Democrat In All But Label Only*
During the day Saturday, she began to quietly and thoughtfully encourage her supporters to vote for Democrat William L. Owens.
At 10 p.m. last night – right in the middle of the Halloween festivities – Scozzafava’s husband, Ron McDougall, president of the Jefferson/Lewis/St. Lawrence Central Labor Council issued a statement through the AFL-CIO that he is endorsing Owens against Conservative candidate Doug Hoffman.According to his statement, it basically all comes down to support of the labor movement’s top priority, the Employee Free Choice Act (sic) and its controversial card-check provision, which Owens and Scozzafava supported – much to the chagrin of the right – and Hoffman pointedly does not.
As if anyone who supports the abolition of secret ballots could possibly claim to be conservative.
Even erstwhile Scozzafava supporter Newt Gingrich knows that the only choice is Doug Hoffman
William Jacobson highlights the ginned-up, fear-driven Democrat smear machine
The Hoffman phenomenon has crawled so far into Democratic heads that they are tearing their hair out trying to get rid of it. The theme du jour is that supporters of Hoffman are paranoid.The always intolerant and closed-minded Frank Rich accuses Hoffman supporters of being “a wacky, paranoid cult that is as eager to eat its own as it is to destroy Obama.” Rich cites to a Harper’s Magazine article written by Richard Hofstadter in the early 1960s about the John Birch Society, and uses that supposed analogy to refer to the Hoffman phenomenon as being “Stalinist.” Actually, if intolerance of others is the problem, a more modern name for the disease would be “Frank Rich-ism.”
Even though conservatives are, at 40%, “the single largest ideological group”, authoritarian, fascist Leftists like Valerie Jarrett would have you believe Dede was a “moderate Republican” and Hoffman’s rising popularity is due to Republican Party leadership “becoming more and more extreme, and more and more marginalized.” No, it has nothing to do with actual citizens and their frustration at being ignored, dismissed, ridiculed and dehumanized. Nothing at all.
No. In the wise words of The One and his ilk: SHUT UP.
*coined by Mark Steyn
h/t geoffb
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UPDATE: Erick Erickson points out some interesting history that belies the snarky concern-trolling by anti-conservatives that conservatives are “the problem”. He gives several examples of GOP “moderates” losing to conservatives who then turn around and throw their support to Democrats. I.E.
In Maryland 1, conservative physician and state senator Andy Harris ran in the Republican Primary against Wayne Gilchrist. Harris defeated Gilchrist only to see Gilchrist throw his support to Democrat Frank Kratovil, who won with 49.12% of the vote.
As Erick concludes:
All the time we hear “conservatives can’t win the general” and “conservatives should play nice with moderates.” The record shows that the moderates cannot take losing and conservatives don’t win the general because the moderate GOP stabs them in the back.If we are a team, it can’t just be the conservative players in trouble for not passing the ball.
Comment by donald on 11/1 @ 2:05 pm #
Is Doug Hoffman like some kindall evil jew devil?
I’m just wondering, cause I read the link.
Comment by donald on 11/1 @ 2:06 pm #
That should have been “kinda”.
Comment by JD on 11/1 @ 2:16 pm #
Frank Rich is determine to not fall far behind Krugman, Olbergasm, MadCow, O’Donnell, Dowd, etal.
Comment by Snowcone on 11/1 @ 2:22 pm #
The Democrats haven’t won that seat in 140 years, but thanks to the Silly Right, they’ve got a real shot this time around.
Thank you, whiners.
Again.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 11/1 @ 2:23 pm #
“Scozzafava’s husband, Ron McDougall, president of the Jefferson/Lewis/St. Lawrence Central Labor Council…”
SHOCKA!!!! that one.
What the fuck is wrong with the Republican party?
Comment by JD on 11/1 @ 2:24 pm #
You really are a gibbering idiot, snotnose. Why should we accept a Dem running as a Republican?
Comment by N. O'Brain on 11/1 @ 2:24 pm #
“Comment by Snowcone on 11/1 @ 2:22 pm #
The Democrats haven’t won that seat in 140 years, but thanks to the Silly Right, they’ve got a real shot this time around.”
And they’ll lose again, you retarded marmoset.
To a conservative.
