(CNN) – Democrat Bill Owens may have won last night's special election in New York's 23rd congressional district - but Sarah Palin said Wednesday that race "is not over."
Writing on Facebook early Wednesday morning, the former Alaska governor praised Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman and "all the other under-dog candidates who have the courage to put themselves out there and run against the odds."
"The race for New York's 23rd District is not over, just postponed until 2010," Palin wrote. "The issues of this election have always centered on the economy – on the need for fiscal restraint, smaller government, and policies that encourage jobs. In 2010, these issues will be even more crucial to the electorate."
Owens – the first Democrat to win this district since the 19th century – is up for re-election in 2010.
Palin, along with prominent conservatives Tim Pawlenty, Fred Thompson and Dick Armey, backed Hoffman last month over then-Republican nominee, Dede Scozzafava, who dropped out the weekend before Election Day. The race garnered national attention over the Republican Party split between the Scozzafava and the more conservative Hoffman.
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This silly rabbit is a true fool. She needs to go home and take care of her sick child.
No, sweetie, you stuck your cute little nose where it didn't belong, and the Democrat won! You are the biggest gift to the Democrats...the gift that keeps on giving!
Even when confronted with the fact that her annointed candidate failed and the region voted in the opposition for the first time since 1872,shrill shill, Saint Sarah of the Silly still strives to be relevant.
And so she is, among the 20% that still publicly claim to be republicans.
please Palin, go back to school further your education and seek self realization......you are not the answer for this party, you are the DEMISE of this party.
Please stop covering Sarah Palin.
That's Sarah's entire problem in a nutshell. When it doesn't go her way, she just declares it's "not over". It is over – and so are you.
dumb as usual nothing new here move on
how about we postpone Palins mouth and Fred Thompson's thinking
Please,would you just go away......
Um Sarah, you do understand that this will be the last election of this district as it is. It's going to be re-districted after the 2010 census by the Dems. It's basically going to split your "conservative" voters in half by making it into two districts...so good luck in 2010!
Someone really needs to shut her up. She's not a rogue – she's a moron. Anyone have a bucket of water? "I'm melting, I'm melting..."
Stop the presses! The clueless bimbo has spoken about a race in NY.
Hey stupid, just because you couldn't help with the votes it doesn't mean things will change. That little hand punch of yours is so cute. It's like you really have something important to say but you don't.
The Daily Show had a little bit of the interview of beck with hoffman. I thought they were both ridiculous. hoffman looks like Howdy Doody but not funny.
Dems won 5 congressional races,
CA-32
NY-20
NY-23
IL-5
CA-10
IIRC
These winners will vote in Congress. McDonnell and Christie, NO.
Oh my goodness..this is twice in a month I have to say I agree with some of what she is saying.....hmmm....
My view is that his loss was not that big...actually that in itself says alot in NYS....I think it would have been best for the GOP to had laid low after S's withdraw and let things play out. The determent was you offended woman by dismissing Ms. S...and that was clearly wrong.
The real picture going on is that people have gone back to reading books and learning about government and which the real power lies...and starting at the local level to the Captials and then the drum roll on Senate and Congressional offices (now that is going to be the hot headed race of a lifetime and where there is a true refferum going on from average Joe..people want the status quo gone for good this time)
If you are a Repub running for office, start by begging Palin not to endorse you!! That is a sure way to keep some votes from your opponent...
Sarah Palin, is another republican moocher, she will do anything for money. This is nothing more than another money luring, power hungry, and overbearing woman, who really doesn't know her place. She is just what the bible describes as a harlot, who sell herself to men, not that they are interested in buying or taking for free. She is willing to give it to them freely or sell it to them for much of nothing to get to the top. It is obviouse her hubby don't mind, long as she bring in the bucks! What a sad case, they need to take her kids from her, she is a nonfit mother.
If anything, this year's vote was a referendum against outside politics trying to dictate local elections.
Why doesn't it ever seem like less government doesn't seem to mean less Sarah, Tim, and Dick. Get a clue!!!!
I don't think Palin is losing sleep over anything or anybody right now because she is filling out some large deposit slips from that book.
Hoffman lost. But Conservatism really won on Tuesday. Hoffman was a THIRD PARTY candidate. No straight tickets, no party's calling on his behalf, and the so called "Republican" aborted conservatism and endorsed the liberal because she was losing.
