NY 26th Congressional Race

The outcome in the recent New York 26th Congressional race should serve as the perfect example of how the Republicans more often than not shoot themselves in the foot. Hochul, the Democrat, garnered 48,530 (47%) of the votes. Corvin, the Republican got 43,836 (43%) of the votes. Good ole Jack Davis had to get into the mix claiming to be a TEA Party member and got 9,495 (9%) of the votes.

What's the lesson here? The liberals regardless of their ideology differences choose a candidate and stick together and vote in lock-step for the Democrat. Whereas, Republicans can not overcome their ideology differences and run amuck trying to find a single candidate to run against the Democrats. So what happens is there often is a third candidate which in effect is two Republicans running against one Democrat. The Democrats love it. The end result is the two Republicans split the vote and the Democrat wins. If only half the ones voting for Good Ole Jack would have voted for Corvin, the Republican, then she would have defeated the Democrat and a Republican would go to Washington.

So, beware with the upcoming Republican primaries and the general election in November 2012. The Republicans MUST field the single BEST candidate to defeat the Big "0" and MUST stymy any attempts at running a third party candidate. Remember Ross Perot? A vote for him is what put Bill Clinton in the White House.