NEW YORK 23 RESULTS
The election has come and gone and unfortunately Doug Hoffman did not come out on top. What does this say?.....that a conservative can't win elections? ABSOLUTELY NOT! What it says is that the Republican party elite chose a liberal to run as the Republican candidate and the conservatives and most of the Republicans rejected their liberal pick. It says that if the party had backed a conservative from the beginning, they wouldn't have wasted $900,000.00 on a liberal who ended up quitting the race.
Some have already suggested that conservatives should never have backed Hoffman and then maybe Scozzafava, the liberal running as a Republican, would have won and that seat would have remained in the Republican aisle. That is complete nonsense. Had Scozzafava won, all we would have had was another liberal in Congress who happened to have an (R) after her name. She would have voted with the Democrats. It would have made no difference. As proof of this, when Sozzafava dropped out of the race, she endorsed the liberal Democrat in the race. This shows where her ideology is.....liberal.
What people need to remember is that this was a special election. This seat is up again in one year...2010. Had Scozzafava won, she would be the incumbent and you know the parties fight off primary challengers in favor of incumbents. Doug Hoffman, while not winning, saved NY 23 from having a liberal "Republican" fill that seat. In 2010, a conservative can try to win that seat back....hopefully with backing form the Republican party from the outset.
