New York Republican Dede Scozzafava Backs Democrat Bill Owens, After Suspending Her Bid for U.S. House Seat

One Democrat endorses another,No big deal there.

No surprise..She was fake and people had wised up to her.

Sour grapes?

I wonder what Newt Gingrich and all of the other national Republican leaders who supported this Democrat in Republican clothes are thinking now that DeDe has exposed her true beliefs?

Looks like there’s no room for moderates in the GOP. But what do you expect with leaders like Palin and Rush? I’m just eating my popcorn and having fun watching that party crumble, its very entertaining.

How pathetic! This says a lot about both parties. They are only interested in their own survival. They see an outside threat to the establishment, and they try to kill it. Oh, no! We can’t have that. A third party threatening the likes of the Democratic and Republican party? What a bunch of freaking idiots. For once, there is hope for this nation. The people are beginning to see through these politicians. America, it is time to get rid of these incumbents by voting independent or other. To hell with the Republican and Democratic party. They’ve held our country hostage long enough. Both are responsible for our deficit. And both are responsible for the mess we’re currently in. Say no to these self serving #$@# who think of themselves as royalty, looking down on the American people. Say enough is enough to the control they want over the lives of every individual in our Republic. Matters of rule and self governing should be returned back to the states where it belongs. These idiots have made a mess of our country by failing to adhere and uphold the Constitution of these United States. America, speak up and let your voices be heard this November and next. It is time to rid ourselves of these two parties once and for all. Make George Washington proud!!!

Clear indication that republican will lose this election.It is very hard for any republican party to win in a blue state with pure right wing conservative philosophies.I think Republican party is moving extreme right and they dont care about so called moderate republicans any more.That would mean republican party is quite ok to be tagged as party of red states.If that is what they think is best for them, they will not see the white house for decades to come.

Yawn. One in the same. Who cares.

Maybe Arlen Spector could tell DD that suckin up to the Democrats doesn’t get you much of anything.

“high-profile Republicans, such as former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, threw their support behind Doug Hoffman”
Monkeys are known to fling stuff too.

2010

To NY Voter
You must like absolute power one party rule.
Dems have one party rule with paterson in albany and the assembly and senate.
Pelosi has 257 house seats and reid has 60 senate seats and obama is packing the courts.
I guess you like having ZERO checks and balances.
And moderates are meaningless now with massive illegal immigration.
Democrats will be permanently in charge forever and ever with illegal immigration swelling their ranks forever and ever.
Democrats with illegal immigration makes it impossible for another party to ever win the white house again.

GREAT! The Repubs are “purifying” their party and it won’t be long before they’ll be “PURE AND OUT THE DOOR!”

With illegal immigration and Obama stopping any enforcement of it you don’t have to worry about republicans.
Dems have a permanent one party rule with massive illegal immigration and Obama’s dream act and Obama’s comprehensive immigration reform.
There can be no two party system with massive illegal immigration.
So enjoy your permanent liberal rule forever and ever.
It is impossible for a democrat to lose the southwest now with massive illegal immigration meaning permanent one party rule.

NY voter I am sick of this one party absolute rule and you so called moderates then blaming the gop when david paterson is making a mess in albany.
257 dem house seats
60 dem senate seats
Obama on his way to 6 supreme court justices.
I am driving up to NY 23 and working to counter your vote. I will make it my life’s mission to counter your vote.
Enough is enough

To NY voter I will now have a goal of driving 20 elderly republican voters to the polls to counter your vote.

Wingnuts demonstrate again they are unwilling to take moderate gains instead of fringe fakery. Impending obsolescence is y’all.

>> But what do you expect with leaders like Palin and Rush? <<
Why would one qualify that windbag Limbuagh as a leader? At least Palin spent part of a term as a governor.

Yes! Those of impure ideology have no place in the Republican Party! Who cares if the rest of the country doesn’t agree with them in the first place? The more enemies the far right has, the better.

I wonder what other lies Fox News will put in their scrawl. Yesterday, they wrote that something in the like of “the Republican in the 23rd had suspended her campaign and released her supporters to support Hoffman”. I swear to you that’s what they wrote. When I was reading it, I was like, watch this: they’re going to say she released her supporters to Hoffman. Sure enough, that’s exactly what they wrote. I dare anyone anywhere to find where this is true. But, this is fox news!

