Remember the post-election buzz about how a struggle for control of the Republican Party had pitted those who wanted to appeal to a broader base against the kookwits who demanded that the party move somewhere to the right of, oh, Rush Limbaugh?
Look who's winning:
In a huge development in the NY-23 special election, Republican candidate Dede Scozzafava has announced that she is suspending her campaign, citing an inability to win in light of recent polls and a lack of money -- leaving this race as a vote between Democrat Bill Owens and Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman, and a strong message that the Republican Party can no longer nominate moderate candidates, or else face a right-wing revolt.
Your Gleaner suspects there is a good chance that Republican Party candidates in Nevada in 2010 will similarly have to demonstrate that they are every bit as misguided, angry, ignorant and paranoid as the birthers, teabaggers, shoeboxers and such who will be selecting the party's nominees. In other words: Go, Gibbons, go!
But then, I'm always the optimist.
Hugh...you brighten the darkest day!
Posted by: Rich | 10/31/2009 at 03:37 PM
It's already started. I guess it's fashionable to be ultra-conservative right wing nut joblike.
At least in Las Vegas it appears so.
This Sue Lowden/Heidi Harris bomb in Harry Reid's car thing is a good example of the way the Republicans are going. That whole debacle has voters scratching their heads.
And Rush Limbaugh chosen as a judge at the upcoming Miss America Pageant at P-Ho.
I am really not sure what guidelines they use to pick judges, but after picking Rush, O.J. Simpson's got a pretty good chance of getting a furlough out of prison to attend and offer his expertise at the pageant.
I really believe the nut jobs are going bat shit crazy and congregating here in Las Vegas.
Posted by: ColinFromLasVegas | 10/31/2009 at 05:54 PM
Dede Scozzafava is a liberal who should be in the Democrat party. She is just another Olympia Snow, who is not a real republican. Dede Scozzafava droping out is good new for conservatives and bad news for RINO's.
This is the same as a really conservative Democrat running in a primary against a liberal Democrat. Who would you support. I suspect the liberal Democrat.
Posted by: Dan | 11/01/2009 at 12:56 AM
Dan, the VERY conservative Republican in NY State (Holland) was running on the Conservative Party line, not on the Republican line. So until this week, a three-way race was shaping up, with a Democrat, a Republican, and a Conservative. A three-way race might have made a Democratic victory possible, in a solidly Republican district.
Now that Scozzafava, the Republican, has dropped out, I suspect that a victory for Holland on the Conservative line is likely.
Posted by: Nevada Ned | 11/01/2009 at 07:46 AM
Dan,
How is Dede not a real Republican?
Posted by: dave404 | 11/01/2009 at 07:47 AM
For that matter, Dan, how is Snowe (note the final "e") not a real Republican? Isn't your tent big enough for her? She almost certainly will not vote for cloture on the health care bill. You are quite tidily underscoring the Gleaner's point.
I'm optimistic, too, that Gibbons will win the Republican primary.
Posted by: Tailspinterry | 11/01/2009 at 08:12 AM
"Dede Scozzafava droping out is good new for conservatives and bad news for RINO's."
You don't read polling data do you?
64% of Scozzafava supporters had a favorable view of President Obama. And they had a 57% disapproval rating of the Conservative candidate, Mr. Hoffman. AND 62% of her supporters were registered Republicans.
So, exactly how does her dropping out (and now endorsing Owens) HELP Hoffman? If anything, it will help Owens. Scozzafava supporters will either vote for her anyway (a protest vote), vote for Owens, or not vote at all.
Hoffman has pretty much maxed out his support in NY-23, and they don't take kindly to carpetbaggers there (Hoffman showed his complete lack of knowledge about local issues in his sit-down with the Watertown paper).
Posted by: Douglas Democrat | 11/01/2009 at 06:36 PM
Dede and Snowe is no more a Republican as say Zell Miller was a Democrat. Would you consider him to be a true Democrat? Doubtful.
Hoffman could be the first tea party canidate winning a major election.
Posted by: Dan | 11/02/2009 at 02:20 AM
I'm disappointed that no one could explain how Dede was not a 'real' Republican: "yellow is to sun as orange is to tomato"?!
Who knew that the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness was radically liberal and too moderately conservative to be supported by the new GOP?
Reading the local paper in that NY-23 race, where no Democrat has won since 1874, I note that Hoffman doesn't seem to know what is going on in the district.
Hoffman will win, but that is not a reflection or repudiation of Obama, but a sign of the Black Hole that is the "new" Republican Party.
How trans-formative are the events in the GOP? Newt Gingrich is now viewed as being of the liberal wing of the GOP!