Once again paint it anyway you want it gives us HOPE for CHANGE to the way our constitution was written. Less government, more freedom and more personal responsibility.
With egg on her facing after leading the GOP circular firing squad, Palin comes up with the lamest excuse ever for her destructive tactics. Thanks to Palin, Owens will now run as an incumbent, with all the advantages that the GOP created for incumbents during the GOP House majority from 1994 to 2006. The far-right outsiders gave the election to Owens in 2009 and will do so again in 2010.
Yeah, Sarah should praise all those candidates who are willing to do what she is not, get out there and serve their country. The other thing they don't do is quit in the middle of their terms so they can go make money. She is irrelevant and two-faced and unfortunately for us she and the other extreme right wing nuts who support her don't know it.
I can't wait until the GOP actually eats some humble pie......Not all Americans believe in the GOP agenda.
To have a conservative,come so close to beating the Democrat in this election should be the shot heard across the country..Tax Payers are tired of Washingtons,Tax,Spend and Borrow agenda,when millions of Americans are out of work...... Had the district not been redrawn prior to the Election I Beliveve Hofman would have won,at least Sarah Palin outed the Democrat pretending to be a Republican....
Ha!!! Sarah you blew that one. Not uncommon for you!!!
Too bad Sarah wasn't 'around' when Homeland Security was being whipped together - talk about a big govt agency that seems to have unlimited power!
Yes it is. As the only election with any national impact, the outcome was a referendum on your crazy "conservative" party, which advocates policies that help the rich, and restrict the personal freedom of citizens while giving giant corporations the leverage to do what they want.
Keep it up Sarah! You're the best thing that ever happened to the democrats.
No huge fan of Palin, but she is exactly right here.
Funny, she makes ONE statement in support of the (C) running here and the MSM is saying this loss reflects on her, BUT Obambi and Billy Clinton spend DAYS in VA and NJ and somehow that doesn't reflect on them???
The nitwit Republican leaders in NY put up a leftist that they called a Republican and she was going to lose, so at the last moments they propped up another candidate who sounded a bit more like a Republican.
Obamabots in the media are all giddy over this, but the facts are that they didn't do ANYTHING here, the Republicans in NY blew it with the initial selection.
Bet the house that next year, the REPUBLICANS get this back.
Time for the Obamabots to roll out of bed and bash Palin, the rest of us WORKERS only have a half hour for lunch.
We Dems really appreciate Sarah's injecting herself into local races. The more she talks, the better for our candidates. Thanks!
"Fiscal restraint" and "smaller government" even when the economy is headed over a cliff? Even a dolt like President Bush recognized that government had to do SOMETHING (cue the bailouts and stimulus money). I guess Palin would prefer the over-the-cliff scenario.
Palin doesn't have ideas, just a limited collection of word clusters she spits out in response to any question: lower taxes, smaller government, 9-11, terrorism, freedom, real Americans, lower taxes, smaller government.....
"The issues of this election have always centered on the economy – on the need for fiscal restraint, smaller government, and policies that encourage jobs."
Interesting... sounds like Palin would have voted AGAINST George W. Bush.
She's FORMER everything. Just ignore her ghost-written Facebook and any other comments!
No Governor, the race is over. There will be another race in 2010. That's how the house of representatives works. Every two years. When someone wins though... they win, and take office, for two years.
Owens will serve one year, and then there will be new elections in 2010! We will see!
Underdogs who put themselves out there???? Since it has been 100 years since a Dem won that district, wouldn't he be the underdog? I would think the Pitbull with lipstick would know these things!
Move on honey, you are embarrassing yourself. The NY-23 race is over just like the 2008 Presidential election is over and for some reason, perhaps your all consuming drive to make as much money as you possibly can, you can't figure out that you lost.. The people of this country, outside of the misguided teabaggers, are not interested in your brand of conservative hypocrisy.
Sorry Sarah, it was over last night. The results are in.
Mandate against Obama policies? No.
Mandate about local issues? Yes.
Who does Sarah Palin think she is? She needs to stay out of politics especially NY. She is just another Repub that does not know what the people of this country wants or needs. She seems to have an ego that won't shut up and wants to be in the limelight. Go back to Alaska and stay there.
