
My Springfield 44 is nice and clean in its SERPA.
Hey are you Scottish, Scots-Irish maybe, Blackwatch?
Blackwatch| 10.29.09 @ 12:36PM
aye laddie!
scot,welsh, norweigian, and the rest is a blur of German, Irish and English.
cooperscopy | 10.28.09 @ 9:49PM
I think an upset is in the making, and the republican hierarchy is prime for a major smack down. Thank God that conservatives are conservatives first and Republicans second if at all..Read: Sarah Palin takes a shot across the bow of the U.S.S. GOP...at...http://cooperscopy.blogspot.com/
jharp| 10.28.09 @ 10:31PM
I almost want the teabagger to win.
Just for the sake that it's another nail in the coffin of the GOP.
And let's be real. If Hoffman can win you've gotta nominate Palin. And that will be tons of fun.
Maybe Palin/Bachman? Anyone?
Ahhhh. Good times ahead.
Blackwatch| 10.29.09 @ 1:19AM
Jharp,
It coarsening of the public discourse that is ruining this country. So if you want to go that route two or more can play.
You might get what you are spoiling for--"fun times ahead" might just include upheavel of your lifestyle. Without the conservative patriots to defend this country your party will surrender to satan before Ramadan. If you have an education at all you will have surely noticed their is no fight left in Europe. Only the Brits can produce a soldier who doesn't need weekends off-- but the Jihadi's are already breeding like vermin on their shores. The UK will be Islamic in two generations. In America little shi*ts like you will be the bithches of every young jihadi. They love gay sex--why do you think they keep their women covered up and leave them at home. They have a saying "Boys for fun, A wife for children" You'll be tagbagging before you know it Jharp. How you have tons of fun before they slit your throat.
Long live the Republic!!
Say aahhhh---your the only teabagge here you vermin.
Bydand76| 10.29.09 @ 3:40AM
What are you going to do when they win jharp?
A Palin/Bachman ticket would destroy the Ameoba and his squinty face ratboy Bi-den!
I for one would LOVE to see that ticket.
They are both awesome people and stellar conservatives!
"For Whom the bell tolls?"
The death of the Liberal Aristocracy and the Marxist agenda. It will not come soon enough!
Go Hoffman!
Go Phillies!
Go BRONCO"S!!!
oops.. sorry..I got carried away with the sports stuff!
Ronald Reagan| 10.30.09 @ 7:08PM
Sure you'd love to see that ticket.
Something about bimbos like Palin and Bachmann getting pummeled probably excites your moral bone.
LOL
Ronald Reagan| 10.30.09 @ 7:00PM
Only in the "conservative mind" is a mother of an unwed teen parading her pregnancy on stage considered an example of morals
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Sue| 10.29.09 @ 12:11AM
Republican POLITICIANS are no longer Republicans but somewhat moderate Democrats who believe in spending as much as possible if it will make THEM $. It's time to turn to another party that works for the people. It's certainly not the Democrats, altho they say they're for the people.
Marc| 10.29.09 @ 12:37AM
Go Hoffman GO. This will be a lesson to Obama that we are all fet up with his socialist agenda
Joe SIXX PACK| 10.29.09 @ 1:19AM
Go Hoff!
Ronald Reagan| 10.30.09 @ 7:09PM
http://washingtonindependent.c.....or-economy
Even the idiot Republicans know better.
The teabaggers on the other hand want Palin-Bachmann
DJ| 10.29.09 @ 1:23AM
If Hoffman can win this in NY....I might run as "conservative" in 2010. Since O took office, and I lost my job, I have been watching my country fall off a cliff more and more by the day. I'm FED UP too, and have been to tea parties. This is exactly what this country needs....common folk people, with common sense, and moral values to get into the government to turn this country around. A Hoffman victory would be a huge encouragement to all conservatives around the nation...all 40% of us.
Blackwatch| 10.29.09 @ 2:02AM
DJ
Go for it! Commonsense is no longer common, so you will need to be a leader. I suggest you study Reagan. His life story is amazing. That man was a born leader. He wrote an amazing amount of great speeches. Don't be fooled by the traitors in the Democrat Media--They dispised his moral clarity and his ability to connect with the masses. Reagan was no ones fool---ask Gorby!
Ronald Reagan is without a doubt the greatest President since Lincoln and you would do well to emulate his philosophy.
Long Live the Republic!!
