New York Republicans Just Don't Get It by Gene Lalor
She's pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage, pro-card check, pro-tax and spend, in bed with labor unions, and has been endorsed by DailyKos.com.
I'm not referring to Nancy Pelosi or Barbara Boxer. I'm referring to New York State Assmblywoman Dede Scozafazza, the Republican nominee for Congress in New York 23rd CD.
More liberal than many of her Democratic colleagues in the Assembly yet termed a moderate, Scozzafazza is about as moderate as George Soros and her nomination represents the most asinine Republican pick since Rick Lazio ran against Hillary in 2000.
Opposed in the special election on November 3rd by Democrat Bill Owens and the Conservative Party's Doug Hoffman, Scozafazza's nomination is a classic example of the political astigmatism and poor memories of the New York State Republicans.
The 23rd and this country as a whole are politically center right and generally reject political extremism of liberal candidates such as Barack Obama unless they successfully cloak that philosophy in rhetorical vagaries, such as Barack Obama did.
Last November's election of Obama as president was attributable not only to the massive minority turn-out and his leftist financial support and his illusions of change but to a backlash against President George W. Bush.
Obama won not because of his non-existent qualifications but because of the color of his skin and the national feeling of negativity to Bush.
His win could also be said to have been a foreshadowing of Obama's Nobel Peace Prize, awarded not based on any accomplishments but as another slap at Bush and at the United States.
Bush's 8 years of "compassionate conservatism" was as farcical as his pretensions to Republican/conservative economic policies. Even so, he was a better choice than Al Gore and John Kerry although the nation wasn't fooled again last year by the Bush-light, aging hero, John McCain.
The last true conservative elected by the American people was Ronald Reagan whose two electoral landslides vividly substantiated the country's right wing inclinations. New York's liberal, Rockefeller Republicans showed faulty memories by nominating Dede Scozafazza.
Fortunately, a host of national party leaders do not share that memory lapse.
Among others, Sarah Palin, Rick Santorum, Dick Armey, Fred Thompson and Steve Forbes have endorsed the only true Republican in the race, Doug Hoffman, to the consternation of Newt Gingrich who said, "If you [conservatives] seek to be a perfect minority, you'll remain a minority:" http://bit.ly/3MJG9Z.
Sorry, Newt, the Republican Party is already a minority party and has labored long and hard to achieve its current minority status.
It tolerated George Bush's extended, wild spending spree just as it accepted his father's faint-hearted conservatism and turned its back on the successes of Reaganism in a futile effort to "go mainstream."
Mainstreaming is the equivalent of LBJ's discredited effort at government by consensus which led the nation to Richard Nixon which in turn led us to Jimmy Carter's inept malaise.
Nixon was never as bad as the Left paints him but he also was no Ronald Reagan.
Sarah Palin, et al. broke ranks to support Hoffman and she threw her SarahPac behind him not out of Gingrich's sense of expedience but out of concerned principle. As Palin expressed it, "Our nation is at a crossroads, and this is once again a 'time for choosing.' "
You got that right, Sarah! This special election along with the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial races come at a critical juncture for the nation and for the Republicans.
As prelude to the congressional election in 2010 in which the party needs to capture as many seats as possible to forestall the Obama agenda, victories by Hoffman in New York, Robert F. McDonnell in the Old Dominion State, and Chris Christie in the Garden/Sopranos State will set the tone and instill confidence for the Republican Party nationwide.
Palin further stated, "Republicans and conservatives around the country are sending an important message to the Republican establishment in their outstanding grassroots support for Doug Hoffman: no more politics as usual:" http://bit.ly/3ZjXuB
Playing politics as usual is what put the party into the morass it's in today and will sink it beyond redemption if perpetuated in 2010 and 2012.
Sarah Palin is Going Rogue once again, and thank God she is.
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