Looks pretty over to me....but she seems to have a problem with the concept of losing......I wonder if she would have said the same thing if the Democrat had lost??
Palin needs to go away and fast. We knew she was going to take the credit for her handlers telling her to endorse him. She is so clueless while trying to post though ghostwriters on FB.
Give us a break from this stupid woman.
Hey Bloggers,
CNN gets alot of responses to their constant Palin headlining because of our disgust and anger.
Why don't we try totally ignoring their total rapture with her and
not blog, respond, etc??
Maybe that would make CNN realize we have had enough.
I just wish all the fiscal conservatives weren't encumbered by all that neo-con, bible thumping narrow-mindedness and bigotry.
Get lost Palin! your stupid opinions are not needed!
I thought if you failed to get enough votes it simply meant you lost the campaign and election?
Or, is it that you are lost, thinking you can see the Adirondack trails out the back window? That is quite a hike from here to there.
Dim witted Sarah yes the people of the 23 district have spoken and chose to vote Democrat. Not for the Vile and extreme right wing Neo Con nut cases of which you are a part of. now shut up and go home.
Under-dog? LOL Palin. Hoffman was supposed to be ahead by the media's "account" and was supposed to receive 2/3 of Dede's votes.
The GOP elite meddling in NY-23 to drive away moderates caused far-right "conservative" Hoffman to lose, rightfully so for the way the party treated Dede.
Moderate decency won over Palin-Armey-Pawlenty-Limbaugh extremes. Thank goodness!
Congratulations to Congressman Owens!
Exactly right! Had the RINO not backed Owens the result would have been different. The GOP needs to wake up! Traitors like Dede are not needed in the GOP.
Sorry Sara Palin the American people are not buying what you are saleing. You and Huckbee keep up the good work at handing over more seats to the Dems. This country is not for the far right nut jobs like yourself Sara Palin so get the stepping.
ha ha! now that the election is lost all sarah & co have is plattitudes! well, you silly conservatives, when one door closes, another opens–in this case it is showing you the way out of politics and into the wilderness.
good riddance you fundamentalist whack jobs!
The sensible voters in NYS said "NO" to national conservative bullies and "NO" to a conservative carpetbagger – a guy who did not live in the district and knew nothing about local issues: The loud conservative has-beens and wanabes will whine but politics are local. Moderates are the people who accomplish things: the others are all talk and no action.
Republicans had no business choosing Scozzafava if they intended to hang her out to dry. No matter their wins in other races, the GOP once again managed to shoot themselves in the foot with this one. Can't blame her a bit for pulling out & throwing her support to the Democrats. Americans have by & large avoided the fractious multi-party coalition politics of other countries by having two broad-based, inclusive big parties. The GOP's insistence on lockstep adherence to hard conservatism is endangering their existence as a major party. Before they continue down this path, they need to realize that if they split, it won't be the party of the base that holds the real power; it will be the group that ends up attracting those swing voters in the middle that have decided every recent election.
Translation – The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. No big shock that Republicans are for big business and had McCain/Palin won the election last November, we would be in a deep, deep depression with more people out of work. It took the previous administration 8 yrs to get us into the hole we are in and everyone expects the new administration to "fix it" in 10 months. Get a grip! No one is a miracle worker, give this administration a chance. As for Health Care Reform? If the Republicans were truly interested in helping the American people, they would have done so or at least made the attempt in the 8 yrs they were in charge. Guess that explains why they aren't interested. They and THEIR families are covered, so they aren't concerned about those beneath them.
Why was Doug Hoffman "running against the odds"? I thought that the conservative message was so pure that none could resist its appeal. Was it because he wasn't conservative enough?
Hey Sarah. when you postpone something means nothing has been dealt with until in the near future. The results are in. The person your endorsed lost and Owen has already gone in history books of a Dem to win the seat in 100 years!
If I'm not mistaken, NY23 is surrounded by Democrat districts and is set to be split up and will be absorbed by those districts surrounding it. If a largely Republican district didn't think highly of Sarah this year, what will they think of her endorsement after being split up? Oh Sarah, you think too highly of yourself.
OH is that why she screamed and yelled and endorsed the candidate. Is that why they brought in a out of district guy....hmmmmmmm are they going to bring in and OUT OF COUNTRY candidate for president. So then we can start our birthers campaign.
