Sarah Palin Friends Doug Hoffman
I was a man who had many friends,
And many friends had me.
I used to pump gas about an hour north of where Doug Hoffman used to pump gas. I don't know if that makes us kindred spirits or ancient enemies. I know it makes us both old. ("What do you mean, you used to pump gas? For who? The Romans?") Now Doug Hoffman is the Conservative Party nominee for Congress in New York's 23rd District.
And I hate to say this about a fellow former pump jockey, but he's hooked up with some really loathsome people.
Doug Hoffman didn't want to be in the Conservative Party. He's not crazy. He wanted to be the Republican nominee. He applied, but the party chose someone else; a woman named Dede Scozzafava. Doug Hoffman was shocked by this decision, since he had that gas station experience going for him, and all Scozzafava had was six terms in the Assembly and four years as Mayor of Gouverneur. So he did what any modest, principled, grass-roots-centered, we-the-people-type citizen legislator would do: He got in touch with a fringe party and told them he was wiling to spend $250,000 of his own money to run.
Because that's what it means to have a servant's heart.
And a midlife crisis.
Barack Obama got 52% of the votes in the 23rd in 2008. Dede Scozzafava had the Republicans. Where could Doug Hoffman turn?
To a traveling freak show of evil creeps who want to use a misguided mediocrity to jerk around the people of upstate New York for shits and giggles.
To Glenn Beck, Gary Bauer, Sean Hannity, Michele Bachmann, Michelle Malkin, Dick Armey and, yesterday, like the churning of milk bringing forth butter and the wringing of the nose bringing forth blood, to Sarah Palin's Facebook page.
It's like Commissioner Gordon lit up the batshit signal.
He also has the support of the Club for Growth, the National Review, the Weekly Standard and Human Events. Or, as Sarah Palin puts it:
And best of all, Doug Hoffman has not been anointed by any political machine.
She's still got it.
He hasn't just been anointed by a political machine. He's been kidnapped by drifters.
Of course they're a machine. They're also rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers and horse thieves. And worst of all, they're not even from around here.
They're all from out of state.
According to the Watertown Daily Times:
Aside from his own personal wealth, Mr. Hoffman has paid for his congressional campaign almost entirely with money from outside New York...
The Club for Growth PAC, based in Washington, has contributed more than $95,000 to Mr. Hoffman's campaign through bundled funds, out of $307,888 he has raised, according to the FEC report. The Citizens United Political Action Fund, a conservative group, gave $10,000.He also accepted $1,000 from the God is Not Government PAC, based in Washington, which describes itself as a "real religious right Political Action Committee" that can "run radio and TV ads favoring conservative Christian candidates" and requires its recipients to affirm in writing that they "are pro-life, pro-family and stand firmly against the unbiblical welfare state that is destroying the spiritual and economic greatness of our nation."
Sure, if you believe the liberal elite drive-by media, like the Watertown Daily Times. And not the feisty local little guys, like Sun Myung Moon's Washington Times, where the editorial page has called for Scozzafava to step aside for Hoffman or risk turning America into "Dede's Police State."
Don't say you weren't warned, Oswego.
Listen, I'm in no position to say the people of upstate New York shouldn't vote for Sarah Palin's candidate. What do I know? My grandfather left Watertown in the 1930s, so we've never lived under Dede Scozzafava's iron heel. My step-grandfather, stepfather, mother and sisters all settled in the chilly Diaspora of Cortland, miles over the county line. If messages are smuggled to my cousins in Malone, I'm not endangering them by telling you.
And Doug Hoffman can do what he wants, including go into business with unspeakably sleazy characters.
But no one in New York should get the wrong impression, like that he's doing it for Watertown.
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Quitter Palin a real political farce er force.LOL
The "Cult of Sarah Palin" .....ok..g
very funny, if a bit unsettling, post!
An excerpt from my post that is a direct quote from the Palin's favorite Constitution Party state Chair...
"…put the Republican label on to get elected. That’s all there is to it. And any one of your organizations should be using that same tactic to infiltrate. I know that Christian Exodus is in favor of it, I know that the Free State Movement is in favor of it.
I don’t know that they even care which party it is.
Which ever party you see where you can get something done, get into that political party, even though it does have it’s problems. Right now that is one of the only avenues."
This is what they do. Their loyalty is to winning and they will prostitute themselves without honor to get there.
I have been around politics for a very long time, and I am not suggesting in any way that this is unique to the extreme religious zealots...
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Politics is all about getting things done. It is not about forming allegiances to one party or the other.
Why fault someone for adopting a strategy that they think will lead them to the ends they seek as long as that strategy is legal and the ends they seek are legal?