HAHAHAHHAAAAA!!!!1
Comment by N. O'Brain on 11/1 @ 2:25 pm #
BTW, shitcone, when you gonna post your MOS?
Curious minds wnat to know, Napoleon.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 11/1 @ 2:26 pm #
want to know, too.
Comment by SBP on 11/1 @ 2:26 pm #
Scuzzyfuzzy herself has now explicitly endorsed Pwned (excuse me: “Owens”).
Comment by N. O'Brain on 11/1 @ 2:32 pm #
Wait.
Wasn’t Stalin a reactionary left communist or soemthing?
Comment by Pablo on 11/1 @ 2:52 pm #
How ever will the Republicans survive if they can’t run Democrats? Boy, I hope we find out.
Comment by BJTexs on 11/1 @ 2:52 pm #
Does that double the face palm for Newt? You know, both hands maybe? Perhaps Newt and the District-23 Republican Party can get together and hold a Double Handed Face Palm Party.
If Owens should happen to eke this out you just know that a few Republicans will blame conservatives. they, like alphie, will completely miss the point.
Comment by Matt on 11/1 @ 2:52 pm #
I found it kinda amusing Scozzfava’s decision to drop out was called “classy” alot of the beltway republicans. If she was classy, she wouldn’t be a republican when nearly all of her policies are democrat leaning. She’s a piece of crap, imho.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 11/1 @ 2:55 pm #
“…nearly all of her policies are democrat leaning.”
Big labor husband?
That’s not “democrat leaning, that Democrat down the rabbit hole into reactionary leftist fantasy land.
Comment by No one you know on 11/1 @ 2:59 pm #
yeah, the woman endorsed “card check.” I know in Frank Rich’s universe, that makes her a center-right pol, but everywhere else, that puts her solidly to the left. Heck, KOS was endorsing her, as more left than the Dem offering.
Comment by Darleen on 11/1 @ 3:00 pm #
Leftists think only Dem-mini-me Republicans are legitimate candidates.
Obamacrats want one-party rule regardless of the letter following the politician’s name
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[...] (Democrat In All But LabelOnly, credit to Mark Steyn for coining the term) in some circles. Protein Wisdom reports that she’s quietly endorsing Owens to her [...]
Comment by Joe on 11/1 @ 3:43 pm #
Newt, good pick you fat doofus. How about speaking out about that?
Comment by Jeffersonian on 11/1 @ 3:44 pm #
This is about as close to a 2×4 upside the head as any of these fatuous Republican grandees are going to get when it comes to “moderates” like Dede. She was just a liberal who wanted to use the “R” label as a stalking horse to power and a cushy Congressional sinecure. Maybe the pooh-bahs in the RNC like Gingrich, Steele and Boehner will rent a fucking clue now and realize that stumping for inherently perfidious cretins like Dede Scozzafava is only going to weaken their party’s caucus.
Comment by Joe on 11/1 @ 3:45 pm #
And Snowcone, just goes to show Dede was no good. Good try on getting us to take the Harriet Miers choice. It did not work this time. Owens is more conservative than Dede, although I suspect this little play will actually help Hoffman now.
Comment by newrouter on 11/1 @ 3:45 pm #
mr. newt go sit down on the couch next to nancy
Comment by Joe on 11/1 @ 3:46 pm #
And Frum, Brooks, and Chrissy Buckley, fuck you too.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/1 @ 3:46 pm #
Newt Gingrich can piss off and scozzafuck himself I think.
Comment by Noel on 11/1 @ 3:48 pm #
“…Valerie Jarrett would have you believe Dede was a “moderate Republican” and Hoffman’s rising popularity is due to Republican Party leadership “becoming more and more extreme, and more and more marginalized.”……………..
EThat’s xactly backwards.
The Party supported Dede Scozzaflewoverthecuckoo’snest. They didn’t “force her out”. They would still be running ads for her if the district’s voters themselves hadn’t “forced her out” with low poll numbers.
Listening to voters is “marginalizing” and “extremist” according to Jarrett. And she’s a transgressive rebel outsider speaking truth to power from her office adjoining the Oval office.
Comment by Joe on 11/1 @ 3:50 pm #
Every party has a pooper, that’s why we invited you…
Scuzzyfuckyou. Scuzzyfuckyou.