By the way...I'd rather see us win two more house seats then to win two governorships. Which would add nothing to the national scene, only a terrible tragedy for the people of Virginia and New Jersey.
when will Palin reveal her ghost-writer on Facebook?
She aint no knowledge to write a full sentence. You bethca.
Maybe she doesnt understand the definition of election.
Umm.... Sorry Sarah, I think we have elections every year, not every 2. I'm pretty sure we had one yesterday and if your candidate ends up with less votes than the other guy.... YOU LOSE!!!!!
I would really like Sarah Palin to get back to school for more understanding about the nation and the world, instead of being too to the left. God bless America
Palin saying something, anything, that makes any sense whatsoever has been postponed until further notice.
Well, since she considered herself a "lame duck" halfway through what should have been her service as governor, we already knew her interpretation of the calendar was a little off.
But whatever the period on Owens incumbency, Palin et al cost the republicans one more congressional seat, which they held for 150 years.
Way to go Sarah!
Am I happy? You betcha!
Not that Sarah is playing with a full deck, but re: "under-dog candidates," how was Doug Hoffman an underdog when he had the backing of the full GOP establishment and all the socially and fiscally conservative groups. Combined they outspent Owens the Dem 3 to 1... in a seat held by the GOP since the Civil War. Um, "underdog"??? Haha. Ummm. No.
This WAS a major victory for Conservatives/3rd parties. An unknown and (honestly) unimpressive candidate like Doug Hoffman came within 6 points of victory. I think this says a lot about the desire of Citizens to return to a conservative platform and about the power of Palin et al to engage the populace in the election process. Many in the 23rd were voting for conservatism rather than for Hoffman. Incidentally, according to my research, the last Dem to hold the 23rd seat was in 1983 (not a "over a century ago" )
The real winner in last nights elections, were the RINOs.
Both the victors in VA and NJ ran as moderates and avoided the social issues, so dear to the neo-con "christians".
The loser was missy whose endorsement helped to usher in the first Dem since 1872.
Now, she is reduced to being the Twitter twit and "author" of Facebook funnies.
and why does anyone care what Sarah Palin has to say?
So it's "just postponed". Although someone else won, because he's going to serve only one year until the next election it's "postponed"?
Is that like being a little bit pregnant?>
Um, no actually the results are in Palin, that is how elections work. People vote, someone wins, someone loses. Just because the person you wanted doesn't win does not mean it isn't REAL.
What Sarah needs to do is 'postpone' herself from American politics permanently. If I was a politician I wold run like hell from any endorsement that would come from Sarah, I would hate to look out my window I see this dimbat looking in.
She remains the inarticulate not ready for prime time 'mama', go back and take care of your kids...Sarah!
Whats in District 23 – why is this a nationally broadcast thing?
I'm so sick of people – I don't judget President Obama because some GOP-er won a governorship or a Dem won a congressional race. Slow days for the media, I guess.
so in other words she didn't receive the message.
the conservative lost in this tiny race with the help of Palin's and Limbaugh's endorsements.
The United States will not be influenced by the conservative agenda ever again! you WILL lose! we outnumber your idiotic views!
Wake up nit wit, hoffman lost because YOU jumped in the mix and start flapping your dumb mouth, nobody likes you, you are a train wreck and you just keep running you big stupid mouth.
Out of all the races last night, this is the one I really wanted the republician to lose and he did.
Fiscal restraint? Smaller government? Jobs?
Where was that for the past 8 years? Republicans borrowed and spent us into a hole that will take years, if not decades, to overcome. Abuse of government power, constitutional violations, and no-bid contracts for cronies? Thanks, but no thanks!
That's a new one. In 2010 she will say it's been postponed again til 2012. Sarah, we get it-you never loose. She doesn't get the part that American people don't stand for she stands for.
Sarah, go home! Prep for your ego boosts with Rush, Glen, Sean and company. Then get ready to complain when Oprah asks why you think you should be President when you couldn't even run your state for your full term! There was a reason Senator McCain would not let you introduce him on election night last year. You would have probably blown it with a bully pulpit speech and outshone a genuine, certified hero that your candidacy tanked!
