Election Day Comments

[12thMan]

Originally Posted by firstdown

See I see that as a success for the conservatives because DeDe was more liberal then anything else but still she got the backing of the Rep. party. She had very little support of the voters and I have no idea what the Rep. party thought when they supported her. I think it sent a wake up call to the party about who they support and it was clear from the people they will not stand for that joke of a person.

Bro, that strategy is simply flawed. You can't effect policy if you're not at the table. Who gives a shit what message you're sending? DeDe probably would have won had she stayed in the race. Yeah, she's a liberal Republican, if there's such a thing. But guess what, now you guys lost the seat altogether. So how is that a positive? And if DeDe was joke, what does it say about Doug Hoffman who lost the seat for the first time in over 100 years? Fail big time.

The message here, don't meddle with local politics. The political climate of NY-23 is much different than, let's say, Dade county. You just can't apply this cookie cutter conservatism to every race accross the board and expect voters to respond because they fall into the conservative camp. It's a losing strategy. But hey, go for it.