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The Party That Brought Us Dede Scozzafava Wants to Stop Ann Marie Buerkle

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  March 9th, 2012 at 07:20 AM  | 

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Remember Dede Scozzafava? In 2009, the New York Republican Party tried to foist her on the people of New York. She was a liberal Republican who, with the backing of unions, almost got elected until conservatives stood up and said no. She wound up dropping out and endorsing the Democrat.

The same New York GOP that gave us her and spectacularly saw the next several of its preferred congressional picks go down in flames, is now ready to redistrict one of the most conservative women in Congress out of Congress because, well, she is willing to stand up to her own party on spending.

Dan McLaughlin pointed out back in 2009 that the New York Republican Party has a habit of being tone deaf when it comes to its political preferences. It seems nothing has changed.

Congresswoman Ann Marie Buerkle is widely considered one of the most, if not the most, conservative women in Congress. She is a darling of the Club for Growth and of pro-life groups. The New York Senate Republicans, however, don’t like that she is willing to vote against pork for New York, so they’ve redistricted her into a hostile district.

Tom Dadey, the Chairman of the Onondaga Republican Party, supports Buerkle and noted to the Daily Caller “that unlike other state representatives, Buerkle did not hire lobbyists to plead her case to the state legislature on redistricting, nor did she donate to the campaigns of Republican state legislators, while other members of the New York delegation ‘contributed heavily.’”

Congressman Jim Jordan, the leader of House conservatives as Chairman of the Republican Study Committee, tells me, “Ann Marie Buerkle has my wholehearted support in her race for Congress, regardless of which district that may be. Congresswoman Buerkle is one of the most fiscally conservative female members of the House and it is imperative that she continue her work of lowering taxes, reducing spending, and limiting the role of the federal government.”

Other conservatives should pay attention.

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  • pieter

    Look at the majority that considers Romney the best hope for our nation and party? Big government business as usual is stealing our chances to reverse the damage wrought by both parties.

    The voters refuse to fall in line, some are swayed but not enough. Imagine the replay of 2008 that is about to unfold due the establishment pushing another RINO as our nominee.

  • pieter

    I’m still trying to fathom Cantor’s support for Romney. Appears more political motivated than principled, which I’d never expect from such as Cantor.

    Live and learn.

  • pieter

    Read an interesting post at biggovernment this morning;

    Palin states she was countered by the McCain handlers toward pursuing Obama?s radical ties.

    Gingrich is the only voice this election cycle who aggressively pushes the Alinsky radical POV. Why is that? Will Romney (the RNC favorite) do similarly in the general election?

    If the general election lasts 60 days, it is imperative that the ideological motivations (and impact of such) of the president are made perfectly clear.

  • jon11

    It’s real simple, Pete.

    You’ve got three flawed conservatives to choose from and only one who is even competent enough to get on all the ballots.

    It requires very little rational thought to work this out.

    My only question is what took cantor so long.

  • pieter

    I take it you have insufficient qualms with a Romney presidency? I don’t see him making the changes necessary. His fealty is with his big business wall street buddies rather than the rest of us.

    Political expediency and rationalizing Romney as the nominee seems a stretch. Do you not agree that the guy who lost to McCain in 2008 seems a poor herald bearer for the conservative cause now?

  • pieter

    How is that the electorate renounced a McCain presidency but will find Romney tolerable?

    Romney will not enjoy a monetary advantage to sway the voters. More likely Obama will control the narrative through the media. The weight of the presidency and the re-election war chest will destroy Romney as the nominee.

    Romney, godfather of Obamacare, will look a fool during the debates.

    This dog won’t hunt.

  • tnguy

    You’ve got to very flawed conservatives in Gingrich and Santorum, and one moderate to liberal ex-Mass Govn’r.

  • Dave_A

    There’s no room for that populist garbage in the GOP – the financial industry is one of the most important components & employers in our economy going forward….

    Second, the last thing we need right now is a bomb-chucker/boat-rocker…

    Now, I’m NOT a Romney supporter by any means, simply because he’s committed too many offenses against conservative economic orthodoxy – such as suggesting indexing the minimum wage to inflation, Romneycare, and supporting welfare as a good idea rather than Reagan’s characterization of it as a necessary evil…

    However, I recognize that any ‘action’ beyond immediate reversal of Obamacare, Dodd-Frank, and Obama’s EPA/energy policy needs to be gradual, so as to avoid the sort of economic damage that can come from sudden, sharp change.

    I can see Santorum doing this… I can see Congress forcing Gingrich into it too – however I can’t see Gingrich beating Obama due to Newt’s horrid personal past…

    So I’ve gone from Rick #1 to Rick #2….

