Fun races for conservatives to watch
Four races for optimistic conservatives to watch nationally: The most interesting of the lot has to be New York’s 23rd Congressional District, a special election that has the White House and an assortment of name Republicans vying in a high-stakes battle that both sides hope will define 2010.
At stake is one currently-Republican seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. One minority-party seat is unimportant — except that Republicans alienated conservatives by nominating a candidate, Dede Scozzafava, from the party’s Arlen Specter wing. Republicans hold only 3 of 29 House seats in New York, a number that has been shrinking in the past couple of decades. The Republican incumbent, Rep. John McHugh, was sworn in last month as President Obama’s Secretary of the Army.
In the 23rd district, conservatives prefer Conservative candidate Doug Hoffman to such an extent that Scozzafava concluded that she couldn’t win. So she dropped out, but as a stink-bomb present for conservative Republicans, she capitulated to White House wooing and endorsed Democrat Bill Owens. Polls give Hoffman a slight lead over Owens, but Vice President Joe Biden travelling to upstate New York Monday in hopes of driving a wedge between conservative and moderate Republicans. Said Biden in urging Scozzafava supporters to vote for Owens:
“We’re not asking you to switch parties. We’re just saying ‘join us in teaching a lesson to absolutists who come and tell us that no dissent is permitted within their own party.’” This is, of course, the Vice President nominated by the party of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, a party filled with full, open and honest debate on the merits of legislation to radically alter the national health care system and an assortment of other revolutionary proposals.
In any event, New York’s 23rd is one to watch. If conservatives pull that one off in New York State, it’ll send a strong message to Congress that the country’s not buying the leadership’s radical agenda.
Other races to watch are gubernatorial contests in New Jersey and Virginia. Both should be Democratic wins, but Republican upsets — very likely in Virginia — would, likewise, fire up Republican efforts to recruit strong candidates in 2010.
The other race to watch, of course, is here in Atlanta where Democrats are choosing among themselves who should lead the city for the next four years. In a truly bizarre twist, State Democrats who presume to represent the interests of the party from Rabun Gap to the Folkston swamps chose to intervene to declare one of the Democrats in a local election to be not their kind. Strange stuff for a state party.
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pat
November 3rd, 2009
8:30 am
I sense a sweep.
Ragnar Danneskjöld
November 3rd, 2009
8:50 am
Good morning all. I dissent with friend pat, the ACORN fix is in in New Jersey, according to John Fund. 18,000 new voter absentee ballots, and county clerks are discouraged from comparing signatures, the only verification permitted.
However, the conservatives will do well in the honest elections.
Chris Broe
November 3rd, 2009
9:16 am
The only reason the GOP has a chance in any of these elections is because voters want crackers with their free government cheese.
jconservative
November 3rd, 2009
9:26 am
Those who read my comments know I love political history & facts more than opinion. Having said that – look at the Virginia governors race today.
McDonnell will win today – Republican candidate – Democratic President.
This will the ninth straight Virginia governors race in which the winner was of the opposite party of the incumbent in the White House. You must go back to Godwin(R) elected in 1974 while Ford was in the White House to break the string.
Why? Speculation is that a huge percentage of the Federal bureaucracy live in Northern Virginia & they swing between Republican & Democrat by using the opportunity to take it out on their boss. Speculation only.
Interesting political fact.
clyde
November 3rd, 2009
11:54 am
Strange politics in New York,Jim.Politicians do indeed make strange bedfellows.The message that it’s either conservative or nothing may backfire.
TRUTH
November 3rd, 2009
11:57 am
Yep, Jim I think you’re sayin’ the GOP line, jeest about right. If you ain’t a with us, then you’re agin us!! With that lil’ lady in New York a turnin’ on them conservatives and rallyin’ all moderates Reepubligins to vote Deemocrat. What in the world is she a thinkin’? She wusn’t conservateeve enuff!! She wernt wearing her Conseervateeve properly, is what it was. Any God fearin’ conservateeve knows that you have to believe in Rush, Hannity, and tha’ Woo-man in order to be deemed CONSERVATEEVE!! Now that’s the Hillbilly Trinity!! To hell with a party full of naysayers and no plan. Heck no!! We wants us some politeecians that follow the rules as set forth in the book of Limbaugh! Dagnabit!! Do what the folks with all the money sez do. Heck, you won’t have no trouble if’n you do what you’re told!! The real reason we’ve run from the Reepubligan Party is cuz’ they ain’t mad enuff to start wearin’ them tin foil hats that FreedomWorks and Faux News done give em’. They let them thar Liberuls win an election we shulda just flat stole. Now these Liberuls and the rest of them that put them Eeelected Liberuls in office is a sayin’ they want healthcare refurm, a logical end to the wars that our boy Dubya kicked up cuz we needed to go an bomb sumthin’, they even want to control the dag blasted economy and put people back to work??!! What in the tarnation is these Liberuls doin’ to our kuntry? I kinda like bein’ the meanest bull on the block!! That’s why we conservateeves has gots to stick together. All 20% (I often wondered when I wuz goin’ to be a using that that funny symbol I lernt in boys computer class I seent on the TV when we was watching that genius Jerry Spranger). (I once seent it durin’ a Booby Gindol speech on the talkin’ box). But back to my lil’ discussion, Once we get our boys back in office, we then gotta get that gal who quit that Gubnor job in Alaska (y’all know that place next to that boy Putin’s house). She’ll get in there a whip them thar Liberuls inta shape. If they don’t do right, heck we can drop there butts in all that tea we a drankin’. (Be glad to git rid of that tea too, gits in the way of the Pabst Blue Ribbon). Sides, what good natured Conservateeve wants to drank tea when we’s a watchin’ the NASCAR race on Sunday after church.