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
This is why the Republicans lost this time around and by seeing that they have no room for moderate ideas…
>>>>>>>>>>> McCain was the MODERATE YOU ALL WANTED and YOU SPIT ON HIM. Moderate? What is that? Is Obama a moderate? ROFL.. This statement is a complete joke.

I use to live in that district before moving South. Contrary to the Democratic Southern part of NY, Northern NY is usually very conservative and goes red instead of blue. This may tilt that scenerio. Upstate Ny has been hard hit by the economy but has been so for years and the republicans have had their chance to help the citizens there. This could tip the moderate and independant voters over to Democrat which would be a HUGE victory for this normally republican district.

It’s time for the rest of the moderate Republicans like Dede and Olympia Snowe to grow a pair and stand up to the right wing of their party that is tearing the GOP to shreds. If they all get together en masse, make a strong bold united statement against this idiocy of Rush, Beck and company, they might just resurrect a dying party. Interesting that so far only two women have the brass to do this. I challenge all my fellow moderate intelligent Republicans in that NY district to stage a revolt against the outsiders who have come in and tried to tell you all how to vote and what to believe to vote for the Democrat. You will go down in history!!

“…liberals call scozzafava a moderate!…She was splitting the democrat vote… ”
Yes, because a district that hasn’t voted in a Democrat Rep in 40 years must have a HUGE Democratic population. The only thing that a win by Hoffman will prove (and he will win) is that the 17% party (GOP) can’t even find a Republican that lives in this district to represent them, so they have to bus one in.
And BTW we’ll take all of your fiscal-conservatives that aren’t willing to march lock=step to orders from the Palin politburo and FoxPravda. Geez, and they accuse us of being fascists – look in the mirror before you turn on your neighbors for not being “pure” enough.

I just love hearing all you Rebuplicans “WHINING” , you all supported GWB while he was running this country into the ground . Sweet pay back !

She should read Aesop….especially the one about “sour grapes”. Of course it could be that Obama’s “enemy list” DNC team has some dirt on her and this is the reason for the alledged change-of-heart. Remember Obama got Clinton State because of the Clinton expertise on enemylists, dirt-digging, and dirty tactics.
ps: it is also funny, but not ha-ha funny, how much effort the erstwhile President is putting in on NJ elections. Like he wants to ensure that the most corrupt areas are Obama territory!

Reclaiming America. One real American at a time. Voters want real representation. Not party puppets following through on agendas that our ancestor came to America to get away from and fought wars to keep at bay. Today the attack on America is not with military might but the power of deception and bribed devotion. The enemy knows that capitalism without family values and a moral compass at its heart creates a class of people that seeks a caretaker. When the numbers of those that seek a caretaker are great enough a free democracy can be hijacked through the vote by Socialist and Marxist that make promises that are unsustainable. Venezuela has fallen victim to the deception. Our families values are attacked and our church charities are being displaced with government entitlements. We can teach people to fish but now the government has made laws that forbid the fishing.

So what… someone that does not hold a conservative viewpoint is supporting someone that is not a conservative…

It’s amazing how the spitefulness and arrogance will allow Repubs to dig in their heals on failed ideology and policies.

Yep, split coming in Republican party; the extremist wingnuts will have Palin and some nutjob for a third party to vote for — which siphons off the lunatic fringe from the mainstream Republicans. That means the Nadar-effect will come into play, and the democrats will win BIG TIME in 2012.

Why did Newt Gingerich and others think that Dede would vote with the Republicans? She is better out of the race, let the voters vote for the the candidate with the values they share, up-front, not a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

She was not a conservative so of course she endorsed the Democrat. No news here.

The republicans are trying to purify their ideology. Your either with them or against them. There is a history lesson to be learned here.

She should join the Democrat Socialist Party that is where she belongs! Bye, bye DeDe good riddens!

This is just a sideshow – a minor meaningless race in an off year (like a 41.2% minority caucus is any different from a 40.8% one…). But I gotta say, it is turning out to be just hilarious to watch.

Slumlord Val thinks the GOP is too extreme.
This coming from a woman that recruited communist truther Van Jones into the Obama Administration.
Scozzafava has found a good home.

Exposed as the mole that she was! It was all a game! There are more of them, some have changed already and others have been dealt with (Bloomberg, Specter, Snowe, Larry Craig, Mark Foley, etc.)