Posted by: dave404 | 11/02/2009 at 09:33 AM
I. Here is the website that members of the Clark County GOP Executive belong...Black Hole time!
http://www.resistnet.com/group/nvresisters
http://www.resistnet.com/
II. The in-fighting is well underway as one CCRP executive questions how the place is run!
"The Clark County Republican Party has never had an Audit!
"Why is it that the leadership of the Clark County Republican Party doesn’t feel the need to follow their own bylaws and have an audit?
"There has been a report of officers writing checks to themselves without providing receipts for these checks.
"There has been a report that checks were writing above to allowed amount without the Executive Boards approval.
"There has been missing tax documents, missing treasurer’s reports, missing executive board meeting minutes, missing computers that hold the financial reports, anything dealing with financial reports are missing, bylaws rules broken our own treasurer is not bounded or insured.
"We have given the leadership an opportunity to do major house cleaning and they are just ignoring us..."
http://www.resistnet.com/profiles/blogs/the-clark-county-republican
A house divided cannot stand.
Posted by: dave404 | 11/02/2009 at 05:07 PM
"Dede Scozzafava is a liberal who should be in the Democrat party."
That's "Democratic" Party, Dan. Please don't sound like a John Boehner wannabee. It's boring.
Would you like it if we all referred to GOP members as "Repuglicans" or some other childish nonsense?
Grow up, poster.
Posted by: Happygirl | 11/02/2009 at 06:03 PM
"I'm disappointed that no one could explain how Dede was not a 'real' Republican" She endorsed the Democrat in the race instead of the conservative. That's easy enough.
"Hoffman will win, but that is not a reflection or repudiation of Obama" But when the GOP wins in Virgina and New Jersey along with New York, it certainly will be. Even the talking heads from the Democratic Party (happy, happy girl?) admit that.
Posted by: Dan | 11/02/2009 at 06:57 PM
Oh, where to begin?
Dave - that GOP "infighting" sounds a lot like what was being posted here by "Democrat" Mike Zahara and his sidekicks. SSDD (or is that SSDP?).
Dan - that whole "Democrat Party" stuff is so mind-numbingly childish - based on your writings, you are better than that (but feel free to prove me wrong if you want). As for Dede backing the Dem, that often happens when a party eats one of their own. It is called "revenge" or maybe "waking up." It would happen the other way to. That is why Reagan (remember him? - he is turning over in his grave over all this and you'd all be calling him a RINO today if he was actually alive) encouraged the '11th commandment.'
Hoffman will lose, BTW. Bet on it.
Posted by: A Done of Reality | 11/03/2009 at 07:30 AM
Fascinating!
Using Dede's support of a D on Tuesday to justify a claim made on Monday that she is liberal. If one had only used that as support for one's argument on Monday, I would give a tip of the hat.
Governor races are much more parochial than congressional races. An example? Congress went D in 2006 and Nevada picked an R for governor. Again, NY-23 hasn't elected a D to congress since 1874 so that they went with a conservative is indicative only of consistency.
Posted by: dave404 | 11/03/2009 at 08:48 AM
"Fortunately, the local Republican county chairs had the foresight to see that Doug Hoffman lacked the integrity and qualities needed to be elected to anything - let alone Congress," Lindsay added. [The Hill, 9/28/09]"
"NRCC spokesman Paul Lindsay said Mr. Hoffman doesn't even technically live in the district and also said Mr. Hoffman had promised to back the Republican candidate before withdrawing that support and deciding to run."
The House GOP promising the community of Ft. Drum that Hoffman will be placed on the Armed Services Committee and will caucus with the Republican Party seems like a bribe...is this legal?
Posted by: dave404 | 11/03/2009 at 01:47 PM
Dan: Gee, whatta shocker about the Virginia win. (Deeds was a miserable candidate.) Believe me when I tell you I don't give a shit. New Jersey hasn't been called yet, either.
And I don't blame the original Republican for endorsing the Democrat, given what a complete clueless individual Hoffman is.
Happy, Dan?
Posted by: Happygirl | 11/03/2009 at 05:49 PM
Yes, I am happy. Corzine goes down to defeat big time. No excuses about that. Obama bet the farm on that one. Too bad about NY, that's the breaks.
Reid must be crapping in his pants by now.
Posted by: Dan | 11/03/2009 at 11:12 PM
"[Voters] are tired of the spending, tired of the waste and tired of the over-reach they see coming out of Washington," said House deputy Republican leader Eric Cantor.
The GOP lost EVERY congressional race yesterday.
GOP lost NY-23 for the first time since 1874 and to the Democratic Party.
The BBC informs us that "California Lt Gov John Garamendi won a special election to a Northern California congressional seat, keeping the district in Democratic hands."
Reid worried based on Ds keeping a seat and picking up another? In what world do results like this back up Cantor's own "over-reaching" analysis?
Posted by: dave404 | 11/04/2009 at 06:40 AM