National Review, the Weekly Standard, al-Associated Press and the Kos Kiddie Day Care Center are all in agreement on something: RINO Dede Scozzafava stepped in a huge pile of dog crap.
Via MKH on Twitter and NRO’s The Corner comes verification that the RINO’s allegations against the Weekly Standard’s John McCormack were blatantly false and thus her reasoning for calling the police after McCormack attempted to interview here was bogus.
The Albany Times-Union confirms after listening to McCormack’s tapes that there was no in-your-face screaming as claimed by Scozzofava.
In the audio recording of the reporter’s questioning played for The Associated Press by McCormack, the reporter didn’t raise his voice, but repeated his unanswered questions several times, including one about abortion.
“I never screamed, I never yelled, I never shouted,” he said. “My voice was only loud enough so she could hear my questions.”
In a statement released Tuesday to the blog Politico, Scozzafava’s campaign said the reporter “repeatedly screamed questions (in-your-face-style),” but later issued a statement deleting the accusation.
What’s more, the RINO’s campaign has been in contact with the liberal blog Talking Points Memo by leaking e-mail correspondence between McCormack and the Scozzafava campaign allegedly indicting the WS reporter.
You can read the e-mail exchange here, but it’s clear that the lying crapweasel serving as Scozzafava’s representative refuses to answer a simple question.
There’s nothing aggressive or unprofessional about McCormack’s line of questioning. A lying crapweasel doesn’t want to answer that question, namely will she support John Boehner for Speaker of the House past 2011, should the Republicans regain control of the House. In other words, the lying crapweasel won’t confirm or deny reports that Scozzafava plans on switching parties a la Arlen Specter.
The Scozzofava campaign thinks this makes the Weekly Standard look unreasonable. But I’ll disagree.
First of all, why leak these emails to a progressive media outlet? If you’re trying to shake off accusations that you are too liberal a Republican, why would you run to TPM (even if TPM initiated the exchange)? Sure, the National Review also hates her campaign, but the Washington Times would’ve likely played along. Weird.
But more importantly, the exchange isn’t as damning as the Scozzofava campaign would have people believe. The question was reasonable — would the candidate pledge to continue supporting Boehner in future years. Given her history, one of the Right’s arguments against her is that she’s a future defection threat, like Arlen Specter. It’s perfectly reasonable to ask her campaign whether she’s committed to the GOP long-term.
Now how hard would it have been for Scozzofava’s guy to say, “Yeah, of course. Now it might not be Boehner, who knows who will run for Republican leader in future years? But she’ll vote for a Republican as long as she serves.” The fact that Burns refused to pledge Scozzofava’s long-term support for the GOP House leader is downright bizarre and — yes — suspicious.
The response is Lieberman-esque, and given her difficulties with her base, it’s particularly inexplicable. And to think that Burns thinks this somehow makes Scozzafava’s campaign look like reasonable actors as opposed to the crazy Weekly Standard is downright bizarre. I don’t know who is closer to the truth with the parking lot altercation episode, but on this email thread, it’s clear that the Weekly Standard is on solid ground.
Jim Geraghty at The Campaign Spot thinks the RNC and NRCC should ask for the money they’ve given to Scozzafava back.
Michelle Malkin calls Scozzafava what she is: a liar. And Robert Stacy McCain explain why not only Scozzafava is likely headed toward a third-place finish, Hoffman may very well win a plurality of the vote and be NY-23′s next House member in spite of the RINO sabotage.
It’s all about turnout. This is a special election, and turnout is traditionally low. It comes down to grassroots organizing, and with the 9/12 Tea Party involvement, rest assured Hoffman supporters will be energized to turn out and vote. Motivation is the key, and the GOP elites in Washington just gave their base a huge motivation factor to turn out and vote against their handpicked candidate. The ol’ finger in the eye — or the One Finger Salute, if you will — tends to get people rather angry.
Turnout will be low and a grassroots conservative pro-life candidate like Hoffman has all the advantages in such a contest. Obama’s 52 percent in 2008 is irrelevant, because (a) that was before the economy sunk out of sight, (b) Obama’s not a candidate in this election, so Owen won’t have the magic coattails of Hope, and (b) Obama was running against John McCain, who was a lot more like Scozzafava than Hoffman.
