On the topic of the special election in New York's 23rd Congressional District, Ben Stein, appearing on CNN, cuts through the Democrat spin and Leftist drivel. He offers some common sense analysis and an honest evaluation of Dede Scozzafava.
BEN STEIN: I don't see what the Democrats are so excited for about this race in upstate New York. Look, they had a Republican candidate actively sabotaging the Republican Party. Small wonder the Republicans lost. They had a Republican Party candidate who was actively a traitor to the party. Why would we be surprised that the Republicans lost?
LARRY KING: Ben, but the Right-wing of the party sabotaged her, didn't they?
STEIN: Well, that's right; but if she were a loyal person, she would have said, 'I'm resigning. Obviously, the people in the GOP column don't support me, and I endorse the Republican.'
Instead, she resigned and endorsed the Democrat. That's unheard of. That's incredibly disloyal. It's shockingly disloyal, and small wonder the Republicans lost with that kind of woman on the ticket.
Exactly.
Of course, the Leftist hacks in the lib media don't want to see it that way. They don't want to take all those factors into account. They prefer to regurgitate the Obama spin rather than fairly assess what happened in that race.
I think it's laughable that the lib media are hyperventilating over NY-23 while downplaying the defeats in Virginia and New Jersey.
From CBS News:
Conservatives overreached, and Tip O'Neill's dictum reins supreme. That special election in New York's 23rd congressional district turned out not to be worth all of the sound and fury.
The fact is that the district IS special. Since the Civil War cannons fell silent, it's never been occupied by a Democrat. It's one of the largest districts east of the Mississippi and one of the whitest. It is about $8,000 poorer, per person, than the American average.
It's been ruled -- some say, by an Iron Fist -- by the local Republican Party establishment for decades. That establishment has fallen into disrepute along with Republican Party bosses in the state capital of Albany.
The fact is that Dede Scozzafava was well-suited to represent the district. She didn't face a primary; she was chosen by a small group of party leaders. That would have been OK, except that an ambitious, slightly disheveled but avuncular accountant named Doug Hoffman got really really angry. Why did party have to anoint Scozzafava, he wondered. He began looking for ballot position at the same time that New York's Conservative Party came looking for an anti-gay marriage candidate to plant roots in the district.
Across the country, conservatives began to take a look at the race. The Club for Growth released a poll that showed a statistical dead heat. The Washington-based anti-tax pressure group endorsed Hoffman four days later. The next week, they ran an expensive television ad campaign on his behalf.
All told, the Club would be responsible for $1 million of the $3 million Hoffman would ultimately spend. The Club's notice attracted the attention of other economic conservative lights, like Steve Forbes and the former house majority leader Dick Armey. Glenn Beck's radio program and Fox News Channel turned Hoffman into a hero of sorts when the party establishment began to fire back: no less a leader than Newt Gingrich warned conservatives to, in essence, close their mouths and support the party's choice.
Doing otherwise, he implied, was disloyal and would help the Democratic Party maintain its majority. Gingrich implied that Hoffman was a bad fit for the district. That implication was a challenge that conservative activists accepted. Suddenly, Hoffman became the talisman for anger at the GOP establishment in Washington, anger at the big spending ways of Democrats in Congress, anger at the media -- a way to clear through a bundle of different resentments that tend to be shouldered by a party that has lost his way.
And yet, despite all this attention, Hoffman lost. Voters in the 23rd did not embrace his philosophy. They saw Hoffman as a carpetbagger -- he didn't even live in the district -- who was trying to hijack their district for his own ideological ends.
This is a Republican district, but it's not a terribly conservative district. It's genteel, more than activist. The final straw: Hoffman didn't even try to pretend that the election was about the issues of the district. It was all about him -- and what he represented.
Blah, blah, blah.
What about all the attention the White House gave to the race for governor in New Jersey?
Despite Obama's multiple trips to the state and his robocalls to boost Jon Corzine and all that attention and assistance, incumbent DEMOCRAT Corzine lost.
The New York Times is running with the same angle, "Conservative Loses Upstate House Race in Blow to Right."
What about the blows to Obama? He was the biggest loser of the night, not Doug Hoffman.
The libs can focus on the NY-23 race and pontificate about its significance regarding the state of the Republican Party. It's a waste of time because of all of the weird circumstances surrounding the race.
In the end, what matters is that Americans are dissatisfied, especially with the economy. They aren't better off than they were nine and a half months ago. Obama hasn't delivered and he seems out of touch with the people.
They're aren't feeling the Obama magic anymore. Reality stepped in.
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