If he had won it still would have meant that for the first time since 1852 a non-Republican would have won the election.

Seriously, you’re doing a great job making lefties look foolish.

A Northeastern New York district isn’t close to being everything. But it certainly isn’t much of a successful move for the tea party folk to be part of the first Democrat being elected there since 1852. Please keep up the good work, purity pledge ringbearers!

That’s the spirit ymob.

It is nice for you all to have your Sarah Palin starbursts and purity pledges, but governing actually takes more than a mission statement and an opponent who can be linked to ACORN. Sometimes it takes an actual plan to cut that spending that is out of control. Sometimes it takes patience, because working entirely against a party you want to change can weaken both entities. And sometimes the voters just think a candidate for an office should at the very least read about local issues and be able to vote for himself in the election.

Newt, however, seems to have jumped the shark.

Scuzzy seems to actually be a closeted Democrat.

jon the ymob is doing a great job making leftism look foolish.

Wait, you make that sound as if you don’t like Obama and crew.
I mean, that’s their raison d’etre, they’re all about slogans and, as we’ve seen, Obama and co. have no governing skills.
How else do you explain that the Dems have unassailable majorities in both houses of Congress and yet they can’t pass two totally necessary bills into law?
Or did they pass “cap and give money to Al Gore” and Obamacare?

NY-23 is designed to keep right wing votes together. Redistricting it into Democratic hands would not undermine Republicans in NY-23, it would undermine surrounding Democrats by pouring Republican votes into their districts.

Okay, that’s funny and I think I’ve figure you out, your a reverse moby (a conservative pretending to be a leftist to discredit leftism).
I could take the “centrist Democrat with liberal ambitions” part, but “a lot of patience”?
Everything he’s wanted to do he’s had to do “right now, the time for debate is over”.

Sorry to out you jon, but that one was just one inanity too much.

As for Obama, this incuriosity isn’t a big deal: he’s a centrist Democrat with liberal ambitions and a lot of patience, the kind of maddening person the right will call a loon and point to THIS and THAT about, but he’s really kinda boring actually. He’s Al Gore with a better tan, not some Dr. Frankenstein’s monster created using William Ayers’ and Trotsky’s brain in Bill Bradley’s Lurch-like body.

a district that has been in Republican hands for one-hundred-and-fifty years is now in danger of flipping to the Democrats.

Don’t be an idiot.

Their incuriosity about Scozzafava will, as it happens, do far less damage than the Democrats’ incuriosity about Barack Obama.

Still, a district that has been in Republican hands for one-hundred-and-fifty years is now in danger of flipping to the Democrats. Revolutions have to start somewhere, and I know all the arguments about cleaning your own house first, but this isn’t the nationwide litmus test some people are suggesting. And anyone who suggests that it shows the GOP establishment to be clueless hasn’t realized how amazing it is that Steele’s campaign was going around with signs saying, in white letters on a blue background, “Steele/Democrat”. He may be as useless as a dead cat to a vegan restaurant, but it’s not as if he’ll get removed because the Republicans have an image problem with minorities already. Still, they could have taken some extra effort and gotten a coherent black guy rather than the first black guy they could find. When they, the no-quota party, choose their next leader, who will be Hispanic, I can’t imagine they’ll do worse than the Steele pick. Then again, I’ve learned not to misunderestimate the stupidity of the party leadership. I’m not going to gloat, however: the Democrats would probably have Maxine Waters as their national leader if the Republicans had elected a black President last year.

the RNCC declared Hoffman unfit

And their judgment is unassailable, right?

Of course, I’m pretty sure the only time Jon ever agrees with the GOP establishment is when they nominate Democrats.