Ny-20: Can We Start Worrying Yet?
Too close to call? NY-20 is one of the most conservative districts in the northeast. Maybe the most conservative. The Republican candidate, Jim Tedisco, had experience and name ID. The GOP organization strongly backed him in a race recognized as one of the most important in the country this season. And it’s too close to call? If we cannot win NY-20 easily, where can we win?
I can hear the excuse-making industry cranking up.
If only Tedisco had been more conservative! (Yet in the NY State Assembly, he led the battle to stop then Gov. Elliott Spitzer’s plan to allow illegal aliens driver’s licenses.)
If only he had been angrier, more of a fighter! (Yet no less angry a radio talker than Mark Levin praised Tedisco on air as a fierce fighter.)
If only he had taken a bolder stand for conservative principle! (Yet he had blasted the Obama stimulus bill as “Washington-style, Mickey-Mouse pork barrel politics at its worst.”)
We can blame the liberal media. We can blame the voters for being so easily fooled by a glib president. But in the end – aren’t we the party of personal responsibility? When do we admit any responsibility in ourselves? I hear a lot as I speak to Republican groups about how disappointed we are in the voters. When do we admit to ourselves that just maybe the voters have some reason to be disappointed in us?
I can hear the excuse-making industry cranking up.
If only Tedisco had been more conservative! (Yet in the NY State Assembly, he led the battle to stop then Gov. Elliott Spitzer’s plan to allow illegal aliens driver’s licenses.)
If only he had been angrier, more of a fighter! (Yet no less angry a radio talker than Mark Levin praised Tedisco on air as a fierce fighter.)
If only he had taken a bolder stand for conservative principle! (Yet he had blasted the Obama stimulus bill as “Washington-style, Mickey-Mouse pork barrel politics at its worst.”)
We can blame the liberal media. We can blame the voters for being so easily fooled by a glib president. But in the end – aren’t we the party of personal responsibility? When do we admit any responsibility in ourselves? I hear a lot as I speak to Republican groups about how disappointed we are in the voters. When do we admit to ourselves that just maybe the voters have some reason to be disappointed in us?