Washington (CNN) – Dede Scozzafava, the woman who has become the symbol of moderate Republicanism, is taking a shot at former Republican vice presidential hopeful Sarah Palin, the woman who has become the darling of the Republican Party's conservative grassroots.
In a new interview, the state assemblywoman also lets loose on former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who chose to endorse Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman over Scozzafava, her party's official nominee, in the closely-watched race in New York's 23rd congressional district.
The Hoffman campaign and many of his supporters targeted Scozzafava on some of her more moderate views, particularly on social issues.
The growing conservative support for Hoffman, including the endorsements from Palin and other prominent conservatives, eventually led Scozzafava - who had been hand-picked by local party leaders - to drop out of the race just days before Election Day.
"How can Sarah Palin come out and endorse someone who can't answer some basic questions?" Scozzafava told the Washington Post. "Do these people even know who they are endorsing?"
In the interview, Scozzafava - who ended up backing the race's victor, Democrat Bill Owens - sounded a bitter note about how she was treated by members of her own party.
"It was organized," Scozzafava told the Post about the attacks against her by Palin, other prominent conservative figures, and conservative advocacy groups. "There is a lot of us who consider ourselves Republicans, of the Party of Lincoln. If they don't want us with them, we're going to work against them."
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You say "Dede Scozzafava, the woman who has become the symbol of moderate Republicanism"
Didn't she endorse the Democrat in the NY 23 election? Who declared her the "symbol" of moderate Republicanism.
Palin is used as the one to do the dirty work, tell the lies, spread the hate for the GOP then the men in that party laugh and say they are clean - they didn't dirty their hands.
Palin is a pawn of hate, fear, deceit, divisiveness for the GOP. A PAWN. A stupid pawn.
"If they don't want us with them, we're going to work against them."
Come to the dark side, Dede! We have the White House, and majorities in both houses!
Sincerely,
The Proud and Progressive Democratic Party
Nice. The GOP is imploding. R.I.P
Who is this Scozzafava???
Don't let those party extremists tell you what to do. They can't think and they don't like anyone who can.
Now thats what I'm talking about. Neo-cons dont love America, only money. They cannot have all the money and the power of government. We the people would be totally screwed in the name of small govt and BIG money. STRAIGHT DEM TICKET.
I think the "grass roots" proudly shouting out "GO SARAH" like she is some sort of Rocky-like underdog are hilarious. She quit her job and ditched her state on July 3 to cash-in on a book deal worth millions. And you saps are proud of her for that?
The moderates need to rise up and rescue the Republican Party from the extremist nutjobs like Palin, Steele, Boehner, Inhofe and all the talking heads on radio/TV or they will languish at the bottom for a long time to come.
scozzafava...should take a cup of java and forget about politics
she IS not a republican and not a conservative
she caused the lose of this seat!
Palin couldn't answer basic questions herself when she was the GOP pick for vice president.
Why shouldn't she endorse someone else who can't?
Good for you, Dede. If thecountry is ever going to recover from Extremism, it will take more candidates like you, who are either moderate Republicans or moderate Democrats to lead the charge. Ultra Liberals and Right Wing Republicans are a recipe for disaster.
Stubbornness or Obsrinacy, thy name is Palinism! Beware, moderare repubs! Palin is outta get you like a croc.
It's been apparent for quite some time that Sarah the Quitter is a political wh*re with concern for only herself. It's sad that our country has spawn some people so stupid that they think she has something to offer our nation ... if you don't count hate and fear-mongering ...she doesn't.
Ultra-conservatives like Sarah Palin can't keep their noses out of America's bedrooms.
They say they are all for Freedom, but they are the first to tell you how to live your life.
You might be worried about government intruding on your life, but you should be much more worried about people like Sarah Palin intruding on it.
the party of lincoln became the democratic party , and with this woman gone there is nothing left of the gop but a bunch of right wing loony tunes .even crist is a wimp trying to deny he supported the economic stimulis hes a lair i herd crist on tv saying how good the economic stimulis would be for his state . see crist has to move so far to the right to even get a look in in 2012 , well hes a proven lair . this woman has principles something palin knows nothing about as all palin thinks about is how much money she can make geeze what a christian that is .
Sarah Palin is careless. She will never secure the GOP nomination because of her reckless postings on Facebook which will be a permanent trail she leaves for future opponents to take her out swiftly and EASILY.
I would feel sorry for her if she wasn't such a ruthless, cocky, mean-spirited woman. Ready to point a finger of judgement at anyone who has different viewpoints or lifestyles than her conservative base (because we all have a good idea of the immoral life she leads behind closed doors) She is the female version of George Bush, and that is frightening!
Sarah Palin can endorse someone that can't answer some basic questions because she couldn't, remember the interview with Katie Couric. Birds of a feather flock together.
palin is back at her "death panel" baloney. that alone proves that she cares nothing about reality or truth. the only "death panels" are already in place...they are called insurance companies. the folks up here in alaska finally got fed up with her lies and ran her out of town on a rail. that witch is the most dishonest, backstabbing, self-serving, lying, sack of dog crap imaginable...and many in the lower 48 are fooled by her false apple pie goody goody i'm one of ya'll you betcha tv image. they don't even know anything about her other than what her lie machine feeds them. anyone that believes she is like her tv image probably still believes in the tooth fairy or the easter bunny. alaska state employees call her "big sarah" for her gigantically swelled head full of megalomaniacal self importance.
folks, wake up & smell the coffee!
Don't take it too hard Ms Scozzafava. The conservative movement endorses attitude over intelligence, and belligerence over awareness and knowlege of our country's real issues. I'm sorry they're tearing your party apart, but I think you've been asking for it for years as your party has been romancing votes from this group.
Thanks Dede Scozzafava! for caaling on these aristocrates! they shed crocodile tears for the country yet they quit on the same country when they see dollares!!
Who cares what Scozzafava says. She only polled aout 13% in the election before she dropped out.
Dede thank-you for your service to Northern NY. You are about representing the people of your home, not some politcal agenda that doesn't address the issues of NY. Maybe if more representitives were interested in representing thier districts first before they accept all of that special interest money for election or re-election, we would be much better off.
It is time for us all to admit to the two party scam and support third party candidates!
While Hoffman could not answer even easy questions, neither could Palin. It seems to be the one common thread of the wingnuts.
Simple answer is no they don't know who they are endorsing – all they care is that they are "social conservatives". Whatever baggage they bring doesn't matter as long as they have that label. It doesn't matter if they don't understand local issues. The Republican Party should be telling Palin and the other ragtags to get out but they won't.
Easy one. BECOME an INDEPENDENT. Are you listening Charlie Crist??? Run as an Indepepndent.
All this criticism of Sarah Palin is moot. She is the darling of the conservative movement so Refuseniks had better beware. The conservative dream team is Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann. What a pair!
Take the party back from the right wing nuts and maybe the Republican party can again become a more acceptable alternative to the Democrats.
Right now the major voice of the Republican party is one step away from wearing their hood and white sheets. Michael Steele is nothing but a shill who panders to those hate mongers!
Palin is right once again, to bad the liberals and many republicans do not get it.
It's the night of the long knives all over again, Republican style. They want to purify the party and expel anyone who deviates at all from party doctrine.
Scozzafava was a loose cannon. She sometimes said "waver" instead of "flip-flop," "economy" instead of "free market," and sometimes she went a whole day without quoting Ronald Reagan. She had to go.
I'm not sure why ANYBODY who considers themselves politically related to the party of Lincoln would EVER associate themselves with the modern [R] party. The delusion and stupidy it takes to create such a backwards political entity is only matched buy those dimwits that are impaired and scared enough to join it.
The birth-baggers who so proudly call themselves [R] or who mis-appropriate the label "conservative" should have a genetic check-up. Something really low has contaminated the gene pool on that side of the political fence.
Sorry, Republicans, but as a Democrat who has definitely suffered because of your foolish and misguided domestic and foreign policies, particularly during the Bush/Cheney disaster, I am thoroughly enjoying watching you all cannibalize each other.
There is always room for more good people in the ever increasing Democratic Party.
Conservatives whether they identify as Republicans or independents won't support RINOs like Scozzafava. A RINO winning is no different than a Democrat winning. Speaking as a conservative independent, if the Republican party wants to become liberal lite, fine with me, I will vote for third party conservative candidates. I don't care what political label they pin on themselves, just that they share my conservative values. I could even vote for a Blue Dog Democrat if I believed they shared my conservative values. I give it one more year of unfettered liberal rule before voters won't want anything to do with any politican that looks anything like a liberal or progressive.