David| 10.29.09 @ 2:20AM
No Tom in Minnesota they only find ballots in the trunks of cars after the election and in time for the recount. Living in Maine on the the border of NH, I know of libs that have voted in ME, NH and Mass on election day. Lets have them register on voting day...No fraud there.
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Sunnyr| 10.29.09 @ 5:09AM
Good Luck, Mr. Hoffman. We need people with good conservative values and common sense in Congress in order to take back our country from the greedy special interest groups. I'm rooting for you.
Dave| 10.29.09 @ 5:16AM
Newt and Steele are part of the current problem. Back in 1994, we threw out Tom Foley from the Spokane WA area. Foley was the speaker of the house.
He was replaced by George Nethercutt. George was not our first choice but the true conservative lost in the primary. The whole sales pitch to us was that a true conservative could not get elected. George said once he got elected that he would vote more conservative than he ran. It is total BS! George turned out to be a liar. He is as bad as Lindsay Grahm who was part of the class of 94. We supported him that same year through the Madision project. Another moderate who is enough to make you vomit half the time. He needs to go as well. If we all keep spreading the message we can win this battle. None of us thought that we could unseat the speaker of the house. But we did. I think the timing is better now than back in 94. If we all work hard and keep the pressure on the moderates within the party, it can be changed.
We quit giving to the RNC 8 years ago. We emailed Steele earlier this year and said if they would run conservative canadiates without shame, that we would support them. Look at what they are doing. It is amazing that they would run ads against a true conservative! To h-ll with the RNC. I agree with an earlier post. If they were smart, they would tell the liberal to step down and get behind Hoffman. They could save face and then start the rebuilding of the RNC. But I do not think they are smart enough to do so. We need to stand behind all of the conservatives who have came out in support of Hoffman and get them into the leadership of the RNC. Do not give a dime to the RNC until they earn our respect by their actions. Only then will the Republican party be worth fighting for.
Sincerely,
Dave W
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Campbell| 10.29.09 @ 7:53AM
The Democratic Party has become the party of gimme, gimme. To stay in power those in Congress have to keep trying to keep the unsaitable satisfied. It is not possible and in the process they are going to bankrupt our country. According to Moody who gives us our AAA rating, we are 3-5 years away---that is without this new huge government entitlement that they are now craming down our throats. God bless us all.
Derek Leaberry| 10.29.09 @ 8:58AM
Mr. Hoffman probably cost himself a decent chance for the seat by wimping out on a debate last night with his two competitors.
Lykos| 10.29.09 @ 9:20AM
TOM You're my hero. Illinois is a corrupt state with corrupt elections???? WOW. Ok now let's follow that train of thought. Who is our president???? Where is he from???? Thank you Tom.
Panhandler| 10.29.09 @ 9:51AM
The Illinois political machine is just a bunch of gangsters...this is evidenced by how the WH is doing business. It is just a matter of time before they break out the concrete shoes. I firmly hope Hoffman kicks butt next week. Thank goodness for the James & Hannah "pimp and hooker" tour, or ACORN would make a travesty of NY23 as well. I heard and met Marco Rubio, the Senate candidate for FL - he is a true constitutional conservative as well, and needs everyone's help to take down Charlies Crist and his political machine. Hoffman will be the start of the Conservative comeback, but we all have a lot of work to do.
Lonnie Spivak | 10.29.09 @ 10:18AM
I can relate with Doug Hoffman. I too am a Conservative running as a Republican in the 2010 election against Jim Cooper, In Tennessee's 5th District. Earlier this year I was alarmed and disgusted with what I had seen in Washington. I joined thousands of people who believed like me, and participated in what would eventually be a national movement called the Tea Parties. It was an amazing sight to see tens of thousands of people in the War Memorial Plaza, in Nashville. All walks of life, all with one common goal, joining together to tell our government representatives ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. To call them to task for their irresponsible behavior and to show the government that it is STILL OUR GOVERNMENT.
I was so inspired by the tenacity and determination of that day that I decided to extend a vision of smaller government. A government that is ultimately accountable to the people, and a belief that Abraham Lincoln and I share — a belief “that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth!”
I spent time trying to convince my wife that going into politics was a good idea, but once she agreed I became a conservative candidate for Congress. I look forward to the campaign and spreading my conservative message, but most of all I look forward to meeting so many great Tennesseans.
I was so inspired by the tenacity and determination of that day that I decided to extend a vision of smaller government. A government that is ultimately accountable to the people, and a belief that Abraham Lincoln and I share — a belief “that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth!”
