AP (or Yahoo!) editors seem to have pulled their headline for an article on Dede Scozzfava’s withdrawal from the special election in New York’s 23rd congressional district from a left-wing blog: “Future of GOP and moderate Republicans uncertain,” with “reporter” Valerie Bauman asking in the first paragraph, “Are moderates welcome in today’s Grand Old Party?”
Note what Ms. Bauman leaves out in the list of issues which caused rank-and-file Republicans to turn on the eventual turncoat:
During the campaign [Scozzafava] failed to connect with voters, party officials or, perhaps most important, campaign donors, largely because of her support for abortion rights, same-sex marriage and union rights. That opened the door for Hoffman, who took every opportunity to remind people that Scozzafava was not the kind of Republican they wanted representing their interests in a Democratic-led Congress.
Not once does she mention the “stimulus” and reduces the issue “card check” to “union rights.” Seems like someone is trying to make the Conservative candidate appear a bit troglodytic. Nowhere does this “reporter” provide any evidence of Ms. Scozzafava’s record in the New York General Assembly, treating the ex-candidate like a moderate when she voted like a liberal.
Ms. Bauman’s bias shows either a determination to denigrate the conservative candidate or an ignorance of the resonance of the spending issue. Or both. And either reason should disqualify her from securing a job with a news organization concerned about even-handed political coverage.
Was probably spoon-fed to them by the administration. That seems to be the meme they are trying to push. “Radical Republicans” was what Valerie Jarrett called us earlier.
Maoists and Marxists calling Republicans radical! It’s priceless!
The far Left and its MainStreamMedia cheerleaders will, indeed, spin this as “proof” the GOP has fractured and now deeply engaged in an all out ideological war pitting GOP member against GOP member.
I just say, nawh. All politics is local and this is a case where the GOP choice was a bad one. The people who should be standing up and endorsing Hoffman are the GOP leaders who selected Dede in a smoked-filled room. Dede is doo-doo.
She rushed to endorse the Democratic candidate, doesn’t sound like much of a Republican to me.
If (note IF) we’re talking about fiscal issues, the Tea Party set of ideas: Let’s hope not!
(That is: If by “moderate”, one means Big Government types, the kind of people who are horrified by the inspiring fiscal conservatism of the Tea Parties.)
Absolutely moderates are welcome in the Republican party.
The bogus charge that they are not welcome is a straw men set up by the moderates and their allies on the left as they struggle to remain in CONTROL of the Republican party despite having nearly destroyed it.
Yes, moderates are welcome, we are simply telling them that they f*cked everything up and caused us to lose power and they cant be in charge anymore.
Heh 🙂
I’ve never seen a “Fiscal Conservative/Social Moderate” officeholder who wouldn’t- and didn’t, eventually- compromise their fiscal conservatism in order to advance their socail moderateness.
And on the other hand, plenty of social conservatives are “compassionate” fiscal liberals. (Bush. Huckabee.)
Plenty of blame to go round, DaveP. I personally will be looking for fiscal conservatives, period.
No, ILC. the Social Cons who are also fiscal liberals are so rare that they attract a lot of attention. GWB is a case in point- and even at that, his committment to actual conservatism (as opposed to simply reciting the word in front of the camera occasionally) was pretty doubtful: Amnesty, NCLB as implemented, leaving almost a third of Federal judicial appointments unfilled, et cetera.
And you probably should be paying attention to Huckabee’s actual career in office, as opposed to the cardboard cutout that both his supporters and detractors like to prop up. The man’s about as conservative as Bill Clinton; he’s just better at waving a Bible around occasionally. His success in ’08 was a measure of just how disaffected the Social Con base was with the menu of candidates on offer that year.