This just proves that Palin is not the savior of the GOP...at least not in the Northeast. Her meddling cost the Republicans a house seat. I hope she meddles more and loses more races for Republicans. Keep driving the party to the right. The northeast and west will be just a pipe dream for you. Eventually, you will alienate the rest of the country too. Palin, you are a JOKE! GO AWAY!
No it's over. In 2010 they'll have a new election.
This win for Owen was a referendum against the Re-thugs that hold the republican party hostage.
You mean because people didn't listen to the great wizard from Alaska. How dare they defy her? She is all powerful, a genious, a prophet (at least in her own mind)!
All you got going for you Sarah is your looks, just walk like a stepford lady
Palin quit her job, her husband quit his job and now she talks about policies that encourage jobs LOL. It's a disgrace for her to stand in the face of millions of American men and women who lost their jobs and not because they quit. Palin is no different than any other politician living off the blood, sweat and tears of hardworking American people and taking her husband along for the ride.
Well, Sarah was really appreciated in upstate New York! It appears that a few Republicans up there "grew a set" and rejected not only her but also Rush and Glenn. Maybe it is time for the RNC to grow a set and tell the "Toxic Trio" that they DON'T represent the mainstream Republican values and that they are harmful to the party..
So, Ms. Palin is now a fortune teller. She has become a political pundit and commentator. It certainly pays more....She fails to acknowledge that NYers are not impressed by carpetbaggers.
Dear CNN:
The economy will improve under President Obama's watch. The Republican Party need to work with the President instead of opposing everything propose. The GOP will be sadly disappointed if they think this election is a complete rejection of President Obama's agenda.
Signed FJS
Until this woman does something more than hide behind social networking sites her opinion is irrelevant and laughable. She couldn't govern the smallest State in the Union and she will surely not affect politics with 420 character irrational rants.
Sarah, you stated what Republicans have believed was best for the country, but you are smart enough to know it did not work. At some point I hope you become more reality-oriented.
I wish Palin was postponed until 2010..... what an obnoxious boob.
The right-wing nutter LOST..... first Dem elected in the district in 100 years.... Hoffman lost BIG.... SHUT UP AND GET OVER IT.
Bwahahaha... the conservative wing-nuts just lost to a Democrat for the first time in 100 years. Keep spinning away GOP... soon you won't have a party to spin for.
She and the rest of her polarizing pals helped blow Hoffman's slim chance. Hoffman didnt help himself being a carpetbagger and clueless as to the issues in NY-23 either. But this is a referendum on Palin, Armey and other extreme right wing pols who thought the national scene trumped all. Well, all politics is local and this 'Glenn Beck' fueled candidate had no substance; just ideology. Like Palin. like Armey, like Pawlenty and the others. All hat, no cattle.
NY-23 drives home the message the voters gave last year: Americans are not willing to go down the dark path the Neocons want our nation to take. NY-23 had been a traditional, reliable Republican stronghold since the Civil War, nwevere once electing a Democrat! The fact that the voters turned against the GOP after all this time demonstrates the repugnance mainstream Americans have for the Neocon movement.
Sara Palin's endorsement, Glenbeck, the teabaggers, were all the
kiss of death for the republicans in NY- 23.
This was the only race that was of any real importance to the Democrats. And we won the congressional seat.
The republicans think that electing a republican in a state that is
traditionally red republican anyway(but turned blue during the national
election, haha) somehow delivered them a victory. If Virginia wants to
be ruled by the same republicans who ruined the country no less than
one year ago, then let them.
However , the majority of Americans will not be fooled again.
...look out GOP'ers in 2010 for the "Medusa effect"... seems like anyone Palin endorses turns to stone! I'd run as far from that endorsement as possible!
Why is CNN using Facebook as a means to report what politicians are saying? When are they going to insist that this woman comes out and does an in depth interview??? She is becoming the "Big Sister" ("1984) or the Wizard of Oz of American politics,.
DO YOUR JOB!!!
Where are the LIBERAL Republicans at, The republican party needs them. The republican party better find it a good LIBERAL Republican to RUN the party and OUT CAST the Neo Con Nut Jobs or the party will spiral out of existence like the Whig party LOL
What these neo nut jobs hate to admit that REGAN was a LIBERAL republican like Arnold Schwarzenegger. Which these neo nut clowns dubbed them as RINO LOL
Republican you better let the RINO become the ruler of the republican party or just start planning to be replaced by a new more LIBERAL conservative party
The next party will be the democons vs the democrats LOL
But if people like RUSH Palin Bush Cheny Fox news continue to be the leader of the neo cons and will push all RINO out of the party. Your party will never lead the country again.
