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NYT columnist Frank Rich has the heebie-jeebies
Michelle Malkin —
[image] Aw, poor Frank Rich. The far Left columnist for the New York Times is spooked by mainstream conservatives asserting themselves in the NY-23 congressional race. Limited government activists rising up against the GOP elite? Horrors! The New York fracas was ignited by the routine decision of 11 local Republican county chairmen to anoint an assemblywoman, Dede Scozzafava, as their party’s nominee for the vacant seat. The 23rd is in safe Republican territory that hasn’t sent a Democrat to Congress in decades. And Scozzafava is a mainstream conservative by New York standards; ...
Frank Rich: Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin Are 'Re-enacting Stalinism'
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... After all, in his "The G.O.P. Stalinists Invade Upstate New York," Rich unapologetically said no matter who wins in Tuesday's election for a House representative from New York's 23rd district, "the Republicans are the sure losers": ...
Waiting for Thermidor
MyDD —
... It is their irrationality that is most worrisome. To Michelle Malkin, Dede Scozzafava is a "radical leftist" even as Frank Rich points out Ms. Scozzafava is "a mainstream conservative by New York standards" with a voting record that is "slightly to the right of her fellow Republicans in the Assembly." Ms. Scozzafava's crime, it seems, is that she supports the right to choose and same-sex marriage. To me, that only makes her human. Then there's Erick Erickson of ...
Sarah Palin is Now the GOP Establishment
Taylor Marsh —
... Meanwhile, Frank Rich is analyzing this in terms of what can “bring this president down,” which isn’t the lesson of the strange Scozzafava tale playing out. It’s the story of 2010 and what this rabid right rev up means for turn out, when many on the left are becoming more and more disengaged, with jobs more of a worry in 2012, with next year all about the bailout/stimulus backlash, while sending Pres. Obama a message. ...
Dede’s Out, Lefty Pundit (& Bloggers) on Warpath Against Stalinist Right-wingers Who Live Inside their Heads
GayPatriot —
I’ll leave it to other conservative bloggers to analyze the angry ramblings of left-wing bloggers and pundits now that liberal Republican Dede Scozzafava has suspended her campaign for election to Congress from New York’s 23rd District. Those posts (and column) I’ve read focused not on actual arguments conservatives have been making against the “stimulus” and “card-check” supporting Republican nominee, but on the antics of the conservatives make in the realm of their liberal imagination.
Had Ms. Scozzafava come out against the ...
Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos —
Sunday punditry, and the opinions are flying like World Series home runs! Frank Rich: Barack Obama's most devilish political move since the 2008 campaign was to appoint a Republican congressman from upstate New York as secretary of the Army. This week’s election to fill that vacant seat has set off nothing less than a riotous and bloody national G.O.P. civil war. No matter what the results in that race on Tuesday, the Republicans are the sure losers. This could be a gift that keeps on giving to the Democrats through ...
From Marxists to Stalinists in the Morning -- By: Kathryn Jean Lopez
The Corner on National Review Online —
Frank Rich thinks Hoffman backers are the latter. His latest column is titled: "The G.O.P. Stalinists Invade Upstate New York":
The governors’ races in New Jersey and Virginia were once billed as the marquee events of Election Day 2009 — a referendum on the Obama presidency and a possible Republican “comeback.” But preposterous as it sounds, the real action migrated to New York’s 23rd, a rural Congressional district abutting Canada. That this pastoral setting could become a G.O.P. killing field, attracting an all-star cast of combatants led by Sarah ...
‘UNRULY’ CONSERVATIVES SHOCK THE GOP IN NY23
Right Wing Nut House —
... Whatever they were thinking, they blindly allowed an old crony (Reynolds used to run the NRCC), to have his way in choosing a candidate that even Nelson Rockefeller might have had to swallow hard to support. Hoffman, by the way, is not much more conservative than Scozzafava if you examine their positions on the issues. Dede’s problem was that she served 10 years in the Assembly and had a string of votes that she could be attacked for. But Hoffman is no wild eyed “Stalinist” as Frank Rich seems to think: The battle for upstate New York confirms just how swiftly the right has ...
No More Mister Nice Blog — ... yes, obviously I agree to a great extent with Frank Rich, whose column today on the NY-23 congressional race describes the modern GOP as a "cult" in which moderates are pitilessly purged. But I don't really agree with this: ...
Dear Frank Rich, You Can't Beat the Right-Wing By Accepting Their Narrative
Corrente —
Rich in his column about the GOP meltdown in upstate NY's congressional race: The same Republicans who once deplored Democrats ...
"The G.O.P. Stalinists Invade Upstate New York" — Frank Rich makes it all sound so scary.