Dede, I think I love you.
I disagree with Scozzafava's politics, but I heartily endorse her intelligence, grasp of the issues, and leadership potential. We need more people like her at the helm and fewer hardline religious extremists hijacking the ship of state.
Yup, this is your Republican party. They eat their own!
I respect Dede. She seems to be concerned about her constituents and not all about the party.
The Republican Party: They eat their own. Thanks for demonstrating it so well Sarah... Someday you too will be on the menu.
Bye bye Dede, with your views you aren't welcome in the Republican Party. BTW, if you are pro-life, pro-gun, pro-small government, pro-lower taxes, etc. you aren't welcome in the Democratic Party either. Let's just put ALL the cards on the table before the liberals spout what WE need to do as a party. Our tent is now over-flowing with Republicans and Independents who've realized what a mistake they made last November. They won't make that mistake again. How's that hope and change working out for you? Double digit unemployment, massive deficits, low morale in the military, laughingstock around the world, bowing to the king of Saudi Arabia, abandon our allies, worldwide apology tour, won't admit a muslim terrorist murdered our soldiers, corrupt ACORN being swept under the carpet, Czars, etc. Wow, what a joke.
"How can Sarah Palin come out and endorse someone who can't answer some basic questions?"
Because neither can Sarah.
Don't go away mad, Dede...just go away.
OK- yoo can go away mad if you want to, but please...just get out.
BTW- She's no 'Moderate Republican'...she's a Liberal.
"How can Sarah Palin come out and endorse someone who can't answer some basic questions?" Umm...because Sarah Palin can't answer basic questions either! She can't even name a paper she "reads". The current Republicans don't give a flip about anyone but themselves or the fringe right loonies. That is why they are soon to be extinct.
Scozzfava's criticism sounds like sour grapes. These grapes are not sour, they are rotten. Not only they spoil the taste in your mouth, they make you sick. It certainly killed the Republican seat in the house after almost 150 years!
"There IS a lot of us"? DeDe your grammar isn't much better than Palin's but at least you think before you attack.
Democrat vs. Republican. Great.
Scozzafava = sour grapes
"How can Sarah Palin come out and endorse someone who can't answer some basic questions?"
I think you just answered your own question.
(me so scared of Sarah)
"Scozzafava, the woman who has become the symbol of moderate Republicanism"!??
HaHaHaHa! Nope..., no progressive bias here.
Go Dede! I voted a straight Republican ticket for over 20 years; never again. The ongoing purge-and-purification process by ultra-rightists is too much for me to stomach. The most radical Democrat could do no greater damage to the country, its institutions and its founding principles than these raging Taliban know-nothings who are now devouring the GOP.
when whas the last time that Palin said anything that had any smarts?
I give her,that she knows how to make money.
Other than that. Lies from the bridge to nowhere to the death-panel.
the most clueless outspoken person I heard in years
will someone inform Scozzafava that she is NOT a Republican and don't pretend to be one.
Well, what do you think, she can't answer basic questions, they speak the same language.
What would you expect from the rogue? Back a nother candidate who knows nothing, what an air head. I am convinced that 70% of all Republicans are dumber than average. Palin for PRESIDENT 2012.
I'm so tired of hearing things like this...why don't right wing neocon's become their own party and let moderate and progressive Republican's do their thing?
Palin is just another soundbite in time. There is no way in heck she will be a serious presidential contender. If so, she has all but gauranteed a victory for Obama...which I completely welcome!
"Darling of the Republican Party's conservative grassroots"
Funny stuff.
This is entertaining. Republicans' don’t much care for Palin, but out of hatred the left will keep this woman in business. Watch this blog will have 300 comments with about %75 being hateful from the left, and it will happen in record time.
No one should be surprised that Palin endorsed a candidate who knew nothing about the issues. Palin herself knows nothing about policy and issues.
Palin claims to represent "values." But what does Palin's record show that she value?
Palin's record shows that she significantly increased taxes on the most inportant industry in Alaska and she redistributed that wealth to the residents of Alaska.
Palin's not a conservative, she's not even properly defined as a populist. The correct lable for her is "opportunist."
"How can Sarah Palin come out and endorse someone who can't answer some basic questions?" Well it would seem that they are two peas in a pod. Sarah Palin will happily endorse someone who cannot answer basic questions, just as she could not answer basic question during her Vice presidential campaign. It is not the questions and answers that matter, it is the view points that the ultra conservatives care about.
I really wish Palin would just say what she thinks: NOTHING.
It's very curious that Palin attacks the President and even Republicans after accepting money from insurance companies, gets headlines, and then is deemed to have "leadership skills" by her drooling fans. The Pied Piper had leadership skills as well, and all the children followed him into the lake.
Scozzafava is the symbol of democrats PRETENDING to be republicans. When a democrat like her doesn't think he or she can get nominated by their party because of competition or whatever, they claim to be a republican. That way, not only can they get elected but they can dilute and sabotage the GOP in the process. If the republicans don't wise up to this little trick and cleanse their ranks, their party is doomed.
Scozzafava is viewed as a moderate Republican? I thought I was a moderate Republican! Republicans consider her as much of a Republican as Democrats view Lieberman to be a Democrat. At least get that part straight!
GO PALIN. Don't let idiots take you down. Stand up and fight back. After all it was these same morons who put a Erkel Muslim at the head of our government. He bows to Muslim Kings like the King of Saudia Arabia. But yet will not wear the US Flag or bow to our strongest ally the Queen of England. IMPEACH HIM NOW. Was a Democrat for 50-years. I didn't quit them until I finally wised up in seeing the direction they are going. That is straight to Hades taking fellow Americans with them.
Don't miss the companion video to Sarah's book. It's called Nailin' Palin. It shows Sarah at her best!
If Palin can't answer basic question, why would she expect others to?
Thank you Sarah! You got us another democrat elected! Keep up the good work and don't stop now!
there is a word for such actions disorganized or division
More evidence of how destructive Palin is to the GOP. There's a reason Democrats love this woman.
Who didn't see this coming? I can only hope that the extreme right leadership (talk radio hosts) keeps leading their followers and candidates to the slaughter. Not only will conservatives peel off GOP voters, they are pushing the remainder of the sane wing of the GOP under the same tent as the democrats. The extreme right is going to wake up one day soon and realize that they put themselves in an (even more) inescapable minority. Sarah Palain / Joe Wilson 2012!!!!!!!
Palin continues to slash and burn her way through the Repugnant Party, like Sherman through Georgia, leaving scorched earth in her wake. She could almost single-handedly remove the Repugnants as an organized force in this country. In its place, there will be a small, tightly knit contingent of the uber-wacko fringe who can form their own religious organization and move to the Appalachians.
Thanks, Sarah!
Someone a little jealous?? Little green monster is showing Scozzafava and it's not very becoming.
one...I never knew a Republican had any brains...obviously I was wrong. Scozzafava, I can respect you and you are welcome on my side any day.
Dede. Join the others who are now not good enough to be a Republican. You dare to have free will and not cowtow to fat boy, Failin Palin, et al so you are no longer welcome.
It was evident that Dede Scozzafava did not meet the criteria of Sarah Palin. Moderates within the Republican Party need not be included.
Will this be Sarah Palin's MO to intervene in elections where she is not wanted because the candidate does not meet her brand of Republican??? How sad that this is what the GOP is being reduced to.
Good for Scozzaffa! I hate to say this though, but the 'Party of Lincoln' died over a half century ago, and it ain't ever coming back!!!
So whose going to be the first one to sneak into Sarah Palin's "book tour" with a hidden videocamera and let the rest of us know what she was afraid we'd hear?
Conservatism isn't a chameleon-like quality. You either are one, or you are not one. We are weeding out the Republican Party.
Chop chop ... chop chop... one weed gone.... Conservatism is thriving!
You ask how Sarah Palin come out and endorse someone who can't answer some basic questions? Birds of a feather!! She can't answer basic questions Intelligently either!
It's about time more moderate republicans stand up to crazy Palin.
