Hoffman for Congress

Okay, it's time to put up or shut up. Quit your whining, complaining, and looking for pieces of the sky that you swear hit you on the head. Time to support Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman in the NY-23 special election race against a Democrat (Bill Owens) and a liberal Republican (Dede Scozzafava).

Hoffman is a conservative, and this is a district that has been held by Republicans for some time. Obama nominated the RINO who held that seat before to some post (a strategic play, perhaps), and now there is a fight to keep the district from going to the Democrats.

Scozzafava supports the stimulus, supports gay marriage and abortion rights, supports card check, supported the bank bailout, supports Cash for Clunkers ... etc. She also has a record of huge spending in NY, apparently. I mean, she spends a lot, even for NY. She voted to force NY state employees to pay union dues. She won't pledge to vote against increased taxes.

What's the point of labeling herself a Republican? She is basically a Democrat.

Normally, I would advocate fixing Republican Party ills via the primary process. Here, though, as Fred Thompson has ably pointed out, there have to be limits as to what qualifies as a Republican. Plus, Hoffman has a real chance to win this race. This is not like, say, voting for Nickie Goomba or Rhod for the seat (which is just as useful as voting for libertarian and Constitution Party types).

My bottom line: Hoffman can win, and he is the far superior candidate for conservatives.

I donated at the National Republican Trust Site. This is a great outfit that does the heavy conservative lifting that RINO's (i.e., the McCain campaign) often will not do. They've got an ad they are running in NY-23 for Hoffman.

You can also donate here at Doug Hoffman's website.

Okay, get to it.