There’s nothing liberal about Owens. Dede was the liberal in the race. Her voters are just as likely to go to Owens as to Hoffman; Hoffman probably had all the votes he was going to get, and Dede’s voters (if they don’t vote for her, and they can) could easily support Owens.

1. Given the makeup of the district, Hoffman is almost certainly going to win.

2. The lunatic fringe now behind the wheel at the GOP will
claim victory and continue to drive the party to the right.

3. Profit!

Yep..the Crazy Train is leaving the station and the Right Wing is on the throttle.

“Now it is a straight-up referendum on Obama, and the future of the country. A liberal against a conservative, with party labels meaningless.”

And if Owens wins? Will the lunatics sit down and shut up?

Let me answer my own question. Nope. Because they’re on a “mission from God” to save the country from the half-caste* Negro Kenyan faux President teh crazy will only get louder.

*Rabbit-Proof Fence. Great film, see it.

I am struggling with understanding how conservative law professors got their degrees, let alone an academic job. Look at Althouse, Reynolds, and Jacobson as representative examples. All have severe impairments to reading comprehension, which is central getting an advanced degree. They can’t all be grads of Liberty U.

I don’t think law schools would like you pointing out how worthless their degrees often are.

Only a mind that has been warped beyond recognition would consider Owens a “liberal”. Owens is one of the bluest of the Blue Dogs.

I wonder when this law professor/pundit will learn to spell Scozzafava correctly.

PS – My own take on the situation – blogwhore!

As Nate Silver points out, this may not really be good news for the GOOPERS.

Although a majority of Scozzafava’s supporters are Republican (about 62 percent, by my reckoning), it is safe to assume that they are mostly rather moderate Republicans, because almost all the conservative Republicans had already gone over to Hoffman. To wit, two-thirds of Scozzafava’s supporters say they like Barack Obama. While moderate Republicans are an endangered species elsewhere in the country, that is not true in upstate New York, where a lot of voters are registered as Republicans and vote that way in statewide races but often vote Democratic in federal races. (NY-23 supported Barack Obama 52-47 last November.)

Hoffman’s humiliating electoral defeat will be shown to be the result of a dastardly plot engineered by Obama and carried out by Ninjas who were trained by William Ayers, provided with false identities by ACORN, and financed by George Soros. Orly Taitz will immediately file a suit in the Municipal court of Bozeman, Montana, demanding that the NY-23 election be overturned. Her star witness will be Larry C. Johnson. Popcorn sales will skyrocket.

Damn, you’re good. I need a ciggie now.

Does Big Popcorn appreciate us? As we sit back with their products and watch wingers ‘n teabaggers savage one another…

It’s impressive that they’ve kept Obama supporters at bay for the past 140 years.

I think that they tend to be the minority in their schools, which is why, when they became Internet-famous, they went a little apeshit. It’s lonely out there for a wingnut.