Palin has no idea what Hoffman stood for - she had no idea what McCain stood for– she's a simpleton– 5 colleges in 7 years and the only economics course that she took she receieved an F( all documented). Idiots across America are following her because- well, errrr, they are idiots as well. In a country of 350 million you are bound to have several million ill informed losers who have no idea what the issues are– it's a lack of education and simple brain power(try really reading about the issues).Unfortunately their mindlessness affects all of us in the nation. Get informed People– to be aware is to be alive!
And so it begins, finally, the reaction of the moderate conservative dudes against the actions of ultra-extremists ones against them.
Sounds pretty typical of Palin then doesn't it? Since Palin quit as gov of Alaska, who now takes care of her child since she seems to be doing a lot of traveling lately? Her hubby?
Are you listening, Republicans? The only way you're going to return to power is by taking back your party from the right-wing extremists who have hijacked it away from you! It is so hypocritical that Republicans call Islamic extremists "terrorists" while the so-called Christian extremists like Palin and Limbaugh are regarded as your leaders.
Moderate is NOT a 4-letter word.
Good! Moderate Republicans should be embraced by the national party, but evidently the national party is now under the control of the right-wing nutjobs i.e. Palin, Bachmann, Rush Limpbag, Glenn Blech, and Michael Steele is their tool. He's going down soon. Watch them go after (R) Joseph Gao of Louisiana next. Let them form a new party, the Teabaggers, and see how far that gets them against the true Republicans. If the infighting keeps up, the Democrats will continue to win over and over. Fine with me.
As the ole' cowboys would say...'dem der fightin' words'....be gentle, you'll have better results
I only hope that a socially liberal/fiscally moderate third party emerges from all this and the modern GOP falls by the wayside. The extremist wing of the Republican Party (including most of the leadership and visible media figures) is way to out on the fringe to be in charge of anything.
Shhhhh!!! Don't say anything. Let them keep thinking that alienating the moderates is helping them. Have a nice day!
You go girl! Well said.
This is not the republican party of my youth. I grew up in a republican family who were mostly fiscally conservative, socially moderate. Nowadays they would be demonized by the party leadership. The GOP has effectively driven us all away from the party. The conduct of the GOP is shameful.
"no, there's no in-fighting within the republican party. We are more unified than ever."!
I think she's right. I don't really get how being socially liberal makes you not republican. Republicans stand for a smaller and less personally interested government. Seems to me like an economically conservative but socially liberal person is exactly what the party should be made of.
Come on CNN. You're becoming a tabloid with all of Palin coverage. It's to the point of rediculous.
Mrs. Scozzafava the answer to your questions: ""How can Sarah Palin come out and endorse someone who can't answer some basic questions?""
is actually quite easy, remember back S.P. being interviewed by Charles Gibson? S.P. wasn't able to answer any simply questions or the one with Katie – S.P. couldn't even answer what papers she reads!
This endorsement by SP was like the blind leading the blind.
I'm sorry how your own party has treated you – it seems like woman with 'brains' are not very welcome in your party – so wy don't you change that and become a democrat or independent?"
Dede sounds very bitter.
It's always organized! Wake up and smell the coffee....
The republican party has no resemblance to the party of Lincoln. It has reverted to being a party of bigotry, intolerance and ignorance, that has more in common with the values of the Taliban.than a modern demoratic entity.
It is no longer a secret to anyone that Sarah Palin has aligned herself with the Limbaughs and Coulters to pad her pockets as thick as theirs are. She will do anything and say anything that fits that profitable right wing neocon formula: criticize, destroy, malign, and profit. It may make her rich, but it will never make her president.
This doesn't surprise me remotely. It just proves once more that the "Conservative" portion of the republican party is far more interested in promoting their own narrow ideals than in reaching anything that might be called compromise. And as an Alaskan, I can say this sort of behavior from Sarah Palin is the least surprising of all. I'm glad we got rid of her, but we should apologize to the rest of the country. She's been as big a nuisance to all of you as she was to us.
You go, Dede! Please, please, you and the other sane Republicans must take back your party (if you can!) from the zealots who are dragging it over a cliff of insanity. As a liberal I feel strongly that we need a sane, sensible conservative party as a counterbalance to my own side's view of the world - but the GOP as currently constituted is not that.
Silly, silly Scozzafava! We're not looking for someone who can come up with meaningful answers to complex questions. We just want another dittohead who can regurgitate what Pope Rush says.
Palin/Beck 2010
It's about time that moderate Republicans stand up for themselves, and take their party back from the intolerant authoritarian lunatic fringe. Hint to intolerant neocon nazis: Lincoln was not a secessionist, and Reagan's party had a big tent.
Sarah, herself, cannot answer basic question. This woman flies by the seat of her dress. For her ignorance is bliss.
We is Alaska are so thankful she is no longer our governor. She proved to be a disaster on every issue. Her management style was, and still is, the middle-school. back-stabbing, I've-got-to have-it-all-my-way, cheerleader, beauty-queen mode.
Thank God and McCain she is GONE!
Everything Palin does is for money
She has no idea what she stands for
It's simply about money for her
A dull, brain dead twit, who likes money and attention ... Period
Is Palin a self-promoting twit? You betcha!
Does she have any sense of ethics? It ain't so, Joe.
Not sure why they [CNN] continue to brand these folks as conservatives. They want in your doctors office and in your bedroom while screaming personal rights and small government. They're tear a whole in the bottom of your pocket with "drunk sailor" spending over the last 8 yrs while crying about taxes and apparently they will eat they're young and cut they're own noses off at a chance to do it all over again. When are the real conservatives going to wake up to self serving fanaticism that has been hijacked in the name of "conservatism?"
Sarah Palin is living proof of what happens when you but party above priciipal. We have people like that in the Democratic Party as well but they usually work for the real leaders. For the GOP it looks like it is the other way around.
Scozzafava wonders, "How can Sarah Palin come out and endorse someone who can't answer some basic questions?"
My reply to that,
"Because Hoffman is just like Palin, they both cannot answer basic questions but Sarah thinks she is the best qualified to maybe run for the presidency of the U.S.A.!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Have you guys at CNN become Palin groupies? What's up with all of the minute by minute reporting on Sarah Palin?
Just goes to show everyone...they are "sheep"...will follow anyone put out in front in the name of conservatism. How truly sad.
There is nothing MODERATE about letting the homosexuals destroy marriage. There is nothing MODERATE about Scozzafava. He is a hard-core left-wing radical who, like many other so-called republicans, are trying to sabotage the GOP.
CNN, the fact you would try to characterize this woman as a moderate just shows your obvious bias. Sarah Palin is the moderate.
Palin just wants to go rogue. No substance behind what she does.
The Party of Lincoln is no more. That ended when Teddy Roosevelt left the party. Progressives in the areas of civil right and conservation went with him, paving the way for what is now a narrow-minded, arrogant and intolerant party. When was the last time you saw a Republican at the vanguard of any civil rights movement?
Conservatives may win their primaries, but you don't win actual elected seats by appealing only to 20-30% of the general electorate.
I'd love to see the real 'Party of Lincoln' rise up from the ashes, but won't hold my breath. Until then, you'll see more dirty politics like this one from conservative GOPers who will not allow moderates to obtain any significant power in the party.
Scozzafava, you have no room to talk, you asked for all of this. Don't blame Palin for your own failings. You should ask yourself why you were not supported by the people of your district.
It's great how they call Scozzafava a "Moderate Republican". So a moderate Republican is someone who believes in abortion, gun control, increasing government scope and power? Wow that makes 99% of Republicans radicals. Thanks for pushing the whole world 100 miles to the left.
somebody needs to tell her that she is a democrat . she belongs with the bo administration.
Yes, we are very scared of Palin, very very scared. She scares the hell out of us. Please DO(n't) make her your 2012 presidential candidate, we know she will beat Obama if you do. She'll win in a landslide, it's all true, we're terrified of her because she'll win.
(laughs, please oh please make her your candidate in 2012, I'm loving the idea of you loons having your teeth kicked in, in 2012 if you do! She'll be reviewing her opposition to rape kits after the beating she takes)
Well it looks like the GOP is a split party in the making. You tea baggers are going to be on your own and Sarah will be your princess.
Good luck, but remember she already quit one elected job. Maybe you better get Joe the Plumber for back up. He's real stable.
Every time Palin goes somewhere it "raises eyebrows" according to cnn... A guess they have stumbled on a new cure for baldness.
Scozzafava is right, but her faulty assumption is that Sarah Palin even understands what Lincoln stood for. For Republicans like Palin, elections are just sports games; "who's up? who's down?" is all they can think. After winning, they have no idea what to do with their power except hand it over to lobbyists in exchange for re-election money.
