Scozzafava takes on Palin
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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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.