Mike Pence refused to endorse Dede Scozzafava. Being, however, the Chairman of the House Republican Conference, it really would have been bad form of him to go all in with Hoffman. Being in that position demands some party loyalty. So behind the scenes Pence has made clear he was unhappy with this whole sordid mess and has refused to cooperate or fund the madness.
Today he can do what he has wanted to do the whole time — endorse Doug Hoffman.
Conservatives are now fully united and fighting. The race is not offer. We must fight for Hoffman now.
Pence’s statement is below the fold.
Congressman Mike Pence, Chairman of the House Republican Conference, today released the following statement regarding the special election in New York’s 23rd Congressional District:
“As chairman of the House Republican Conference, I am proud to announce my support for Doug Hoffman for election to Congress in the 23rd District of New York.
Dede Scozzafava’s decision to suspend her campaign is to be commended. By doing so, she has put the interests of her country and her party ahead of personal considerations.
Now is the time for all Republicans to come behind Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman. We look forward to welcoming him to the House Republican Conference. By electing Doug Hoffman to Congress, the citizens of New York’s 23rd District can send a deafening message to Washington, D.C. that the era of borrowing and spending and bailouts and takeovers is over.”
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joers Saturday, October 31st at 3:51PM EST (link)Wonder how Newt will clean it up? And what about the silent Romney and Huckaby, both of whom profess to be so conservative? Maybe they will speak since its safe now. The Republicans had better realize that the conservative base is awake now, and roaring. We are mad as hell and aren’t going to take it anymore.
Sadly..
Bobcat51 Saturday, October 31st at 4:11PM EST (link)Romney and Huckabee are fence sitters and finger in the wind professional politicians! Along with Newt one has to wonder what 2012 will bring with pretenders like these sitting on top of the ladder.
We have a revolution taking place in this country and it will require stout hearts and minds to foil Obama and his Marxist cohorts from destroying the Constitution. The very future of our country is in our hands and we need hands that are committed not fumbler’s and bumbler’s like those named here.
PS; Just watching Steele as he fumbles with Greg Jarrett Fox at 3pm eastern. The guy should wake up and smell the coffee. The McCainites should get off the bus and make way for the real future if the country.
The left wing intent is to destroy the existing society and replace it with a society of its own design.
"...deafening message..."
redneck_hippie (Diary) Saturday, October 31st at 3:52PM EST (link)I’ll drink to that.
Oh, and Erick, did GC write that title for you?
Loud and clear, even downstate
CincoSolas_del_Bronx (Diary) Saturday, October 31st at 4:18PM EST (link)where there are more conservatives than commonly imagined.
And redneck_hippie, GC could not have written that title:
1) too many fully-spelled words
2) too many correctly-spelled words
3) too few name-based puns
4) too many capital letters
5) too short
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Ah. I stand corrected, Cinco. nt
redneck_hippie (Diary) Saturday, October 31st at 4:21PM EST (link)If Neil ever really gets ticked at GC it will be obvious. He'll limit the length of titles. nt
mbecker908 (Diary) Saturday, October 31st at 6:46PM EST (link)Sometimes I think GC does it to express his inner lib.
redneck_hippie (Diary) Saturday, October 31st at 7:04PM EST (link)Cryptic titles are more conservative, after all.
Nah, he does it because he is a lawyer.
penguin2 (Diary) Saturday, October 31st at 7:24PM EST (link)They have a way with words.
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Where are all the whereas'es then? nt
redneck_hippie (Diary) Saturday, October 31st at 7:28PM EST (link)In Nancy P's 1,900 pages Health Care Monstrosity.
penguin2 (Diary) Saturday, October 31st at 7:31PM EST (link)I understand there is a lot of this and that and go here, go there.
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"Doctor" does not appear in Nancy's bill.
ColdWarrior (Diary) Saturday, October 31st at 7:46PM EST (link)I heard this on Fox News.
The word “doctor,” in the sense of “medical doctor,” does not appear in the Nancy’s bill.
I went to http://www.gop.gov/solutions/healthcare and downloaded the bill and searched using Acrobat Reader. The search function could not find “doctor.”
Unbelievable.
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Guess we won't need doctors
redneck_hippie (Diary) Saturday, October 31st at 7:50PM EST (link)once we have single payer. Nobody will be sick after the “health commissioner” gets through with us. In Russia and China they starved and shot the masses. Here we just have our plugs pulled.
