Check this cool post from GOP12, "Halloween Post-Mortems on NY-23":
Here are some quickie reactions around the web.Check the whole thing.
From Matt Lewis.
Winners: Sarah Palin, Club for Growth, Erick Erickson & Red State, Concerned Women for America, David Keene, John McCormack, conservative bloggers, conservative talk show hosts, T-Paw, Armey and others who endorsed Hoffman.
Losers: The Establishment, Newt, Boehner, NRCC, Romney and Huckabee.
And don't miss this one, via Allahpundit, "In Key New York Race, Barracuda Chews Up Mitt":
And in a similar fashion, see my earlier post as well, "Coming Up Aces: Palin on 'Hoffman in NY-23 - 'A Time to Unite'."Sarah Palin, using her unique sense of timing, one week ago became the biggest name of in-prime party leaders to endorse Hoffman. Had she stayed on the sidelines, this contest could have played out in predictable fashion: Republicans stayed split and Democrat Bill Owens would have cruised to victory. Instead, by all appearances, the conservative revolt has succeeded. Even the national GOP -- which had endorsed Scozzafava and was slamming outsider Hoffman as much as Democrat Owens -- is now recognizing that district voters seem to flocking to Hoffman.
Outside observers who want to dismiss Palin do so at their peril. But, there appears to be a reason that her basketball-playing nickname was "Barracuda." Recall she was the one who coined (or at least made viral) the phrase "death panel" during the health care fight during the summer -- forcing Democrats and the White House onto the defensive. Whether Palin is doing all this for PR purposes (her book comes out in three weeks) or being reckless in her political rhetoric, the fact is she is having an impact on the broader debate -- and continuing to resonate with her party's base.
Hilarious that a Trotskyite like Frank Rich would call the GOP "Stlainists." Coming from cryto-commie Rich, he's obviously reverting to the lizard-brain reflexes that rule leftist memes in general, only the Hitler meme and racist meme are now too shopworn!
ReplyDeleteFor this Naroldnik to call the GOP Stalinist makes about as much sense as calling effective border measures against illegal immigration a "Berlin Wall."
Leftists who call JFK's Commie assassin LHOswald a "right winger" might remember that the "Berlin Wall" served to keep workers INSIDE the Commie "workers' paradise."
The US anti-immigration measures are to keep undesirables OUTSIDE the USA.
Mutatis mutandis, thimblewit Rich should call the GOP rightists, which to Trotskyite world revolutionaries like Rich are to the "right" of their own anarchic half-wit politics.
Well said Dave.
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