You doin’ a great job Jim. Just keep on tellin’ us bout these rascals. I’mma keep my eyes (the one of em’ them Liberuls ain’t got yet) fixated. They seem like they got a plan, but we know, we’all don’t need know stinkin’ plan.
Y’all be good now, hear?
Mr T
November 3rd, 2009
12:12 pm
Hey Jim, I see you got your Limbaaugh/Hannity talking points today! Keep up the purge! It making it easier for we in the middle with brains!
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Pink-toe
November 3rd, 2009
12:23 pm
You knuckle draggers would blame the floods a few weeks ago on The President if you could get away with it…wouldn’t you???
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Paul A
November 3rd, 2009
1:19 pm
It’s interesting….. all the wacky, moonbat, liberals are on Jay’s blog talking about how the elections tonight are unimportant. Hee, Hee……..
2010 can’t get here fast enough.
When Pelosi gets her office moved down into the cold, drafty basement of the US Capitol it will be a great day for this nation.
“Wahhhhhhhhhhhhh”, cried the liberal democrat !
Thinking
November 3rd, 2009
1:24 pm
So you’re saying Ga Democrats believe Mary Norwood is not their own, but the candidate that was nominated by her local Republican Board members is from the ‘Arlen Spector wing’ of your party? Man you’re a hypocrite.
This was a stink-bomb of an article. No wonder only 10 people commented on it.
Common Sense
November 3rd, 2009
2:27 pm
“Too late for the ballot box; too early for the revolution.”
Aquagirl
November 3rd, 2009
3:19 pm
I’m not conservative, but I’m also enjoying the race in New York’s 23rd district. Yes, seeing Republican wingnuts marginalize themselves is entertainment at its finest.
clyde
November 4th, 2009
4:40 am
Well Jim,The conservative got the Democrat elected in New York.But better to have a Democrat than a moderate Republican,right?
Pdiddy
November 4th, 2009
8:38 am
No Aquagirl, what’s funny is watching Libtards say this sweep of two Democrat states by the GOP on governor races means nothing because “problems already existed.” Oh yeah? Wait until you see the “problems” the Pelosicrats and Obama “already existed” in 2010.
Pdiddy
November 4th, 2009
8:39 am
“But better to have a Democrat than a moderate Republican, right?”
What’s the difference, clyde, if said “moderate” Republican votes 60-80% of the time with Democrats?
Daedalus
November 4th, 2009
9:52 am
Hey Paul and Ragnar –looks like the Fox News choice lost in upstate in New York. That seat hasn’t gone toa dem since 1852.
Maybe people are tired of both the hard-right and hard-left agendas. The GOP candidates that won in Jersey and Virginia ran more moderate campaigns — too bad that will never happen in Georgia. I guess the GOP in Georgia feels that it doesn’t need moderates. They are counting on Wingnuts like you, and Jim.
retiredds
November 4th, 2009
12:35 pm
Jim, I am hoping that Sarah, Glenn, Rush, and the RNC continue to support far right candidates in future elections. The result (a loss) is very pleasing to this voter.
retiredds
November 4th, 2009
1:28 pm
TRUTH, great reply to Jim’s magical thinking piece.
Robert Littel
December 8th, 2009
9:54 am
Once the Republican Party can finally purge all those who aren’t sufficiently Right-wing enough, their next national convention will be able to be held at the Ramada Inn, out by the airport, in Boise, Idaho. If they can guarantee a 3/4 capacity booking, maybe they will give them the complimentary continental breakfast too.