I’m wondering how Dede’s campaign promises of less taxes, less gov’t spending, self-sufficiency over gov’t dependency will go over with her new friends in the WH.
Seems like the exact opposite of everything the Obama Administration stands for.
Time to pull a Specter.
Life is too short to live a lie.
Dede is a Democrat.

Enjoy the Dems DeDe.
They love you now.
But one wrong move, say one critical thing about Obama and you will go under the bus so fast your head will spin.
Enjoy your new home.
Been a Republican your whole life huh?

Its good the confusion is over . Now Newt and Ann, the two leading book writers in Rep. party know how badly wrong they were in endorsing their favorable candidate in NY state.

The “Take that!” lead-in to the article was a bit much.
Withdrawing and endorsing someone in the other party is the ultimate sign of a sore loser, someone who probably thought they were entitled to win, but was robbed. In addition, for good or bad, it is hard to run as a pro-choice Republican and she cannot be suprised she was pushed out.

I cannot relate to the republican party anymore.

I think the right wingers need to hop on a boat and find a new place to make their crazy right wing theocracy with a stockpile of weapons in every house and nobody paying a single tax, no garbage pick up, no paved roads, no eduation, no healthcare, no kids vaccinated. They can dig in their yards for oil like jed clampet and walk around saying “don wan no gov’nmint nobody tell’n me ta do not’n!”