If the voters of NY23 are in a mad-as-hell, pox-on-both-your-houses mood, Hoffman’s their guy. Take McHugh’s 65% vote in 2008 as a barometer of the basic partisan alignment of the electorate in NY23.
If that vote splits fairly strongly for Hoffman, then the likely outcome will be something on the order of Hoffman 40%, Owen 35% and Scozzafava 25%. But I’m guessing the conservative advantage over the RINOs in terms of “ground game” — elitist pro-choice Republicans can’t match the pro-life Catholic grandmas in terms of walking precincts and manning phone banks — will make the margin even wider.
Here’s an effective being run on Hoffman’s behalf by the Club For Growth:
The blogosphere has really turned up the heat on RINO — Republican In Name Only — Dede Scozzafava in New York’s 23rd congressional district.
To set the stage, Scozzafava was hand-selected by Washington insiders to run as a Republican in a district that hasn’t been won by a Democrat since the 19th century. It’s been held by Republicans since 1871, six years after the end of the Civil War. Ulysses S. Grant was President, halfway through his first term.
Scozzafava is as left-wing as they come. Supports homosexual marriage. Heavily involved with ACORN — the Association of Corrupted Organizations Registering Non-voters (more on that in a bit). Big supporter of Big Labor, including card-check. Yada yada yada. No difference between her and your typical Obama Democrat. None.
Yet she was hand-picked by Republican insiders, completely misreading the political winds in thinking that, in a district the Democrats haven’t won since Reconstruction, they needed to nominate, well, a Democrat to win. She’s heavily backed by the Republican National Committee and the National Republican Congressional Committee, which like its Senate counterpart, couldn’t find its rear end with both hands. She’s been endorsed by the likes of Eric Cantor, the House GOP Whip, and the clueless former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, who’s proving himself to be more and more irrevelant.
Last seen making out with Bela Pelosi on a couch, Gingrich has now invoked the name of Ronald Reagan in order to push a Democrat-in-Republican-clothing:
“If you seek to be a perfect minority, you’ll remain a minority,” says Gingrich. “That’s not how Reagan built his revolution or how we won back the House in 1994.”
Funny, that’s not what I remember about the 1994 Revolution. It centered on the Contract With America. Actually, standing for something. Same with Reagan, who won his two-term mandates by clearly stating his principles and convincing people he was right, not by selling out those principles and blurring the distinctions between the Republicans and the Democrats.
A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.
I do not believe I have proposed anything that is contrary to what has been considered Republican principle. It is at the same time the very basis of conservatism. It is time to reassert that principle and raise it to full view. And if there are those who cannot subscribe to these principles, then let them go their way.
Reagan argued that the claim that the Republican Party needed to broaden its base — the very same position taken by Gingrich — was not the way to win elections. Don’t forget: the state-run media keeps repeating that call, and they clearly do not have the best interests of the GOP at heart.
Here’s more: Scozzafava was a past recipient of the Margaret Sanger Award.
Margaret Sanger. Of Planned Parenthood Barrenhood notoriety. Supporter of eugenics. Supporter of Adolf Hitler and his theory of the master race. Racist. In fact, a racist’s racist.
Don’t know about her? That’s because the state-run media in its zeal to promote abortion doesn’t want you to know the founder of Planned Parenthood Barrenhood supported Hitler and Nazi Germany as well as the attempt to create a master race by eliminating undesirables, especially blacks and Jews.
Here’s a look at one of Hitler’s No. 1 supporters in America:
This is what the national Republican Party, known here not so affectionately as the Stupid Party, wants to align itself with in a district not carried by the Democrats since 1871.
Enter Doug Hoffman, a true conservative. In a race that also features Democrat Bill Owens, who’s aligned with Bela Pelosi and the radicals that are running Congress and is indistinguishable from Scozzafava, Hoffman gives GOP voters a real choice. No wonder he’s under attack from the Republican establishment, which has been running attack ads against him.
