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Posted on 4 November 2009 , 12:00 pm

Sarah Palin said the race in NY-23 is 'just postponed until 2010.' (CNN) – Democrat Bill Owens may have won last night's special election in New York's 23rd congressional district - but Sarah Palin said Wednesday that race "is not over." Writing on Facebook early Wednesday morning, the former Alaska governor praised Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman [...]

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John, Chicago

Posted on 4 November 2009 , 1:59 pm quote

Could someone please put a muzzle on this intellectually handicapped Woman. Yes the Rethuglicans will take it back in 2010 with a more moderate republican but certainly not with a bozo like Hoffman. Please Sarah just Shut your hole that spews audio idiocy.

gary davis Harbor Oregon

Posted on 4 November 2009 , 1:57 pm quote

media is still listening to this so called drop out bottom feeder .. her comments don't mean squat. and who ever it is that is writting everything for her should find a better job .. because palin doesn't have the ability to put a sentence together let alone an actual thought about anything to do with our country .. call it like it is a pig with lipstick is still just a pig... :)

Erick

Posted on 4 November 2009 , 1:55 pm quote

Postponed? An election result is a loss for one and a win for another. There is no postponement unless there was no winner. Let's face the facts. The presidential elections were not postponed, but Obama was the winner.

RealityKing

Posted on 4 November 2009 , 1:54 pm quote

Progressive hate..., liberal style.

Lila

Posted on 4 November 2009 , 1:52 pm quote

NY23 was a message, which Sarah apparently did not understand. America does not want far left or far right loonies. Conservatives need to stop this ill-designed takeover of the right. There HAS to be room for moderates. We do not want your fringe lunatics in power.

Buck

Posted on 4 November 2009 , 1:50 pm quote

Hey Sarah, know what else is crucial to the electorate? Government butting out of personal business. Conservatives are the last to get into your wallet, but the first to tell you how to live your life.

Brian Dodge

Posted on 4 November 2009 , 1:48 pm quote

As long as the uber-conservative wing of the Republican party keeps shooting down electable candidates like Scozzafava in favor of Limbaugh troglodytes like Hoffman, it is over for the Republicans

malabar

Posted on 4 November 2009 , 1:48 pm quote

funny how corzines loss is not a referendum on obama yet hoffmans is supposedly harmful for palin. obam is the president, she a citizen. hoffman pulled in a bigger percentage of voters in his race than corzine did in his. funny how all of a sudden a district in a state is preferable to democrats than the governorship of a deep blue state like n.j. hilarious. ROCK ON SARAH

Jennifer

Posted on 4 November 2009 , 1:47 pm quote

He won Sarah - be gracious and concede. Please go away.

just saying

Posted on 4 November 2009 , 1:47 pm quote

I would like to beg Sarah to 'please, PLEASE' stay in the Republican spotlight. And 'pretty PLEASE' win the nomination in 2012. PLEASE!!!

RPK

Posted on 4 November 2009 , 1:46 pm quote

Sara, Sara Like seeing russia from your front door your so wrong. My gues as a person who lives in Postdam and Ogdenburg area the party will choose another career Moderate Republican pol. from the area and he will will win again by 70%. Hoffman will be a historic foot note and will be get less then 5% of any future vote. The winner will not be so dumb to crtitize ear mark spending on the number one employer here Fort Drum. For those tea party carpet baggers words have meaning! The beastality comment did more win the election Owens. That comment got more negative talk here around shop any other.

Oleg

Posted on 4 November 2009 , 1:46 pm quote

Palin needs to take a critical thinking class. If issues of this election centered on economy, voters apparently trust the other guy more than the candidate from your party. But I think the bigger question here is that candidates popular with republican party members are not electable by popular vote. It takes a centrist candidate who tries to reach out to many different groups - like Obama - to carry the election.

