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...presumptive Republican candidate, in the polls. To see the potential dangers of the Tea Party groundswell, the GOP leadership need look no further than the debacle in New York's 23rd district - where Democrats won a Republican safe seat after conservative activists put up a third candidate against Dede Scozzafava, a GOP candidate deemed too moderate by Tea Party types. (Watch a video about the Florida...
...Rebirth of the Middle" [Nov. 16]: Ramesh Ponnuru mentions Dede Scozzafava's support of gay marriage and reproductive choice as evidence that she not only is not a moderate Republican but also is to the left of many Democrats. Couldn't her support of those two issues be proof of libertarianism? The Libertarian Party believes there are particular places that the government does not belong, and anything connected to a citizen's sex life is among those places. My Republican and libertarian friends alike are for the freedom of Americans to make their own life choices...
...conservatives leading the Republican Party off a cliff? That's what a lot of people concluded after conservatives forced the official Republican candidate out of a congressional race in upstate New York for being too liberal. That candidate, Dede Scozzafava, promptly endorsed the Democrat running for the seat - who then won an area that had been sending Republicans to Congress since 1872. Even some Republicans are complaining that a party purged of moderates would be unable to win elections outside the South. The party would be left with a hard-core conservative base, and nothing else...
...York. Republicans had divided between their own party's moderate nominee and a Conservative Party challenger who had won the endorsements of many high-profile national GOP leaders, including former vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin and talk-show host Glenn Beck. Three days before the election, GOP nominee Dede Scozzafava abruptly announced she was suspending her campaign, and subsequently endorsed Democrat Owens, rather than Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman. (Read "A GOP Civil War in Upstate New York...
...congressional seat, a sprawling northern district that stretches to the Canadian border. The White House tapped the former occupant, Republican John McHugh, to be the Secretary of the Army, in part to put the seat in play. Democratic businessman Bill Owens was scheduled to face off against liberal Republican Dede Scozzafava, who was nominated by local party leaders in a closed process. National conservatives, including Sarah Palin and several potential presidential candidates, rallied around a third-party candidate, conservative multi-millionaire accountant Doug Hoffman. That sent an ongoing debate within the party into hyperdrive: Is it more likely to reverse...