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Gateway Pundit: At Half Empty Rally… Biden Urges NY-23 Voters to Teach Conservatives a Lesson
TPM Election Central: Biden: Moderate Republican Voters Should Teach The GOP A Lesson, Vote Owens
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| Castle will make a run for Senate.(CNN) - Vice President Joe Biden challenged Republican voters in New York's 23rd - http://j.mp/3RzZ4H 19 days ago |
At Half Empty Rally… Biden Urges NY-23 Voters to Teach Conservatives a Lesson
Gateway Pundit —
In a rally today in Watertown, New York that was only slightly over half full Joe Biden urged voters in NY-23 to teach conservatives a lesson and vote for the trailing democrat.
CNN Political Ticker reported:
Former Vice President Joe Biden challenged Republican voters in New York’s 23rd congressional district to teach conservative “absolutists” a lesson in the special House election Tuesday by voting for the Democratic candidate in the race
“We aren’t asking you to switch your party,” Biden said at a ...
Biden: Moderate Republican Voters Should Teach The GOP A Lesson, Vote Owens
TPM Election Central —
... At his rally today with NY-23 Democratic candidate Bill Owens, Vice President Biden tapped into the emerging narrative that the this election represents the expulsion of moderates from the Republican Party -- and that moderate GOP voters should vote for Owens in order to teach the GOP a lesson. ...
The NY 23 race: does Joe Biden really think…
neo-neocon —
... …he speaks to rank and file upstate New York Republicans when he asks them to show conservatives a lesson by voting for Owen? I’m not a Biden fan, but I thought he had a little more political savvy then that after all these years. ...
BlogTalk: Countdown to Election Day
The Caucus —
... for those who have yet to make up their mind in the 23rd: Hoffman continues to lead in the latest Siena poll and, at this point, the “undecided” poll respondents should be told to stay home. If you don’t know whether you’re a Democrat or a “right-wing extremist,” you’re too dumb to be allowed to vote. This morning Vice President Joseph Biden traveled to Watertown in upstate New York for a last minute rally for Mr. Owens.“We aren’t asking you to switch your party,” Mr. Biden said. “We are just saying join us in teaching a lesson to those absolutists who say no dissent is ...
Biden concern trolling the Teabaggers.
INSTAPUTZ —
Meh. "We aren't asking you to switch your party," Biden said at a rally for Democrat Bill Owens in Watertown, New York Monday morning. "We are just saying join us in teaching a lesson to those absolutists who say no dissent is permitted within your own party."I think there are much better arguments for voting for Owens beyond "lets make the GOP a stronger, more diverse, better party." C'mon, Joe. ...
“Former” VP Biden, the gift that keeps on giving
C-POL: Constitutionalist, conservative politics —
Too bad this was just a brain burp on CNN’s part. [image] This is from a CNN article today reporting on the ongoing efforts by Democrats to help Bill Owens overcome the surging candidacy of conservative Doug Hoffman. Even though alleged Republican Dede Scozzafava is now campaigning for the Democrat, Hoffman currently holds a five-point lead over Owens in the latest ...
Is Rahm’s Luck Running Out?
GayPatriot —
... should have a good shot. Indeed, that’s precisely why Obama plucked the popular Republican incumbent from the seat to be his Army secretary — Rahm thought it was a likely pick-up.
With Dede’s endorsement, that task seemed easier. Should the Democrat now lose, the White House will have major egg on its face, particularly as Administration officials decrying Hoffman’s success as a sign of the extremism of and rise of the “absolutists” in the GOP.
Rahm Emanuel may be crowing about locking down the Scozzafava ...
Vote Now: Who Will Win the NY-23 Special Congressional Election?
Capital Eye —
Republicans dropping out and endorsing Democrats. Other Republicans endorsing Conservative Party candidates. Vice President Joe Biden and a host of other Democrats flying in to help Republicans helping Democrats against ...
Forget it. Point is, this strange little congressional election in an otherwise sleepy section of Upstate New York has generated more intrigue than the state's 23rd Congressional District has certainly ever seen. (Read our coverage here.) It helps that it's all but the only game in the nation on this, Election Day -- at ...
Biden, Absolutists, Irony, and NY-23 (Guest Voice)
The Moderate Voice —
... Vice President Joe Biden was in upstate New York today stumping for Bill Owens in the heated NY-23 Congressional special election. You know, the one that doesn’t matter and has no national portent whatsoever, except if Owens wins, of course. In any event, Biden had a few words to say about Scozzafava’s departure and the GOP: ...