Comment by Matt on 11/1 @ 3:53 pm #
*becoming more and more extreme*
If extreme means “STOP SPENDING ALL OF OUR #!@#ing MONEY” then I’m down with extreme. I think the left can get away with calling social conservatives extreme but trying to demonize economic conservatives with the “extremist” meme is much less likely in this economy, with this president and this congress spending like drunken sailors.
I maintain if the republicans figure out how to make the economy their primary platform in 2010 and 2012, they have a viable chance of cutting off this socialist agenda at the pass.
Comment by Matt on 11/1 @ 3:55 pm #
sorry “off at the pass”.
Comment by Snowcone on 11/1 @ 3:56 pm #
Why should we accept a Dem running as a Republican?
Please, please don’t.
Loyalty oaths and wingnut purity pledges all around!
Comment by meyacone on 11/1 @ 4:01 pm #
I got two words for you, shitcone!
Joe Lieberman! Let’s hear your party line bullshit about the good Senator!
Comment by Captain Keogh on 11/1 @ 4:10 pm #
George Pataki and his goombah Al D’Amato ruined the GOP in New York by their corrupt cronyism.
Comment by meyacone on 11/1 @ 4:13 pm #
Yeah, Chuck Schumer is a paragon of ethical behavior!
Comment by Abe Froman on 11/1 @ 4:14 pm #
Leftists are just lying sacks of shit. Except maybe snowclown who is too stupid to do anything but repeat what he’s told to.
The chattering class left always talks this way about the right. They even used William F. Buckley’s passing as a means to engage in crocodile tear nostalgia for the right “before it became hijacked by loony extremists.”
But twenty years ago Buckley made it his personal mission to get Connecticut RINO senator Lowell Weicker unseated. He formed a PAC to that end. His wife even took to passing out campaign literature outside supermarkets. The result was Senator Joe Lieberman.
Flash forward 20 years – a couple of years ago – and the loony left makes it their mission to unseat the otherwise reliably liberal Lieberman on account of his support for the Iraq war. Ned Lamont wins the primary as a result and Lieberman is forced to win as an independent in the general election.
So what’s the lesson? That when the left claims the right is becoming more extremist they are lying. That when they praise Buckley and conservatism past they are lying. And that they are hysterical children.
Comment by JD on 11/1 @ 4:14 pm #
Joe Lieberman
Zell Miller
Party purity is something the Left is familiar with, snotnose.
Comment by ThomasD on 11/1 @ 4:18 pm #
This really is priceless.
What better proof that ‘moderate Republican’ is codespeak for ’someone who supports the Democrat.’
Thank you Valerie Jarrett.
Comment by ThomasD on 11/1 @ 4:20 pm #
Although, snowcone’s deep, abiding concern for the future of Democrat opposition in America is touching.
Of the unwelcome kind.
Comment by newrouter on 11/1 @ 4:25 pm #
sarah p +1
Comment by sdferr on 11/1 @ 4:25 pm #
So now that Dede has outed herself, so to speak, isn’t the remaining problem the continuing presence of the individuals among the eleven Republican officials who chose her who nevertheless seem to remain in their positions at this late juncture? How come they haven’t been publicly identified and cast loose as the useless creatures they are? Or have they been?
Comment by Snowcone on 11/1 @ 4:27 pm #
Party purity is something the Left is familiar with, snotnose.
So now the Silly Right is content to imitate the dreaded “Left?”
Comment by BJTexs on 11/1 @ 4:31 pm #
Maybe Newt can go to the 23 and clean house!!
Or not…
Oh and ignore the obtuse TTP
Comment by Abe Froman on 11/1 @ 4:33 pm #
So now the Silly Right is content to imitate the dreaded “Left?”
Translation: Now that people have shown snowclown how stupid his “argument” is, he will change directions.
Comment by donald on 11/1 @ 4:33 pm #
Newt. I think it was 1972, or 4, or whatever, but Newt ran for the congress in my parents district, I forget if he won at the time, but necause he’s got that dorky name he’s always stood out to me. When I moved back from the Navy and moved back into his distric t I was a serious libertarian party guy, so I never voted for him. I saw him ascend to the speakership. I was always amazed because Newt is a Toad. So there you have it.