Dede, you are right , Sarah is a nut job and so is all who wish to follow her and her lame rhetoric. Keep following your heart and let the Rush Limbaugh republican party spew their deadly non sense venom.
Here it comes. Hot Dog. Split the republican bums off the real republican party.
"How can Sarah Palin come out and endorse someone who can't answer some basic questions?"
Birds of a feather... she couldn't even state what publications she read, or her opinion on the bush doctrine. Yep, birds of a feather flock together.
We can all thank John McCain for sending Sarah Palin our way. She is beyond DUMB.
"How can Sarah Palin come out and endorse someone who can't answer some basic questions?"
Hardly a surprise – we all know Palin's not so hot at answering questions.
Running the voices of reason out of the party has become something of a hallmark of the republican'ts. Look how they threw Specter under the bus and hassle anyone else that even hints at bipartisanship. That's what happens when you allow your party to become bound by extremist ideological incompetence – your best and brightest become troublemakers. Not too much of a leap for an increasingly populist party that celebrates Palin-style anti-intellectualism.
Miss Scozzafava can argue all she wants about the direction she feels that the Republican party needs to take. But in my mind, she lost all credibiilty among conservatives when she endorsed the Democrat in this race.
Dede Scozzafava could not hold her own and can blame no once but herself. Politics is a very tough business and the last person I want representing me is a WHINER who blames everyone else!
She's clearly worth fifty of Palin, but we already knew that.
Sadly, the Republican party hasn't been the "Party of Lincoln" for decadeds. Now it's the "Party of Thurmond, Goldwater, Reagan, W, Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck ... and Palin." Abraham Lincoln would not have gone near the current Republican party – and if he had, they would have slammed the door in his face.
The Dems have a new hero. Grayson has been the Dems role model and now they have added Scozzafava as their female example of a true Dem.
Says alot about their party
She had no shot at winning so she had to blow it for her party. She's just another RINO who is now out of a job. We didn’t need two Democrats running. 7000 people threw away their vote on election day. If Hoffman had been in the race more than a month the Republicans would have had another eat in the house.
The Party of Lincoln? Lincoln was for the Union, not labor unions like the UAW. Lincoln didn't even know what abortion was and he wouldn't have supported it if he did. How is she for the Party of Lincoln? Is she planning to free slaves taxed and additional 5.2% for the public option?
No more RINOS
I feel for the position that Ms. Scozzafava was put in by the RNC, having her backing thwarted by Palin et al. If moderate Republicans really cared for their party ideals and the good of their constituents, then they should have done more to discredit their party's mouthpieces: Palin, Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity, Fox News etc.
You reap what you sew.
You can't trust Sarah Palin, everyone should know that by now!
if this woman sneezes, you somehow find it necessary to add to your ticker. find some real news CNN and maybe your credibility will be restored.
"How can Sarah Palin come out and endorse someone who can't answer some basic questions?" Scozzafava told the Washington Post.
It's very easy, especially for Sarah Palin, as she herself couldn't answer some basic questions. One such example is her inability to answer what magazines she reads, or could she name another groundbreaking Supreme Court case other than Roe v. Wade.
I am a life long Democrat and I agree with DeDe, who would endorse someone who couldn't answer basics question? Oh I forgot Sarah Palin can't answer basic questions herself, so I can see why she would endorse him, he must remind her of herself.
Good for Scozzafava who has the integrity and conviction of what she believes to come forth in an interview rather than hide behind Facebook and closed doors. Why hasn't the media pressed Palin to come out from the shadows and actually explain why one candidate can seerve their district over another? Is it because she is a coward or because she would be unable to answer for herself??
What an angry, bitter woman.
Take a page out of Sec. of State Clinton's book, Dede. I can't stand her either, but at least she fought as hard as she could and then gracefully (albeit much too late) moved on and accepted her fate.
You'll get nowhere by slandering everybody and attempting to harm the people who share very similar values to your own. Clearly you were in it for the fame and not the issues.
How can they endorse someone who can't answer some simple questions? Simple, Sarah Palin couldn't even answer the simplest questions that she was asked. They don't care about competence or knowledge, they only care about radical right wing ideology. If you believe gov't should be controlled by the church you are ok in their book, even if you can't enumerate the responsibilities of the position you are a candidate for.
CNN, please stop calling Scozzafava a moderate republican. She is to the left of the democrat that ran for that seat. She supports card check, the public option, abortion, and the bloated stimulus package. We can see straight thru the little game you are playing of trying to paint her as some moderate being beaten up by the mean old conservatives.
It's simply a lie. Stop it.
Dede, there is a difference in working against someone in your party and endorsing the opposing party.
You crossed the line and your true colors are showing. There is NOTHING you support that is Republican. NOTHING.
Palin seems like a persistent fighter on anything she wants to pick fights for, but her ability to lead or not quit midterm is out of the question. Endorsing some candidate is to build alliances in general and show she still matters in politics. I doubt Hoffman will endorse Palin in return.
Good for you DeDe. It's about time someone spoke up at that outrage; Keep up the ggod work and know that there are many of us whio support you fully.
GOGO Dede I'm rooting for you to help reclaim a grand party from the likes of Palin and co.
Palin is like a pesky little knat that doesn't serve any significant purpose.
Why would Palin back Hoffman when he couldn't answer basic questions?
Because "Birds of a feather..." Well, we all know the rest.
The Party of No is quickly becoming the Party of Duh!
Sarah Palin keeps talking about death panels. Someone tell me if this scenario sounds correct. Joe Six Pack goes to his appointment to meet the death panel so he can receive end of life counseling. After sitting down, the panel says "We've reviewed your file and have determined that you're a dead man Joe. Joe replies screw you guys I never thought much of your advice anyway". Joe then stands and turns to walk away. The panel opens fire. Does this sound accurate? Should I tell my grandpa Joe the Plumber to cancel his appoint? You decide.
She 's an air head ( Palin ) she like any other republican , she just jumps on the band wagon with out knowing where it's headed , now look at Palin she backed a loser such as herself , and I'm glad that Scozzafava is bucking the party maybe then republicans will realize just how marginal they are becasue they rather incite lies and hate instead of doing the PEOPLES WILL , in which they were hire for , but they are to bust worrying about how to regain power and say NO to everything .....hahah eventually all of those NO's will come back to haunt them.......................
Let your Party know you will not be there puppets.
What Scozzafava did by sending another liberal YES vote for a public funded health care option was clearly not republican – not erven of the Lincoln variety. I think Scozzafava needs to re-consider her political beliefs. She's a commie all the way. As for Palin– you go girl. Good going in stopping this pinko, commie schizonoids from being able to calling herself a republican!
This will be a great fight. I will be order some Pop corn for this fight.
Go Palin expose those liberals for who they are!!! Scozzafava tried to pass her self off as a Republican when she endorses goverment funded abortions. We need to get rid of these candidates who are trying to run our lives and take all our income for the greater good. Yeah thier own greater good. WAKE UP AMERICA YOUR LIBERTY IS AT STAKE!!!!!!!!
Palin one quote Former S. of State that " There is place in hail for a woman who don't support a woman”. I think she forgot that quote since the election 2008 but had a memory to write a book.
Hypocrite!
Sara Palin have done more damaged to herself then any Democrate could have done. She continue to be against any process women have gain from Women rights laws.
Any government worker who supported the stimulus bill should be fired for incompetence. Seriously. That was a blunder of epic proportions.
Sarah Palin was exactly correct about who she supported in that race.
Interestingly enough, Palin can't answer basic questions....it reminds me of the movie "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", where people's bodies were taken over by aliens, all who were power hungry and had blank looks on their faces. I think Sarah might be the chief alien, led by other alients like Limbaugh and Beck. They're all kind of strange looking, and their ideas are definitely out of this world.
"How can Sarah Palin come out and endorse someone who can't answer some basic questions?"
Questions like "What newspapers and magazines do you read?" or "What Supreme Court decisions, aside from Roe vs Wade, do you think were important and why?"
Basic questions like these?
I hope the irony of Dede Scozzafava's question itself are not lost on her or on everyone else in this country...especially Palin "supporters"!
How can Sarah Palin come out and endorse someone who can't answer some basic questions?" Because Sara Palin can not answer some basic questions that why she hides behind her face book.
