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Re: Republican Scozzafava quits race NY:23

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What a joke. NY23 was just denied a choice, in such a blatant case of rightwing bullying that the former Republican candidate has just endorsed the Democrat. This will only cause the Republican party to get smaller, and even more irrelevant.
By what idiotic logic is having an additional candidate in the race a denial of choice?

Scozzafava dropped out on her own accord because she was out of touch with the party she was supposed to be representing and wasn't getting their support. Of course she endorsed the Democrat. She's always been a Democrat. In fact, they approached her to run on their ticket in the first place.

Will this make the GOP smaller? I highly doubt it. You're just projecting what you're personally hoping will happen. If Scozzafava were truly a moderate Republican she'd have gotten support from her party, but she wasn't. She is further left than the Blue Dog Democrats for Pete's sake. What sense did it make for Republicans in NY-23 to vote for a Republican that would vote exactly like a Democrat? They may as well have just voted for Owens. They'd get the same thing. What the hell makes you think gave Hoffman his opening? There was nobody in the race representing the Republican voters.
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Re: Republican Scozzafava quits race NY:23

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So he implements a centrist policy but that's just in order to hide the fact that he's really a leftist?
What centrist policy would that be? The one the centrist Democrats keep backing away from?
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Re: Republican Scozzafava quits race NY:23

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What centrist policy would that be? The one the centrist Democrats keep backing away from?
I think I've already answered that a couple times.
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Re: Republican Scozzafava quits race NY:23

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Indeed I have, and I can do that in my head.

Do you understand congressional procedure?
The Republicans can stop absolutely nothing. Stop making excuses for your party's epic failure to govern. The Dems are making the Republicans under Bush look like competent stewards of our nation, and that's sad.
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Re: Republican Scozzafava quits race NY:23

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I think I've already answered that a couple times.
Well, it would seem you haven't made your point very well, though I don't think there was one to begin with.
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Re: Republican Scozzafava quits race NY:23

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The Republicans can stop absolutely nothing. Stop making excuses for your party's epic failure to govern.
I don't have a party, Hoss. Stop making excuses for you not being able to think like a rational adult.
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The Dems are making the Republicans under Bush look like competent stewards of our nation, and that's sad.
No, they're not. But you're making yourself look stupid.

How's that working out for you?
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Re: Republican Scozzafava quits race NY:23

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Indeed I have, and I can do that in my head.

Do you understand congressional procedure?
Never thought I'd get to use this.
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Re: Republican Scozzafava quits race NY:23

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Stop making excuses for you not being able to think like a rational adult.
Prove it.

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No, they're not. But you're making yourself look stupid.

How's that working out for you?
Childish insults as usual from you. It's the sign of a poor and under developed intellect. Yet ironically and amusingly, you think it's everyone else that appears stupid.
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Re: Republican Scozzafava quits race NY:23

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Prove it.
I don't have to lift a finger to prove what I am claiming. Your posts do that for me.
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Childish insults as usual from you. It's the sign of a poor and under developed intellect. Yet ironically and amusingly, you think it's everyone else that appears stupid.
No, it's quite clear that you cannot, even to the most cosmetic degree, support your own head-up-the-ass contentions.

Yet, ironically and amusingly, you think you've made some sort of point.

Tell me, does it hurt?
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Re: Republican Scozzafava quits race NY:23

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I don't have to lift a finger to prove what I am claiming. Your posts do that for me.
So you should easily be able to prove it.

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No, it's quite clear that you cannot, even to the most cosmetic degree, support your own head-up-the-ass contentions.
More insults. Please keep showing me how superior you are by calling me names.

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Yet, ironically and amusingly, you think you've made some sort of point.
I have.

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Tell me, does it hurt?
Does what hurt?
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Hoffman Up By 15

A new poll in the making from Public Policy Polling shows Doug Hoffman (C) defeating Bill Owens (D) by 15 points in a two way race.

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Man NY-23 is really a mess.

Here are some interesting facts from our unweighted numbers so far:

-In a three way contest Doug Hoffman leads Bill Owens by 19 points. In a two way contest Hoffman leads Owens by 15 points. So the Dede Scozzafava withdrawal and endorsement will probably tighten the race some but not nearly enough.

Public Policy Polling: More NY-23 mess
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Re: Republican Scozzafava quits race NY:23

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So you should easily be able to prove it.
You actually don't know how Congress works or who's in it, do you?
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More insults. Please keep showing me how superior you are by calling me names.
I'm not showing you anything; you haven't and apparently can't back up what you say.
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I have.
Yes, you have.
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Does what hurt?
Your recto-cranial inversion.
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re: NY-23 House Race (merger)

Doug Hoffman should go ahead and win the NY-23 comfortably. The conservative wing of the GOP has won this round with the on-line activists taking much of the credit.

If... IF... we can keep this up throughout 2010 Queen Nancy is in big trouble... with Obama right behind her.
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Re: Republican Scozzafava quits race NY:23

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Your "real Republican" doesn't live in the district, is ignorant of local issues, and couldn't handle the questions at a debate even though they were printed in advance. Of course you don't see the humor in that....you're a Republican.
And yet he still kicked the ass of the liberal democrat in all but affiliation and will beat the democrat. What is really funny is that the left wing republican dropped out and endorsed the less liberal democrat against the real republican, when by all accounts the best thing she could have done for the democrat in the race would have been to stay in it!
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Re: Republican Scozzafava quits race NY:23

Great news for Democrats. This means the RNC has totally lost control of its shrinking base. There is at least an off chance now that the Repub party is in a permanent death rattle. It'll take its replacement decades to develop a winning national strategy, if ever.

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