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Thank you, Dede Scozzafava.  You have made what was oh so obvious, even more obvious.  Before the election, Dede was the Republican who was picked by the 11 county chairmen in the New York’s 23rd Congressional District, and by the RNC, to represent this section of the State in the House of Representatives.  What a most excellent choice you were.  Markos Moulitsas, founder of the dailyKOS, called Ms. Scozzafava “actually the most liberal candidate in the race.”  Do not listen to the lies of MSM, Dede is not a moderate. Scozzafava is left of moderate; but most of all, Dede is a Republican.  Dede is not a RINO, Dede is a Republican.  Dede is a leftist and Dede is a Republican.

People who cry RINO whenever they see a liberal with the Republican label get it all wrong.  The big tent has room for liberals.  From Applied Semantics a conservative blog:

I want to start poaching some RINO GOP comittee chairs in the the NY 23rd congressional district.

This is the wrong attitude.  Yes, according to Gallup, the Republican Party consists of 73% conservatives, 24% moderates and 3% liberals.  Given the overwhelming number of conservatives in the party, one would imagine the party face would be conservative, but no matter.  The party leadership handpicked Dede, and Dede is a Republican.

Now, according to Gallup, 40% of the country is conservative, but half of that group are not Republican.  So why did the party establishment pick someone from the tiny liberal wing of the party?  Why does  the party leadership see fit to ignore 73% of the party, a.k.a. the conservative wing?  Furthermore, why does the party ignore the conservative 20% of the American electorate that is outside the party — a segment of the populace equal in number to all the liberals?  Why does the party pursue the minority of  leftists instead of the plurality of conservatives?

Conservatives want to uphold Federalism, and the Constitution.  Why do self proclaimed progressives such as McCain and Graham find this so distasteful?  Far down in popularity from its days under Reagan and the revolution in 1994, could someone explain how a party that now enjoys a 25% approval rate — refuse to realize it is on the wrong path?

Lets take a look at Dede, Republican, great gal — she is:

1. A supporter of abortion rights
2. A supporter of tax hikes
3. A supporter of the Obama porkulus (stimulus)
4. A supporter of gay marriage
5. A supporter of the public medical option
6. A supporter of Card Check  (ending the secret ballot)

There are many blue dog Democrats I would find more in common with than this Republican.  Thank goodness she is not a supporter of gun control.  At least, according to Ms. Scozzafava, we all are still free to go blow our brains out.  Dede is a poster child for closed primaries, the party leadership may want to consider this thought going into the future, “No more hand picked candidates!!”.

Lets look at who else supported Dede, Republican, hand picked by the local and national Republican establishment: ACORN.  Need I say more?  No.  Really.  ACORN approved of Dede.  The Working Families Party (WPF) also approves.  Who is the WFP?  They are a socialist party splinter whose ‘real solution’ for tax relief regarding property taxes is to increase taxes on the rich.  NY State already has the highest taxes in the nation on wage earners.  Considering the ‘flight of the able’ has already seen a loss of revenue over the past several years in NY, this is just another brain dead leftist idea based on envy and ignorant of the impact of the Laffer curve.  Try something else, WFP, like cutting spending.  You know, live within your means.  It’s quaint, but thrift is the time-tested approach to successful governance.  KOS, ACORN, and the WFP — with Republicans like this, who needs Democrats?

This is the gift the Republican Party leadership gave us?  So revealing.  When the 73% of the party asserted itself and said, “Enough!” Dede showed her true colors.  She withdrew from the race, and, now supports the Democrat!  The moral of the story is that the current leadership of the GOP prefers Democrats to conservatives.  Conservatives have felt this disdain for years, the country club blue bloods put up with Reagan, but they never liked him.  Now they are trying to tell us he was a moderate?  William F. Buckley enthusiastically supported Reagan.  He was indifferent to Bush senior, and hostile towards the shrub, a.k.a. GW.  Buckley gave voice to the conservative wing of American thought in the 1950’s and started the movement.  Buckley knows a conservative when he sees one — Reagan was a conservative.

Reagan Democrats were social conservatives, not fiscal conservatives — and so were considered moderates.  The moderate wing of the public is a hash of both social and fiscal liberals and conservatives.  The country club Republicans are typically fiscally conservative, but are socially liberal and make up a large chunk of the 24% of the party that are self-identified moderates.  This 24% of the Republican party, however, is not large enough to be a viable base upon which a party can win national elections.  Trying to hash out a party platform that will please all of  the 35% of the American Electorate that is self-identified as moderate, is a challenge that up to now has eluded both political parties.

According to the Republican Party leadership, conservatives  are just supposed to vote for the liberal Republican and shut up.  That is why we are in a fight.  Given no voice in the party, half of all conservatives are no longer in the GOP.  Why are conservatives expected to be tolerant , but those who are not conservative are not brow-beaten into being broad minded? Why are the moderates not tolerant of the majority of the party?  Why are liberals intolerant of anyone who is not for the public option, and not criticized for their ideological stance?  Why are only conservatives held to a different standard?

The conservatives in the Republican party share a common ideological ground with much of the half of the nation’s conservatives who are not in the party.  The party can grow in that direction naturally.  How are the liberals in the party going to grow the party?   The Democrat party owns this end of the spectrum, while both parties ignore the conservatives outside the Republican party.  How does the Republican party recruit leftists and hold on to its principals?

The Specter wing of the party, a.k.a. the McCain wing or the Lindsey Graham wing, needs to understand that they are welcome, but they have no business leading the party.  The path of the liberal Republican leads to the same place as a that of the leftist in the Democrat party.   The difference is that the liberal Republican offers the nation a death by 10 thousand cuts.  The Democrat will bring change to this nation far more quickly.  The end result is the same, whether the face of this change be Obama or Scozzafava.

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