RSS Feed MenuBlame the N.Y. Republican party. What were those local leaders thinking of in choosing Scozzafava as their candidate in NY-23? Were they trying to ease an unloved colleague out of Albany? The state Republican party’s impressive new chairman, Ed Cox, faces a daunting task infusing some sense and life into this broken state organization.
Blame Dede Scozzafava. Doug Hoffman’s third party challenge was the primary Scozzafava should have faced in the first place. When she withdrew because she decided she could not win, she had a duty to rally behind the candidate preferred by the greater part of her own constituents.
The N.Y. Republicans and their offputting candidate set the table for the ensuing disaster – but it was the national conservative movement that actually delivered the district to the Democrats.
Blame Hoffman. Conservatives rallied behind a leaden candidate who could not bother to study the issues that mattered most to his constituents: highways, waterways, and energy marketing; who did not live in the district and did not read the local papers.
Blame Dick Armey. How many votes were lost by that quote of his to the Watertown Times dismissing local concerns as “parochial”?
Blame talk radio and (especially) Rush Limbaugh. As often stressed here, one of the secrets to talk radio’s power is that nobody can vote against a talk radio host. Unless the host endorses a candidate. Then the host has offered a convenient target to people who resent his inflammatory talk.
Blame the Tea Party movement. Turns out that people in upstate New York worry about losing their health insurance more than they worry about a socialist-fascist takeover of the United States. Who knew?
Blame Sarah Palin. Palin helped nationalize the election in the worst possible way, transforming what ought to have been a referendum on Barack Obama’s personalities into a referendum on herself. And outside Appalachia and the white South, those referendums she will almost always lose.
franco 2 // Nov 4, 2009 at 11:53 pm
Sinz54
I’m sorry that you don’t understand that believing in the Big Bang is a belief just like any other belief . It is a mere hypothesis that even the most respected physicists have admitted, is mere speculation.
They really don’t know, and as good scientists, admit to that. It is the drones who take this speculation as Gospel while ridiculing others who are also gullible believers in some other model of creation.. The philosophical question is: Since we really don’t know anything, or, at best, very little, is faith a good thing, and if so which faith best forwards humanity?
You are a default believer. At least people of faith know they are believers, you are in the category of believers who are unaware they are believers.
franco 2 // Nov 5, 2009 at 12:02 am
And Sinz,
To address your point about the origins of Earth outside the Big Bang Theory. How many conservatives do you speculate actually believe that the Earth was created recently? I really don’t believe (there is that word again) that many conservatives do. It is a convenient smear. I certainly don’t. And if some people believe these things and yet vote Republican or conservative does not make conservatism wrong just as communists voting for Democrats doesn’t make Democrats communists.
ottovbvs // Nov 5, 2009 at 9:17 am
48 franco 2 // Nov 4, 2009 at 6:49 pm
“Um otto, The point is the NY GOP picked a dud…”
……..In your extreme right wing opinion……she obviously looked pretty good to a lot of electors in NY 23 many of whom swithced to Owens
ottovbvs // Nov 5, 2009 at 9:20 am
Churl // Nov 4, 2009 at 8:51 pm
“ottovbs, regarding “bumper stickers”, I prefer to follow Mark Twain’s advice to eschew surplusage.”
…..planning a career as humorist are you…….Twain was a classic bumper sticker style writer imho……..the problem is with most issues the devil is in the details and these cannot be accomodated even on the bumpers of one of those 60’s Caddies