Malkin’s had enough and is calling out the RNC and NRCC and says we should, too. Here’s their contact information:
National Republican Congressional Committee
320 First Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003
General E-mail: website@nrcc.org
Phone: 202-479-7000
Republican National Committee
310 First Street
Washington, D.C. 20003
General E-mail: info@gop.com
Phone: (202) 863-8500
Fax: (202) 863-8820
The dolts that run the RNC and NRCC are pumping in big bucks to Scozzafava’s campaign. Congressional Quarterly reports that the RNC is pumping a six-figure amount into the race plus an additional $85,000 to the New York state GOP, all to elect a candidate as liberal as Bela Pelosi.
Now, polls show Hoffman surging and as of now putting Owens in a slight lead. Hoffman is getting strong backing from the 9/12 Tea Party movement as well as the likes of Club For Growth. Malkin allowed him to post a guest message directly to her readers. I agree with his closing line:
It’s time for conservatives to show the Republican establishment who’s in charge.
Agreed. That’s the clarion call in 2010 and 2012. No more GOP Washington insiders shoving crap sandwiches down the throats of its voters. The argument that Gingrich makes here is fallacious:
Third-party candidates like conservative Doug Hoffman, Scozzafava’s challenger, often serve only to divide the GOP, says Gingrich. “Just look at what’s happening in New Jersey’s gubernatorial race,” he says, pointing to the campaign of independent candidate Chris Daggett, who has siphoned support from Republican candidate Chris Christie. “What’s happening in New York and in New Jersey should be a sober warning to every purist in this country.”
Sorry, but after this in addition to his slumming around with the racist Rev. Al Sharpton and his couch session with Bela Pelosi, Mister Newt has officially jumped the shark. GOP voters want a clear choice, not a false choice between a Democrat Statist and a Democrat Statist in Republican clothing. Nominating a moderate — not, repeat, NOT a liberal — in a purple swing district is one thing. Nominating a Bela Pelosi clone in a district the GOP has held for almost 130 years is something else.
It shows the complete disconnect between the party elites and the party base.
This election is going to be a referendum on two things. First, it’s going to be a referendum on the first 10 months of the Obama administration. And second, it’s going to be a referendum on the future of the Republican Party.
It has to be the latter. Otherwise, the Republican Party will go the way of its predecessor, the Whigs. Indistinguishable from the pro-slavery Democrats in the period leading up to the Civil War, refusing to take positions that were definable, the Whigs simply disappeared into history.
Now, Dana Loesch has a new blog called Dump Dede (via The Other McCain). As she explains in the About section:
Republicans in New York’s 23rd District have chosen to nominate and support an ACORN-backed, Working Families Party-endorsed liberal over conservative candidate Doug Hoffman. Newt Gingrich called this shift to the left the “new revolution.” It’s not the new revolution: it’s political death. It’s indicative of a festering problem with many of the GOP all across the country. It’s an allegiance to party over America, party over conservatism. Millions have not taken to the streets since February of 2009 for nothing. The Republican party has this week to Dump Dede Scozzafava or the tea party will take over for them.
Also, RSM has been in NY-23 practicing real journalism. Do him a favor and hit the tip jar, please. It costs money to be a real journalist, something the state-run media has forgotten how to do.
Of course, that very same state-run media is already in its spin cycle, trying to portray Hoffman as divisive and siphoning votes off from a Republican to eventually elect a Democrat, which will be spun as a victory for Our Lord and Savior Barack Hussein Obama.
And, electing Scozzafava may as well give the Republicans another Arlen “Magic Bullet” Specter. As John McCormack at the Weekly Standard reports, Scozzafava refused to rule out switching parties after the election:
Will Dede Scozzafava, the liberal Republican running in the November 3 special election for Army Secretary John McHugh’s open upstate New York seat, stay in the Republican party in the (unlikely) event that she wins? Would she run in 2010 as a Republican—facing what would likely be a tough primary? Or would she pull a Specter?
Her spokesman Matthew Burns won’t say. Asked via email if Scozzafava would commit to running in a Republican primary in 2010, Burns replied last night, “Dede is focused on the election that is Nov. 3.”
Of course, an attempted interview of Scozzafava by McCormack turned into the theater of the absurd, as the candidate actually called the police on McCormack, saying she felt threatened.
Here’s McCormack’s first-hand report. Get a load of the officer’s statement:
Maybe we do things a little differently here, but you know, persistence in that area, you scared the candidate a little bit.
I think Harry Truman’s saying summarizes it best: “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.”
