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The New York Republicans

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  September 17th, 2010 at 03:42 PM  | 

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The New York Republican Party is in disastrous shape under the clubby leadership of Ed Cox.

In a competitive year for Republicans, no strong challengers have come out of New York and the state GOP continues to lag. Want to know why?

Our own Dan McLaughlin has an op-ed in the New York Post today that is well worth reading.

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  • chbroussard

    how important local and state party officials are. A contributor here on Redstate (sorry I can’t remember who) encouraged conservative voters to become involved by running for precinct chairman positions. An excellent idea, and I think many people took that advice. Then we need to move on up the line to county chairman and then on to state chairman. If anything good can come out of New York, it is to learn from others’ mistakes. If conservatives could get control of their state party, it would make it a whole lot easier to take control at the national level. I kind of look at it like cleaning my house…start with one room and then move to the next. By the end of the day, the whole house is clean.

  • rdelbov

    is not all to blame. Dan made clear that the conservtive party of New York is also to blame. Let’s also be clear the New York Election law does not work to advantage of the GOP or conservatives

    1. In the case of NY20 & NY 23 state law does not require primaries when congressional vacanies occurs. Look at GA and other states with primaries-it can work. We got lousy nominees because central committee select the nominees-that’s not the current fault of the GOP but its the stupid state election law.

    2. okay lets hit on the conservative party. In NY1 & NY23 local party bosses settled on Aschculter and Hoffman. No one but party leaders selected these folks to be on the conservative party line. The GOP votes selected Ash. in NY1 and its happy happy joy joy. In NY23 a good conservative named Doheny won the GOP nod. He is a Scoffava. He is backed by some local teaparty folks and is a solid conservative. Yet the party bosses choose Hoffman and now the vote might be split in the GE unless Hoffman bails. We do want primaries right and let the voters choose the nominees. the NY conservative party has turned into a mirror image of the petty bosses of the republican party of the Rockefeller era

    3. Dan L. details the Lazio mess. Lazio was a conservative congressman-certainly for NY but the teaparty did not take to him and Paladino won the primary for the republican ticket. Lazio, however, sits on the conservative line. What a mess

    Yes the GOP party is messed up in NY but we have silly election laws plus a conservative party more interested in itself then electing conservatives

  • Dan McLaughlin

    not a bad one for NY, as you note, and he was running on a good platform for GOV. I’d have voted for him if he wasn’t down 30+ points in the polls. But he just refused to get into the right race for him..

    I agree the election laws are part of the problem, but also the fact that even the Conservative Party itself has neither a strategic nor an ideological compass.

  • rdelbov

    has the 14 party system in NY run its course? I under that even the minor parties are setting shadow parties to run in elections? It is all so confusing.

    I have two basic questions

    1. Has the conservative party as a seperate organization run its course? We saw in NY1-NY13-NY19-NY23 two or more conservatives runnings against eachother in primaries. Honest to goodness nominees in NY20-NY24-NY25-NY29 easily acquired the conservative and repbulican lines. Who is now running in NY as a moderate or liberal republican? On congressional level its over and in legislative seats even the moderate repbublicans acquire the conservative line. So maybe we should run up the flag and declare a takeover of the GOP?

    2. Yes lets commit to state law reform–require primaries for all congressional and legislative races. No more party deals on these legislative offices. Let the voters decide. I am not a New Yorker but I have relatives there and I can’t letting bosses select candidates

  • whoframedrudy

    I won’t pull the lever for this backstabbing Obama turnkey. Still registered as a Dem in NY, I’d vote for a solid GOP businessperson over Gillibrand. NY’ers are used to having superstar Senators going back to Jacob Javits, RFK and Moynihan, so Gillibrand is seen more as a walking vacancy.

    I’m disappointed the NY GOP didn’t go after her seat. She was vulnerable as Obama’s establishment flunky who’s not even really accepted as an incumbent. Taking orders from the White House, Gillibrand stabbed Governor Paterson in the back only weeks after he appointed her. We know she will stab us in the back too, given a dime’s incentive.