Biden beats Palin

Posted on 4 November 2009 , 1:46 pm quote

"Owens – the first Democrat to win this district since the 19th century " Not only that this is the only election you pres idiots tracked that actually resulted in someone who could vote for or against Obama policies. I'd call this POSITIVE affirmation of Obama policies, say once in a 100 year type affirmation ! Palin is an idiot.

meridian

Posted on 4 November 2009 , 1:45 pm quote

As a democrat, I can only hope that Queen Sarah continues to run around the country and campaign for the right-wing candidates. Our numbers in the House will continue to rise. Thanks Sarah!

Rico

Posted on 4 November 2009 , 1:43 pm quote

"The race for New York's 23rd District is not over, just postponed until 2010." TRANSLATION: The candidate on which I bet all my national political capital lost -- and so did my party, in historic fashion. So ... IT DIDN'T ACTUALLY HAPPEN, FOLKS! It was all your imagination ... the election is really not for another years ... uh ... heh ... heh ... hrr ... Doug Hoffman can see Canada from his house, which is in the wrong district.

g

Posted on 4 November 2009 , 1:38 pm quote

who cares

Bill of Florida

Posted on 4 November 2009 , 1:37 pm quote

Ms. Palin, your support for Hoffman clearly demonstrates that your bitter, partisan politics is on its way out. The voters of New York rightly voted against you, because you attempted to inject your vitreol into their race. Your candidate lost, because he does not represent the values of the people. Of course, 2010 will be a year of change, but don't count on it being in your favor. Count on it being a year that we, the people of this great country, vote for people who can reach across the aisle and work together for our good. We'll vote democrat, republican and independent, but only so long as the candidates offer real solutions to our problems. As for your hypocritical "values-based" politics, they will end up where they properly belong: on the ash heap of history.

GI Joe

Posted on 4 November 2009 , 1:37 pm quote

Ain't she "spatial" (especally between the ears). We don't like the hate and fear and smear and lies. We're voting against the negativity.

Nick

Posted on 4 November 2009 , 1:36 pm quote

Will someone please take the microphone away from this woman and stop giving her press coverage?

Indiana Voter

Posted on 4 November 2009 , 1:36 pm quote

It is true. The Republican leadership got a smack down from conservatives and will hopefully, from now on, use primaries to vote someone in rather than hand-pick a candidate. Republicans have a better chance of getting a good Republican in that spot next time this way, rather than trying to unseat a liberal Republican.

Justin

Posted on 4 November 2009 , 1:35 pm quote

Translation: "We have not heard the electorate, and we will continue aggressively not hearing it in 2010!" Palin really is a mental one-way street.

TangledThorns

Posted on 4 November 2009 , 1:34 pm quote

Palin was sharp enough to call out Dede Scozzafava for the liberal turncoat the is. Either way, Sarah Palin rules as she'll bring in a lot of money for any conservative candidate who receives her endorsement. Palin 2012!!

Michelle

Posted on 4 November 2009 , 1:34 pm quote

Keep talking, Sarah. Eventually you'll wear yourself out and go away to count your money. But, based on what you told McCain staffers, it won't be back to the land you supposedly love. No, it will be somewhere in the lower 48, somewhere where you can shoot your rifles (although not from a helicopter, dear) and somewhere with a good view of a foreign country. I know, how about Texas? You and Perry can cook up a secessionist strategy down there where they don't call such actions treason.

Tom (Nashville, TN)

Posted on 4 November 2009 , 1:33 pm quote

Keep moving those goal posts, Sarah.

once upon a horse

Posted on 4 November 2009 , 1:32 pm quote

Sarah Palin needs to woman up and admit that the candidate that she and the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck LOST....perhaps meaning that even in an area that has been Republican for years that even they are rejecting the far right idealogy of division, intolerence, and in some cases downright bigotry. Nothing wrong with being conservative but the neo-cons have taken it to a new level and not all the nation wants it.

cm

Posted on 4 November 2009 , 1:27 pm quote

Two blogs in one day on this egotistical right nut winger. Cnn please publish something news worthy. I for one do not care what Palin puts on her facebook, she can't take credit for it anyway. I hate to think with all the serious problems that we have that this woman's opinions are of any importance. She showed me in the 2008 elections, she can't think and she can't predict or she could of at that time seen her own demise. You just add fire CNN to a narcissistic woman and her less than smart followers. Again, a sore loser and someone who can't admit she made a mistake.

