Doug
Hoffman today got the official endorsement of former House
Majority Leader Dick Armey and likened his congressional campaign
to the U.S. hockey team's upset victory in the 1980 Winter
Olympics.
"Let's go back to Lake Placid," said Hoffman, who worked as a
financial officer for the Olympiad near his hometown of Saranac
Lake. "We're going to create a miracle on Nov. 3. . . . That
miracle starts today."
After weeks of a low-profile campaign in the upstate 23rd
District special election, suddenly national media attention is
focused on the race. Liberal Republican candidate Dede Scozzafava
appears to be in meltdown mode and Hoffman is now riding a
"tsunami" of momentum, one campaign source confided this morning.
"This is a race between the conservative and the Democrat,"
Armey, now chairman
of Freedomworks, said in his speech endorsing Hoffman. A
standing-room-only crowd of supporters repeatedly interrupted
with chants of "Go, Doug, Go."
While Scozzafava has the endorsement of Armey's former
congressional colleague Newt Gingrich and the support of the
national GOP, grassroots volunteers from the Tea Party
movement have bouyed the campaign of Hoffman, running on the
Conservative Party line.
"The Republican candidate can't win," Armey declared, saying that
Gingrich "made the wrong choice" in backing Scozzafava, a New
York state assemblywoman whose record puts her to the left
of most Democrats here in this largely rural district, where
Republican Rep. John McHugh routinely won re-election with 2-to-1
margins.
Clearly the secret of Hoffman's surge has been his strong support
from grassroots activists, many of whom have never been involved
in a political campaign before.
"I've always said that hard work beats Daddy's money," Armey told
supporters here at Hoffman's storefront local office, on Court
Street between a trophy shop and a pub. "We're going to have to
outwork the other guys."
UPDATE(12:15): According to a
Hoffman campaign source, Beck's producers have canceled the
scheduled appearance by the candidate on the 5 PM Fox News
Channel program. However, Beck is expected to discuss the NY-23
election during the show.
Thanks for the correction, Don. During my 21 years in the
newspaper business, there were copy editors to catch my typos. In
the blogosphere, we have commenters doing the same job!
There had never been fascists in America I thought, or, at least,
mobs were not affecting national politics. Now this republican
mob is rising almost like from the darkest pages of history,
after the 1929 Krach aftermath in Europe.
They have similar characteristics: whoever does not follow their
ideology is dispised and must be destroyed (politically for now).
They hate everything and everyone: the government, the unions,
the mexicans, the blacks, the young, the very bad liberals, the
gays, the pro-abortion, Obama the New Brutal Dictator (I am so
scared)... Science also is bad since it does not follow their
Book literally. They need to have people ignorant to be
vulnerable and powerless.
They are very similar to the muslim fundamentalists or the
Talibans that they also hate: they want to move us back to the
Dark Ages, where only one system of dogmatic thought and law was
permitted - that's what they call "freedom"! But this is an
ideology of slavery, fascism, of intolerance for all things and
people who don't fit into their little frames of life.
I will fight against this mob with all my power.
This is not America, this is Hate.
Eleanor| 11.8.09 @ 4:58PM
I totally agree with you. Gore Vidal gave an interview where eh
said people's notions of conservatives as benign is way off the
mark -- they are Fascists. They really are.
The rest of the world is scared of these people; no wonder they
gave Obama the Nobel
Eleanor| 11.8.09 @ 4:49PM
Reading this almost a week after Hoffman lost just adds to the
patheticness of the "surge" you write about. The far right is not
going to take over the country, much to your dismay. Open your
hearts and move to the center if you want to get back in power.
The Repubs lost so badly b/c you are the party of stupid white
men and rich people. Duh. The only reason you won the
governorships of NY and VA is b/c your people were up against
weak candidates.
pamela| 4.23.10 @ 2:04AM
I totally agree with you. Gore Vidal gave an interview where eh
said people's notions of conservatives as benign is way off the
mark -- they are Fascists. They really are.
Download lil wayne mp3
pricila| 4.24.10 @ 9:10AM
100 times out of 100 you will be waved in, and for good measure
you might actually ask a few people happening by if they "have
seen this man" (flash picture). online fax
don| 10.22.09 @ 12:38PM
You might want to correct the sentence stating that Newt is backing Doug Hoffman - he is actually backing DEDE
Robert Stacy McCain| 10.22.09 @ 1:03PM
Thanks for the correction, Don. During my 21 years in the newspaper business, there were copy editors to catch my typos. In the blogosphere, we have commenters doing the same job!
datechguy| 10.22.09 @ 1:24PM
As a rule roots don't get washed away if thing turn bad.
From what you have seen so far have we been seeing any kind of astroturf to support Dede?
And second question, is the democratic candidate focusing his attacks on Hoffman at all? That would be the surest sign he is surging.
AJsDaddie| 10.22.09 @ 1:24PM
Why did Beck cancel?
SoCon| 10.22.09 @ 3:03PM
Did the RNC get to Beck? I thought he had more cojones than that.
Tim| 10.22.09 @ 3:33PM
Newt hasn't managed a good call since 1995.
Bob Belvedere| 10.22.09 @ 7:12PM
Quoted from and linked to at:
23 SKIDOO II
KansasGirl| 10.22.09 @ 9:21PM
The tide is turning. Go Conservatives!
Paul| 10.31.09 @ 8:48PM
There had never been fascists in America I thought, or, at least, mobs were not affecting national politics. Now this republican mob is rising almost like from the darkest pages of history, after the 1929 Krach aftermath in Europe.
They have similar characteristics: whoever does not follow their ideology is dispised and must be destroyed (politically for now). They hate everything and everyone: the government, the unions, the mexicans, the blacks, the young, the very bad liberals, the gays, the pro-abortion, Obama the New Brutal Dictator (I am so scared)... Science also is bad since it does not follow their Book literally. They need to have people ignorant to be vulnerable and powerless.
They are very similar to the muslim fundamentalists or the Talibans that they also hate: they want to move us back to the Dark Ages, where only one system of dogmatic thought and law was permitted - that's what they call "freedom"! But this is an ideology of slavery, fascism, of intolerance for all things and people who don't fit into their little frames of life.
I will fight against this mob with all my power.
This is not America, this is Hate.
Eleanor| 11.8.09 @ 4:58PM
I totally agree with you. Gore Vidal gave an interview where eh said people's notions of conservatives as benign is way off the mark -- they are Fascists. They really are.
Gore Vidal interview
http://women.timesonline.co.uk.....854221.ece
IPS news service tracking rise of Neocons in American since 9/11:
http://www.ipsnews.net/new_foc...../index.asp
The rest of the world is scared of these people; no wonder they gave Obama the Nobel
Eleanor| 11.8.09 @ 4:49PM
Reading this almost a week after Hoffman lost just adds to the patheticness of the "surge" you write about. The far right is not going to take over the country, much to your dismay. Open your hearts and move to the center if you want to get back in power. The Repubs lost so badly b/c you are the party of stupid white men and rich people. Duh. The only reason you won the governorships of NY and VA is b/c your people were up against weak candidates.
pamela| 4.23.10 @ 2:04AM
I totally agree with you. Gore Vidal gave an interview where eh said people's notions of conservatives as benign is way off the mark -- they are Fascists. They really are. Download lil wayne mp3
pricila| 4.24.10 @ 9:10AM
100 times out of 100 you will be waved in, and for good measure you might actually ask a few people happening by if they "have seen this man" (flash picture). online fax
mili8951| 5.10.10 @ 2:04AM
http://www.edhardycawholesale.com/