  • edintexas

    He’s been around longer than most – since the 29th of February!

  • http://www.onejerusalem.org Ashbrook

    A top priority of the NY Conservative Party (I am a Vice Chairman) is to try and save Burkele and Turner, both of whom have been placed on the political chopping block by the Republican State Senate. These are the same Republicans who voted to impose higher taxes on the “rich”, punch loopholes into local spending caps, and shut off all hearings and debate as they rammed through gay marriage.

  • gmscan

    Erick was discussing a congressional race in New York, but some people are so obsessed with the Prez fight that they can’t talk about anything else. Give it a rest.

  • pieter

    Last I checked WS is not Mecca. It deserves scrutiny and comment just as much as the corruption in our political system. WS is a valid topic…money, power, corruption with significant influence on all aspects of our society.

    You’re not going to hunt me down and cut my head off for disparaging WS…well, are you? I had no idea it was holy and beyond the pale for discussion.

  • pieter

    What is happening on the local is occurring on the national…the RNC is picking the wrong horses.

    I’ll leave the presidential stuff for another thread.

  • Dave_A

    The reason McCain’s people kept Palin from going there, is that it was a losing angle.

    We have to ‘out-vision’ Obama – articulate why his policies are the wrong choice, and so on…

    Kind of like Santorum is talking about now.

    Newt going after Obama on Bill Ayers & Wright, and so on, is like bringing an M-4 rifle to a tank fight (with Obama in the tank)… All it will do, is legitimize Obama’s inevitable attacks on Newt’s very-vulnerable & very-raunchy personal life.

    The whole ‘we need to be dirtier than the Democrats’ angle is as absurd as the ‘we need to be bloodier & more brutal than Al Queda’ angle some armchair-generals push as the ‘solution’ for the WOT.

  • Dave_A

    Period…

    The problem wasn’t on Wall St, it was and is in DC – with over-regulation…

    Wall Street bashing is anti-capitalist, populist tripe, designed to mollify the ‘why not take their money & give it to us’ types…

  • Juggernaut

    so they are complicit along with DC. They fudged the numbers to hide the risk till property values dropped too low then cried for big gov to bail them out. That’s not a left wing anything, the wallstreet journal documented many problems with risk assessment models that idiot bankers ran knowing DC guaranteed the worthless paper.

  • Juggernaut

    unlikely to beat Obama making Romney even less likely in 2012. Establishment rinos are running the asylum while we watch them risk the house and possibly continue a senate minority because they play around in too many social issues making the party look anti-woman which plays into Obama’s hand.

    The gop knows the odds with anyone against Obama so the last few weeks of social wrangling left the party damaged in the short run but gave Obama plenty of anti-gop ads coupled with resentment from latinos, women. They’d rather play the long odds and gamble with social issues even though lawsuits will block state bills no doubt. So its all a waste by a party that is also alienating core conservatives with the fantasy that Romney is actually conservative. Hope for the best, prey for the worst. We need a hail mary to boost us past Obama this fall because Mitt’s money can’t buy him or us happiness..

  • Dave_A

    The banks just did what you’d expect, when Uncle Sam beat them over the head over denied loans….

  • http://www.erickerickson.org Erick Erickson

    Good grief.

  • freemanja1991

    I think it is more favorable to us, minus the fact that Turner is screwed, I think the only modification to be made should be, Turner being put in a FAIR FIGHT district for us, letting Hochul and Higgins not be in a primary. The map even weakens Nita Lowery and Steve Israel.

  • anjinconsulting

    Let me show you my shocked face. I think the statement “more politically motivated than principled” is the salient observation.

    There will be no improvement in our lot until the GOP leadership demonstrates some principles and is willing to accept the results of their convictions.

  • http://www.onejerusalem.org Ashbrook

    http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/08/conservative-ny-congresswoman-in-danger-of-being-redistricted-out-by-her-own-party/

  • Michael Dugas

    I mean look at his behavior on Representative Marsha Blackburns bill that would have forced the House to live up to it’s $100 billion in cuts. Even though Cantor himself had proposed such a bill a couple of times in the past it was all just for show. Blackburn’s had a chance to actually pass so Cantor got a bunch of so called republicans to cross over and vote with the Dems to vote it down. Erick even mentions it in his piece on supporting Don Manzullo this morning. http://www.redstate.com/erick/2012/03/09/conservatives-should-mobilize-to-help-don-manzullo-against-adam-kinzinger-in-illinois/

  • RichmondG30

    By late 2008, we conservatives knew intuitively that Barack Obama would be a disastrous President in every aspect. Knowing this, we had FOUR LONG YEARS to recruit/draft/beg a conservative standard-bearer to come forward for the 2012 race.