Yes, giving control of our government to a single political party is not a good idea. For example, when the republicans were in control they:
1. sitting there and doing nothing while our manufacturing base goes overseas
1a. telling the American public your party is against abortion, but not doing anything about it, lip service
1b. out and out lying
2. spending way more than we take in.
3. borrowing money from communist china and Mexico so we can give bill gates and Donald trump a tax break
4. sitting there and allowing our world trade center get attacked, and then attacking a country that had nothing to with the world trade center attacks (letting bin laden disappear)
5. letting let our southern border go largely unprotected and then claiming our country is safe from future attacks.
6. selling our seaports to a foreign country and then try to claim our country is safe from future attacks
7.sitting there and pretending all kids have health care,
8.giving the oil companies tax breaks while the price of gas triples,
9.letting small oil refineries get bought up buy bigger refineries and closing them just so the price of gas can triple,
10. putting wounded solders in roach infested hospitals and sending soldiers to war without the proper equipment and then claiming they support the troops
11giving Halliburton huge no-bid contracts only to watch them not do the work they were paid to do and let them get away with it
12. covering up for child predators cause we need mark Foley to keep his seat and then not punishing Foley or the men that covered up for him
13. outing CIA agents
14. lowering the interest rates to practically nothing, creating an artificial housing boom in attempt to cover up the highly negative effects of free trade
15. making up and cherry picking intelligence
16. hiring attorneys that are big fat liars or have the memory equivalent to the common house fly
17. pollution
18. allowing tons of money to be “lost” in Iraq and not even trying to find it, but yet vetoing and voting against a bill that would give more childern health care cuase it would be to expensive.
19. pretending two drafter dodgers (one who was a male cheerleader) are tough strongmen
20. allowing large cargo bins to enter our country, and then not inspecting most of them, and pretending you are strong on terror
21. Flying the Saudis out of America on Sept 12th before the FBI could question them.
22. Secret Cheney energy meetings nobody can see the guest list on.
23. Cheney getting caught deleting his personal meeting list, contrary to the Records Acts.
24. Condi Rice getting caught giving State Secrets to Israel.
25. Crying like little babies about having to stay up all night, in attempts to break up a filibuster on the Iraq invasion, but gladly staying up until 3 am in order to pass a drug bill written by the drug companies, costing the tax payers Billions
26.Bush Administration spent more than $2.6 billion in public relations and media contracts in a two and a half year span…….big waste of our tax dollars
27. ABRAMOFF! The biggest crook in the history of modern politics and lobbying.
28. Cheney’s PNAC group “predicting” the necessity of a 911 event to go into Iraq back in 1998.
29. Not being there to order the planes shot down on 911 when they should have been. Or choosing not to.
30. Abu Ghraib/Legalizing Torture
31. Corporate owned prisons and the war on drugs to keep them filled, what a big fat waste of tax dollars
32. shooting Pat Tillman in the forehead 3 times, in a tight pattern, burning his clothes and dairy, and then lying about it
33. putting Martha Stewart in jail for insider trader, not only allowing GW Bush to get away with it 4 times but allowing him to run for president
34. putting Bernard Ebbers (worldcom) in jail for overstating corporate profits, allowing Richard Cheney to not only walk, but become the Vice President after commiting the same crime
35. not fixing our infrastructure, while borrowing money not to fix it, but to give Bill Gates a tax cut
36. illegal wire tapping
37. passing a bankrputcy written by the credit card industry, that was supposed to lower credit fee, but take note they are higher then ever b-4
38. passing legislation written by banks, that allows banks to rape college students that borrow money
39. Using Christianity for political gain & votes.
40. Using the corrupt Gonzales Justice Department for White House/GOP political gain.
41. Interfering in private US citizen issues fr political gain (Teri Schievo)
42. Hypocritically impeaching Clinton then forgive Libby’s 5 convictions.
43. pretending we are all morons by naming bills with titles like…….the clean air act, no child left behind, healthy forestes initiative, patriot act, ect………and in reality they function inversely to the dumbed down titles….
44. Refusing to allow the United States to participate in protocols studying global warming
45. Refusing to pass bills that support stem cell research, and impeading science in general, why are you such science haters, next time you have a heart attack dont go see the doctor, just lie there pray, lets see how that works…..stop going to the denist, and just pray your teeth dont rot
46. trying to cheat people out of their hard earned social security benefits and pension plans
47. for some insane reason giving forgeign companies control of our toll roads……..thank you indiana
48. deciding citizens 18 years old are too mentally immature to handle drinking alcohol, but at the same time sending recruiters to our high schools and colleges trying to sign up the same people they have deemed mentally immature to sign up for the military and be put in life or death situations…….too mentally immature to drink but not to immature to die.
49. trying to privatize everything is sight
50. constantly destroying documents that by law should not be………first nixon, the ollie north (to save regan’s worthless hide) and now bush and cheney
51. 40 years of lying and corruption, starting with nixon, then to regan and now bush
52. Screaming to impeach a president for lying about an extramarital affair while ignoring lies that led us to war against a country that had nothing to do with 9/11 when such lies resulted in more deaths than the 9/11 attack. If the first offence is enough to impeach, why isn’t the second?
53. filling positions with friends or campiagn contributors, instead of the most qualified job canidate
54. hating cuba cause they are commies but loving china ignoring they are commies….hypocrits
55. Making big enough interest payments to China to fully fund their military and space program
56. Gutting regulatory agencies that protect our health and well being. ie. USDA inspections, Customs inspections (Chinese goods) FDA and EPA authority.
57. Ignoring the most desperate of people during a massive catastrophe call Katrina and Rita and having the Gall to say “Nice job Brownie”
58. Hiring a know nothing crony to head FEMA when his expertise was running a horse show.
59. Using Politics and direct White House involvement in firing State Attorneys because they went after Republican Corruption instead of going after Democrats
60. destroying thousands of emails, breaking the law with out shame!!!!!
61. out and out lying
62. giving billions and billions of our tax dollars to wall street with absolutely no constraints
63. standing for 8 years doing nothing while americans lost their health care insurance or had them watered down to the point that they are useless
Lest you forget.

Isn’t Benedict Arnold from around there?

And now let me introduce the new ambasador to [some cherry picked ?] the new dem. Dede ??.

It´s hard to believe that an outsider who doesn´t even live in the district has the support Hoffman has. Don´t the people of this district want someone from home to represent them? We are all accustomed to outsiders running for, and getting elected to Senate seats, but Congressional district? What does this portend, a new era of carpetbaggers????

If the libertarians would give up the idea that it’s possible to actually go back to the constitutionalists and pioneering state America was in 200 years ago they could very well take it and run. Simply be truly fiscally responsible and socially liberal and stop touting isolationism. Most people would fall along those lines ideologically. Who really wants government intrusion and high taxes? Every wealthy liberal I know has no problem hiding behind every tax break available and conservatives sleep around or smoke pot or whatever. We have to create this new party. That’s what the revolution will be. I’m wondering if the establishment in Washington would really abide by a voting public who has finally decided to get rid of the current status quo? Seriously. Would they? Or would it lead to violence ultimately as Washington insiders twisted their power in a last ditch effort to remain in control. Something to think about.