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If Obama spent as much time leading the nation as he has spent campaigning for himself and other (loosers) to date,...

...then I'd be upset, since he'd have been able to do even more damage to the USA.

Governors don't get a vote on Obama policy, the new Democratic member of the House for NY 23 will, hence local vs national.

I confess I'm surprised to see you admit that Obama will "handily" win re-election in three years. Given the choices offered by the current field who might line up against him, I think you are correct.

Unlike NY 23, I would like to see a contest where a certified, appeal-to-the-base conservative goes up against a Democrat in a middle-of-the-road swing state. You seem to believe the conservative would have a chance. I highly doubt it.

Yeah I dont make many predictions myself, unless of course im betting money, because for one, people will just think your a know it all, secondly we are usually wrong lol

Hoffman would have won if only Obama had campaigned for the Democrat in NY23 like he did for Deeds and Corzine!

i LOVE the second poster!!!!!!!!!!!

anyone else notice that

hope
opportunity
change

spells HOC

as in ad hoc
as in we are in hock...

Lao, Governors are the state party leaders. Governors pick interim Senators (and presumably Congressfolk) when an incumbent is tapped for a czar position, is arrested for corruption, dies, etc. Governors raise lots of money for statewide candidates, usually in their own parties. Governors have the power of the soap box. Governors have a veto pen to at least stalemate liberal Democrat state legislatures.

Governors are tres important, which is why Obama spent so much of his political capital (and taxpayer money) in New Jersey and (for awhile) in Virginia.

Yup. This loss is BIG.

Rush: "Dems losing in New Jersey is like Stalin losing in Moscow. ... It's like Ted Kennedy losing in Massachusetts. ... And to say this was not about Obama? Last night could have been Obama's Waterloo."

The liberal spin over this pummeling of The ObamaNation far out-dizzies any possible GOP spin over NY 23rd. And, the GOP deserves to look stoooopid over NY 23rd.

pomalom, it's also important that Republicans will be in charge of redistricting in Virginia after the 2010 census. There are a couple of very weak Democrat districts that could be flipped in Virginia pretty easily.

Please, oh please, Community Organizer in Chief, please come campaign for Barbara Boxer next year. We patriotic Californians (yes, there are some) really need your help to kick her ass out of office.

hey, how did that gay vote in Maine turn out?

Blue, shhhh. Lao and Ghost of Heidi Fleiss are still crying their eyes out. No wedding bells for those two. Always a bridesmaid, never a bride, and all that.

Btw, Maine's homosexual marriage law was repealed by a larger margin than Soetoro won by last year. Was that a landslide? Then so was this.

Actually, the same is true of the victories of Christie and McDonnell.

Gregory,
You have let your despondency take over.

SAY not the struggle naught availeth,
The labour and the wounds are vain,
The enemy faints not, nor faileth,
And as things have been they remain.

If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars;
It may be, in yon smoke conceal'd,

Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers,
And, BUT FOR YOU, possess the field.

For while the tired waves, vainly breaking,
Seem here no painful inch to gain,
Far back, through creeks and inlets making,
Comes silent, flooding in, the main.

Hey Libtards! What kind of spin are you idiots going to put on this?

A taste of thing yet to come.

We will win in 2010.

Hope and change next year hope we get a lot of conservatives and they change the direction the country is going

Bet you did guess if The One's hand picked candidates didn't win he would be out the next day doing his best to minimize HIS FAILURES again...and claiming he wasn't paying attention to any of the races.

Liar Liar

And how about the utter epic fail of the conservatives in New York?

All their top guns backed up Hoffman and what did he get for his money, their money and their endorsements?

Good move, push out the moderate Republican who could have taken the seat and support a guy who was too extreme, even for a Republican district.

Posted by: Anonymous at November 4, 2009 3:29 PM

Yea right......a moderate republican.

Lao is still pushing the same tired crap he was trying to push in the Morning Briefs.

As if a gal who supports highers taxes, lavish public spending, the $787 Billion spendulus, abortion-on-demand, gay marriage, card check, and cap and trade is "moderate." Can anyone point to an issue on which she wasn't a doctrinaire liberal?

And how about the utter epic fail of the conservatives in New York?

You dip shit libs will harp on the smallest of things when shown the big picture. Face asshole libtards you have just been put on notice. 2010 will be a tough year for all you socialist pigs.

I can't wait!

Posted by: V the K at November 4, 2009 3:46 PM

Some points by Malkin to consider...

