dailykos.com - 30 days ago
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A conservative take on NY-23 , from one of the more reasonable conservatives: The story of NY-23 is "the Right starts dismantling the Republican establishment." This is about how the Republican Party is defined and who defines it. Right now, the movement wants the Republican Party to ...
redstate.com - 11/4/2009
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redstate.com —
The race has now been called for Democrat
Bill Owens. This is a huge win for conservatives....
“Whaaaa. . . ?” you say. There are two big victories at work in New York’s 23rd Congressional District. First, the GOP now must ...
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In NY-23, Conservatives Win
michellemalkin.com - 11/4/2009
thenextright.com - 11/4/2009
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thenextright.com —
[ Disclosure: I worked with the Doug Hoffman
campaign . However, the views here are my own....
I have not discussed this at all with the Hoffman campaign. ] The bottom line on NY-23 : Doug Hoffman just won the Republican Primary. The general ...
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What Did NY-23 Mean?
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Armey meets with … heh heh: dick meats … The teabagger bible of harassment -- “Artificially Inflate Your Numbers, Be Disruptive Early And Often, and Try To Rattle Him, Not Have An Intelligent Debate” -- will be used to purge the republican party of its more moderate politicians, replacing them with vicious, knuckledragging cletuses. [T]he next step of Armey’s agenda appears to be an intensified crusade to challenge moderate Republicans in primaries. Politico reports that Rep. Bob Inglis (R-SC), Gov. Charlie Crist (R-FL), former Rep. Rob Simmons (R-CT) and other Republicans who have strayed from rigid party-line positions face primaries from candidates inspired ...
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