Eric, get off your high horse.
zbigreddogz (Diary) Saturday, October 31st at 4:03PM EST (link)It’s preposterous to presume people in GOP leadership would endorse someone other then the Republican candidate, even in exceptional circumstances like this. Sitting on his hands and not endorsing Scozzafava is the most anybody could reasonably expect.
I’m glad Hoffman ran, I’m glad Scozzafava dropped out. I think we are going to win.
But you really need to get off your high horse and quit your jihad against good people like Pence. If Pence is not one of us, there ARE none of us.
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I'd bother to read your comment
Neil Stevens (Diary) Saturday, October 31st at 4:05PM EST (link)But if an idiot like you can’t even spell Erick’s name right even though it’s spelled out right in front of you, you’re unlikely to be worth reading.
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Here you go, Neil, I'll give you the highlights of his comment:
janis (Diary) Saturday, October 31st at 4:17PM EST (link)Blah, blah, blah, I know better than you do, blah,blah, blah. And in closing:
I wish I was a big dog instead of a flea-bitten mutt with delusions of intelligence.
So, just out of curiousity.....
eburke (Diary) Saturday, October 31st at 5:50PM EST (link)how many IQ points shy of zero do you have to be to a) misread a headline that obvious; and b) tell the founder of the site to ‘get off his high horse’?
Just wondering.
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Neil Stevens (Diary) Saturday, October 31st at 6:03PM EST (link)One, two, three
*crunch*
Three
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Zbigreddogz, did you even read Erick's post?
RedBeard Saturday, October 31st at 4:16PM EST (link)I suspect you read no further than the headline.
Or is it that you don’t understand what he wrote?
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Yes, he tries to moderate his slander in the body of the message
zbigreddogz (Diary) Saturday, October 31st at 4:58PM EST (link)But he still slanders him in the headlines. And it’s not fair, right or helpful.
He’s basically saying, “You’re a f*&king jerk. But it’s OK, you f*&king jerk.”
That’s just not helpful.
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Here, doggie, have a bigger shovel. nt
janis (Diary) Saturday, October 31st at 5:04PM EST (link)As I thought, you've misunderstood the headline
RedBeard Saturday, October 31st at 5:05PM EST (link)Please, read it again.
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I did not misunderstand the headline. It's very clear.
zbigreddogz (Diary) Saturday, October 31st at 5:17PM EST (link)He slanders Pence then sorta-kinda takes it back.
And he shouldn’t have.
“At the top there are no easy choices. All are between evils, the consequences of which are hard to judge.” – Dean Acheson
Well I guess it's like that old saying
civil truth (Diary) Saturday, October 31st at 5:20PM EST (link)“Opinions are like a**holes: everyone’s entitled to one, and everyone’s got one”.
So you have your opinion and have made it clear.
That doesn’t mean that it’s based on any degree of rationality or that we have to respect it as being rational.
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Here, doggie, here's the key to the backhoe. Have at it. nt
janis (Diary) Saturday, October 31st at 5:25PM EST (link)i think very much did misunderstand the headline
Erick Erickson (Diary) Saturday, October 31st at 5:31PM EST (link)I’ve been supportive of Pence and his actions in this race all along — including complimenting him weeks ago that he was going to sit on his hands instead of backing Scozzafava.
Who will stand on either hand and keep this bridge with me?Follow @EWErickson
"refusing to help the GOP in their suicide bid"...
penguin2 (Diary) Saturday, October 31st at 5:31PM EST (link)Sounds like a positive to me, for Mike Pence. Erick is acknowledging the dilemma Pence was in and is now free. I think it speaks highly of Pence that he refused to endorse Dede, when other GOP “leaders” were doing so. Including the RNCC and RN
Oops, I guess that is exactly what Erick said!
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I agree and that's how I took it -- approval of Pence
peg_c (Diary) Saturday, October 31st at 5:53PM EST (link)Pence – who we all know is an extremely good conservative – had his options limited and did what he had to. Now he’s doing everything he can.
Gingrich and Romney were not boxed in and still did not do the right thing. They deserve the criticism they’re getting.
Thank you, Congressman!
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Yes, it's clear, but not to Zbigreddogz
RedBeard Saturday, October 31st at 5:33PM EST (link)“Having Sat on His Hands Refusing to Help the GOP In Its Suicide Bid…”
The above phrase is giving Pence CREDIT for not helping the GOP screw this up. It’s a GOOD THING to not aid a suicide bid. See how that works?
Eh. Never mind. Wasting my time, while somewhere there’s a Yuengling Black and Tan with my name on it……..