As I pointed out in my Oct. 16 column, there was never anything moderate about Scozzafava. There was no fiscal conservatism to balance her social radicalism. It wasn't merely that she was "pro-choice." She was also a proud recipient of a pro-abortion award named after eugenicist Margaret Sanger.

It wasn't merely that she favored higher government spending. It was also that she supported the stimulus, which every single House

Republican in office opposed, on top of her support for the union-expanding card-check bill, on top of her ambiguous statements on the energy tax-imposing cap-and-trade bill.

Newt Gingrich, who foolishly stood with Scozzafava until she threw herself under the bus over the weekend, piously invoked Reagan and condemned the extreme "purism" of unruly conservatives who wouldn't keep quiet about Scozzafava's radical-left agenda.

LINK

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Conservatives owe NY-23 candidate Doug Hoffman immeasurable gratitude. He overcame impossible odds (single digits just a month ago) to come within two points of defeating Democrat Bill Owens. Hoffman had zero name recognition. National Republican Party officials dumped nearly $1 million into the race on behalf of radical leftist GOP candidate Dede Scozzafava, who then turned around, endorsed Owens and siphoned off 5 percent of the vote with her name still on the ballot after she dropped out.

LINK

So call her an out and out liberal. What does that prove?

Owens won 50 to 45 and the "other liberal" took 5%. In other words, the "liberals" split the vote and STILL beat the conservative. If Scozzafava had not been on the ballot it would have been Owens 55 to 45.

Lao is STILL whining and detatched from reality.

That's right!

He/she is a liberal.

I'm detached from the REALITY of the conservative loss in NY 23?

Oh my!

Lao can't seem to understand that the dems threw so much money in this particular election and had Obama pitching for him yet he won by a small margin. No socialist mandate here.

Liberals are such dipshits.

@Lao

you're an idiot

"And how about the utter epic fail of the conservatives in New York?

All their top guns backed up Hoffman and what did he get for his money, their money and their endorsements?

"Good move, push out the moderate Republican who could have taken the seat and support a guy who was too extreme, even for a Republican district."

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DeDe was no *moderate* Republican. She was the worst kind of RINO there is, a "far left Democrat". The Democrat candidate was a magnatude more conservative than DeDe. Hoffman entered the race 30 days before the election with zero name recognition and no money or support from anyone. Yet he came within 5 percentage points of defeating a heavily funded conservative Democrat and forced the "moderate" Republican (RINO) to withdraw from the race.

If the Race would have been between Owens and Dede, I would have voted for Owens and I'm a hard core conservative. That's HOW BAD DeDe was! Hoffman made a serious showing. If he would have recieved the 900K that DeDe did there would have been a different outcome. Of course, the NRCC has egg on their face today. As they should. Idiots!

Thanks for agreeing with the point that I made earlier:

Owens won 50 to 45 and the "other liberal" took 5%. In other words, the "liberals" split the vote and STILL beat the conservative. If Scozzafava had not been on the ballot it would have been Owens 55 to 45.

If Scozzafava weren't on the ballot, those Republicans with fierce party loyalty would have had to vote on conscience, instead of a letter after a name.

If Scozzafava weren't on the ballot, then uninformed voters who simply looked to choose the Republican out of economic concerns would have had to educate themselves as to the positions of the candidates before casting a reflex vote.

If ACORN didn't have ground troops in the 23rd, Owens' victory wouldn't have included nearly as many questionable absentee ballots.

Lao, you seem to have come down with an advanced case of moonbattery. Seek help, preferably from a competent, private-sector doctor.

And what's more, NY23 elected a Democrat dogcatcher!

Congrats to Gov.'s (elect) McDonnell and Christie, but the man who can hold his head up highest of all is Doug Hoffman, who came from out-of-nowhere to nearly defeat yet another moron Liberal (TWO of 'em, in fact!).

Oh, and sorry 'bout that, Dems, but Owens will have to run again in just one short year (Oh, the humanity!). Put Hoffman up 'agin Owens in 2010, without the ultra-lib "Repubic" Scuzzy-face to muck things up, and it won't even be close. Enjoy NY23 while you've got it, Dhimmis!

As if a gal who supports highers taxes, lavish public spending, the $787 Billion spendulus, abortion-on-demand, gay marriage, card check, and cap and trade is "moderate." Can anyone point to an issue on which she wasn't a doctrinaire liberal?

So she was, in some ways, more radical than george mcgovern?

The two candidates he campaigned heavily for lost big-time ....

Well. Surely it MUST be George W Bush's fault. Give the spin-doctors time. They'll think of a way to pin it on him.