Posted on Wednesday, 4th November 2009 by Roland_Melnick
Not a lot of time to comment this morning, but did catch this article written by Liz Sidoti, AP National Political Writer which contains an interesting summary of yesterday’s elections and an almost overlooked blurb from Harry Reid announcing that healthcare won’t be finalized this year.
GOP won big in the NJ Governor race…a big labor, big Democrat state…as well as bringing home the win for Virginia’s next Governor. The other hyped race of the day was the US Representatives, NY-23 seat…Democrat Bill Owens won over the Conservative candidate, Doug Hoffman. This chart posted by Nate Silver at fivethirtyeight.com shows the vote tally as of midnight last night.
If those percentages hold, the obvious commentary coming out today will be that Scozzafava took just enough votes to prevent a GOP win.
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November 4th, 2009 at 9:02 am
Yes, it was a good night for conservatives, but there is still a lot of work to be done. I hope a lot of Conservatives seen these results as motivation, showing us that we can indeed take our nation back from those that are forcing us towards socialism.
There was another victory that some may not have noticed last night, but in Maine, the voters repealed a gay marriage law that was foisted upon them. Of course, all those people and those of us that think marriage is between a man and a woman, are all bigots according to the usual suspects. The gay marriage fight isn’t over in Wisconsin either, just because the voters spoke loud and clear, and even passed a Constitutional Amendment banning gay marriage, just yesterday, they were in front of the Wisconsin Supreme Court trying to undermine the clear will of the people.
November 4th, 2009 at 9:41 am
HeatherRadish points out this tidbit, “Gay marriage has now lost in all 31 states in which it has been put to a popular vote“
November 4th, 2009 at 10:00 am
The good news is that owens has to run for re-election in one year. Maybe they’ll have a conservative candidate with a personality.
The new governors have 4 yrs. to prove themselves.
November 4th, 2009 at 10:53 am
Dede got nearly a million dollars from the GOP, then endorsed the Democrat.
Hoffman had very little time to put together any kind of ad campaign once he started getting funding.
12 months from now there will be another race and the one thing we can count on is that Scozzafava won’t be the Republican candidate.
VA wins were huge and they picked up five seats in their assembly.
November 5th, 2009 at 1:24 am
Jay the issue is simple. Under New York law, the county chairmen of each party picked the candidates for the ballot of their respective parties. For WHATEVER reason. The Republicans, 11 I believe picked Scozzafava. That was their duty and right under NY law.
The REPUBLICAN PARTY can be whatever it wants to be. It can endorse Satan worship if it chooses.
But those who consider themselves Republicans can reject or fight back. Newtered Gingrich chose to back a RINO. Gingrich made moronic statements about PURITY and PURGING. NEWTERED ended any possibility of any future relevance as a Republican and certainly as a Conservative.
The NATIONAL GOP trusted the DISTRICT GOP county heads. BEEEEEEEEEEG MISTAKE. Scozzafava can call herself REPUBLICAN, MORMON, AMISH or even SLIM for all I care. She is not CONSERVATIVE in the least. Republicans can define themselves as whatever they want. The rank and file REBELLED.
The MSM and LIBS try and tried to frame this as a Republican Civil War. Nonsense. Scozzafava PROVED the REBELS correct when she backed the LIB.
Pro-Gay marriage.
Pro-Card check, Union hack hubbie.
Pro-Abortion.
None of those are Republican values heretofore.
None of those are Conservative values…EVER.
So, Owens won, Hoffman lost. If Hoffman had not run against a RINO, what would have been accomplished by Republicans? Nothing. Scozzafava was crushed, by a Conservative Republican who only campaigned for 30 days and was listed as Conservative on the ballot.
A lesson has been learned. Scozzafava is not REPUBLICAN. She wanted to win, so she pretended.
IF she had won, she would have voted lib. Owens is no different.