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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (527638)	11/10/2009 4:45:44 PM
From: Joe NYC	2 Recommendations Respond to of 1587918

Tench, No one is going to be excited over a so-called "moderate." I don't mind the "moderates", but they call the women from NY-23 a moderate (in the media), but she is anything but. What sealed her fate was support for card check legislation. That makes her a radical leftist. Her victory would really have been a defeat for GOP.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (527638)	11/10/2009 4:48:52 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 1587918

No one is going to be excited over a so-called "moderate." Nominating liberal Republicans is self defeating. Look at McCain and Scozzafava. Both liberal Republicans and both were badly defeated. Liberals are not going to vote for a Republican even when they more closely reflect their ideology than a democrat. Moderate can win in Republican districts but liberal Republicans can't win in democrat districts. It is obviously because Republicans are open minded and democrats are party minded.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (527638)	11/10/2009 6:53:45 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1587918

QUOTE OF THE DAY.... The Washington Post ran a terrific piece today on Dede Scozzafava and the events that led her to drop out of the congressional race in New York's 23rd, and soon after, endorse her Democratic opponent. Of particular interest was the disappointment she feels about high-profile members of her own party endorsing Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman. "How can Sarah Palin come out and endorse someone who can't answer some basic questions," Scozzafava asked. "Do these people even know who they are endorsing?" Well, on the first question, since Sarah Palin can't answer some basic questions either, I suspect Hoffman's ignorance didn't bother her much. On the second question, it's likely that Palin, Pawlenty, and others had no idea who they were endorsing, but figured, "If Glenn Beck and the GOP base are excited about him, that's good enough for us." Scozzafava also noted the larger effort to purge the GOP of moderates. "There is a lot of us who consider ourselves Republicans, of the Party of Lincoln," she said. "If they don't want us with them, we're going to work against them."