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Rush Limbaugh Lists 'Top 10 Republican Moderate Moments'
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyOn his radio show today, Rush Limbaugh listed his "Top 10 Moderate Moments" -- a list he first introduced on Nov. 3, 2009. According to Limbaugh, these are the "moderate moments" to remember: 10: "Newt Gingrich doing a PSA on global warming with Nancy Pelosi in 2008." 9. "Bush-Quayle '92." 8. "Dole-Kemp '96." 7. "Ford-Dole '76. Do you see a pattern here?" 6. "Jumpin' Jim Jeffords jumps from the Republican Party." 5. "Arlen Specter switches parties." 4. "Richard Nixon resigns in disgrace." 3. "Dede Scozzafava endorses the Democrat, Owens, in New York 23." 2. The McCain campaign of ...
Armey Defends Checklist of Principles for GOP Candidates
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyFormer House Majority Leader Dick Armey, a leader among conservatives vying to set the direction of the Republican party, said a 10-point checklist being proposed to determine whether a candidate merits GOP support is "not a litmus test" but an effort to ensure the party's ability to win future elections by presenting a true alternative. ...
The Misfits: Eight Politicians Who Really Ought to Switch
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyRINOs and conservadems are cutting quite a swath these days -- making demands, frustrating their colleagues, wielding clout and even influencing elections. Not surprisingly, the nicknames aren't terms of endearment. GOP conservatives disparage GOP moderates as Republicans In Name Only. Democratic liberals apply the conservadems label to party brethren they consider obstructions to President Obama's agenda.It would make perfect sense for a lot of the misfits to switch parties. But that would mean sacrificing their dissident status and the attention that goes with it. It would also mean less ...
Dede Scozzafava: No Regrets and a Mission to Promote Independent Thinking Within GOP
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyNew York Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava was chosen by upstate party leaders to run for an open House seat in a special election last week. National Republican leaders decided she was too liberal and generated so much money and support for third party conservative Doug Hoffman that Scozzafava dropped out the Saturday before the election and endorsed the Democrat. She talked to Politics Daily's Jill Lawrence Wednesday about her future and the future of the GOP. ...
New York Republicans Consider Punishing Dede Scozzafava for Backing Dem
By David Sessions - Politics DailyRepublican leaders in New York are raising the possibility of "punishing" state Rep. Dede Scozzafava, who withdrew from the race for Congress in New York's 23rd district and endorsed a Democrat, the Los Angeles Times' Top of the Ticket reports. Scozzafava endorsed Bill Owens after national Republicans backed third-party candidate Doug Hoffman and undermined support for her campaign. Conservatives said Scozzafava, who supports gay rights and abortion rights, was too liberal to run as a Republican. New York Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb has been holding meetings with Scozzafava, in which ...
Was the Election About Obama?
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL News(Nov. 4) -- Forget what voters told exit pollsters. Tuesday's election is being analyzed as a referendum on President Obama. Republicans Bob McDonnell in Virginia and Chris Christie in New Jersey captured governor's seats that were held by Democrats. Obama won both states a year ago. He campaigned hard for Gov. Jon Corzine in New Jersey and made appearances for Creigh Deeds late in the campaign, despite some bad blood between the Virginia Democrat's campaign and the White House. Many headlines Wednesday morning portrayed the vote results as bad news for Obama. "It sends a clear signal that ...
Conservative Loses in NY-23 Stunner, Despite Palin and Pawlenty Support
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyThe Republicans got the press, but the Democrat got the votes in the special election in New York's 23rd Congressional District. On an otherwise dismal night for his party, Democrat Bill Owens captured 49 percent of the vote. Conservative Doug Hoffman won 45 percent of the vote, while Republican Dede Scozzafava picked up a crucial five percent, even after dropping out of the race. Owens, an Air Force retiree and lawyer, will become the first Democrat in more than 100 years to hold the seat, leaving the New York congressional delegation with just two Republicans in its ranks. Democrats were ...
The Battle of NY-23 and Sarah Palin's Purity Problem
By David Corn - Politics DailyOnce you whip up a mob, can you control it? That may be Sarah Palin's next problem. Before the votes were counted Tuesday night, the former Republican vice presidential candidate was already something of a winner. Though her candidate in the special election for a House seat in upstate New York, Doug Hoffman, lost to Democrat Bill Owens -- in an area that hasn't sent a Democrat to the House since the 1800s -- Palin, by intervening in the race, had established herself as a successful ideological power broker. At first, Hoffman was merely a third-party conservative candidate in New York's 23rd ...
NY-23 Will Set Course for GOP Between Moderates and Conservatives
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyIn the last month alone, New York's special election for John McHugh's congressional seat has featured a coveted Sarah Palin Facebook endorsement, a less coveted Rush Limbaugh accusation of beastiality, a country music singer threatening to drop a house on Nancy Pelosi, and the crescendo of any out-of-control political opera: A candidate implosion. And that's just on the Republican side of the equation. When voters went to the polls from Plattsburgh to Owsego Tuesday, they saw three names on the ballot: Doug Hoffman, a CPA from Lake Placid running on the New York Conservative ticket (pictured, ...
Hoffman Leads in Upstate N.Y. House Race, but Many Undecided
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyIn the upstate New York House race that has attracted national attention, Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate now embraced by the GOP, leads Democrat Bill Owens by 41 percent to 36 percent with 6 percent backing Republican Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava, who dropped out of the race on Saturday, according to a Siena College poll conducted Nov. 1. Eighteen percent are undecided, The margin of error is 4 points. ...
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