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NY-23 The Hoffman dollars keep coming…

Posted: October 23, 2009 by datechguy in internet/free speech, opinion/news
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Robert Stacy McCain is so all over this story:

First he has the clip of the Armey endorsement speech and gets a photo with the man from Texas who doesn’t care what Charles Johnson (peace be upon him) thinks.

Then after getting Beck’s interview online gets a call that the Palin endorsement have been worth a fortune.

Doug Hoffman raised $116,000 on Thursday.

But he still has time to give credit to Jumping in Pools for first suggesting Palin endorse. However I disagree with this statement:

BTW, don’t be puzzled if the Hoffman campaign doesn’t make a big deal out of Palin’s endorsement. Because she’s been so unfairly demonized by the MSM, Palin’s status with independent voters is kind of problematic right now (let’s hope Oprah can fix that). So don’t expect to see Hoffman TV ads in NY23 shoving the Palin endorsement in voter’s faces.

I disagree, if the media really thought Palin was that unpopular they would be trumpeting her endorsement to hurt Hoffman, in addition she adds up to ratings. You don’t get ratings by featuring unpopular people.

BTW I just saw the Cavuto interview as it went on that he mentioned. What a boring interviewer. How does he ever manage a show?

the News is so big that Hotair is linking.

Hey Apple NRCC do you figure on sinking any more dough on Dede Scozzafava and alienating your customer contributor base any more?

Vote Hoffman.

Update: fixed bad strike label.

And here comes more of the herd…

Posted: October 23, 2009 by datechguy in internet/free speech, opinion/news
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Steve Forbes joins the heard now streaming toward Hoffman:

Former presidential candidate Steve Forbes, chief executive officer of Forbes Inc., will endorse Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate in New York’s 23rd congressional district. A source close to the campaign tells NRO that “many more conservatives will be announcing their support in coming days.”

And I should note that Michelle Bachman actually expressed support for Hoffman a few hours before Palin, but did so when questioned rather than as a flat endorsement.

Minnesota’s always entertaining Michelle Bachman is already in Hoffman’s camp, telling radio show host Laura Ingraham that “Hoffman is on the ascendancy, and we have to win this seat. And people need to get behind the winning candidate, and it looks like that’s Hoffman.”

If the NRCC is smart they will make a deal with Dede and have her pull out, if they don’t they will be embarrassed no matter what happens, and they can’t afford to go after Palin who they will need in 2012.

Vote Hoffman.

It has begun, who do you support

Posted: October 23, 2009 by datechguy in internet/free speech, opinion/news
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The Palin endorsement is now having ripples in the Republican party:

Rick Santorum stands with Hoffman and Palin:

It’s a different case in NY-23 … the Republican seems to be … falling apart… the Republican candidate has been in the process of disqualifying herself …. You’re not throwing your vote away on [Hoffman] …. This is a race that we need to win … the best change for a conservative … a Republican… to win this race… is Doug Hoffman….

Tim Pawlenty, he doesn’t know:

“I haven’t been following that,” Pawlenty said of the contest. “I haven’t studied the race at all. It’s not that I would or wouldn’t [endorse Scozzafava], I just don’t know anything about it.”

And that I don’t know stomps all over his announcement:

Pawlenty was in Washington to kick off his new committee, the Freedom First PAC. He spoke to a crowd of hundreds at a brewing company just off Capitol Hill. The largely younger crowd included Republican congressional staffers and the various party organizations.

Watch for more of it, nothing angers pols more than having to take side when they didn’t have to before.

Ny23 race? What NY 23 race?

Posted: October 23, 2009 by datechguy in Uncategorized
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I’ve been checking the channels looking for the Palin endorsement story.

I have not found ANYONE mentioning it.

Zip, Zero Nada!

Fox is talking about debating Al Gore on global warming.

Morning Joe is talking the Health Plan, (and O’Donnell was rather fair on it), the Airplane stuff and Chuck Todd’s shaving.

Imus is talking the plane stuff and the baseball playoffs and a bit of racing.

CNN, is talking swine flu and reports that Joe Wilson’s wife has it

But I haven’t found a word on Palin and NY-23. What does that tell me?

There is a whole hour to go but we will see.

It tells me that either these guys are just not on the ball or that they seek to minimize the effect of the Palin endorsement. My guess is they figure Hoffman may have it and they don’t want to point the finger at Sarah on this.

Democrats don’t want this because they don’t want to promote a potential Palin victory

The NRCC doesn’t want to promote it because it is an embarrassment to them and their candidate.

Thus nobody wants to talk about it. We will have to wait till Rush’s show to see things happen.

If big news happens and everyone ignores it has it happened? The MSM wants to find out.

Update: the Washington Post has it online. If they can push TV coverage to the weekend they might be able to minimize it. From the Fix:

Sarah Palin’s decision to endorse the Conservative party candidate over the Republican nominee in a special House election in upstate New York is the latest example that the former Alaska governor’s allegiance is to her conservative principles rather than the edicts of the party.

“Republicans and conservatives around the country are sending an important message to the Republican establishment in their outstanding grassroots support for Doug Hoffman: no more politics as usual,” wrote Palin on her Facebook page.

She also cited former president Ronald Reagan’s belief that “blurring the lines” was not the way to re-build the Republican party and added: “The Republican Party today has decided to choose a candidate who more than blurs the lines, and there is no real difference between the Democrat and the Republican in this race.”

Will the deluge of coverage come, or will it wait till the democrats and national republicans come up with a counter.

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