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GOP earns no plaudits in this affair
peg_c (Diary) Saturday, October 31st at 5:55PM EST (link)Let’s hope they earn some wisdom.
Government cannot be the solution when government is the problem.
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Bill S (Diary) Saturday, October 31st at 5:36PM EST (link)Get rid of this “zbigreddogz” sock puppet. We know you’re in there.
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555! nt
Vegas_Rick (Diary) Saturday, October 31st at 5:38PM EST (link)“God is great, beer is good and people are crazy.”- Billy Currington
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” Calvin Coolidge.
!!SMACK!! -nt
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I always try to give the benefit of the doubt,
Vegas_Rick (Diary) Saturday, October 31st at 5:26PM EST (link)but zbig is clearly an idiot. Only an idiot could conclude that this statement:
After sitting on his hands, refusing to help the GOP in its suicide bid….Mike Pence is finally free to do what he’s always wanted.
is an insult to Mike Pence. I won’t waste my time or your band width trying to explain it to an idiot.
as to the “loyal lieutenant” part, he is the Chairman of the House Republican Conference. Good leaders don’t throw their organization under the bus, even when they disagree.
“God is great, beer is good and people are crazy.”- Billy Currington
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Wow, message was...
Erick Brockway (Diary) Saturday, October 31st at 4:31PM EST (link)No more appeasing the left. Not if there’s a clear choice between a conservative and a squish, as there clearly was in this case.
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zbig, read the freaking post, BEFORE you comment
Vegas_Rick (Diary) Saturday, October 31st at 4:37PM EST (link)Erick was giving Pence his props. Erick clearly stated that Pence could do nothing until now.
Get a grip, dude.
“God is great, beer is good and people are crazy.”- Billy Currington
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” Calvin Coolidge.
Somebody fix this schmuck's name.
Franz Prince of Dogness (Diary) Saturday, October 31st at 6:52PM EST (link)In my official capacity I want to note that NO dog would post something this stupid.
Bad dog. Actually, you’re probably a stupid cat (redundant, I know) in disguise.
Oh look zbig, it’s winter time. Somebody’s put out a nice dish of antifreeze for you to drink. It’ll keep you warm. You’ll like it. And so will the rest of us.
kill them and eat theminvite them to a State Dinner at the White House.Hoffman's near the top of the hill...
Erick Brockway (Diary) Saturday, October 31st at 4:28PM EST (link)Just needs one last push.
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"Conservatives are now fully united and fighting"
Scope (Diary) Saturday, October 31st at 4:35PM EST (link)and one can only hope that the powers that be in the Republican party recognize that we can do some very amazing things. I bet a few months ago no one even heard of Hoffman or Scazzofava, and, look at what a concerted effort by an awake and very much alive conservative movement can do. We will stay energized, and keep supporting Hoffman until he wins. If the establishment Republicans don’t recognize just how big this one effort has been, and how “united” the people have been, they deserve to die in their ditches, while the conservatives take over those hills.
"Conservatives are now fully united and fighting"
Scope (Diary) Saturday, October 31st at 4:35PM EST (link)and one can only hope that the powers that be in the Republican party recognize that we can do some very amazing things. I bet a few months ago no one even heard of Hoffman or Scazzofava, and, look at what a concerted effort by an awake and very much alive conservative movement can do. We will stay energized, and keep supporting Hoffman until he wins. If the establishment Republicans don’t recognize just how big this one effort has been, and how “united” the people have been, they deserve to die in their ditches, while the conservatives take over those hills.
Scope picks the best line of all "Conservatives are now fully UNITED and FIGHTING"...
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No, I believe all the Conservatives have only just begun the fight!
DavidS1787 (Diary) Saturday, October 31st at 5:27PM EST (link)And the conservatives aren’t going to be satisfied with the status quo moderate Republicans………..
Then I hope conservatives turn out in the primaries
Neil Stevens (Diary) Saturday, October 31st at 7:05PM EST (link)Giving to the candidates helps, too.
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I agree Neil 100 percent........
DavidS1787 (Diary) Saturday, October 31st at 11:58PM EST (link)n/t
Pense waited till Hoffman was ahead in the polls
livingfortruth Sunday, November 1st at 12:53AM EST (link)Yeah, he’s a man of principle. Let the women do the real work. Palin endorsed Hoffman when he was only polling at 15%. His numbers shot up over the weekend, then Pawlenty endorsed when it was “Safe” to do so. Real men running the Republican party, NOT. Scared chickens actually!
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