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.
