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New York faux-Republican congressional can't-idate Dede Scozzafava takes a double-hit today, one from the Washington Times, another from the Wall Street Journal. Also taking a hit from the Times are the milkweed "leaders" of the congressional GOP, past and present, who back Scozzafava. And now it turns out that Weekly Standard reporter John McCormack, all but accused of being a stalker by the Scuzzy-fava campaign, had a tape recorder going during the polite questioning for which the Scuzzies sicced the police on him -- and, lo and behold, he never once yelled at the candidate, forcing a retraction from her smear-job-specialist/press aide. Just as a simple, objective observation having nothing to do with who should or should not win that special election, it's safe and fair to say that Ms. Scozzafava has had two extremely, amazingly, incontrovertibly awful days. For that matter, so have Pete Sessions and the NRCC gang who can't shoot straight and who have wasted tens of thousands of dollars of ad money attacking the Conservative candidate, Doug Hoffman, rather than attacking the Democrat, whatshisname Owens, all on behalf of a candidate so far out of the Republican mainstream that she is to the left of Owens and whose dealings with respected conservative media are decidedly gauche.

UPDATE: National Review's editors weighed in as well.

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Tim| 10.21.09 @ 11:02AM

This race really captures the brain dead nature of today's GOP.

Joseph Brown| 10.21.09 @ 11:44AM

The Republicans are almost being handed the elections and they can't seem to stop stepping on their manhood to reach them!
Geez, will these people ever wake up?

tj| 10.21.09 @ 11:48AM

VOTE EM ALL OUT 2010/2012

martin j smith| 10.21.09 @ 11:55AM

Is the fix in for Republic Leadership-Where are they on Obama Care as the Dems meet in closed door ? I mean--don't barge in but lets hear bit of noise ? You know--opposition !!!!

SoCon| 10.21.09 @ 2:26PM

Gingrich is a skunk, too.

Joel Raupe| 10.21.09 @ 8:36PM

With regard to the circular firing squad on the ground in New York's 22nd, has anyone ventured a guess as to the thinking behind the decision, apparently by Washington's Great GOP Thinkers, to back this candidate? Is it just a case of Rockefeller v. Goldwater, or is it a matter of having recruited a candidate who surfaced and was willing, perhaps after much fruitless work, and now a matter of staying loyal?

Is this a true microcosm of the Bright Shinning Line within GOP ranks or is it a poor situation whose course has been set and cannot now be changed?