PALIN: THE RACE IS NOT OVER ---- NY-23

[DearAbby]

November 4, 2009
Palin: NY-23 race 'just postponed until 2010'
Posted: November 4th, 2009 01:00 PM ET

From CNN's Lauren Kornreich
Sarah Palin said the race in NY-23 is 'just postponed until 2010.'
Sarah Palin said the race in NY-23 is 'just postponed until 2010.'

(CNN) – Democrat Bill Owens may have won last night's special election in New York's 23rd congressional district - but Sarah Palin said Wednesday that race "is not over."

Writing on Facebook early Wednesday morning, the former Alaska governor praised Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman and "all the other under-dog candidates who have the courage to put themselves out there and run against the odds."

"The race for New York's 23rd District is not over, just postponed until 2010," Palin wrote. "The issues of this election have always centered on the economy – on the need for fiscal restraint, smaller government, and policies that encourage jobs. In 2010, these issues will be even more crucial to the electorate."

Owens – the first Democrat to win this district since the 19th century – is up for re-election in 2010.

Palin, along with prominent conservatives Tim Pawlenty, Fred Thompson and Dick Armey, backed Hoffman last month over then-Republican nominee, Dede Scozzafava, who dropped out the weekend before Election Day. The race garnered national attention over the Republican Party split between the Scozzafava and the more conservative Hoffman.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/11/04/palin-n... /

[Nikki Stone1]

1. NY-23 needs to get a ton of bug spray to keep Palin the cockroach out.

We need to start a fund.

[Robb]

2. Hee hee hee...

"We're just advancing in another direction."

[John Q. Citizen]

3. I love Sarah. She's the best thing to happen to the Dems in a long time.

[name not needed]

10. She somehow got the idea that she's the savior of the GOP

Yet everything she touches goes to shit.

[John Q. Citizen]

16. She's got the reverse "Midas touch" all right.

[name not needed]

19. It's a shame she didn't campaign for Christie at all.

[Blue_In_AK]

4. Didn't I hear on MSNBC yesterday

that this NY-23 is going to be redistricted out of existence in 2010? Sarah's so dumb.

[dflprincess]

7. The census is done in 2010

whatever redistricting comes out of it won't affect a general election until 2012.

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. Hoffman/Palin '12

"Assholes couldn't get any tighter"

[bullwinkle428]

6. So for the first time in her life, she's not quitting?

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

8. Yes, Fred Thompson and Sarah Palin need to show up there again next year

to work their magic winning charms.

[monmouth]

9. I heard little Billy Kristol writes her posts in FB....n/t

[malaise]

20. This will be exposed before long

have no fear.

[PretzelWarrior]

11. we will make sure Owens wins. Kiss my ass Sarah

no, really. kiss it.

[beac]

12. Yes, just postponed until 2010, when the district will likely have 365 days left of existence

until it eliminated by redistricting.

May the GOP experience the same kind of longevity.


It has brightened my mood considerably to learn that we didn't lose in VA & NJ, we just postponed victory! HURRAH!

[FBaggins]

22. Closer to 750, but yeah

Though there's a chance it won't be redistricted away.

You can be certain that Democrats in the 24th, 25th and 29th don't want to pick up any of the Republicans from the 23rd... they have narrow enough margins as it is.

Redistricting wins come from packing your opponents into a handful of seats with large majoritied while drawing smaller (but sustainable) majorities for a larger number of seats for your party.

Republicans are already packed into the 3rd and 26th. It will be a challenge to find "safe" places to put all those Republicans that won't hurt us in other races.

This calculus may well change if one or two of those seats go over to the R column in the off-year election... then it's safer to combine them without hurting an existing democrat.

Another possible impact will be the Gov race. If Paterson won't get out of the way for the good of the party... we may very well have a republican governor vetoing redistricting.

[DearAbby]

13. You imagine if you will...

Sarah Palin typing feverishly on her facebook page, tongue quickly dashing in and out at the corner of her mouth. A glint of determination in her eye...RNC Staffers bodily pulling her from the laptop, her fingers dragging softly off the keyboard...

[TygrBright]

14. Oh, goodie! I've been waiting for her to flap her yap.

A little treat for the connoisseur of stupid in all of us.

ironically,
Bright

[lpbk2713]

15. This from the biggest QUITTER of all time?

She's funny.

[rocktivity]

17. "The race for New York's 23rd District is not over, just postponed"?

Helloooooo--you were UNABLE to help get a conservative Repub elected in a district that's voted for them for MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED YEARS!!!! You should be headed to Disneyland, like Bobby Jindal did after his disastrous State Of The Union response! Cue William Shatner and the bongo player...




rocktivity

[Bitwit1234]

18. The economy and fiscal restraint huh

Is that why the people wanted a democrat instead of the republican as president in 2008. COULD BE.

[Jennicut]

21. Sarah, you blew it. The majority of the electorate in that district wanted you and

your buddies to butt out. Learn the lesson or dare to repeat it...hey, we will take more wins.

[Dr Robert]

23. Sarah thinks the 2008 Race is not over

Go troll some more fish, Sarah.

Your Political Career is a burnt out wreck.

[montanto]

24. Long live Sarah Palin,

may her light always shine . . .



. . . like a bug-zapper in a cloud
of republican moths in that midnight
of neocon stupidity.


Shine on, Sarah, you crazy bug-zapper.

[The_Casual_Observer]

25. This from the one that quit being the governor for no apparent reason.

That one is a lunatic.

[Xolodno]

26. Somewhere...

...in this vast wide country, there is a dark corner, from that corner, someone weeping is heard, when listened to closer, a weeping man is heard and that weeping man in John McCain. For he knows he released a beast, a beast that turned on its master, this beast will leave a path of carnage on what he cherished and that beast is Sarah Palin.

[damntexdem]

27. And then again in 2012, and 2014, and 2016 ...

Yeah, Sarah, the race is never over.

LOL!

[HughMoran]

28. I thought based on the headline that there was going to be a recount

Palin is an idiot.

Does she know that this district is going to be redistricted out of existence such that it will almost certainly become Democratic forever more? No? Color me surprised.

[mmonk]

29. Thanks for the update Sarah.

I'm reminded of the bumper sticker "Home skulers for Sarer Palin".

[EC]

30. I thought this is the last year for this district?

Isn't it being divied up between 3 different districts - all Democratic?

[WolverineDG]

31. I heard that last night too nt