Apparently liberals don’t like any tough questions. Memo to Scozzafava: stay away from Fox News.
Meanwhile, over at The American Thinker, David Jeffers lays out the striking similarities between Scozzafava and Bela Pelosi, including the fact that both are supported by the Kos Kiddie Day Care Center.
Jeffers has the Democrats’ strategery for 2010 all in hand:
All [Pelosi] needs to do is put a wolf in lamb’s clothing, that is get a leftist to declare him or herself a “moderate” Republican, and not only will the National Republican Congressional Committee funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Republican National Committee into your wolf’s campaign, but you can also get Newt Gingrich to come out and endorse your Trojan horse as the type of principled leader the GOP needs.
In new developments, evidence of voter fraud has been uncovered. Not suprising, since Scozzafava is backed by the Kings of Voter Fraud — ACORN — and its affiliated group, Working Families Party.
Brian Suozzo voted with an absentee ballot in the Working Families Party primary on Sept. 15 because, as his application stated, he was “at home recovering from medical procedure.”
Jessica Boomhower’s application said she would be attending a “work conference in Boston.”
Michael Ward couldn’t vote in person because he was “taking care of elderly parent.”
Kimberlee Truell was on a “Bus trip to casino,” as was Miguel Vazques.
The only problem with these absentee ballot records at the Rensselaer County Board of Elections in Troy, N.Y., is that they’re phony, voters and investigators say — and they’ve prompted what’s being called an unprecedented investigation of suspected voter fraud.
Thirty-eight forged or fraudulent ballots have been thrown out — enough votes, an election official admits, to likely have tipped the city council and county elections in November to the Democrats. Candidates would have been able to run both on the Democratic and Working Families Party lines in two weeks, and that could have given the Democrats the general election.
A special prosecutor is investigating the case and criminal charges are possible. New York State Supreme Court Judge Michael Lynch ruled that there were “significant election law violations that have compromised the rights of numerous voters and the integrity of the election process.”
Among the reasons cited on the fraudulent forms for absentee voting: “traveling to Buffalo,” attending a “screen printing conference in Syracuse,” “working late shift,” “working construction,” and “home — ill.”
“Someone took my signature and voted with it and I felt extremely violated,” Suozzo told Fox News. He is a soft-spoken 28-year-old environmental engineer who says he never saw, let alone signed, the Working Families Party Absentee ballot application that carried his supposed signature. He was flabbergasted that someone would vote for him and submit it.
“The whole thing seems dirty to me,” Suzzo said. “You wonder how often this happens and people don’t get caught.”
He says he did not have any type of medical procedure, adding “I haven’t been to the hospital in years.”
“I feel that I was gypped,” Boomhower said, ruefully. “I didn’t get to cast my vote on my own.”
Boomhower, a 28-year-old home health care worker, says three men came to her door asking her to sign a ballot application. It wasn’t until after the election that a private investigator brought her the news that an absentee ballot indeed showed she had voted, when she actually had not.
“I can’t believe they thought they would get away with this,” she says angrily, noting that the false claim that she was in Boston could have jeopardized her job. “I don’t want to see this get tossed aside,” she told Fox News.
Michael Ward, whose ballot said he was taking care of an elderly parent, said “I got one parent left, and he lives in Albany and takes care of himself.”
“They tried to steal an election,” says Bob Mirch, the majority leader of the Rensselaer County legislature who suspected voter fraud and started the investigation after being alerted to a large number of absentee ballot application requests that were noticed by the Republican Board of Elections commissioner .
“Not only does it undermine the system, but if these people were allowed to do this, we could never have a fair election… I’ve been doing this for 35 years, when I saw this, it sends a chill through my body right now.”
The Other McCain has more here on the ACORN-affiliated voter fraud, including a press release from Hoffman requesting the Justice Department monitor the election. Cough, cough, hack, hack. Yeah, right. Like that’s ever gonna happen.
In NY-23, an Owens victory would actually be a win for real Republicans, no matter what the state-run media will try to say in spinning it for Obama and the Democrats and against “divisive” conservatives. You can already hear it.
An Owens victory would be an out-right rejection of the clueless agenda being carried out by Republicans in Washington — the RNC, the NRCC and the NRSC — and the likes of John McCain and Lindsey Grahamnesty who think the Republicans are losing because they aren’t liberal enough.