I spent time trying to convince my wife that going into politics was a good idea, but once she agreed I became a conservative candidate for congress. I look forward to the campaign and spreading the conservative message, but most of all I look forward to meeting so many great Tennesseans.
Karin| 10.29.09 @ 2:43PM
Sil Johnson @ 1:57: I'm in the 23rd, and I'll be there!
What a ton of comments, this is great! As for the first comment, I don't anticipate it. We don't have the ACORN taint here: Too many cows, too many people with guns, too much wilderness, frankly. And, people who know right from wrong and who know all about ACORN and aren't playing that.
Bob| 10.29.09 @ 4:17PM
I took the 1000th RNC pole/contibution solicitation letter I recieved and instead of throwing it out, I filled it out, answered all the questions and on the last page I maked the box pledging to give $100, but instead of a check to the RNC, I enclosed a photocopy of the $100 check I wrote to Doug Hoffman for Congress Champane (with account # redacted)! It felt good! I hope they pay attention.
Lucy| 10.29.09 @ 4:52PM
Right on Bob.. I sent my donation to Hoffman with a 9.12 on the end.. Just letting him know I'm one of those 9/12 "mobsters" that visited DC..
Win or lose, it will be a shot across the bow for the Republican Party !!! I figure the other 2 canidates are one & the same, so what the HEY ....
Richard Baker| 10.29.09 @ 7:19PM
Bydand76:
Do you ever get the impression that these liberal fools don't understand that they are supporting their own destruction? An amazing phenomenon, to be sure.
Ronald Reagan| 10.30.09 @ 7:13PM
These liberal fools still have the likes of you tea-baggers beat.
At least they do know that they are in charge.
58 seats in the Senate, control of the WH, 250+ in HoR
What do the teabaggers have?
Palin. LOL
Bachmann LOLOLOLOLOL
Michael Steeles ROFLMAO
Orly Taitz LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Beck HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
Rush HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE
Longtime NYer| 10.30.09 @ 1:07PM
Robert, maybe you can answer a lifelong question for me. I was born in NY State, lived in the Hudson Valley, Bighamton, Rochester and Syracuse. I keep hearing about this place called "Upstate" but can't seem to find it on a map. No one in any of those communities ever used that term and they didn't know where it was either.
Is it near Watertown? Or maybe Plattsburgh? I know there is a sign on the GW Bridge going into Manhattan pointing towards Yokers. Surely THAT can't be Upstate, can it?
Sure hope you can help!
Lullaby's, Legends and Lies| 10.30.09 @ 3:27PM
NYer: To answer your question, well there's the five boroughs of NYC, and then there is Upstate New York. But if you take the City of Yonkers into consideration, being that it's hard to tell where the Bronx ends, and Yonkers begins, then maybe Upstate New York starts about halfway through Westchester County. Does that help?
GOPNYC| 10.30.09 @ 6:39PM
Longtime NYer --- Longtime resident of the Southern Tier only learned where "upstate" was when I moved to Manhattan 30 years ago.
Here in Manhattan, "Upstate" is Westchester County. The rest of New York State doesn't exist -- at least in these peoples' minds. LOL.
Hard to believe RNCC screwed the pooch so thoroughly on an open seat that should have been a ready win. This is NOT the year for somebody that's a career politician OR for somebody whose only political experience is in -- God forbid --- ALBANY!!!
The RNCC took somebody from the only certifiable Banana Republic legislature in North America and asked the voters to give her a promotion to Congress!
Real genius, guys...
Has anybody talked to her about withdrawing???
George| 10.30.09 @ 6:46PM
Michelle Malkin is a cross-eyed paranoid maniac!
Ronald Reagan| 10.30.09 @ 7:10PM
Nah, she's an ugly version of Michelle Bachmann.
Nick| 10.31.09 @ 1:14AM
Go put on your tights and ballet dance into traffic, Ron jr.
Richard Baker| 10.30.09 @ 11:17PM
George/Ronald Reagan:
Whatsa matter, boys? Can't reason with the girl? Scared to try?
Mothermary| 10.30.09 @ 11:29PM
Not as ugly as the Coultergeist.
I hope all the Conservatives here are ready to give up their socialist roads and socialist schools and socialist state universities when all their conservative wishes come true. And they better give up their socialist SS checks and Medicare Part D if they are retired already. I'm tired of carrying their sorry butts around with my taxes.
Just joking. Some things are better done for the people, by the people, like the preamble says.
Hilary| 10.31.09 @ 12:02AM
I can't wait for conservative utopia to get here.
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