Comment by newrouter on 11/1 @ 4:47 pm #
2nd Witch:
“Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder’s fork, and blind-worm’s sting,
Lizard’s leg, and howlet’s wing,–
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.”
Macbeth (IV, i, 14-15)
Comment by JD on 11/1 @ 4:51 pm #
Nope, snotnose. I was just pointing out that you are a disingenuous lying piece of cow-dung.
Comment by Darleen on 11/1 @ 4:53 pm #
watch as snotty ignores my update to this post.
Comment by geoffb on 11/1 @ 4:57 pm #
NY-23: Scozzafava Endorses Owens
At HuffPo.
Comment by geoffb on 11/1 @ 5:00 pm #
Sorry SBP. Just got home from dinner out and didn’t see your #10.
Comment by geoffb on 11/1 @ 5:13 pm #
It’s what I get for rummaging around HuffPo.
Comment by Snowcone on 11/1 @ 5:13 pm #
watch as snotty ignores my update to this post.
Darleen,
The more Red on Red fighting there is, the better.
And why not.
If the Republicans can’t win a majority anymore, why not battle each other for all the money flowing from the oil companies and the war profiteers?
Comment by Darleen on 11/1 @ 5:16 pm #
snotty
as I predicted, you ignored the update.
good lord, you are a bore.
Comment by Jeffersonian on 11/1 @ 5:19 pm #
Loyalty oaths and wingnut purity pledges all around!
Is there something between “purity” and a nihilistic pursuit of power at any cost in Snowland?
Comment by Pablo on 11/1 @ 5:23 pm #
Me, I’m kind of enjoying the blue on blue these days. Enjoy, snotty. I don’t think Congressman Hoffman will mind.
Comment by Snowcone on 11/1 @ 5:33 pm #
as I predicted, you ignored the update.
Sorry, Darleen,
I can’t take anything from Redstate seriously.
Ditto Mark Steyn.
Why go slumming there?
Comment by JD on 11/1 @ 5:33 pm #
Snotnose must have a pretty pathetic life, grooming mangy cats cannot be fun.
Comment by newrouter on 11/1 @ 5:35 pm #
“I can’t take anything from Redstate seriously.
Ditto Mark Steyn.”
the left is made up of delusional f$$ks. ax algore
Comment by geoffb on 11/1 @ 5:40 pm #
I’ve been trying to find an old link to an article by an Illinois Democrat Congressman from back before 1994 where he described a meeting that every freshman Democrat had with the then Democrat Speaker.
They were told they had a choice to make. They could vote as they wished, get no committee assignments, no legislation passed, and next election the DNCC would run someone against them in the primary and beat them.
Or they could do as the leadership wanted and have a long, successful career and a good position upon retirement. I suspect the “Blue Dogs” got that same talk from Pelosi.
Delay may have been called “The Hammer” but the Democrat Speakers of the House have been more along the lines of the “Battle-axe”.
Comment by hot fudge sundae on 11/1 @ 5:41 pm #
“I can’t take anything from Redstate seriously.”
The idea that you have any capacity for discernment beyond what you’re told to think is pretty hilarious.
Comment by Matt on 11/1 @ 5:43 pm #
Kos and MSNBC and Huffington are, however, very reliable.
/facepalm
Comment by The Monster on 11/1 @ 5:54 pm #
I’ve said it all along; now it’s proven. Scozzafava=”Arlene Specter”
Comment by newrouter on 11/1 @ 6:01 pm #
levi’s doing O!bot propaganda:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAXpJSvW5mA
Comment by newrouter on 11/1 @ 6:02 pm #
how soviet to be praising pioneers
Comment by bains on 11/1 @ 6:04 pm #
I suspect Scozzafava’s endorsement will have the opposite effect she intends. Certainly the left of center voters will follow the left of center candidate. But the right of center will be incensed at both her and the powers that thrust her to the fore. That passion should rule the day.
Comment by Darleen on 11/1 @ 6:08 pm #
snotty
you are entitled to your opinion regardless of how delusional. You are not entitled to your own facts.
either find a factual error from Erickson in that piece or go away.