Sara Palin is going to have to come from behind her face book if she wants to win a fight with Dede. This should be very interested.
If Abraham LIncoln were alive today, he would also be hounded out of the Republican Party by the same extreme conservatives who have taken a terrorist-like stranglehold of this party. On the other hand, he would most defifitely reject the GOP and feel quite comfortable within the Democratic Party.
It is about time a Republican speaks out adn tries to take their party back. Too bad the right wing racists have already hijacked all of your stances and destroyed the party.
This woman is going to cause the Republican Party to splinter. I am a fiscal Republican. I have no want or need in having the fundamentalist sect steering my party.
When Scozzafava endorses Owens, CNN showed a picture of ... Hoffman. Now, Scozzafava is criticizing Palin, and CNN shows a picture of ... Palin.
How about a better pretense of evenhandedness?
Good for you Ms. Scozzafava. It is jerks like Palin, Bush, Dick, Rove, Regan, Steel etc. that had totally destroyed the reputation of Republican Party. I think if all moderate Republicans say the same then these snakes would crawl back into their hole and maybe we can claim our country back from these right wing religious morons and those who take advantage of their stupidities.
And, Dede, we'll take you. The party of Lincoln is not the modern Republican Party – not even close. Lincoln allowed for multiple points of view. He was not dogmatic or didactic. He liberated scores of people. He didn't take their rights away. As a socially progressive, fiscally moderate Democrat I would welcome you and the rest of Middle of the Road America into our tent. Sarah Palin's tent is collapsing all around her, Rush, Glen, Mitch and the party of NO.
I'd like to know why legitimate news organizations continue to follow this inane person. She would and should disappear if you let her.
I understand why Cluster-Fox does so, she fits right in with them.
Ms. Scozzafava asks: "How can Sarah Palin come out and endorse someone who can't answer some basic questions?"
That's easy....b/c he was a spitting image of Sarah Palin. This is the new right-wing methodology, and Sarah will always be known as the first person on a major ticket that wasn't able to answer some basic questions.
Your obsession with this woman borders on the bizarre.
Dede,
Sarah Palin can't answer basic questions either.
The Republican base appears to more of a group of mindless people ranting in sound bites, not realizing what they are saying or how drastically it would effect them, let alone anyone else. Spewing hate yet espousing to be Christian - I don't get it, but their don't actions appear very "Christian" in practice. I can't tell you how many moderate Republicans have told me they are anticipating a new political party to emerge where they have a voice and can 'live', or joined the Democratic party. And John McCain should be ashamed of himself for not vetting Sarah Palin better - if she were a man living and acting in the manner she does, she would have no career in politics, no one would listen.
Hmmm. My money is on Palin for this one. Dede is a liberal in republican clothing. It's these RINO's that have given the current socialist administration the keys to Washington. Palin grows more powerful with every step barry, the socialist from chicago, takes.
You go, Woman! There is nothing worse than having your own people getting stupid star struck by an imbecile like Palin. These star struck idiots will pay for their mistake.
I'm still looking for the story, "Scozzafava takes on Palin"? How is saying she doesn't see how people could support her adversary "taking on Palin"?
Bravo Scozzafava...Without moderate leaders like you 2020 will be like Back To The Future...GOP? What's that? If the world lasts that long with these lunatics.
First of all, Scozzafava isn't really a Republican. Her values are more liberal. And why is cnn always portraying Palin in a bad light?
Oh my gosh, she even sounds like a liberal democrat. Blaming someone else. Sounds like a page right out of the Charlie Rangel/Nancy Pelosi playbook.
She has that beauty queen wave down pat. Good for her.
Scozzafava is not the voice of moderate Republicans. She was a mediocre candidate who was tossed overboard. According to her, she was deeply betrayed by the Republicans, but considering that she lept to the advances of the WH and Dems, it looks like the big mistake was to nominate her.
So the GOP's strategy of dropping in a bunch of wingnuts didn't work?
I'm no fan of Palin, but for you to label Scozzafava a "moderate Republican", is dishonest . To have her Democrat opponet call her a tax and spender, and that she favors card check and partial -birth abortion puts her in the 'liberal' side, not the moderate. But then again, I understand your purpose.
See ya later, Dede, and don't let the door hit your behind as you leave!We want leaders who will stand up for Life & Freedom, while standing against the Democrat Socialist Agenda and Pro Choice self interests where even the life of the most innocent is worth nothing.
WHEN is Sarah Palin going to go away???Why are the Republicans crediting her? Please,Sarah go back to Alaska!
Truthfully these days there are three parties in this country. The Progressive Democrats, the Blue Dog Democrats, and the GOP. Bipartisanship these days is all about getting the first two to a consensus along with the one or two moderates that haven't been purged yet. Sarah Palin and her ilk have been the Democratic Party's new best friend. They keep claiming that they are standing up for "the people", so I wonder what they consider the other 75% of us to be.
Thank you CNN for continuing to be obsessed with Sara Palin. You are really making a name for her. ha.
In reality this is such a poor excuse for news that it's laughable. There really was no slam here by Scozzafasdfasfd. Plus she is not a moderate republican. She's a liberal and shouldn't be endorsed by the GOP. That was a mistake. Palin is correct in this one.
Another CNN headline states PALIN REMAINS A GOP PLAYER. Perhaps this should be PNN (Palin News Network)
Fine. If Palin is a GOP player then that makes the GOP one of the most irrelevant, foolish, backward, ineffectual group of ignorant morons that have ever tried to organize.
So she's complaining that people put idealogy ahead of party?
Ms. Scozzafava still recieved approximately 6% of the vote, although she "dropped out". For some reason people still voted for her. While those that voted for her wouldn't necessarily have voted for Mr. Hoffman, many probably would have, and some – maybe many – would have voted for the winner of the race. I wonder what would have happened if those 6% voted for one of the top two.
It goes to show you how media attention will do anything even against their own party.....Palin wants to spot light and will do anything or say anthing to get that attention! I can't wait to see her and Rush self destruct to republican party!!!!
According to the article, Dede Scozzafava "has become the symbol of moderate Republicanism". Really? Does that mean that Joe Lieberman is the symbol of moderate Liberalism? Should we further editorialize (as many in the media have about Dede) that Joe Lieberman is simply "too moderate" for the Liberal establishment? Would CNN ever report him as such? Can we expect CNN to end their war of words on conservatives anytime this decade, or is the new standard of journalistic excellence to allow editorialization when it pushes a certain world view?
She can not even control her own family and she thinks she can run the country??????
In my opinion Sarah Palin should be nominated for the Nobel Prize for her contributions to humanity in buggering the GOP!
Palin liked the fact that Hoffman, like herself, couldnt answer the simplest questions when pressed by the reporters and debate moderators. Dunces all sort of congregate with each other.
You tell 'em, Ms. Scozzafava! The intolerant, right-wing trolls who worship the likes of Sarah Palin are only going to drag the GOP further into irrelevancy if they continue their current activities.
It seems like the lessons of 1964, when "true conservative" Barry Goldwater was pounded into the dirt by moderate Democrat LBJ in one of the biggest electoral landslides in history, have been forgotten. Winning political coalitions are formed at the center, not at the extremes.
"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
Dede Scozzafava, was getting kicked to the curb before Palin ever endorsed anyone. What kind of candidate from either of the major parties has an astounding 6% in the polls a week before the election?
She's lucky Palin and Co. endorsed Hoffman, saved her from a huge embarrassment come election day. At least this way she had someone else to blame her shortcomings on. Now she needs to do the Arlen Spector and get on with her life.
ms. scozzafava..... who was endorsed by ACORN ...........
so-called republican who quit the race to endorse the democratic
nominee...... shut your "pie hole"!
"How can Sarah Palin come out and endorse someone who can't answer some basic questions?" Scozzafava told the Washington Post.
The answer is simple, PAINlin couldn't answer basic questions like "what do you read?"
I've said it once, I'll say it again – the GOP Republicans are nothing more than a BUNCH OF CROOKS and I am elated that Dede Scozzafava is finally blowing the whistle on 'em, and I quote, "It was organized – There is a lot of us who consider ourselves Republicans, of the Party of Lincoln. If they don't want us with them, we're going to work against them." It's high time someone stands up for what is SERIOUSLY WRONG & CORRUPT with the GOP Republican-base...
