Less than a week after he lost the nationally-watched special election for Congress in New York’s 23rd District by a margin of 49% to 47% of the vote, Doug Hoffman said he is “seriously considering” another race in 2010.
“And the difference next time is that there will be a primary in which the nomination will be made by Republican voters,” said Hoffman, who ran on the Conservative Party ticket after a conclave of the ten Republican county chairmen (one for each county in the district) gave the nomination to liberal State Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava.
Scozzafava was "liberal" for two reasons; 1) she was prochoice and 2) she recognized that it was mathematically impossible to cut taxes forever. For his part, Hoffman blames his defeat on the typical usual boogeymen:
Like some of his campaign strategists I spoke to after the election, Hoffman believes that paid operatives from the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and ACORN were key to his loss to Owens. In addition, he noted, thanks to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Owens enjoyed a huge spending advantage and was able to run TV spots during the World Series opener on the Sunday before the vote. The spots specifically attacked Hoffman -- who had become the de facto Republican favorite after Scozzafava’s exodus -- as someone backed by a group that wants to “privatize Social Security [an obvious reference to the Club for Growth].”
These guys have a hate-hardon for ACORN and the SEIU. The more obvious (not to mention accurate) explanation for Hoffman's loss is that he was a carpetbagger who split the conservative vote. But if he and his teabagger minions want to operate under false assumptions going forward, don't look at me to stop them. That ought to work out just great for them.
