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发帖数: 29846 | 1 By Bill Lalor
The New York State GOP establishment may be on the precipice of handing
another Congressional seat to the Democrats, as it did less than 2 years ago.
In November 2009, New York's 23rd Congressional District held a special
election to fill the seat vacated by GOP Congressman John McHugh. NY
Republicans promptly set off a national melee when they nominated for Dede
Scozzafava, a state legislator whose "Republican" credentials included
steadfast support for same-sex marriage, a "Margaret Sanger Award" from
Planned Parenthood, and support for the President Obama's 2009 "stimulus"
spending. The list goes on.
The New York Conservative Party, furious with Scozzofava's odd resemblance
to an Obama Democrat at a time when Obama Democrats were beginning to sound
like Reagan Republicans, nominated Doug Hoffman, a bona fide conservative.
The race went national, as did the debate over conservatism in the GOP.
Democrat Bill Owens won the election by 2.3%, thanks to an endorsement by
Scozzafava herself, who quit the race shortly before the election and
supported Owens. (Scozzafava, having returned to the state legislature,
declined to seek re-election in 2010 and endorsed the Democrat in that race,
also. The Democrat won then, too.)
Aside from exposing Scozzofava as an unprincipled opportunist, the special
election in NY-23 opened eyes to the New York GOP's horrendous inclination
to run candidates capable of losing races that GOP candidates shouldn't lose
, frequently spending millions upon millions of dollars in the lost cause.
In spite of a Tea Party uprising and an anti-Obama, conservative grassroots
renewal across the country, the Republican establishment opted in 2009 for
an establishment shill who did nothing but turn off conservative voters. As
a result, it left an untold share of the GOP base disheartened and annoyed,
many permanently so.
A lot has changed since November 2009, but it's hard to tell whether the
state GOP has taken notice.
Last month, the freaky shirtless Craigslist poseur Congressman in NY-26,
Christopher Lee, resigned. A special election will happen soon, and
Republicans have already nominated Jane Corwin, another member of the state
assembly. Like Scozzofava, Corwin embodies the kind of soul-sucking ennui
that defines the "Rockefeller Republican" in New York. Which is to say
that she's boring enough to lose.
There's a huge opportunity for the state Conservative Party to weigh in and
end Corwin's coronation, thanks to the candidacy of David Bellavia, a
veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, who recently announced that he's formed
an Exploratory Committee. Bellavia's military sacrifice and conservatives
principles match those of other many other veterans who recently won
election to Congress. And like most other veterans, his campaign promises
are more than scripted talking points. He's says he's a conservative, and he
means it.
Formally speaking, the Conservative Party's decision rests with its local
committee members. But the reality is that Michael Long, the longstanding
state party Chairman, holds veto power over the locals' choice. In other
words, Chairman Long can turn this race into a re-hash of the Dede/Hoffman
show.
Will he? Do conservative voters count? Let's hope so.
Long has criticized Bellavia for joining the race "a little bit late,"
according to the Washington Post's Rachel Weiner. (Of course he did, Mr.
Chairman. The nomination process was designed by party insiders to exclude
candidates like Bellavia.) And the Erie County conservative chair appears
to be lukewarm toward Bellavia.
NY-26 is a critical opportunity for conservatives in New York. In this
overwhelmingly Democratic state, conservative ideas are surging. The state'
s bankrupt thanks to decades of taxing and spending and a mass exodus of net
contributors to the state economy, and voters are even staking out rational
positions on unions and public spending.
Now is not the time for another unelectable party hack. Conservative voters
-- including those in New York -- have shown that the Tea Party and the
backlash against President Obama aren't fads, or flights of activist fancy.
The Tea Party matters everywhere. The GOP establishment here may have long
ago relinquished any claim to the "conservative" mantle in New York. That
isn't news. But can the Conservative Party - which has itself been
criticized as outmoded and too old - seize the reins? Will conservatives
matter?
Even in New York, there's hope.
Bill Lalor is a former Congressional campaign manager, and attorney in
Manhattan and Executive Director of Repeal Obamacare PAC. | l******a
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great analysis done on GOP being sideliners for long.
The critics of GOP while Bush in office doing nothing is pretty legit. Even
though O'Dumba shows how many blocks worse he can be than GOP, GOP should
reflect
on its own humiliation in the forefront battles of dirty American politics.
All the incompetence and yaysayer mentality that has KIDNAPPED this once
great
nation for too long since JFK. One ambitious person could only get ahead not
only
in politics but in virtually all aspects of social and corporate activities,
with
much conforming to the crowds within their chosen groups. Nobody really
cares to
speak out truth, because in most cases it will hurt his career.
This applies to politics and you get a bunch of bureaucrats who are voted
into
office not because their qualification but their agenda to advance interests
of
their peers, such as this community coordinator in white house.
In corporation, those with talents and insight but of bluntness will never
get
picked to lead the enterprise to better future. Only those brown-nosers with
stinky mouths to peers and sweet suckers to boss get the level up.
This is actually behind every failure in the US.
The liberal media, butthead scholars and of course those millions of mobs of
chimps and cockroaches that only look to take more squeeze out of a bankrupt
system even if on its death, all positively contribute to this formula of
TOTAL
FAILURE.
Well, if all these happened within a closed eco system, we would have been
feeling nothing than success. Unfortunately, many billions of other people
populate this globe as well who compete with us all the time for the
resource
that is dwindling.
It's time to acknowledge that we have FAILED:
education - look at American schools
politics - look at that chimp and what it represents
prospective - dismal look in future
And act now. Stick to your belief and take initiative.
Before it's really too late.
The prosperity created by loss of half million US lives in WWII has sent US
dollars and life standard so far. If we don't do anything to redirect where
this
nation goes, it's doomed.
It's all or none.
【在 l****z 的大作中提到】
: By Bill Lalor
: The New York State GOP establishment may be on the precipice of handing
: another Congressional seat to the Democrats, as it did less than 2 years ago.
: In November 2009, New York's 23rd Congressional District held a special
: election to fill the seat vacated by GOP Congressman John McHugh. NY
: Republicans promptly set off a national melee when they nominated for Dede
: Scozzafava, a state legislator whose "Republican" credentials included
: steadfast support for same-sex marriage, a "Margaret Sanger Award" from
: Planned Parenthood, and support for the President Obama's 2009 "stimulus"
: spending. The list goes on.
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