I don't understand why the picture associated with this post is of Sarah Palin. We all know what she looks like, why not have an image of Scozzafava? The post *is* about her, isn't it?
I am no longer a republican because of people out there like Sarah. But I do commend this republican for calling Sarah out on this. There are more political people who should do this, maybe eventally Sarah would get the message.
Haven't we Republicans had enough of the extremists in our party that handed over our country to the Democrats, who will make things even worse? Enough with Palin and the others like her who though perhaps well intended, screwed things up royally and can't finish anything? Our country's greatness was not accomplished by quiters and super extremists. I absolutely disagree with the current administration because they too take the extreme, But Sarah Palin is as dangerous as they are. Neither represents the centrist view which is held by the majority of people, whether Republican, Democrat or Independant.
You tell them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Scozzafava does not belong in politics. What a disgracefull run for a house seat. She needs to return home and think about a new future.
Dede Scozzafava, with all due respects, I think your question is kind of naive. Everyone knows that Sarah Palin is a moron. She doesn't know things that a public office holder or seeker should know. How then are you surprised that she endorsed someone who couldn't answer basic questions? The answer, dear Dede, is 'BIRDS OF THE SAME FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER'. That is it. She doesn't know anything and she couldn't and can't realize that Hoffmann doesn't anything either. It's a pity that many in our political arena are intellectually bankrupt and there is no more room for moderates in the Republican Party.
Sarah Palin is a moron.
Good for Scozzafava! We all need to call out the GOPers. She is right, of course, it matters not IF you are intelligent, knowledgeable about the issues or eloquent, as long as you can spew hate, lies, fear and division!
One day, soon I hope the so-called-Liberal-media will stop reporting on every little thing Palin does or says! And we can concentrate on discussing the important issues of our time, i.e., healthcare, the Bush Wars, the economy, green energy, etc.
We must ALL thank McCain for the gift that keeps on giving.... Palin!
The moderate Republicans out there hopefully realize that the right-wingers are ready and willing to throw them under the bus in the name of ideological purity. Knowing this, they need to decide whether they're ready to cut the extremists loose and bring the GOP back toward the center, or, if that is no longer possible, then they should split off and form a new party. If I were making that choice, I'd choose the latter. If the ultra-right-wingers want the GOP, let them have it. Its image is so tarnished that it might be impossible to clean up, so it might be better to start fresh.
You go girl!!!
As long as moderate voices advocating sensible thought are drowned out by demagaugery and the poitics of ignorance in favor of what the minority want, then there is literally NO HOPE for your country.
Just because you shout the loudest, doen't make you right. It just makes you noisy.
How did Palin even know that the 23rd Congressional district was in New York state? Can she see it from her house? How did she find her way to Iowa? The public has the right to know. Better yet CNN, please, please, I'm begging you, cover REAL NEWS.
I am a CONSERVATIVE..... as are the largest majority of the voting public in this nation. I believe in fiscal conservatism with our economy. I believe life begins in the womb, an am opposed to abortion (as over 70% in this nation believe) I believe in small government and NOT SOCIALISM, but Capitalism. I believe in a one woman and one man marriage (as the majority of Americans do)
Now, if you do not believe in these things.....simply become a Democrat. Stop calling yourself a Republican, and wanting a "big tent" etc.......simply become a Democrat!
And while I am at it....didn't another Republican Presidential canidate endorse the Conservative in this race? Why only criticize Palin.....of course the entire Democratic party and all the Liberal Media is horrified of Sarah Palin......why? If she is the "no show" all of you say she is, why concern yourself with her???? Could be she can very well be the next President, say in 2012????
PALIN/BAUCHMAN 2012~ That is what the Republican party is heading for. If you don't have their ideologies, then you can get out.
That is what they are doing. I wonder what will be left of them. THE REPUBLICANS like Palin are going for a STRONG IDEOLOGICAL PARTY. That is what they want. So what will the INDEPENDENTS think about it? There wont be such a thing as a moderate Republican in years to come. No big tent with the Republicans anymore.
Sounds like there are going to be more desertions to the Democratic Party. I deserted a few years ago.
Scozzafava is a traitor. We are just lucky she dropped out. Who would want someone that trades parties. You couldn't trust them.
Palin a bad light ? she is no light she is a dark dark tunnel and there is nothing in there or moving through it only leads to the bridge to nowhere .
Lincoln is rolling over in his grave right now, after hearing his name associated with the xenophobic, close-minded, hate-mongering liars that make up today's Republican party.
Shine this. I literally just switched. Not because of this story alone, but because the thought was there, inspired by the right wing morons that want to ruin this country that have taken over my party, a party that USED to have intelligent hard working people in it. Now all we see is juvenile morons and retards that complain non-stop and never have a productive thought or action.
I'm now independant. I doubt I'll like voting for a democrat, but I refuse to vote for ANY republican from here on out until I know that it's not an ultra conservative (aka domestic terrorist) that I'm voting for.
It's safer to vote for a tax and spend liberal then a 'don't think and murder' conservative right wing lunatic (which as of late, ALL conservatives are lunatics and moronic demons who seek to destroy this nation with their INACTION).
This article mislabels Dede as a "moderate Republican." She's not even a moderate Democrat - more like a liberal Democrat, despite the party moniker.
If the REPUBLICANS have people like Sarah Palin and ANN COULTER leading their party, its game over. ANN COULTER said WOMEN should never have been given the right to VOTE.
"Dede Scozzafava, the woman who has become the symbol of moderate Republicanism" Who the came up with that assertion the democrats??? Scozzafava is pro-abortion and pro-same-sex marriage and she also has strong ties to organized labor.
She is the symbol of liberial Republicans.
Well said by Dede.... the new GOP party should call itself what it really is: the Prohibitionist Party.... Palin and her sad ilk have nothing, really, to do with conservatism.
Dede the Democrat should leave the GOP.
What's really sad – and transparent for all to see – is how Karl Rove, Rush Limbaugh and others leaders in the GOP manipulate people's fear, ignorance, hatred and so-called "faith" as a way to regain power.
And what exactly has the GOP done with their power in the past? Given irresponsible, war-time tax cuts to the wealth, so they can build factories overseas and layoff American workers; started a war for oill spied on Americans; shredded the Constitution by expanding Executive power and sanctioning torture.
The GOP is in it for the money, plain and simple. They don't really give a rat's behind about people.
The GOP model is very much like Saudi Arabia, with the wealth concentrated among a few families and religious police keeping the uneducated masses in line.
Dede the Democrat should do the right thing and leave the GOP.
Good for Scozzafava
Maybe she can bring some common sense back into the Republican Party so they can have my vote again.
Keep going Palin, I really hope you are the partys choice for 2012.
HA, HA, HA, HA
Dede is/was no moderate. People who have to pass themselves off as something they aren't are afraid to show who they are. The proper term is LIBERAL!!!
Palin, Rush, Beck, Hannity and the rest of the nut cases like the TEA- PARTY clowns are going to take down the GOP with their racist believe and their separate white party from reality. So keep up the good work Palin and Rush, keep your party in the wilderness as long as you can.
wow so according to thies so called conservitives Dede can't be a repulican becouse she has liberial view's.Heh I thought back in the days of Lincon he was a lebiral in his views.maybie the conservitives are in the wrong party.
New Republican Party slogan: "Stop the Sanity!!"
If Scozzafava, is a republican then I must be a far right nut. She is for abortion, the public option, big government and that is not a republican. Maybe she suits the Dem light but give me a break. She does not represent mainstream conservatives. No one is perfect but I can't abide someone who claims to be something that they aren't. She proved her republican leanings, supporting Owen.
Be wary of Sarah, DeDe. She has a habit of quitting right in the middle of things.
Sarah Palin can endorse someone who can't even answer simple questions because she can't answer simple questions either! Stupid always backs stupid
Go, Sarah, go! I support you 100% for the Republican presidential nomination. I am a proud Liberal, and I believe that someone like you can finally destroy Conservatism as a political force in America. Now, if you could only pick a running mate as dumb as the one McCain picked, I could sleep peacefully on election night 2012.
"Scozzafava is the symbol of democrats PRETENDING to be republicans."
You mean like GOPers pretending to be disenfranchised Clinton supporters who would rather vote for McCain and everything they DON'T believe in than vote for Obama just because he got the nomination in 2008?
Oh, I get it now....I have proof that she is really a liberal Democrat. They always blame others for their failings, and they are always the "victim". There you go! She had to go and blame Sarah for her own failings!!!!!!!!!!! Proof is in the pudding.
