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TPM Election Central: Rick Perry Endorses Conservative Party's Hoffman In NY-23
Daily Kos: Polling and Political Wrap-Up, 10/29/09
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias: Frank Rich: Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin Are 'Re-enacting Stalinism'
| RT @PATR2012 RT @Cubachi Governor Perry endorses Hoffman! http://is.gd/4HAvE 10/29/2009 |
| @GovPerry2010 joins Palin and endorses Conservative Party candidate Hoffman over Repub Scozzafava for NY-23 http://bit.ly/3k22pg #txcot 10/29/2009 |
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 ...