SH in TX

Posted on 4 November 2009 , 1:26 pm quote

The voters of DIstrict 23 in NY were so desparate NOT to vote for your conservative party candidate, Sarah, they voted in a Democrat for the first time in over 100 years. Shouldn't that be a hint that your endorsements means nothing, except maybe a guaranteed loss?

Daniel Schlafer

Posted on 4 November 2009 , 1:25 pm quote

Governor Palin may want to postpone the NY special election until 2010 , but the voters did not and rejected the " conservative " effort . Why didn't Governor Palin congratulate representative-elect Owens ? Is this all a sub-plot to worldwide book tour ? Dick Cheney seems to pop-off whenever he is out trying to round-up support for his future book .

Laurie

Posted on 4 November 2009 , 1:25 pm quote

More Facebook wisdom from a wacko. Thanks for the extra vote on Health Care Reform in the House. The death panels are coming because of your influence. Oh No!

energy

Posted on 4 November 2009 , 1:24 pm quote

They did not want you in NJ and VA and won. You endorsed a candidate in NY and he lost, even though the candidate never wanted you around. You have good talents, lucky and charming, but you can be too hasty to making decisions. Your decision to abandon your state in time of needy will NEVER see you well. You need to focus on your book launch and be very conservative in your appearances--FOR NOW. You talk TOO much

T'SAH from Virginia

Posted on 4 November 2009 , 1:24 pm quote

"The race for New York's 23rd District is not over, just postponed until 2010," Palin wrote." OMG, she can write!!!! All elections center on ECONOMY Ms. SMART-ASH, especially when the economy is BAD!!! She also states, "... fiscal restraint, smaller government, and policies that encourage jobs." Okay, Ms. SMART-ASH, there are also REPUBLI-CAN'Ts in office and why aren't they suggesting the policies needed to "encourage" (not create) jobs and how they are going to do it with "fiscal restraint or smaller government". MAYBE - just MAYBE, Hoffman lost because YOU endorsed him!!!

Dick

Posted on 4 November 2009 , 1:23 pm quote

What a disaster to the Republican Party. After making a big stink about the Republican candidate and forcing her to back out of the race, the party-backed conservative candidate loses the seat to a Democrat for the first time in 150 years. So much for riding Sarah Palin's coattails. I wonder how all the Republicans in upstate New York feel about receiving the "support" of nearly every nationally prominent Republican now?

El

Posted on 4 November 2009 , 1:22 pm quote

because lets face folks, Palin knows how to finish things. just look at her work as govenor of...oh wait, she quit that.

lila

Posted on 4 November 2009 , 1:21 pm quote

Hoffman was hardly the underdog candidate. Hoffman had most prominent conservatives endorsement and was running in a reliably red conservative district. Owens was the underdog and in the end, so was Scozzafava because she did not walk in lock step with the party on every issue, unlike Hoffman who did and was anything but the underdog. Sarah is not very smart.

tee

Posted on 4 November 2009 , 1:21 pm quote

After 100 years a democrat was elected in the 23rd......that speaks volumes.......even with the endorsements from the so call big wigs of the republican party......Thats the race that spoke the loudest.

kyle from ohio

Posted on 4 November 2009 , 1:21 pm quote

Coming from a person who quit Her own position in Goverment, where is her weight in this race. And again if you have any understanding of fiscal responsibility you should know that no one fiscal policy work for all times. Some time require you to spend and raise taxes and some time require you to cut taxes and cut spending. Of course that is not a good sounding point, just a fact.

Mark

Posted on 4 November 2009 , 1:19 pm quote

So the GOP held this seat since 1872. It should have been a slam dunk for them, but a loss is just a postphonement? Her head is so far up her rectum she doesn't know what fresh air smells like.