Can we please stop feeding her ego? Maybe if the media would just stop mentioning Palin every few minutes she'd just go away...
Just to recap, in the special election for New York's 23rd congressional district, Sarah Palin endorsed the Conservative party candidate while Dede Scozzafava endorsed the Democratic party candidate.
In the current political climate this may qualify Dede as "a symbol of moderate Republicans" but I daresay if a Democrat withdrew from a close race and endorsed a Republican candidate over a Liberal candidate the press would be calling them anything but "a symbol of moderate Democrats".
i guess democrats think it is ok for a supposed republican to go against her party, I don't think they feel that way about Joe Lieberman
It figures that Palin would cause a split in the party. Scozzafava asked, "[h]ow can Sarah Palin come out and endorse someone who can't answer some basic questions?" Well, it's really easy because Palin can't answer basic questions either. Looks like carribou Barbie strikes again.
""There IS a lot of us"? DeDe your grammar isn't much better than Palin's but at least you think before you attack."
Please pick up a grammar book and rethink your criticism. The sentence is "There is a lot." "Of us" is a prepositional phrase and therefore "us," though referring to many instead of one, cannot pluralize the verb form.
Dede Scozzafava, They got rid of you because your not a republican, you’re a liberal democrat in sheep’s clothes, please crawl back in your liberal hole.
Go Sarah, we Democrats fully support your unique outlook, which borders on the absurd. Go girl.
Sadly, as much as I respect Scozzafava (from what I've seen) it seems to me that if she were as physically attractive as Palin, it would have been a different story. Wrong, yes but probably right.
To be honest, as a Liberal, I'd rather have a substantive debate with a REAL Republican like Dede than an all-out scream-fest with the bizarre lunatics of the christian right CULT.
I think Sara Palin is on the right track.We don't need lifetime politicians getting rich and fat off the system, we need people who are willing to roll up their sleeves and work.Alll you who blast Palin for her inexperience....tell me....just what are you currently getting for all the Washington experience? 2 term limits for all elected officials from the Federal level all the way down to the local level, maybe 3...and then they are out.
"How can Sarah Palin come out and endorse someone who can't answer some basic questions?" Scozzafava told the Washington Post. "Do these people even know who they are endorsing?"
When I heard him speak for the first time, I immediately flashed back to Sarah Palin. Perhaps she "understands" him.
The Dumcrats and the media is painting Dede Scozzafava as a moderate. The Dem who won is more moderate than Dede. She is pro abortion, pro health bill, pro stimulus bill, pro bailouts, pro obama. How can you be a moderate republican if you support 90% of Barry's agenda.
Give me a break.
Remarkable how uninformed you people are. You voted in a boy with no experience except to write TWO autobiographies in anticipation of his own greatness, drowned in his own ego, and you call Sarah a pawn? Please, get real. And good riddance to Dede S., the LIBERAL DEMOCRAT.
20% Republicans left and dwindling – and their strategy is to eat their own. Sounds like a plan for success to me....
Why is it that Conservatives rant and rave:
'Government keep out of our Lives!' But when it comes to social issues like abortion and gay marriage they want to be right smack in the middle of our bedrooms and doctor's offices, telling us what we can and cannot do.
Isn't that Government interfering in our lives?
Can someone explain this to me?
If it wasn't for the Republicans wanting Government interference on social issues, I'd BE a Republican!!
The GOP is toast!
OBAMA/BIDEN 2012
Palin endorsements of someone that does not know what they are talking about LOL
Sarah Palin: The Quitter with the Litter on Twitter.
This is rich. Palin tried to run the GOP show and it backfired in a big way – yet once again. The Republicans are evaporating into insane oblivion.
Kudos to Sarah Palin for calling out a liberal in GOP clothing like Scozzafava. Another reason why Sarah Palin is a true leader.
Sounds like a scurrilous party takeover if you ask me. Keep it up, the far right will destroy the Republican party for good. But I'm just a card-carrying Democrat. Probably shouldn't have let that out!!!!!!
The extremists on the Right have a very narrow mind when it comes to issues that are actually important to our nation. We need more moderates in both parties who will put America first and their ideology views second.
Best to you, Dede......You're a better moderate Republican than the rabid Republican in drag Blue Dogs are Democrats......Palin is as anti-Christian as an atheist is anti-God......
I will be glad when the TEA PARTY get their own party and the REPUBLICANs can go back to building their base.
When that occurs the CONSERVATIVE group will split and the RUSH LIMBAUGH, GLENN BECK, SARAH PALIN and DICK ARMY crowd will go to the TEA PARTY and give us back a REPUBLICAN party.
As far as the elected officials MICHELLE BACHMAN will go with the TEA PARTY people and let Banner crowd play the rubberneck routine trying to figure out where they belong.
hmmm.....
Moderate Republicanism? She's a Democrat – why are we blurring these lines so much?
Sarah Palin can't answer basic questions.... why would you be surprised she backed someone who fails to be able to do the same thing...
Sarah Palin couldn't tell her right foot from her left one, thats how much Sarah Palin knows about anything.
Palin is a double agent for the Republicans and dumbness. If she thinks anybody would believe what she says She's got a loyal flock of people who would follow anything she dishes out..
OK... so let me see if I have this straight. The Goopers will blast any party member who goes against the party. Then, they dump a party member THEY selected because they feel she's liberal or at best a moderate conservative. Then, they cheer when the moderate Gooper drops out of the race and their independant candidate they now support loses to a Democrat. They'd rather see a Democrat in office then a moderate Gooper? Have I got that right? Implosion anyone??
I wouldn't vote for Scuzzyfava for dogcatcher. Her political career is officially over unless she she join the other RINO's like Benedict Arnold Specter. She has zero future as a Republican. And why does people keep saying she is a "Moderate" Republican. She's not even moderate by a Maine Democrats idea of moderate. She is a completely Ultra-liberal Democrat. The Republican Party can only grow stronger if they weed out these losers and stand for their conservative core principles.
The recent history of misinformation and rhetoric led by right wing extremist has caused me to stop identifying with the GOP. This right winged Tea Party thing is a divisive ticket to nowhere. Instead of taking back America, republicans need to first take back the party. I am an American first and will sacrifice party for what's best for my (excuse me our) country and it isn’t hate.
For those of you who haven't noticed, it's not the sixties anymore, and it will never be again.
"Dede Scozzafava takes on Palin"/
Sounds like Dede is just critizing Palin with the same tired old whiney remarks that Democrats use every day. If she really wants to take on Palin, Dede should debate Sarah. Now that would be worth watching. But fiirst Dede would need to put her record alongside of Sarah's and then we could see who represents the Republican Party.
Dede Scozzafava got thrown under the bus for "not being conservative enough." This ongoing ethnic cleansing of the Republican Party (dumping candidates who the base deems to be insufficiently conservative) is a recipe for staying a minority party for a very long time, and the ones doing the cleansing are completely blind to what the long-term impacts are to the Republican Party.
I've voted for Republicans in the past; however, I won't vote for another one until the Republican Party rids itself of these fascists who go under the label of "Christian Conservative", "Compassionate Conservative" or "Tea Party" member.
Dede, I am not a resident of New York but as a very concerned citizen, I feel that both you and some of our Republican Representatives have forgotten what Marcus Tullius Cicero wrote in 55 BC and I quote "The budget should be balanced, The Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance". There are those in Congress today that dispute the wisdom of Cicero and have forgotten what has made our country great. Listen Up!
Mr. Hoffman, a literal unknown did win by coming in 2nd. I am watching what our local representatives in GA do between now and the next election.
By the way, you showed your true colors by backing a candidate that does not believe in the above.
Joe from Atlanta
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the GOP has met the enemy and it is itself. As long as this continues the Dems will not have a lot to worry about in 2010 or 2012. The neo-cons and ill informed tea baggers are doing nothing but dividing what was once a proud GOP base...and this is coming for a man that normally votes Democrat but also has voted Republican in the past.
This is a person who has served as a Republican member of the New York Assembly for over a decade in an area that has not elected a Democrat to Congress in over 100 years.
As an Independent, I find it scary when either party attempts to purge its "moderates," because it is the moderates on either side who usually represent my views. From the far left, everyone looks like a conservative, and from the far right everyone looks like a liberal.