Well, because turning America into a theocracy goes against the founding principles of this country, for one.
politics is about getting something done for yourself.
leadership is about getting something done for everyone.
in palin, all we have is politics.
It's not as if the 3rd party candidates are free of ties and scandalous connections; quite the opposite. If you follow the money, you will find a lot of unscrupulous ties from the constitution party to klan groups, for example.
It may be legal, but still sleezy. As such, its worth exposing them when we find them and then letting the voters decide.
Hey, Leah - nice to see you here. Fanning you:-) Very important research you've done. Thanks for sharing.
Team Sarah, a website promoting Palin, is funded and run by the Susan B. Anthony List group, and their goal is to support anti-choice candidates. I understand members of that group will be heading for NY for campaigning, too. Anyway, Palin was a member of the AIP before she was a mayor.
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Aside from the sentiments, with which I concur, thanks for the laughs! I found the "Blazing Saddles" quote especially apropos. Describes them perfectly.
Yup, you betcha; there is a lot of truth in this humorous post which is sarcastically portraying modern day politics. Anyone want to be America's forefathers are turning over in their graves?
The last endorsement anyone needs is from S.P. She quits her jobs.
true, however, this is one job which she may keep...you know starting up a 3rd party wouldn't take alot of work for her...she could travel on the private jets whenever she wants, have all of her and her family's clothes paid for, she'd get paid well and half of the time she wouldn't have to even show up, she'd appear by video conference--the perfect job for her:-) and all the while her ghost writer would be churning up another book about what a "party leader" she is, it would be worth millions to her...she doesn't like big gov't but she sure as heck likes her big, fat bank acct. earned off the backs of these poor t r o l l s who buy her crap!
Don't count out Sarah Palin. She seems to be the kind of person who won't give up until she gets what she wants. While liberals are talking philosophy, Sarah is lining up her ducks. These are trying times for America and anyone that promises to keep the ststus quo of world dominance is going to appeal to strong conservatives. Sarah has street smarts, if nothing else. It is a scary time!
"There is a political “shoe” (Party) that is ready-made for Sarah Palin, the Political Dominionists and all the extreme followers that she appeals to – it is the Constitution Party. And by NO coincidence, the Alaska contact organization is the Alaska Independence Party that Todd Palin is known to have been a member of until Sarah’s political career was launched and their affiliation was seen as a potential liability.
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selena..in your dreams! Palin is through as a serious leader for the Pubie Party. She and Newt are at each other's throats on who should be in charge and how now...they are the deathnell for the party if either is successful. Newt wants to be Prez, so does Sarah...no lack of ambtion or egos with these two. Sarah wants her own party because she can't intellectually keep up with the "elites" in her own party...th
LOL Not in my dreams! But you can bet in the dreams of all the frightened people in the country... people who believe there is a demon behind every tree.
As a socialist, I want a centralized, educated authority. I support the public option, government takeover of industry, the increasing role of the IRS in the taming of the homeowners who can't pay their taxes, presidential declarations of what constitutes a news channels and what constitutes an opinion channel.
However, I am concerned that our Administration is not acting fast enough.
Upstate NY residents pay far more taxes than any other state. I am concerned that our shared progressive goals will see most resistance arising from regions like upstate NY. Upstate NY, is comprised of the kinds of people that can stop our progress. It is rural, people like to think for themselves and Sara Palin is likely welcomed there.
I believe that Palin represents honesty and reflects frontier American ethics and as such represents a threat to our common goals as "progressives".
I do admire her. She is a lot smarter than the members of the elite media and the entertainment community that "love" to hate her.
But as a person who has embraced the inevitability of socialism, I fear her.
So, I do hope that you continue your campaigns to denigrate her and her colleagues. She represents a return to our past where the aggregation of individual thinking trumps great thinkers such as yourself and Bill Maher.
Sarah Palin does not represent honesty in any way, shape or form.
How so? That's a pretty loaded charge.
She does have staying power doesnt she ? I thought she wasnt going on Oprah now she is ? I hope Oprah has some tough questions for her lol
"Honesty"? In what respect, Charlie?
Palin has been accused of abusing her power as a mayor, found guilty of it as a governor, and had a recall campaign initiated against her as mayor. She used her office to run her political campaign. She hid her emails by using a yahoo account, violating the FOIA,and has yet to comply with the FOIA requests from over one year ago! I could go on and on with FACTS.
Anyone who calls Sarah Palin "Honest" has either never read her actual records. If you do, you'll see that the claims she made were li es. She didn't "reform" Alaska. She didn't "say no" to the Bridge to NOwhere money. She taxed the oil companies and redistributed the wealth. She ran on "reform" and "no earmarks" and yet she has the worst earmark record per capita of any governor.