Fair is Fair

Posted on 4 November 2009 , 1:17 pm quote

More Palin please!!!!!

Rob in NC

Posted on 4 November 2009 , 1:16 pm quote

....or maybe he won because the people in the district didn't want a stooge who knew nothing about the area. Why don't you go write a book about the people there just don't understand that your way is the right way? The new Govener of VA said it best when he told you to stay away. It was the best move he made. Still the cult of Sarah managed to get in robo-calls. I do have to give you credit, there isn't anyone that can motivate the Democrats like you can.

Jeff, Huntington Beach, CA

Posted on 4 November 2009 , 1:16 pm quote

So much for sister Sarah's "God like status." She is the centerpiece for the fringe in this country.

Steve

Posted on 4 November 2009 , 1:16 pm quote

Sarah Palin - a face unclouded by thought. Her virtue is that she says what she thnks. Her vice is that what she thinks does not amount to much. Stop reporting on everything this airhead does and says!

rosanne cohn

Posted on 4 November 2009 , 1:15 pm quote

who knows what transpires in the next year? it's for certain Palin will insert herself wherever she can, but I think a majority of us know that she is truly not presidential material and I think that will be born out as time goes on. The women of America need to wise up......she does not represent the women who REALLY understand what's happening.. Rosanne Cohn

Joe Unger, San Francisco

Posted on 4 November 2009 , 1:15 pm quote

Does this mean the race for 23 isn't even over in 2010? Just postponed to 2012? The Conservatives are spouting nonsense. All they proved is they can pick a loser. The Republican leadership was obviously right in picking a moderate candidate. Too bad for them they knuckled under in going with Hoffman. To call him an underdog is ridiculous. He was a 3rd party candidate until he became the "official" Republican candidate, then he made his gains. And the majority of people in the 23rd still could not stomach him.

Chandler

Posted on 4 November 2009 , 1:14 pm quote

You messed it up for your party, Sarah! A Republican would have been far more in line with your views than a democrat, therefore, butting your nose in where it didn't belong hurt those that share your views.

The race for New York's 23rd District is not over?

Posted on 4 November 2009 , 1:12 pm quote

this woman is dumb as rocks it is over, there will be another race, but now the person that won begins their term you cannot be this dumb... but you keep saying just the dumbest things

Robert

Posted on 4 November 2009 , 1:12 pm quote

Sarah Palin and company get involved in an upstate New York congressional race and the Democrat wins for the first time since the Civil War. Good job Sarah; hopefully you can help elect Democrats throughout the country

Roger

Posted on 4 November 2009 , 1:12 pm quote

Why won't this woman just go away! We all know all we need to know about her. She is not qualified to run for high office, she quit the office she was elected to for no good reason other than the usual ramblings of a politician who quits, she has bad mouthed the President of the United States (which is unacceptable be the President a Democrat or Republican), she totes this ultra right wing conservative line that the majority of Americans want no part of, and she is so delusional as to think she could be President. Sarah, get yourself a talk show, rake in the money you feel you so richly deserve, but stay away from running for elective office - you aren't qualified!!!!!

Sharon

Posted on 4 November 2009 , 1:12 pm quote

HOPEFULLY, SO IS SHE. MAYBE FOREVER.

HumbleServant

Posted on 4 November 2009 , 1:10 pm quote

Palin says "all the other under-dog candidates who have the courage to put themselves out there and run against the odds." You could also say that candidates like Hoffman put themselves out there and run against what people want in government: decency, services, protection from a ruling and ruthless upper class. Its been 97 years since this district went Democratic. Palin and her far right cronies are dragging the Republican Party down, down, down. Good riddance.

FORMER REPUBLICAN

Posted on 4 November 2009 , 1:09 pm quote

THANK YOU PALIN as by your speech you are still in DENIAL once again LOL AMERICANS REJECTED YOU ONCE AGAIN but really are the DEMOCRATS paying you to destroy the REPUBLICAN PARTY ? because you are the GIFT that keeps on GIVING :)

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