« BACK  |  PRINT

RS

EDITOR OF REDSTATE

What a Real Leader Looks Like

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  October 15th, 2009 at 08:57 AM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

A real leader looks like Mike Pence. While John Boehner and Eric Cantor have rushed to line up with ACORN and support a Republican candidate in NY-23 who is to the left of her Democrat opponent, Congressman Mike Pence, the Chairman of the Republican Conference, refuses despite pressure to join Cantor and Boehner.

Pence refuses to take shots at his own side, but is also refusing to lend his money and name to a candidate craving undeserved legitimacy as a real Republican.

It should be our goal to give the House Republican leadership a black eye in NY-23. Having tried to embarrass the Democrats through ACORN investigations, the House GOP decided to line up with ACORN and have a hug-fest with Scozzafava. The sheer irony is that the Democrat running would be more likely to vote with the House GOP than the Republican.

But there is a third candidate, Doug Hoffman. Hoffman would caucus with the GOP and tried to become the GOP nominee, but was rebuffed by local party chairmen who picked Scozzafava.

Hoffman is both viable and can win. He needs our help to pull it off.

Go here to donate to Hoffman. Right now Hoffman is in second place with Scozzafava in third place. Neither the Republican nor Democrat have funded a ground game, but Hoffman has.

He needs our contributions though and he can win. The best way to give the GOP a black eye is help Doug Hoffman win.

Tags: , , , ,

COMMENTS

POSTING RULES  |  LOGIN TO COMMENT  |  REGISTER TODAY
  • RedBeard

    Principles over party affiliation, something those Republicans supporting Scozzafava do not understan, or don’t care to understand, in their blind quest for pure numbers in Congress.

    What good does it do to have Republicans who continually cross the aisle to aide in the passage of a leftist agenda? I’m not comforted by the number totals including the likes of Snowe, Graham, etc. And then there’s Arlen Specter, the guy the GOP fought so hard to keep in office. That worked out really well, didn’t it?

    The number that counts is the number of elected officials, regardless of the cute little letter after their names, will caucus with Republican conservatives.

  • dhorowitz3

    Thanks god for the club. I think we need to start shadowing the NRSC and NRCC. We need to have two counter organizations that would monitor every Senate and House election and determine whether there is a viable, winnable alternative conservative. I think that the transfer of funds alone would force the RNC to back down.

  • harlan

    …republicans positively suck at the game of politics.

    Politics is a blood sport, and repubs treat it like badminton.

    The Reagan Revolution never fulfilled it’s promise because the republicans called time-out for an ice tea break.

  • voxoreason

    In ’04, Bush pushed Specter over former “Club for Growth” leader Pat Toomey. I assume that those I would wish to address know about the Club for Growth.

    Of course, Specter, upon learning he had a snowball’s chance at being re-elected in 2010, switched to the dem side of the aisle.

    The dems, with a bit more guile than Bush, realized that this was nothing more than a really successful PR stunt, so promptly put Specter in his place…at the end of the line. Surely Arlen didn’t desert the ship like a rat without certain incentives. Imagine his surprise!

    As I recall, Specter got a crumb or two thrown in his direction by the dems, but for all practical intents and purposes, he’s washed up.

    Now the GOP wants to go with a “moderate” (a republican who agrees with liberals on most issues; see Snowe, Olympia) over Hoffman. It is entirely possible that Hoffman has too much integrity to win this race. But his numbers seem to be going well.

    But the NBP (Nothing But Politics) wing of the GOP seems unable to learn from past mistakes, eg, Specter. I suspect that your average RINO (none are above average; there’s only one way this is statistically possible, but I’ll leave that to the reader) is also a part of NBP.

  • mikek369

    Having lived here in Fort Wayne, Indiana and watching Mike Pence in action and hearing him on September 12th at the DC rally really impressed me. I have typically voted Republican in the past but that will never, ever be a given again in the future…..we all need to take these candidates, one on one, as they come before us and make damn sure we know who they are and with whom they will align….

    that old boy crap of both parties has to die.

    http://fortwaynevoiceoftruth.blogspot.com

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    That’s what the Ronulans did, and it was pretty shady then.

    I advise not emulating them.

    The time to evaluate the Republicans is in the primary.