It’s been a running battle and now Allahpundit is showing a little too much smug “I told you so” glee for comfort.
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To: Allahpundit

From: The real world

Re: How people see things when not swimming in “I told you so” soup.

I’ll try to keep the bouncing ball slow enough for you to follow.

1. Comparing the character and the acts of Dede to Hoffman it is apparent she was unreliable at best as a Republican. She would have undermined any effort on fiscal matters, taxes, and unions. Hoffman, on the other hand, has shown class, patience and humility. Traits we WISH politicians had before they went to D.C.

2. Having Pelosi gain one seat makes no difference in her plans. The damage is minimal compared to the reality the Democrats witnessed tonight.

3. Hoffman, a quiet average guy, without the backing of the Republican party, and after being sabotaged by Dede in an act of juvenile spite (read standard SOP of democrats), still managed to garner 45% of the vote in this “moderate” to liberal area of NY. Worse, Owens, who should have benefited from all the conflict on the other side, picked up less than fifty percent of the vote.

Believe me, added to NJ and VA the message is clear, and one the Blue dogs ignore at their own peril.

Remember, the House term is only two years. That will give Hoffman time to build a base and unseat Owens next time. Sometimes you have to take one step back to take two steps forward.

Should we run third parties as a rule? No. That would be stupid. I much rather just hijack the Republican party and make the liberals/moderates like McCain and Graham sit at the kiddie table in OUR big tent.
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They ran the party and the country for years, into the ground.

Enough already.

Steak and Potatoes are even better…

Besides the fact I have watched many of my neighbors continue to vote for fiscal destruction by continually voting for Democrats at every level of government, there is a severe warning for both parties. The ideological puritans in this state are marginal voters.

As Lincoln said ” You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time”. New Yorkers are not that different, just a little slow to change, en masse, sometimes.

This state is a fiscal wreck under the tutelage of generations of Democrat leadership. Taxes are up in every sense of the word. They egregiously tax your income, your cell phone, your property, tolls and school taxes are out of control. People are leaving the state in droves for greener pastures. Sooner or later, those who are left will realize this type of mindless, drone Democrat voting is self destructive and is making the state unlivable for the next generation. When push comes to shove, the SEIU and any other union folks are waving the flag for won’t pay your property taxes.

That said, Owens needs to represent his district very closely. These folks upstate will have very little patience for the Pelosi-Reid-Obama-Dkos brand of socialism, including socialized medicine. Don’t expect Owens to vote against the troops in the shadow of Fort Drum or shed tears for prisoners at GITMO- lest he be resigned to serving one term. Welcome to the world of “moderates”.

You mentioned NYers leaving the state in droves…
At least hundreds of thousands more of us would be leaving the state if we could afford to, but because of the fact we live in New York and have been taxed all to hell, we can’t. Every week either the Governor or the legislature come up with “GREAT NEW IDEA” of a way to fine or tax us more…
About 10 years ago a farmer came up here in his big ol’ truck to Albany from a southern county, parked next to the capitol building, and sprayed the entire side of the building with chicken s**t.
We cheered.

The scariest headline of the night was the Washington Times’ headline that said “Independents fuel GOP victories in Va., N.J.”

I wrote a summary post here. If I’m a Democrat elected in a swing district, I’m best off being a bit more attentive to the voters this morning than I was a month ago.

We need to find someone to run against scizoid in her legislative district. This time it will be a primary with only Republicans voting. We need to teach these treacherous RINOs a lesson once and for all.

I don’t believe for one second that Owens actually won this election straight-up. This is a seat the GOP held for over 120 years, and all of a sudden it’s gone blue? No way. Any locals up there know if ACORN was involved “registering” voters? It wouldn’t surprise me in the least if ACORN voted illegally for Owens all over this district. ACORN just doesn’t commit voter registration fraud; they commit out-and-out voter fraud! That’s how Obama “won” states like Indiana, North Carolina, and Virgina last year. We need to keep the pressure up to investigate voter fraud!

You can’t count a loss a win. Let’s not try to spin this the way the democrats would. Ultimately Scozzafava dropping out probably hurt Hoffman. Her and Owens would have split the liberal vote and made Hoffman the winner. Remember also they would have split the union vote…..

Be that as it may, Mr. Owens will enjoy a one year hike through the paths of Pelosi´s congress and then be retired by a united Republican party in 2010.

which to my way of thinking means that the voters of NY-23 are not flaming liberals, nor are they Tea Party conservatives; so they are moderate Republicans after all.
Or to put it another way, millions of dollars and mountains of blogs and endless hours of talk were expended just to put a conservative Democrat in a seat that would have otherwise gone to a moderate Republican.