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Rick Perry endorses Conservative over Republican in NY race
Rick Perry has sent out a fundraising email supporting Conservative party candidate Doug Hoffman over Republican Dede Scozzafava for Congress in next Tuesday's special election in New York. Perry says Hoffman is "the only real conservative in the race." The race has divided the GOP. Newt ...
Scozzafava endorses Owens in NY-23 race
thehill.com — Republican Dede Scozzafava, who unexpectedly backed out of a three-way House race on Saturday, announced this afternoon... that she was endorsing Democrat Bill Owens for the job. Her decision not to back Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman is ... (more) Scozzafava endorses Owens in NY-23 race
Gingrich endorses Hoffman
Gingrich endorses Hoffman
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com — WASHINGTON (CNN)– Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who came under fire from some conservatives for endorsing Dede... Scozzafava in next week's special Congressional election in New York, is now backing Conservative Party candidate Doug ... (more) Gingrich endorses Hoffman
Sarah Palin breaks with the GOP to endorse a Conservative in N.Y. House race
Sarah Palin breaks with the GOP to endorse a Conservative in N.Y. House race
latimesblogs.latimes.com — Sarah Palin , who a few people may recall was the vice presidential candidate on last year's... Republican Party ticket that crashed and burned, has broken with her party in the race for a House seat from New York and endorsed the candidate of the ... (more) Sarah Palin breaks with the GOP to endorse a ...
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Rick Perry Endorses Conservative Party's Hoffman In NY-23
TPM Election Central — ... Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate in the NY-23 special election, has picked up another endorsement from a prominent Republican, Texas Gov. Rick Perry: ...

Polling and Political Wrap-Up, 10/29/09
Daily Kos — ... behind third party candidate Doug Hoffman. The septet of GOP Congressman now backing Hoffman reads like a "Who's Who" of batshit crazy Republicanism--among the horde are Paul Broun (GA), Steve King (AZ), and Trent Franks (AZ). Franks, in an email sent out Thursday, smacked Scozzafava for being "radically out of the mainstream on issues that constitute the core of the Republican Party's principles." Late in the day today, Hoffman also got another high-profile right-wing endorsement, as Texas Governor Rick Perry gave his nod to the right-wing Independent as well. ...

Frank Rich: Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin Are 'Re-enacting Stalinism'
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... could capture a seat the Republicans should own. But it’s even better for Democrats if Hoffman wins. Punch-drunk with this triumph, the right will redouble its support of primary challengers to 2010 G.O.P. candidates they regard as impure. That’s bad news for even a Republican as conservative as Kay Bailey Hutchison, whose primary opponent in the Texas governor’s race, the incumbent Rick Perry, floated the possibility of secession at a teabagger rally in April and hastily endorsed Hoffman on Thursday. ...

The G.O.P. Stalinists Invade Upstate New York
Commondreams.org Views — ... at a teabagger rally in April and hastily endorsed Hoffman on Thursday. The more rightists who win G.O.P. primaries, the greater the Democrats’ prospects next year. But the electoral math is less interesting than the pathology of this movement. Its antecedent can be found in the early 1960s, when radical-right hysteria carried some of the same traits we’re seeing now: seething rage, fear of minorities, maniacal contempt for government, and a Freudian tendency to mimic the excesses of political foes. Writing in 1964 of that era’s equivalent to today’s tea party cells, ...

Frank Rich on GOP Stalinist Purges
Blog For Arizona — ... a seat the Republicans should own. But it’s even better for Democrats if Hoffman wins. Punch-drunk with this triumph, the right will redouble its support of primary challengers to 2010 G.O.P. candidates they regard as impure. That’s bad news for even a Republican as conservative as Kay Bailey Hutchison, whose primary opponent in the Texas governor’s race, the incumbent Rick Perry, floated the possibility of secession at a teabagger rally in April and hastily endorsed Hoffman on Thursday. ...

GOP Direct Mail King Weighs in on NY-23, Insisting the Race Is About Teabaggers, Not New Yorkers
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash — ... who's who of the tea party movement, with Bill Kristol , Fred Thompson , Dick Armey , Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) , The Wall Street Journal editorial page , Sarah Palin's Facebook page , Steve Forbes , Rick Santorum , Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty , Republican congressmen from Kansas , Georgia , Oklahoma and California , state legislators from Colorado , Glenn Beck , Rick Perry and former New York Gov. George Pataki all endorsing Hoffman over ...

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