I think it was the B word.
When Rush Limbaugh accused Dede Scozzafava of “bestiality with the RINOs,” we probably could have called the election right then and there.
As I said here yesterday, the North Country may not boast Sunbelt mansions and big city money, but they do take care of their own. And, don’t even bother trying to be an outsider and think you can tell them what to do.
Owens wins NY's 23rd.
New York’s 23rd, the Canadian Riviera that stretches from the eastern shores of Lake Ontario and follows the St. Lawrence River to the western shores of Lake Champlain is about to get it’s first brand new, shiny Democratic Congressman since the Civil war.
Thank you Rush. Thank you Sarah. Thank you Glenn. Thank you Fred Thompson.
The second that crowd stepped in, they were getting deep into something they just didn’t understand. Sarah Palin left robo messages indiscriminately on every voicemail box in the district firing up the opposition. Then when Rush went so far as to accuse the party’s candidate, a nice Republican mom with solid union ties of political bestiality you just knew they were stepping into a giant sinkhole of North Country mud they had no chance of ever waddling away from.
Plattsburgh attorney, Democrat, and ex-military guy, Bill Owens, losing in one poll by 17 points as late as Sunday, has won his race. Doug Hoffman, who snared the support of the Republican right wing only to see that support turn into a personal acid bath, can shuffle back to his home outside the 23rd. And, I’m thinking Dede is headed for martyred herodom, at least among Democrats.
Tomorrow, North Country denizens will erase the RoboPalin calls from their phones and hop in their pick-ups certain of one thing; that nobody, not even Sarah Palin’s Facebook page can tell them what to do.
Aided by anger over outside intrusions, indiscriminate robo calling and a redistricting plan that moved some relatively moderate outer suburbs of Syracuse into the district, the Republican voters of New York’s 23rd have sent a loud, clear message to the GOP’s right wing outsiders.
That message: “Mind your own damn business.”
The voters in the 23rd showed what we predicted here. They may be generally conservative, but they are proud and independent. They may not love “the Government”, although many of them feed from it’s trough, they care for uninformed, carpet bagging, national party types far, far less.
If you are looking for big implications out of tonight’s election results, I say pass over Virginia and New Jersey. In the out of the way, often frozen and almost Canadian North Country, it was the ‘Repiblican’ voters, of all people, who drew a big line in the snow and gave ‘Riush’ & company their very own well deserved Waterloo. Eh.
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