Thats right you better love your RINO or the RINO will crush you
All I can say is "awesome!" If all moderate Republicans get the axe and only hard-core Palinesque candidates get the nod, then the independents and socially moderate republicans become favorable to the alternative – or they just stay home.
Right, go on with your delusional thinking, Sarah Palin! It was obvious that your meddling in NY-23, throwing Scozzafava out and inserting the candidate you wanted IN, was .....clearly........ rejected by the people of NY-23!
When NY-23 voted for the first Democrat in...... 100 YEARS.... they sent the GOP a clear message, "We, the People reject the vile politics of the GOP."
THANK YOU PALIN
as by your speech you are still in DENIAL once again LOL
AMERICANS REJECTED YOU ONCE AGAIN
but really are the DEMOCRATS paying you to destroy the REPUBLICAN PARTY ? because you are the GIFT that keeps on GIVING
Palin says "all the other under-dog candidates who have the courage to put themselves out there and run against the odds."
You could also say that candidates like Hoffman put themselves out there and run against what people want in government: decency, services, protection from a ruling and ruthless upper class.
Its been 97 years since this district went Democratic. Palin and her far right cronies are dragging the Republican Party down, down, down. Good riddance.
HOPEFULLY, SO IS SHE. MAYBE FOREVER.
Why won't this woman just go away! We all know all we need to know about her. She is not qualified to run for high office, she quit the office she was elected to for no good reason other than the usual ramblings of a politician who quits, she has bad mouthed the President of the United States (which is unacceptable be the President a Democrat or Republican), she totes this ultra right wing conservative line that the majority of Americans want no part of, and she is so delusional as to think she could be President. Sarah, get yourself a talk show, rake in the money you feel you so richly deserve, but stay away from running for elective office – you aren't qualified!!!!!
Sarah Palin and company get involved in an upstate New York congressional race and the Democrat wins for the first time since the Civil War. Good job Sarah; hopefully you can help elect Democrats throughout the country
this woman is dumb as rocks
it is over, there will be another race, but now the person that won begins their term
you cannot be this dumb... but you keep saying just the dumbest things
You messed it up for your party, Sarah! A Republican would have been far more in line with your views than a democrat, therefore, butting your nose in where it didn't belong hurt those that share your views.
Does this mean the race for 23 isn't even over in 2010? Just postponed to 2012?
The Conservatives are spouting nonsense. All they proved is they can pick a loser. The Republican leadership was obviously right in picking a moderate candidate. Too bad for them they knuckled under in going with Hoffman. To call him an underdog is ridiculous. He was a 3rd party candidate until he became the "official" Republican candidate, then he made his gains. And the majority of people in the 23rd still could not stomach him.
who knows what transpires in the next year? it's for certain Palin will insert herself wherever she can, but I think a majority of us know that she is truly not presidential material and I think that will be born out as time goes on. The women of America need to wise up......she does not represent the women who REALLY understand what's happening..
Rosanne Cohn
Sarah Palin – a face unclouded by thought. Her virtue is that she says what she thnks. Her vice is that what she thinks does not amount to much.
Stop reporting on everything this airhead does and says!
So much for sister Sarah's "God like status." She is the centerpiece for the fringe in this country.
....or maybe he won because the people in the district didn't want a stooge who knew nothing about the area.
Why don't you go write a book about the people there just don't understand that your way is the right way?
The new Govener of VA said it best when he told you to stay away. It was the best move he made. Still the cult of Sarah managed to get in robo-calls.
I do have to give you credit, there isn't anyone that can motivate the Democrats like you can.
More Palin please!!!!!
So the GOP held this seat since 1872. It should have been a slam dunk for them, but a loss is just a postphonement? Her head is so far up her rectum she doesn't know what fresh air smells like.
Coming from a person who quit Her own position in Goverment, where is her weight in this race. And again if you have any understanding of fiscal responsibility you should know that no one fiscal policy work for all times. Some time require you to spend and raise taxes and some time require you to cut taxes and cut spending.
