Standing for Something

I hope you have heard about the New York Republican Party County Chairs for the 23rd congressional district, nominating Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava to run for the seat made open by incumbent John McHugh's selection as Secretary of the Army.  This woman previously has voted for gay marriage, abortion higher taxes and more.  Go to NBC News Link for full story.

The person that should have won the nomination, Doug Hoffman, is now running for the seat on a Conservative Party ticket.  This stupidity on the part of the county chairs, has cost us dearly by causing a split in the vote.  Mr. Hoffman is very conservative and represents the Republican Party's values much better.  This move by the New York Repubican Party County Chairs will result in the Democrats voting  for their party, but splitting the Republican vote into 2 parties, the staunch Republicans and the Conservative Patriots that are trying to save this country.  Unless the tea party supporters and the other real patriots really get out the voters, the Democrats/Liberals are going to win simply because they held together.

Sarah Palin has publically announced that her support is for Doug Hoffman.  I applaud her!  If she is a contender for the Presidential Run in 2012, it probably won't be on the Republican ticket, now. 

I voted in the Democratic primaries for years, since most of our county candidates were on that ballot.  Last year I actually joined the Republican Party to help as much as I could to keep Obama out of office.  However, if the Republicans veer away from their conservative platform, I will go to an independent party myself.  The horrible part to that is the same thing that has happened in New York.  One big party against 2 smaller parties??  Guess who's going to win?  Oh, my!

I suggest that you find out how the county parties nominate their candidates and let your opinions be known.  We need to keep our conservative values in tact or we haven't gained anything and we might as well vote for the Democrats because we've lost anyway.  I, personally do not know much, I am ashamed to say, about the way the parties run.  I know that the party county chairperson has to approve you before you can run for office on their ticket.  I don't know what enters into their decisions. 

I was told in a recent election that I probably didn't want to run against a certain other person and why didn't I wait until the next election or run for another office.  I won't say which office I was going to run for, but needless to say without the county chair approval, you don't run.  I don't know that he would have stopped me, but he certainly wasn't going to help me, either.  He wanted the other person to win, which didn't happen, but it wasn't my fault.

You can find out who your county party chairman is by contacting your state party website or probably calling your local county judge's office.

So we need to find  awesome candidates to win the seats being vacated in 2010 and then again in 2012.  After seeing a map of the supporting votes by state on the hate crimes bill, we need to pull out all the stops.  The Republican Party is going to have to stick to their conservative guns or lose the conservative movement to an Independent Party.  It's happened before, but it sure gets scary at the polls.  Independent parties rarely win, BUT this is not ordinary times.