In the Wall Street Journal article, “Tea-Party Activists Complicate Republican Comeback Strategy” (October 16, 2009) author, Naftali Bendavid, profiles a House race in upstate New York where the Republican Party endorsed Dede Scozzafavo. Late into the race Doug Hoffman, the candidate of the tea party activists, is gaining ground but the end result looks to be that a once reliable Republican seat will be lost to the Democrats.
A cautionary tale to be sure. Michelle Malkin (supporting Hoffman) and Carol Platt Liebau (calling for both groups—the activists and the Republicans—to get along) frame the much larger debate about third party candidates.
I commend to you the following 3 articles:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125564976279388879.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/10/17/a-message-from-ny-23-conservative-candidate-doug-hoffman/
2010 looks to be a banner year for Republicans. I hope that the activists take an intense interest in their party to become involved, shape policy, and steel the spine of endorsed candidates. I hope that the Republicans welcome the activists and engage in spirited debate. We have heard over and over again that elections matter. They most certainly will in 2010.
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It could be that the Republican Party as it is today and has been since the fall of Reaganrule…is a body without much mind and certainly no soul. It has been rudderless with the single exception of a few years of Newt Gingrich leadership. Then he embarrassed us.
The present American profile of both political parties is a disgrace to the country’s democracy. One Party is destroying democracy itself by replacing it with Marxist big government watching over you and me, and the other Party is dazed. Both are bereft of service to the country. Both bribe to attract a following. Neither offer healthy, long range solutions making the nation stonger morally and economically and more learned regarding citizen responsibilities within a democratic society.
One Party at present is determined to diminish the country’s wealth and to weaken the nation among the ranks of the world’s nations. Its leadership knows exactly what it wants to achieve.
Both Republicans and Democrats attended the same corrupt schools and universities, void of learning and bloated with preaching Marxism and victimhood. Why should we be surprised that both of these animals are often indistinguishable?
Now is the time for those who wish to save America, whether Democrats or Republicans, from the Obama tornado of Marxist wind, to stand up for democracy and say no to this flakey Marxist Uriah Heap, Barack Hussein Obama state control agenda.
Third Party is no option for conservatives, Compromise is essential in a democracy. We must unite against Marxism. Support your conservative candidate in the primaries. Throw out the Arlen Specters and Olympia Snows and all the others untrustworthy in their defense of American values…but in the primaries.
And then unite against the Marxists!
Remember what third parties create….Al Franken!!!