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By W. James Antle, III on 4.1.09 @ 12:51AM

Wake me when the Republican Party can handle something in an even remotely competent fashion. I imagine New York's 20th congressional district will no longer exist by the time I have to hit the snooze button the first time.

UPDATE: For those who don't get what I'm bellyaching about, I'm referring to the Republicans blowing a 16-point lead in New York's 20th congressional district. I'm also not sure that being too moderate or too conservative was the biggest problem in a race where the Republican candidate was a career politician who didn't live in the district, took almost a month to take a position on the stimulus package, and then campaigned like it was 2002. Tedisco could still pull it out from the absentee ballots and Republicans are going to point to how much better he did than Gillibrand's 2008 challenger, but it really shouldn't be this close.

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Heather| 4.1.09 @ 1:21AM

Nice slam. What did they do now? It would be nice if you'd 'splain it to us.

Jack Bauer| 4.1.09 @ 5:40AM

Echoing Heather... no point complaining about competence if you don't tell us what you're talking about and offer a link that takes us to a site with another link for the "whole story" that brings us back here.

CS Lewis| 4.1.09 @ 7:44AM

Most likely the RINO didn't do anything. That's the point. Nothing to report.
Take for instance Mr. Steele. We ought to name him the silent man. Leader of the silent band of do nothings. We are now a party of RINO's.

Mike Steele| 4.1.09 @ 8:16AM

Hey, this was upstate NY, not a fair test of the power of my new hip hop strategery. Its gonna be off 'da hook, bay-be!

Ran| 4.1.09 @ 8:19AM

Mr. Antle,
Thanks, but what a lousy way to start the day.

Heather

Jack

70,000 registration advantage GOP and the vote tally is... negative? Looks to me as if we trotted-out another RINO and the troops stayed home. Again.

I could be wrong - Maybe Tedisco is a solid Conservative with an incompetent Republican machine. Again.

Maybe ACORN stole votes and the local Republican machine let it happen. Again.

Perhaps military absentee votes will get tossed because of Republican weakness. Again.

Combination of the above. Again?

Where's the coffee?

Bob| 4.1.09 @ 9:35AM

Let's see, Tedisco was endorsed by the Conservative Party, right to life organizations, and the gun lobby. This is a good example of what happens when Republicans DON'T run a RINO. You guys are in a state of denial. This election shows that RINO's like me will vote for a Democrat if the candidate is too far to the right and lacks any new ideas. If Republicans want to win, you need us or you will continue to lose.