    We wound up with:
    * a Congresswoman with no executive experience
    * a Texas Governor who talks like W
    * Obama’s Ambassador to China
    * a liberal MA Governor who wrote the Obamacare Pilot Program
    * a PA Senator with no executive experience who lost his last race by 18%
    * a former Speaker with three wives and sky-high negatives
    * a certifiable nut
    * a Minnesota Governor who surrendered before the battle even began
    (Did I leave anyone out?)

    And now everyone here is pig-piling on the MA Governor when it looks like he will emerge as the least-God-awful among a tremendously weak field.

    When Obamacare was rammed through against the will of most Americans, it looked like Obama was a goner. For the life of me I cannot believe that this is where the GOP finds itself today. How long will it be before the Conservative/Tea Party types break away from this corrupt Party? The sooner the better. The sooner the better…

  • evilbloggerlady

    Answer to your question: No.

  • evilbloggerlady

    Didn’t date Newt Gingrich for a while?

  • clintonformccain

    Can only be done if you completely ignore the dynamics of the electorate. In 2008, the country was sick of Republicans after eight years of Bush. The odds of anyone beating Obama were slim and none.

    Now, it’s the Democrats’ turn to pay the price for four years of unpopular action. The mood of the country is not in the Democrats favor this time. It’s yet to be seen whether or not the Republicans can parlay that into a victory over a sitting President. But, it is not 2008.

  • colonelflagg

    …which Republican presidential candidate loved him some Dede. Not literally, of course. Callista would not be amused.

  • clintonformccain

    The soul-searching needs to be on the issue of why the Republican party doesn’t have or can’t attract really strong candidates. In my opnion, a big part of the problem is the failure of the conservative wing (tea party/Christian right) to be discriminating in their candidate support — gonig for anyone who panders with a little red meat (Bachmann), invokes Jesus (Huckabee), or sends a message to the establishment (Angle, Cain, etc.), notwithstanding that they are horrible candidates or unqualified. I mean, for Pete’s sake, the conservative standard bearer at the moment lost his Senate reelection bid by 18 points. By any objective measure, that is not a credible Presidential candidate.

  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

    But all 3 of our remaining candidates are credible by any rational measure.

  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

    55555

  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

    thanks!

  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

    1) Lincoln was a congressman with no exec exp
    2) Dubya was re-elected
    3) Jefferson was an ambassador/sec of state for an opposite party prez
    4) touche’
    5) see Lincoln for close analogy
    6) James K Polk and Grover Cleveland amalgem
    7) again, touche’
    8) touche’
    9) A pizza guy proud of his ignorance

  • redmymind

    n/t

  • Repair_Man_Jack

  • independentconservative

    But I’d also like to add, its not so much a testiment to the McConnell-establishment national GOP than it seems to be a specific problem with the NEW YORK GOP. After all, isn’t New York GOP and establishment redundent? I mean, they aren’t conservative up there and they breed RINOs, I expect nothing less but in a state like NY, that’s really the best we can hope for as conservatives who vote Republican.

    Still, its nice you reminded the people of that slimeball Scozafava and how bad she was for the GOP and how they are trying to do it again. We need as many GOP as we can get in NY, since lets’ face it, anything we get there is a bonus, and if Buerkle is a good as you say, we can’t lose her.

  • paulejb

    There is no Republican party in New York. There is a cabal of time servers living in dread or public employee unions. So called New York republicans are a waste of space.

  • romeg

    a billionaire with a track record of saturation bombing his fellow Republicans with the most scurrilous attack ads imaginable?

    Mitt Romney has done more damage to the Republican field since September than Dubya did in 8 years.

    I’ll still vote for him if he’s the nominee but I will do everything I can to remind him why if he loses to Obama in November.

  • eddiethegeek

    I worked on Ann Marie’s campaign 2 years ago, and I’m sorely disappointed. She has not bucked the leadership in the same way that, say, Mick Mulvaney or Alan West have. She is hanging around with Eric Cantor ALOT, which indicates to me that her conservative cred is questionable. She is a nice lady, but I expected more backbone from her.

    Cantor is supporting Romney and Kinzinger. Need I say more?

    Status Quo Republicans are what we do not need, not after a month in which the USA reported a record fiscal loss of $226 Billion, nearly $8 billion PER DAY, $325 million every hour!

  • eruthk

    You wrote “The reason McCain?s people kept Palin from going there, is that it was a losing angle”

    Well, whatever McCain’s angle was, it was clearly a loser anyway. We might has well try “Palin’s angle” this time around. We know that Mr. Nice Guy doesn’t work!