Of course that is not a good sounding point, just a fact.
After 100 years a democrat was elected in the 23rd......that speaks volumes.......even with the endorsements from the so call big wigs of the republican party......Thats the race that spoke the loudest.
Hoffman was hardly the underdog candidate. Hoffman had most prominent conservatives endorsement and was running in a reliably red conservative district. Owens was the underdog and in the end, so was Scozzafava because she did not walk in lock step with the party on every issue, unlike Hoffman who did and was anything but the underdog. Sarah is not very smart.
because lets face folks, Palin knows how to finish things. just look at her work as govenor of...oh wait, she quit that.
What a disaster to the Republican Party. After making a big stink about the Republican candidate and forcing her to back out of the race, the party-backed conservative candidate loses the seat to a Democrat for the first time in 150 years. So much for riding Sarah Palin's coattails. I wonder how all the Republicans in upstate New York feel about receiving the "support" of nearly every nationally prominent Republican now?
"The race for New York's 23rd District is not over, just postponed until 2010," Palin wrote." OMG, she can write!!!!
All elections center on ECONOMY Ms. SMART-ASH, especially when the economy is BAD!!!
She also states, "... fiscal restraint, smaller government, and policies that encourage jobs."
Okay, Ms. SMART-ASH, there are also REPUBLI-CAN'Ts in office and why aren't they suggesting the policies needed to "encourage" (not create) jobs and how they are going to do it with "fiscal restraint or smaller government".
MAYBE – just MAYBE, Hoffman lost because YOU endorsed him!!!
They did not want you in NJ and VA and won. You endorsed a candidate in NY and he lost, even though the candidate never wanted you around. You have good talents, lucky and charming, but you can be too hasty to making decisions. Your decision to abandon your state in time of needy will NEVER see you well. You need to focus on your book launch and be very conservative in your appearances–FOR NOW. You talk TOO much
More Facebook wisdom from a wacko. Thanks for the extra vote on Health Care Reform in the House. The death panels are coming because of your influence. Oh No!
Governor Palin may want to postpone the NY special election until 2010 , but the voters did not and rejected the " conservative " effort . Why didn't Governor Palin congratulate representative-elect Owens ? Is this all a sub-plot to worldwide book tour ? Dick Cheney seems to pop-off whenever he is out trying to round-up support for his future book .
The voters of DIstrict 23 in NY were so desparate NOT to vote for your conservative party candidate, Sarah, they voted in a Democrat for the first time in over 100 years. Shouldn't that be a hint that your endorsements means nothing, except maybe a guaranteed loss?
Two blogs in one day on this egotistical right nut winger. Cnn please publish something news worthy. I for one do not care what Palin puts on her facebook, she can't take credit for it anyway. I hate to think with all the serious problems that we have that this woman's opinions are of any importance. She showed me in the 2008 elections, she can't think and she can't predict or she could of at that time seen her own demise. You just add fire CNN to a narcissistic woman and her less than smart followers. Again, a sore loser and someone who can't admit she made a mistake.
Sarah Palin needs to woman up and admit that the candidate that she and the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck LOST....perhaps meaning that even in an area that has been Republican for years that even they are rejecting the far right idealogy of division, intolerence, and in some cases downright bigotry. Nothing wrong with being conservative but the neo-cons have taken it to a new level and not all the nation wants it.
Keep moving those goal posts, Sarah.
Keep talking, Sarah. Eventually you'll wear yourself out and go away to count your money. But, based on what you told McCain staffers, it won't be back to the land you supposedly love. No, it will be somewhere in the lower 48, somewhere where you can shoot your rifles (although not from a helicopter, dear) and somewhere with a good view of a foreign country. I know, how about Texas? You and Perry can cook up a secessionist strategy down there where they don't call such actions treason.
Palin was sharp enough to call out Dede Scozzafava for the liberal turncoat the is. Either way, Sarah Palin rules as she'll bring in a lot of money for any conservative candidate who receives her endorsement. Palin 2012!!
Translation: "We have not heard the electorate, and we will continue aggressively not hearing it in 2010!"
Palin really is a mental one-way street.
It is true. The Republican leadership got a smack down from conservatives and will hopefully, from now on, use primaries to vote someone in rather than hand-pick a candidate. Republicans have a better chance of getting a good Republican in that spot next time this way, rather than trying to unseat a liberal Republican.