If the Republicans ever expect to regain the White House, they will need to get those of us in the middle to vote for them, and purging us from their ranks is not a good start.
DeDe believes in pro choice, partial birth abortion and gay marriage. Instead of blaming someone for her personal failings, she needs to go home and ask those people whey they did not support her. It is that simple!
Palin has the support of the Far-Far-Far Right, but more reasonable and better educated Republicans have to take a stand against this extremist minority. For the sake of their party...and for the sake of our country.
you democrats are so misinformed. DEDE is not a republican, she is a liberal and is only a republican in name only. us republicans dont want liberal democrats representing our party. so stop saying we are attacking our own, she is not one of our own.. you can have her. she endorsed the democratic, what more do you need to know.
Scozzafava is a liberal not a moderate. Why she claims to be a Republican is beyond me.
Sarah is opening mouth to change feet.
the country is moving more and more liberal for sure. the republicans have not moved at all. they are standing on thier conservative principles. the conservitive wing of the republican party has been in charge since before Reagan. I am conservative person, I dont consider myself a republican or a democrat. I encourage the republican party to continue to embrace their conservative base and not run to the middle just to get votes. Stand on principle.
As a left wing republican, how can you be upset that you are attacked by a right wing republican? I think we can really see where her colors lie based on the fact that she then endorsed the democratic candidate. As a conservative, I don't want liberals in power whether they are republicans or democrats. Its how you vote that matters to me. Besides at least with a liberal democrat you have a chance to unseat them later. When you have liberal republican running against a democrat you lose either way.
Funny how the right wing Republicans seem to point fingers at Democrats for not being "bi-partisan" – yet most bi-partisan politicians tend to be moderate, and when a moderate Republican pops up they get attacked by their own party members for being bi-partisan. The only thing right wing is destroying is what little shreds of integrity are left in the Republican party, and ues, Scozzafava has integrity because she did what she felt was right, not what the party felt was right, and did what her constituents wished, not what special interest groups and big business think.
Philosophy is different from ideology.
Drawing lines produces more lines.
Difference is productive.
Living shouldn't be treated like it's a game show.
Correct things/situations, not people.
How stupid are they? Ultra right-wing conservatives won't be elected by regular Americans. Do they want to give the country to the Democrats...?
Its funny what happens when you have a terrible public education. The masses are easily fooled by political snake oil salesmen. The USA is in a sad sad state...
The GOP is being divided by Palin and her stooges, her SO FAR OUT THERE CONSERVATIVE RIGHT WING HYPOCRITS.......she will bring down the Republican party and you Republicans are either to stupid to stop her or you just done care anymore.......but this does prove one thing, if you don't think like the conservative people in this party then there is NO ROOM FOR YOU IN THE GOP
What a joke this article is. Dede Scozzafava is a symbol of a moderate Republican?????? Says who???? She was endorsed by Daily Kos. They didn't even endorse the Democrat!!!!! And then Scozzafava endorsed the Democrat!!!!
No wonder CNN is in the Toilet!!
If the Republicans think Sarah the Quitter and Joe the Plumber are the new face of the GOP, they have problems alright...problems with HAIR on them.
GOP: Evolve or die...
Just a hurt ego lashing out. Scozzafava is not a republican and she showed how much of a sore loser she is when she endorsed the democrat candidate. The GOP does not need traitors like her. She did not have to dump on Hoffman either. Please show some dignity MS. Scozzafava.
It is time for all good Democrats to register as Republicans and help save the GOP.
Why does CNN have to bash Palin every other day? Seriously, she isn't in the news anywhere else except when CNN feels like bashing her for some reason.
Ms. Scozzafava presumably has a lot more going for her than the outside agitators who blindsided her. Putting wacko-ness aside, for every 100 GOP roustabouts there's perhaps one individual with integrity. This situation reminds me of Pete Domenici `doing in' David Iglesias because the latter wouldn't use his role as Federal Prosecutor in a sufficiently partisan fashion. Pete had no notion that politics stops shy of where justice begins. Exit, stage right, one of the few, one of the brightest stars of the GOP. Et tu Brutus?
"It was organized," Scozzafava told the Post about the attacks against her by Palin, other prominent conservative figures, and conservative advocacy groups. "There is a lot of us who consider ourselves Republicans, of the Party of Lincoln. If they don't want us with them, we're going to work against them."
The right-wing liars and hypocrits who control the Republican Party DO NOT WANT moderates in the Party. They want to control the minds(???) of the extremists. They are small in number but HUGE in voice via the FOX Channel.
Sadly, the more they yell and scream at the bought and paid for meetings, the more the dim-witted fools will think they represent the majority of Americans.
FIGHT BACK AMERICA!
This NY district is a bastion of Democratic control. The Republicans had a chance to move it to the right with Dede Scozzafava. The local GOP knew that. However, the national Taliban Republicans balked and chose to keep it Democratic. Sarah Palin, the best friend a Democrat can have.
Well, this is refreshing.
If the Republican party truly became the party of Lincoln again, that would be truly revolutionary.
It is, however, not likely to happen. The Republican party is in the process of shrinking into a shrill irrelevance. And, I hate say it, but that is too bad. Before Nixon and Reagan, there were a lot of moderates in the Republican party - people who supported the civil rights act of 1965, people who opposed the war in Vietnam.
Well, I for one am content to watch them now shred one another. We certainly live in interesting times.
I think Sara needs to point out more true Republicans. The GOP is going down like the WHIG party. Do you suppose someone went around and Identified who the real Whigs were?
Did Scozzafava know she was endorsing?
Palin is suuuuch old news. Everyone knows that when her lips start flapping, bad things follow. Just look at everything she has done up until now. Nothing has turned out good for her except she is now making money. I hope her money will make her happy because that is all she will ever achieve.
Can somebody please define "extremist" for me? I believe in personal freedom, a limited government that lives within its means like I do, that a free market works better than socialism, that babies are a gift from God and not an inconvenience, and that our constitution and bill of rights mean what they say. So according to most of the postings here, I am a right wing "extremist" and must be stopped. I am indeed looking for somebody in any political party to represent my beliefs, and for the most part neither party is doing it. For right now, I hold my nose and vote republican. As for Sarah Palin, I think she is trying to represent people like me – just not doing a terribly good job of it.
She quit three colleges four times before getting an easy degree in Mass Communications, to become a sports reporter.
She quit Wasilla Council to run for Mayor.
She quit as Wasilla Mayor to run for Lt. Governor.
She quit the Alaska Oil and Gas Commission to run for governor.
She quit as Governor to run around the country selling books and poking her nose into other people's elections.
If Sarah Palin represents the GOP's new leadership, I feel sorry for all those Republicans who took pride in being the party of Lincoln. And I feel sorry for the Dede Scozzafava's who are about to be lynched and betrayed by their own party.
CORRECTION: Dede is not the symbol of moderate Republicanism. That is simply a lie. She is liberal and THAT is why Hoffman stands a good chance of winning the House seat in 2010 should he choose to be a candidate. People in the 23rd District are mad as hell because she threw her support to Owens. She's through.
Scozzafava = sour grapes. She brought it on herself. She shouldn't even claim to be a Republican she's so far left
To answer Ms. Scozzafva's question, I would have to say that Palin was only endorsing someone just like herself: that is, someone who cannot answer some basic questions like what kind of books she reads.
Scozzafava:1; Palin: -10
Thank goodness their somebody in the GOP to take on the extrem Right Wing!
Palin and the republican party leadership should be ashamed of themselves. This backing of Hoffman showed a complete disregard for the views of local party members and that is disgusting... glad they lost, might teach the Party leaders a lesson in Democracy as opposed to paternalism. i.e one of our own believers is who gets support.
Regards,
Hodgson.
Ms Scozzafava is learning what (I THINK) most of us have known for at least a decade:
Self serving, self righteous, self absorbed, self important, self appointed, ULTRA "Right" wingers have the right, NO, the OBLIGATION to make sure that they, their operatives and their ideas/"ideals" are instilled.
George W. Bush eviscerated John McCain with LIES and misrepresentations about Mr McCain, and even questioned his patriotism... I no longer agree with Senator McCain's politics, for the most part, but I appreciate his patriotism, and would NEVER question his Love of Country.
"Those" Republicans throw ANYONE who doesn't agree with them or meet their standards under the buss. What they did to you Ms Scozzafava was STUPIDITY of the highest order and another example of what the Republican has become and intends to stay as.