ETC.
And don't forget the $40 billion natural-gas pipeline she said was underway. She claimed she negoiated a contract for the pipeline and that the project was started.
If so, where is this project?
In truth, there is no contract. In fact, the state does not even have the authority to negotiate a contract, and the Palin administration never engaged in any negotiations at any time with the oil and gas companies. There is no construction. There is no commitment to build a pipeline. It's all fantasy and lies.
sarah palin is seriously dishonest.
but then, you'd have to have been paying attention for a while to notice.
don't get blinded by the pretty.
Buck, you're not fooling anyone. Besides, Alaska is probably the most socialistic political jurisdiction in North Ameria. Not upstate New York..
You say Palin "represents" our supposedly glorious past? Only a Lower 48 Palinbot would believe such a thing. There's a vast difference between the Lower 48 Palinbots' fantasy and the reality that Alaskans who actually know Sarah Palin will attest to.
In your fantasy, she is some kind of conservative heroine. In reality, she's a user, a manipulator and a narcissist. The record speaks the truth. Truth is the opposite of the Palin fantasy. And I notice that most people living in Palin Fantasy World are those who have never actually met her, as opposed to Alaska legislators and mayors and business owners of all political stripes who know the facts and know she is a fraud.
I agree with you 100% We must continue to marginalize Sarah Palin and ridicule her so the masses do not consider her individualistic ideas and belief in free enterprise. We need to continue to take over the means of production and share our wealth with the world. Hopefully carbon credits can be used to lower the standard of living of Americans who live well at the expense of the third world. When we are finally under the banner of socialism we will all be a lot happier knowing that our life style in more in line with the rest of the world. Thank you for exposing Palin for what she really is, a threat to the new direction that we have finally voted in.
Hilarious. As usual. :)
I'm too far away geographically to know a lot about the various candidates in this particular district, but I'm glad that the Republican Party is being challenged for its steady tilt to the Left. But I would think that the people here at Huff Post would be delighted by Hoffman's decision since the most likely outcome is a victory there for the Democrat. I know of only a handful of Republicans in office that I would deem worthy of keeping. As a Conservative, I'm finding that the Republican Party has gone so far left that it is no longer a place I feel at home. I just hope Hoffman gets more votes than the lefty Republican candidate. Every time I get a mailer from the Republican Party, I fire back an angry response about what a bunch of cowards they are and that I don't vote or send money to cowards.
Gone to the left? GOP is the party of the litmus tests. First it was the NRA to shoot down anyone that voted in any way except full support of their agenda. Next it was anti-abortion shooting down any pro-life repubs. GB#1 No New Taxes, RR Government is the problem, not the solution. The term RINO was created to enforce these. Now the litmus is 100% voting compliance and no compromise with Dems. While some repubs talk the talk without walking the walk (unfunded war, unfunded Medicare, decrease taxes while raising spending) each candidate is forced to talk the talk, fearful at each vote (and now each town hall). The "party" is turning starkly to the right, but thankfully it is no longer taking the entire country over that cliff. I look for 3 parties soon, with the blue-dogs and centrist Repubs splitting to form some moderate party, while the Beck/Palin followers head right with an "America First party". Which one will disappear (like the Whigs of old)? Who knows, who cares.
Man, if you think the Republiwon'ts are the left then you must be so far to the right that you will only fly on airplanes with 2 right wings!
So sad. You know, when I first read that Ms. P had "endorsed" this guy, I just ASSUMED he was tin foil hat material. Now, after reading this . . . it seems confirmed.
All I can say is, "Republicans, Conservatives, I'm SO embarrassed for you. Maybe one day, if you repent, you can change directions and begin to get better. 'Til then, I guess you'll just keep thrashing around in the mud with the Lipsticked One. Luck and all that . . .
Cosign.
Matt7, another excellent post sir. HP needs to hire you as a blogger because you make more sense with fewer words than a lot bloggers on here.
I just hope the people of upstate New York ask ,do i want a congressman that will obstruct and delay any bill that will help my family or my life personally , the Republican party can talk smack but so far have done nothing to help the average American family!
Did Palin ever even Pump Gas? (Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha!)
Hey! Here in Or-Eee-Gun, we don't allow self-serve. Keeps thos who Frank Zappa was thinking of when he wrote, "You're gonna wind up workin' in a Gas Station" (Zoot Allures), in a J-O-B.
Ooops! Did I just imply that we want Doug Hoffman to move HERE after he loses?
Shhhhh! No one mention this comment!
Pleeeez!
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