It would be a temporary setback in numbers, but sometimes you can lose a battle but still win the war.
Our Lord and Savior Barack Hussein Obama is at 28 percent strongly approve and 40 percent strongly disapprove in the latest Rasmussen daily tracking poll, a -12 approval rating deficit, which ties His all-time low.
Things are so bad for The. Worst. President. Ever. that His old Senate seat in Illinois is a toss-up and support for His planned government takeover of the health care system is at 42 percent with 54 percent disapproval. And likely voters now disapprove of the job performance of the Chocolate Jesus by 52 percent to 47 percent.
More bad news for the Democrats: Republicans hold a five-point lead in the generic ballot at 42 percent to 37 percent.
Via LibertyWorks, here’s what Balloon Boy and ObamaCare have in common:
LibeertyWorks’ BoomerJeff uses the word chutzpah in reference to the Obama administration. Actually, this administration is the reason why the word chutzpah was invented.
The drive to sent Rep. David Obey (DS-Wis.) into retirement got some much needed fuel.
Sean Duffy, the District Attorney of Ashland County and Obey’s Republican challenger, has raised $140,000 with most of it cash on hand, to help finance his challenge.
“I’ve got more $5 and $10 checks than you can shake a stick at,” said Duffy.
Folks, those are grassroots contributions, not astroturfed.
After all, they were the ones accusing President Bush of not properly equipping the forces sent into battle and forcing loved ones to spend their own money to buy protective gear.
Senators diverted $2.6 billion in funds in a defense spending bill to pet projects largely at the expense of accounts that pay for fuel, ammunition and training for U.S. troops, including those fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to an analysis.
Among the 778 such projects, known as earmarks, packed into the bill: $25 million for a new World War II museum at the University of New Orleans and $20 million to launch an educational institute named after the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat.
$2.6 billion is missing, disappeared into the likes of something honoring Ted “The Swimmer” Kennedy, the late Senator from Chappaquiddick. What? No monument of a submerged inverted 1968 Oldsmobile?
Once again, Mary Jo Kopechne could not be reached for comment.
By the way, this type of theft in the private sector would lands its perpetrators in jail. This is called embezzlement, misappropriation of funds. Imagine if any of us on our jobs redirected company funds budgeted for a specific purpose into personal projects of our own.
Then just visualize the perp walk we’d get, plus the trial and the eventual prison sentence.
More proof that most members of Congress desreve two terms: one in office, the other in jail.
The Other McCain tells us we have a RINO on the run in the state of New York.
Doug Hoffman is putting the heat on Rep. Dede Scozzafava, a RINO from New York’s 23rd congressional district.
Scozzafava is a liberal who is supported by the likes of the Kos Kiddie Day Care Center and ACORN.
RSM reports:
Running on the Conservative Party line, Hoffman’s candidacy has hammered Scozzafava’s extremely liberal voting record during her 11 years in the state assembly. And, as the Politico reported today, the GOP establishment’s hand-picked candidate is rumored to be short on campaign cash, creating a legitimate opportunity for Hoffman to win the Nov. 3 special election.
Good. We need to start putting some RINO heads on the wall as well.
Hoffman is hoping to raise $125,000 this week, while Red State is setting a goal of $25,000 to help Hoffman prevail over the RINO. Go here to help Hoffman reach his goal. Go ahead and do it, you’ll feel better. Remember: his “Republican” opponent hand-selected by the party machinery is a liberal who’s backed by ACORN. The Democrat is of the Bela Pelosi stripe.
By the way, here’s how pathetic the National Republican Congressional Committee is: they have a YouTube video attacking the conservative Hoffman in order to prop up the liberal Scozzafava.
Here it is:
At least Michael Steele and the RNC have stayed out of this one. Scozzafava hasn’t received any money from them.
But it just goes to prove the NRCC is as clueless as the NRSC. The Republican campaign committees on Capitol Hill are dominated by linguini-spined girlie men and RINOs who seem to be quite content being backbenchers as the minority party. Most of the Republicans in the country, however, are quite sick of it.
As Erick Erickson points out:
The NRCC’s money spent attacking Hoffman could be spent in real contested elections in the fall.
