Let The Games Begin
From CNN’s Political Ticker blog: Major cash haul for conservative third-party candidate in NY
(CNN) – Doug Hoffman – the conservative third party candidate running in upstate New York’s closely watched special congressional election – raked in $116,000 in the last 24 hours, a campaign spokesman confirmed to CNN.
The cash haul came the same day former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin made a surprise endorsement in the race, voicing her support of Hoffman over the Republican Party’s nominee, Dede Scozzafava.
…Other conservatives have also recently aligned behind Hoffman, including former Rep. Dick Armey, former Sen. Rick Santorum, and Rep. Michele Bachmann.
For Crazy Conservatives ideology trumps even Party. I guess the Republican Party of New York isn’t whacko enough for them.
The Democrat in the special election for the 23rd district is Bill Owens, who is probably a Blue Dog. The district is a Republican stronghold, but things have been shifting. McCain lost it in 2008, and the Republican Congresscritter resigned to become Army Secretary.
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So what if Bill Owens is a Bluedog, I thought you just said it’s crazy to ideology trump party? What are you saying again?
I’m saying that Democrats shouldn’t be dancing in streets when the individual elected is a Democrat, because it doesn’t mean anything as far as how the individual will vote, based on the fact that Democrats can’t get bills that actually change the way the country has been going passed in Congress.
Parties have become meaningless, which is why I no longer belong to one.
Update: Actually, the real point was that the crazies who did the endorsing are supposed to be leaders of the Republican Party. It is pretty absurd for nominal leaders to back a non-party candidate. That would be like Obama backing LIEberman instead of the official party candidate, Lamont… oh, wait.
You can see how important parties are.