Comment by Bob Reed on 11/1 @ 6:32 pm #
Wayne Gilchrist is a major RINO from way back, his condict, mucj like Dede’s, is not surprising. They are essentially democrats, so the endorsements are no surprise…
Dede’s will backfire though, because all of the union types were lockstep voting for Owens anyway. Her conniving and cynical endorsement of Owens should be countered by the local Rethugs! endorsing Hoffman…
But, you know, the Rethug leaders that appointed her should be finished anyway; and so should Dede’s career in politics be too. Unless she does like Specter, and go full on commie too…
Comment by Jeffersonian on 11/1 @ 6:44 pm #
Next stop: Strength Through Joy!
Comment by Jeffersonian on 11/1 @ 6:49 pm #
Oh, and I love this concern-troll headline on Yahoo:
“NY race raises question: Are moderates welcome in GOP?”
It’s like the fucking North Korean News Service.
Comment by No one you know on 11/1 @ 7:01 pm #
Jeffersonian @ 66
pols who advocate for “Card Check” are now moderates? Who knew?
Comment by Pablo on 11/1 @ 7:03 pm #
Republicans who vote Democrat are moderates. Or something.
Comment by newrouter on 11/1 @ 7:05 pm #
bipartisan = yes commies i agree
Comment by Jeffersonian on 11/1 @ 7:06 pm #
No. Fucking. Shit. Not to mention that the first opportunity she gets when she realizes that, while she’s the insiders’ main squeeze the actual electorate wants her ground up for fiber supplement, she throws her ample weight behind the guy who she was supposedly diametrically opposed to the day before (being a “life-long Republican” and all).
The don’t call the Republicans the Stupid Party for nothing.
Comment by sdferr on 11/1 @ 7:07 pm #
OT: I just learned there is sad news for those of you who visit JOM now and then to read or participate in the sparkling comments there.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/1 @ 7:17 pm #
Why is whorish and dirty scozzaslut Newt Gingrich on Fox News every day? He’s fucked in the head and Fox News is fucked in the head if they think this preening piece of shit has any bearing whatsoever on the future of the Republican party. Does he not have a job?
Comment by happyfeet on 11/1 @ 7:19 pm #
that’s sad. I remember him. I hardly ever comment there cause mostly they’re all very grown-up and I feel like a big goofhead.
Comment by Akatsukami on 11/1 @ 7:21 pm #
Get out of the country now, snowflake, whilst you still have a chance of evading the citizenry’s righteous wrath. NY-23 and Virginia will show that you leftypigs are well past your sell-by date.
Comment by Jeffersonian on 11/1 @ 7:22 pm #
And only a third-party challenger is keeping Corzine in the running in NJ.
Comment by newrouter on 11/1 @ 7:23 pm #
“I feel like a big goofhead.”
you be “speaking goof to power”*
*m steyn
Comment by happyfeet on 11/1 @ 7:23 pm #
yeah I know I don’t watch Fox News but still it’s irksome to know that there’s a fat adulterous perverted dumbass on tv speaking for a party I really would very much like to be worthy of taking over from our dipshit little president man and his dirty socialist congress friends. There’s no reason at all that he’s remotely relevant to the politics of today. Little Newt needs to go home to his slut wife and look at old videotapes or something back when he was respectable before he became a dirty scozzawhore.
Comment by SBP on 11/1 @ 7:24 pm #
Although I didn’t know PUK or visit JOM regularly, my condolences to his friends and family, both on- and offline.
Comment by Jeffersonian on 11/1 @ 7:27 pm #
Newt’s just rooting for his team, but he would have been wiser to have looked at the stances of the candidates and shut his pie hole.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/1 @ 7:35 pm #
No. Newt is rooting for his team on the teevee. Who does this little hasbeen worm think he is to rate teevee time? He’s just some formerly powerful little perv what got caught banging some slut and had to go away for a very very long time but now he’s back and could someone please tell me why? He’s not only impotent he’s demonstrably stupid going on teevee all proud of his perverted dirty socialist Miss Piggy fetish. Loser. No one wants to vote for a party what has losers like Newt Gingrich speaking for it on the teevee.
Comment by geoffb on 11/1 @ 7:40 pm #
And in another WFP/ACORN vs Conservative Party race in NY.
Nice group there.
