For the left to spin the Scozzafava meltdown as a sign of Republicans making moderates feel unwelcome in the party, they must ignore several facts about her nomination and the support she received from local and national units of the GOP. After county GOP chairs in upstate New York tapped the liberal Assemblywoman as the Republican candidate, the RNC and NRCC readily rallied to her cause, sending in money to the campaign and staffers to the districtsd.
The GOP sunk nearly one million smackers into her campaign coffers.
So, clearly the party establishment was really to rally round a “moderate.” It’s the grassroots that revolted.
But, would the grassroots have revolted had Ms. Scozzafava been a “moderate” of the Giuliani school, liberal on social issues, conservative on fiscal and national security ones? Or, how would a Cheney-like candidate have fared, conservative on all issues, but gay ones?
Having followed the tea party movement and participated in some of its rallies, I believe we’d be looking at an entirely different race today had Dede Scozzafava been a “moderate” of the Giuliani-Cheney school. Had she embraced the ideas of the tea party protests and stood strong against the spendthrift “so-called stimulus,” the tea party activists wouldn’t have protested her candidacy.
As I’ve said before, it’s the federal spending, stupid.
You know I was a pretty regular dependable donor to the Republicans until they nominated John McCain. Then I just couldn’t justify it anymore.
The fact that the RNC or whoever flushed ONE MILLION dollars down the drain with Dede is unacceptable. And I’m glad none of it was my money. It is far better to donate to individual candidates that we as conservatives like instead of donating to the rotten party if this is how they continue to pee it away.
The mainstream media spin machine, moderates and liberals take note: the grassroots will explain it all to you. It is the Constitution, integrity and the spending, stupid!
How interesting that the Pelosi Health Circus is “funded” in part by enormous cuts in waste in Medicare and Medicaid, BUT the Obamamessiah has not even named a person to head Medicare and Medicaid. I guess those wasters will just line up at the edge of the cliff when Obama whistles for them to take the leap. Or, just maybe, the government will forget about the waste and fraud and open the gates wide for an onslaught of new waste and fraud instead. Remind me to ask the Cheshire Cat about what is going on.
Sorry – Cheney, much as I admire his work on our national security, was not a conservative on fiscal issues.
#2 interesting……When Obama sits for any interview now you’d think any “journalist” would begin by saying you’ve been in office now ____months how much waste fraud and abuse have you saved in Medicaid and Medicare? Obama said there was what? 600 Billion there for the taking. Only fools believe they’d actually go after it. Boobs.
I have grave reservations about ‘conservative’ candidates like Hoffman due to his rejection of the Republican “big tent”. His “Republicanism” appears to be primarilly that of the small-tent Social-Right Christiansts with a shallow veneer of small-government fiscal responsibility.
Ted, just vote for Christie today and we’ll discuss Hoffman tomorrow. 🙂