Will someone please take the microphone away from this woman and stop giving her press coverage?
Ain't she "spatial" (especally between the ears).
We don't like the hate and fear and smear and lies. We're voting against the negativity.
Ms. Palin, your support for Hoffman clearly demonstrates that your bitter, partisan politics is on its way out. The voters of New York rightly voted against you, because you attempted to inject your vitreol into their race. Your candidate lost, because he does not represent the values of the people. Of course, 2010 will be a year of change, but don't count on it being in your favor. Count on it being a year that we, the people of this great country, vote for people who can reach across the aisle and work together for our good. We'll vote democrat, republican and independent, but only so long as the candidates offer real solutions to our problems. As for your hypocritical "values-based" politics, they will end up where they properly belong: on the ash heap of history.
who cares
"The race for New York's 23rd District is not over, just postponed until 2010."
TRANSLATION: The candidate on which I bet all my national political capital lost - and so did my party, in historic fashion. So ... IT DIDN'T ACTUALLY HAPPEN, FOLKS! It was all your imagination ... the election is really not for another years ... uh ... heh ... heh ... hrr ...
Doug Hoffman can see Canada from his house, which is in the wrong district.
As a democrat, I can only hope that Queen Sarah continues to run around the country and campaign for the right-wing candidates. Our numbers in the House will continue to rise. Thanks Sarah!
"Owens – the first Democrat to win this district since the 19th century "
Not only that this is the only election you pres idiots tracked that actually resulted in someone who could vote for or against Obama policies. I'd call this POSITIVE affirmation of Obama policies, say once in a 100 year type affirmation !
Palin is an idiot.
Palin needs to take a critical thinking class. If issues of this election centered on economy, voters apparently trust the other guy more than the candidate from your party. But I think the bigger question here is that candidates popular with republican party members are not electable by popular vote. It takes a centrist candidate who tries to reach out to many different groups – like Obama – to carry the election.
Sara, Sara
Like seeing russia from your front door your so wrong. My gues as a person who lives in Postdam and Ogdenburg area the party will choose another career Moderate Republican pol. from the area and he will will win again by 70%. Hoffman will be a historic foot note and will be get less then 5% of any future vote. The winner will not be so dumb to crtitize ear mark spending on the number one employer here Fort Drum.
For those tea party carpet baggers words have meaning! The beastality comment did more win the election Owens. That comment got more negative talk here around shop any other.
I would like to beg Sarah to 'please, PLEASE' stay in the Republican spotlight. And 'pretty PLEASE' win the nomination in 2012. PLEASE!!!
He won Sarah – be gracious and concede. Please go away.
funny how corzines loss is not a referendum on obama yet hoffmans is supposedly harmful for palin. obam is the president, she a citizen. hoffman pulled in a bigger percentage of voters in his race than corzine did in his. funny how all of a sudden a district in a state is preferable to democrats than the governorship of a deep blue state like n.j.
hilarious. ROCK ON SARAH
As long as the uber-conservative wing of the Republican party keeps shooting down electable candidates like Scozzafava in favor of Limbaugh troglodytes like Hoffman, it is over for the Republicans
Hey Sarah, know what else is crucial to the electorate? Government butting out of personal business. Conservatives are the last to get into your wallet, but the first to tell you how to live your life.
NY23 was a message, which Sarah apparently did not understand. America does not want far left or far right loonies. Conservatives need to stop this ill-designed takeover of the right. There HAS to be room for moderates. We do not want your fringe lunatics in power.
Progressive hate..., liberal style.
Postponed? An election result is a loss for one and a win for another. There is no postponement unless there was no winner. Let's face the facts. The presidential elections were not postponed, but Obama was the winner.
media is still listening to this so called drop out bottom feeder .. her comments don't mean squat. and who ever it is that is writting everything for her should find a better job .. because palin doesn't have the ability to put a sentence together let alone an actual thought about anything to do with our country .. call it like it is a pig with lipstick is still just a pig...
Could someone please put a muzzle on this intellectually handicapped Woman. Yes the Rethuglicans will take it back in 2010
with a more moderate republican but certainly not with a bozo like Hoffman. Please Sarah just Shut your hole that spews audio idiocy.