Comment by newrouter on 11/1 @ 7:40 pm #
“to have looked at the stances of the candidate”
newt likes a wide stance: nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more
Comment by Jeffersonian on 11/1 @ 7:43 pm #
Hey, the folks at Fox are the ones to blame, not Newt. He’s just pushing his agenda, stupid as it may be, on their dime. He’s looking like a big dumbass right about now, and looking like a big dumbass on the #1 rated cable network. There are two edges to this sword.
Comment by dicentra on 11/1 @ 7:44 pm #
quietly and thoughtfully
They did NOT say that, did they? “Thoughtfully”? Isn’t that codespeak for “righteously”?
And snowcone, sweetie, the inability to take Mark Steyn seriously is a sign of a deeply empty, deeply sad life. Especially because Steyn pens some of the best one-liners this side of Julius Caesar.
Comment by Jeffersonian on 11/1 @ 7:49 pm #
And snowcone, sweetie, the inability to take Mark Steyn seriously is a sign of a deeply empty, deeply sad life. Especially because Steyn pens some of the best one-liners this side of Julius Caesar.
Not just that, but Steyn has a keen eye for large societal movements and trends. He’s brilliant at seeing forests through trees
Comment by newrouter on 11/1 @ 7:50 pm #
can O! fiddle like nero?
Comment by newrouter on 11/1 @ 7:51 pm #
oh heck nero sortof like some n word i denounce myself
Comment by pdbuttons on 11/1 @ 7:58 pm #
mimes look aghast at the latest newt blast
but pull levers low class
why’d dede cross the road?
to save or create a joke
Comment by N. O'Brain on 11/1 @ 8:03 pm #
“Comment by Snowcone on 11/1 @ 3:56 pm #
Why should we accept a Dem running as a Republican?
Please, please don’t.
Loyalty oaths and wingnut purity pledges all around!”
Joe Lieberman.
Comment by pdbuttons on 11/1 @ 8:08 pm #
hey moe/ what’s a moderate? nyuk nyuk nyuk
why you [slappin sounds)
Comment by happyfeet on 11/1 @ 8:13 pm #
Fox News is stupid with their Newt fetish. They should be ashamed of themselves, associating with people on the level of a Newt Gingrich. They already gave that Huckabee troll person what makes ugly ugly babies his very own show. Next thing you know they’ll be putting Meghans’s coward daddy’s insipid hoochie daughter on the air. They’re like the TMZ of homopublican trash.
Comment by pdbuttons on 11/1 @ 8:27 pm #
newts got rock-em sock-em robot head
and probably brain damage from tee vee make-up
{send more brains)
Comment by geoffb on 11/1 @ 9:05 pm #
buttons!!!!!
Comment by Pablo on 11/1 @ 9:15 pm #
The latter is the most grievous sin, ‘feets. It’s like just shoot me now bad.
Comment by TRHein on 11/2 @ 3:11 am #
Comment by Matt on 11/1 @ 3:53 pm
“…with this president and this congress spending like drunken sailors.”
I really wish this particular meme would go away. Drunken sailors quit spending when they run out of money, they don’t have a choice. The places I frequented in the day didn’t take credit or put an extream limit on it.
This president and this congress currently done have that stopgap.
Comment by Rusty on 11/2 @ 6:27 am #
Hoffman is up 15 points over Owen even with Scrazz………….Scruff……………….that broad working for Owens campaign.
Comment by Roland THTG on 11/2 @ 7:14 am #
Snorkleboy and Newt on the same side?
Funny that. Maybe he has a fatty thing with Newt and Scuzzyfavabean.
Comment by Old Texas Turkey on 11/2 @ 10:40 am #
Part of the German strategy at the Battle of the Bulge was to send in english speaking German troops, dressed as American infantry, to disrupt communication lines, change sign posts, cause any and all sorts of havoc behind Allied lines. When discovered and captured the fake GIs (Germans) were summarily executed in the field.
Democrat’s operation DIABLO is no different. The outcome should be no different.
Comment by SBP on 11/2 @ 10:53 pm #
Wasn’t this lady picked by the local republicans?
No.
If she’d been picked by the “local Republicans” they wouldn’t be voting for Hoffman en masse, now would they, you lying crapweasel?
Comment by sdferr on 11/2 @ 11:48 pm #
An account of how Dede came to be the nominee. h/t Maggie’s Farm