Althouse —
Or at least the NYT headline makes it sound as though Frank Rich is about to scare us over the Stalinist invasion. But, reading the text, I see: "The right’s embrace of Hoffman is a double-barreled suicide for the G.O.P." Are they killing the poor citizens of upstate New York or are they killing themselves? Get the image straight, Frank. Are liberals supposed to be aghast that conservatives were able to promote a conservative ahead of the Republican Party's liberal candidate? Or should liberals be delighted that the Republican Party is destroying itself from the inside? ...
The Great Purge
Political Animal —
... , too. When Newt Gingrich is too moderate, and trying to pull the Republican Party closer to the American mainstream, it's safe to say there's something deeply wrong. It's also safe to say the national Republican Party, which has suffered consecutive electoral failures and has seen its brand deteriorate further this year, has a problem for which there is no obvious solution. Frank Rich reflected today on the right's Jacobins: The right's embrace of Hoffman is a double-barreled suicide for the G.O.P. On Saturday, the battered Scozzafava suspended her campaign, ...
Frank Rich: The G.O.P. Stalinists Invade Upstate New York
The Political Carnival —
... Frank Rich: Barack Obama's most devilish political move since the 2008 campaign was to appoint a Republican congressman from upstate New York as secretary of the Army. This week’s election to fill that vacant seat has set off nothing less than a riotous and bloody national G.O.P. civil war. No matter what the results in that race on Tuesday, the Republicans are the sure losers. This could be a gift that keeps on giving to the Democrats through 2010, and perhaps beyond. [...] That this pastoral setting could become a G.O.P. ...
Douglas L. Hoffman's America
BAGnewsNotes —
... Given the "double exposure," Hoffman and his campaign couldn't put more weight on this scene. As a Palin, Beck, Kristol, Bachmann, Malkin, Armey, WSJ and even Thompson-infused right-wing election calling card, it screams " ...
Right Field of Dreams
The Moderate Voice —
... “The battle for upstate New York,” Frank Rich observes, “confirms just how swiftly the right has devolved into a wacky, paranoid cult that is as eager to eat its own as it is to destroy Obama.” ...
Third Party Challenger = Stalinist?
The New Republic blogs —
[image] Frank Rich really lights into the Republican Party today: a riotous and bloody national G.O.P. civil war. a G.O.P. killing field confirms just how swiftly the right has devolved into a wacky, paranoid cult that is as eager to eat its own as it is to destroy Obama would gladly see the Republican Party die on the cross of right-wing ideological purity To the right s Jacobins, that s cause to send her to the guillotine. The wrecking crew of ...
Quotes of the day
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... 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, the historian Richard Hofstadter observed that the John Birch Society’s ‘ruthless prosecution’ of its own ideological war often mimicked the tactics of its Communist enemies.“The same could be said of Beck, Palin and their acolytes. Though they constantly liken the president to various totalitarian dictators, it is they who are re-enacting Stalinism in full purge mode .” ***“But other conservatives say the problem in ...
Godwin Redux (Stalin Style) -- By: Andrew Stuttaford
The Corner on National Review Online —
... In the middle of his discussion in the New York Times, if that’s the word, of the NY 23 situation, Frank Rich had this to say: ...
Thinking About Third Parties Before Election Day
Election Law —
... the rise of these third party candidacies in the NY Times . Frank Rich sees the rise of Hoffman in the NY-23 as likely benefiting Democrats nationally. Posted by Rick Hasen at November 2, 2009 08:18 AM
Third Party Challenger = Stalinist?
The New Republic blogs —
[image] Frank Rich really lit into the Republican Party yesterday: a riotous and bloody national G.O.P. civil war. a G.O.P. killing field confirms just how swiftly the right has devolved into a wacky, paranoid cult that is as eager to eat its own as it is to destroy Obama would gladly see the Republican Party die on the cross of right-wing ideological purity To the right s Jacobins, that s cause to send her to the guillotine. The wrecking crew of ...
11/2: And Then There Were Two...
Blogometer —
... 's Jonah Goldberg : "I'm writing about this for my USA Today column, but the Frank Rich hissy fit is a perfect example of the real story of the election. The story is not that the GOP is self-destructing, it is that the conventional wisdom is being shown to be ludicrous. For some time now Frank Rich, Sam Tanenhaus and countless others (including David Frum ) have been arguing that the GOP is a rump party and the only way for it to survive is for it to embrace me-too Republicanism of one flavor or another. The story of all three major races (VA, NJ, and NY-23) is that ...
