Baggers are really desperate over NY-26 loss

[Skip_In_Boulder]

They have to find somebody to blame for rejection of their ideology.


E-mail I just received from them.

Dear Patriot,

THE TEA PARTY IS NOT A POLITICAL PARTY! The only people running as “Tea Party” candidates are nothing more than Democrat plants intended to confuse less informed voters. In Florida, Nevada, New York, and many other places around the country self-proclaimed “Tea Party” candidates have tried to ruin elections. WE MUST NOT LET THESE FRAUDS GO UNCHALLENGED. The so-called “Tea Party” candidate in NY–26 had run for office three times, as a liberal Democrat! These people do not share our values and ideals; they are nothing more than despicable liars trying to manipulate elections for liberals. As the next election season approaches, we must be prepared to expose these frauds and we can only do it with your help. Please make a generous contribution to help us fight back against these Democrat dirty tricks.

[Renew Deal]

1. Are teabaggers admitting that teabaggers are "less informed voters?"

I guess so.

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. Fat-ass Limbaugh was trying to gloss it over.

Epic fail, as usual.

[DJ13]

3. “Tea Party” candidate.. had run for office three times, as a liberal Democrat!

So they finally admit that the tea party is a front organization for Republicans?

So much for the "we dont have a party, we're patriots" bullshit.

[EC]

4. Huh?

I thought they SAID that the tea party was made up of repubs and Dems? Didn't they? So why is a past Democrat running as a tea bagger a plant?

[Old and In the Way]

5. You noticed that too?

The thread at FR was making the same claim - he was a Democratic plant. But, Teabaggerism was marketed as non-party specific - people who were fed up with BOTH parties. Of course, most of us here know it was rebranded marketing tool for managing the Republican Party's far right base. A special group of Republicans who could pretend that they were a new political movement in this country.

I have no idea if Davis's TP affiliation was a true conversion or not. But it is comical to see Republicans becoming hostile to the whole TP concept. Served them well in 2010, but it could make an already bad situation much worse in 2012 unless they deep six the whole concept soon. I will enjoy watching the 'Teabaggers' and 'Republicans' go to war with themselves.

[Mz Pip]

6. well, if the teabaggers

voted for this guy just because he had a (T) after his name and did so without checking his history then they get what they deserve.

They truly are stupid.

[Merlot]

7. How do they explain that when Davis lost support it went to Hochul?

and not Corwin?

[mistertrickster]

8. Rush is wrong--Slate.com refutes "spoiler effect."

http://www.slate.com/BLOGS/blogs/weigel/archive/2011/05/25/ny-26-jack-davis-and-the-spoiler-effect.aspx

Hochul was beating Corwin with independents, and pulling 12 percent of Republicans as Corwin pulled 8 percent of Democrats. But to keep things simple, let's assume that all the Democrats and Republicans who voted third party would have otherwise voted third party, and assume the independents split 50-50. If that happened, Corwin would have added 5,579 votes to her column. Hochul would have added 4,888 votes. Hochul would still have won the election.

On edit: the article points out that a Green Party candidate ran too, and that took votes from the Dem.

[jpljr77]

9. So they're conceding that the "Tea Party" is an entirely Republican construct.

That's not what they were saying two years ago. Oh well, just change the message again.