OUR WOULD-BE CONSERVATIVE OVERLORDS

I'm referring to all the conservative media stars and other honchos who supported Doug Hoffman in the NY-23 special election. They seem to think that their grandiose plans for conservative rule override any petty local concerns and this amounts to another glaring contradiction in the conservative narrative.

Hoffman, baby, Hoffman!?
Posted: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 10:15 AM by Domenico Montanaro
Filed Under: 2009
What conservatives just don't get about NY-23's message
FIRST READ - MSNBC

Those who thought a loss for the Conservative Party candidate, Doug Hoffman, was a setback for the conservative movement are probably right, but that's no matter to Palin-ites. They'd argue they only lost because the stodgy Republican establishment didn't embrace Hoffman SOONER.

That's highly arguable, considering Hoffman's lack of knowledge of local issues, his carpetbagger status (he doesn't live in NY-23), and his just overall poor appearance as a candidate. He was always more of an idea. He wouldn't even meet with the Syracuse Post-Standard's editorial board, but who could blame him after his disastrous appearance before the local Watertown Daily Times.

It wrote on Oct. 23rd that Hoffman "showed no grasp of the bread-and-butter issues pertinent to district residents...." He spoke "generally" about national issues, with "no details."

It continued, "A flustered and ill-at-ease Mr. Hoffman objected to the heated questioning, saying he should have been provided a list of questions he might be asked. He was, if he had taken the time to read the Thursday morning Times editorial raising the very same questions."

Regardless of ideology, that is incredible and inexcusable for a candidate.

But that doesn't matter to the Tea Partiers. As the Watertown paper wrote in the same editorial, Tea Party chief Dick Armey "dismissed regional concerns as 'parochial' issues that would not determine the outcome of the election."