Coming civil war in the GOP

[babsbunny]

Coming civil war in the GOP
Posted by ELROD in At TMV.
Nov 4th, 2009 | Comments

http://themoderatevoice.com/51641/coming-civil-war-in-the-gop/

Full results are not in, but it looks right now like Democrat Bill Owens will win NY-23, tarnishing would should have been a solid night for the GOP. Comfortable wins in the gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia seemed likely to serve as appetizers for the real conservative triumph – a victory of Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman.

The purging of Republican nominee Dede Scozzafava from the race by national conservative activists has been well-covered. Fox News breathlessly insisted that NY-23, being the only real national race tonight (CA-10 is up for grabs too, but has received very little attention), would surely send a message to Obama and the Democrats in Congress. Hoffman made great hay out of the national implications of his campaign – his was a race not for parochial issues in the St. Lawrence Valley, but a blow for conservatives, Tea Party Patriots and other “lovers of freedom” against the socialists in Washington. Considering the historic ties of the region to the GOP – most of the counties in NY-23 have not sent a Democratic rep to Washington since 1852 – it seemed foreordained that Dede’s surrender would yield a huge victory for Hoffman and the conservatives. PPP came out with an unweighted poll showing the impending Conservative landslide in the North Country. Sarah Palin, Fred Thompson, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin and all the bigwigs in the conservative movement converged on this rural outpost of Yankee Republicanism in the last few weeks. And the Democrat, Bill Owens, was a relative conservative – though he is a supporter of the public option on health care. In other words, the college town liberals of NY-23 (and there are many in Canton, Oswego, Plattsburgh and Potsdam) would surely feel demoralized.

[msongs]

1. doncha wish the dems were in position to capitalize on such a war instead of

slagging it out with the DINOS and blue dogs and not very liberal or progressive administration officials? Boy now is the time to drive a stake thru the heart of the republicans and their right wing white racist tea bagging souls.

well, maybe we can clone Congressman Grayson and replace congress with more just like him...ASAP

Msongs

[timeforpeace]

2. Hoping for this to save us in 2010 is like whistling past the graveyard.