The right’s embrace of Hoffman is a double-barreled suicide for the G.O.P. On Saturday, the battered Scozzafava suspended her campaign, further scrambling the race. It’s still conceivable that the Democratic candidate could capture a seat the Republicans should own. But it’s even better for Democrats if Hoffman wins. Punch-drunk with this triumph, the right will redouble its support of primary challengers to 2010 G.O.P. candidates they regard as impure. That’s bad news for even a Republican as conservative as Kay Bailey Hutchison, whose primary opponent in the Texas governor’s race, the incumbent Rick Perry, floated the possibility of secession at a teabagger rally in April and hastily endorsed Hoffman on Thursday.
There are so many things wrong with this to even address all of them, but I think the point is well taken... Rick did afterall endorse Hoffman, and Kay did afterall avoid helping Hoffman...
Bernie Quigley has some intriguing thoughts as always (link). Excerpt follows...
Maybe Perry should change his brand to Conservative party in his race in Texas and leave Kay Bailey Hutchison to the Republican nostalgicos. Dick Cheney is campaigning for Hutchison and they seem a fairly good match. Palin is stumping for Perry.
In our times there has not been such a critical division in substance and outlook. The critical turning in NY 23 came when Tim Pawlenty, the governor of Minnesota who expects to run for president in 2012, followed Palin’s initiative and threw his support to the Conservative party candidate Doug Hoffman. By the time Scozzafava dropped out, Palin, Pawlenty, Perry, former New York governor George Pataki, Minnesota representative Michele Bachmann, former Senator Fred Thompson and other prominent Republicans had lined up with them. Newt Gingrich led the traditionalists in support of Scozzafava. Cheney might be considered in the Gingrich column as well. Haley Barbour, Governor of Mississippi and head of the Republican Governors Association supports Perry in Texas and might be considered among the Conservatives.
I still have not heard whether Kay is now for Hoffman. Hopefully right? Scozzafava endorsed the Democrat in the race... proving why so many people were so cross with her to begin with...
This seems like a missed opportunity from Kay... she could have gotten in the good graces of conservatives but sat on the sideline instead... so many prominent Republicans endorsed Hoffman it was not even a tough decision by the time she was asked about it (link). Excerpt follows...
Sarah Palin, Fred Thompson, Rick Santorum, Dick Armey, Tim Pawlenty, Rick Perry and a host of nationally prominent Republicans have endorsed Hoffman. A growing wave of Republican office holders are jumping on the Hoffman bandwagon.
Hoffman was not a hard choice, but for some reason Kay didn't make any choice.
Hoffman was not a hard choice, but for some reason Kay didn't make any choice.
ReplyDeleteThat reason being that Kay Beltway Hutchinson is no longer much of a conservative. If she ever was? Now days for Kay, it's feeding at the public trough which counts.
KBH is a TOTAL RINO! She is porker of the month, not pro-life, voted with the Democrats for that rape thing, one of only a handful of Republicans for Lilly Ledbetter, always for expanded S-CHIP. Voted for the Brady Bill which infringes on 2nd Amendment rights.
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