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 —
... . Democrats see the race as a referendum on the cohesiveness of the Republican Party. Frank Rich writes in Saturday's New York Times opinion section : The battle for upstate New York confirms just how swiftly the right has devolved into a wacky, paranoid cult that is as eager to eat its own as it is to destroy Obama. Rich goes on to hope that the presumably incompetent and overly-conservative Hoffman wins on Tuesday in order to make 2010 an easier election year for House Democrats by encouraging the GOP to keep running far-right candidates. Silver deems this race ...
The Tea Party Takes Over GOP
RealClearPolitics - Homepage —
... New York Post November 1, 2009 G.O.P. Stalinists Invade Upstate New York Frank Rich, New York Times BARACK OBAMA’S most devilish political move since the 2008 campaign was to appoint a Republican congressman from upstate New York as secretary of the Army. This week’s election to fill that vacant seat has set off... ...
National press turns to Watertown paper
Michael Calderone's Blog —
... From New York Times columnist Frank Rich yesterday to MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell on “Morning Joe” today, members of the chattering class have referencing the ...
Election Watch: Message to the GOP -- 'Moderates Need Not Apply'
ABC News: Politics —
... “I have stood for our honest principles and a truthful discussion of the issues,” she said as she endorsed her Democratic rival, “Even when it cost me personally and politically.” The price she paid raises a key question -- is the GOP tent becoming too small for a “discussion of the issues?" The pundits of all stripes are having a field day. Frank Rich opines in the Times that this race “confirms just how swiftly the right has devolved into a whacky, paranoid cult that is as eager to eat its own as it is to destroy Obama.” “The Republican Taliban,” writes Conservative ...
Rich putsch kitsch
Classical Values —
... silly column, I thought I'd chime in. I don't know whether he's trying to outdo himself in terms of pure buffoonery, but this time, Rich is hell-bent on proving that the conservatives who support Doug Hoffman in the NY-23 race are a bunch of "Stalinists." In a piece titled "The G.O.P. Stalinists Invade Upstate New York," he refers to a "riotous and bloody national G.O.P. civil war" and a "G.O.P. killing field." And later (after an embarrassing historical mismatch in which he refers to the "Hoffman putsch"), he claims conservatives are "re-enacting Stalinism in full purge ...
Moore Award Nominee
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... "Though they constantly liken the president to various totalitarian dictators, it is they who are re-enacting Stalinism in full purge mode," - Frank Rich, on NY-23. Purge yes. Stalin no. ...
Should Liberals Want Dems to Lose NY's 23?
Real Clear Politics - TIME.com —
... rather than aim their guns at Democrats, they are taking aim squarely at their own party. Liberals may want to be wary of their hypocrisy; the political left is continuously attempting to purge moderates from the Democratic Party, after all. (See Lieberman, Joe--who so many forget, played a central role in helping Democrats pass the stimulus bill.) But if what some liberal observers say is true, should the leftwing want the conservative to win the New York's 23? The New York Times Frank Rich went this far over the weekend: It's even better for Democrats if Hoffman wins. ...
Hannity And Fox News So Eager To Boost Doug Hoffman’s Campaign, They Leave Out Important Facts In His Resumé
News Hounds —
... Frank Rich noted in The New York Times, Hoffman does not even live in the district, he has shown “no grasp” of local issues, and despite the constant crowing about his conservative bona fides, Hoffman is on the finance committee of a hospital that "happily helped itself to a $479,000 federal earmark." With video. ...
Valerie Tarico: Rebiblican Stealth Strategy Loses Big in Washington State, Wins Big on East Coast. Why?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... But in some of the best run Republican and Religious Right (Rebiblican) campaigns in the country, you’d never know it. Here in King County, Washington, the Right even funded a charter amendment making county races nonpartisan before running a “moderate, nonpartisan” Rebiblican named Susan Hutchison. In Virginia and New Jersey, to quote Frank Rich, ...
Zinger of the Week Goes To Joan Walsh!
The Garlic —
... um, I didn't think Owens could possibly win. But he did, and now I've got 20 minutes free before my next hike with Sadie, and here's the best I can do: My Twitter stream from last night, as I watched the returns on MSNBC with Anne Lamott and our three dogs. Okay, she's solid. She said, even if halfheartedly, that she would duke Bill Owens, if he won, and she did. The NY-23 was where a flock of Flying Monkeys, including Mommy Moose, the ...
Scott Brown’s a Liberal. Why are Conservatives So Enthusiastic?
Outside The Beltway | OTB —
... What this shows, however, is that the conservative base in the United States, far from dragging their party moblike into an unelectable extreme, has made the decentralized decision to support the realistically best candidate they can relative to the context in which he’s being elected. The 23rd special district election can also be seen in this light; throwing Scozzafava overboard made far more sense in the context of that electorate. ...
