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Conservatives to GOP: Get Out of Our Way

Upstate New York candidate wants liberal Republicans to sweat

By John Johnson, Newser Staff

Posted Oct 27, 2009 12:46 PM CDT

(Newser) – The conservatives' newest rising star has no qualms about his congressional race turning into a referendum on the GOP. "The establishment Republicans are beginning to panic," writes Doug Hoffman. They're worried that a victory by a true conservative like himself will hurt the party's political strength. But Hoffman—a novice who has gained the support of Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, and others in his upstate New York race—is happy to see them sweat.

"Our goal should not be a Republican majority. It should be a conservative majority," he writes in the National Review. "If the Republican party will not be conservative, then we are going to run against them ... and we’re going to win." His race "is important," he says, "because it is all of us—conservatives around the country—who are emerging to take a stand against liberalism from both parties."

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I saw that a confident conservatism could win here. I didn’t foresee the part that a nationwide groundswell of support would play in it, but I knew we could prevail.
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Count-Spatula

Oct 29, 2009 9:24 AM CDT

jayster, Is the GOP "the party that stands for morality" while you're doing strippers in cemeteries (Corning), asking hookers to dress you in diapers (Vitter) taking a wide stance (Craig) doing meth and smoking pole (Haggard) texting boys from the Sneate (Foley) hiking in the Adirondacks (wink wink - Sanford) paying off the husband of the woman you're f-cking (Ensign) shooting your hunting partner in the face (Cheney), race-bating (McCain Palin)? Won't you help me calibrate my morality? I want mine to be just as simplistic and undeveloped as yours.

Count-Spatula

Oct 29, 2009 9:10 AM CDT

Yeah baby, hand the Rep party to the lunatics! 50 years of Dems ruling will follow ...and of course, thank you notes from me.

janet1003mn

Oct 29, 2009 3:31 AM CDT

Poor Abe Lincoln is spinning in his grave like a top over what passes for Republican these days.

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