How long will "Scozzafava" remain a verb?
While Doug Hoffman has been pretty quiet post-NY-23, Dede Scozzafava, who didn't even finish the race, has become a national figure - and figure of speech.
Check out the interviews with the Washington Post ("My name's a verb now."), and with CNN and MSNBC, below.
The small-town Assemblywoman and former Gouverneur mayor has become a national symbol of the Republican Party, and she doesn't seem to be resisting. In fact, given the bright lights and baiting by the likes of John Roberts and Rachel Maddow, one thing we can say: Scozzafava is articulate, confident, and sticks to her message on the national stage.
So is she the flavor of the week? Will the GOP forget Dede Scozzafava by next month, let alone next November? Or will conservatives take to trying to "Scozzafava" other moderate lawmakers across the country? Will moderates coalesce around the likes of Dede Scozzafava?
If so, the candidate who dropped out - rather than the winner - could be the lasting legacy of the 23rd Congressional district special election.
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posted by David Sommerstein @ 11/12/2009 09:52:00 AM
20 Comments
20 Comments:
Scozzafava is a popular, honest and intelligent representative who 'unlike everyone else, hasn't been contaminated by serving in Albany' (quote from a lobbyist that I was speaking with a few weeks ago). We like her here in the north country. She will be around for some time yet, if she wants. We need more politicians like her. The Republican party is the big loser as they brown nose the neo-cons and ignore the electorate.
David,
You forgot to add to your list of adjectives describing Scozzafava - narcissistic.
jpm
" Scozzafavad," " Swiftboated" (Defined encyclopedia as "an ad hominem attack or a smear campaign").....Conservatives are good at creating new verbs that mean very bad behavior. It is what they do best.
Don't forget Hoffmanization. True, google it. Used in a sentence: "Charlie Crist is being Hoffmanized.
I watched the interview with great interest ,she was exactly that,very well spoken, clear, and confident! But then I expected nothing less-She was terrific! Once again I say, I didn't hear the republicans complaining when she was voting the party line, that ole 95% thing -can't argue with that oh,wait a minute the confiscated party,the conservatives did -love Dede and I'm one of those darned democrats!
Have you forgotten "Borked"?
"Bork" or "Borked" as verb
William Safire of The New York Times attributes "possibly" the first use of 'Borked' as a verb to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution of August 20, 1987. Safire defines "to bork" by reference "to the way Democrats savaged Ronald Reagan's nominee, the Appeals Court judge Robert H. Bork, the year before." [18] This definition stems from the history of the fight over Bork's nomination.[9] Bork was widely lauded for his competence, but reviled for his political philosophy. In March 2002, the word was added to the Oxford English Dictionary under "Bork"; its definition extends beyond judicial nominees, stating that people who bork others "usually [do so] with the aim of preventing [a person's] appointment to public office."
Perhaps the best known use of the verb to bork occurred in July 1991 at a conference of the National Organization for Women in New York City. Feminist Florynce Kennedy addressed the conference on the importance of defeating the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court. She said, "We're going to bork him. We're going to kill him politically. . . . This little creep, where did he come from?"[19] Thomas was subsequently confirmed after one of the most divisive confirmation fights in Supreme Court history.
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Bret......
You are cherry picking about Bork. You left out some things. Here is just one that showed , his extreme right politics aside, that he was not fit to serve on the Supreme Court. He was part of the Watergate coverup. Just a fact, here it is.
"On October 20, 1973 Solicitor General Bork was instrumental in the "Saturday Night Massacre", U.S. President Richard Nixon's firing of Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox, following Cox's request for tapes of his Oval Office conversations.'
Also, isn't it interesting that he sued Yale because HE fell trying to climb stairs. How do you think he feels about TORT reform.? Another phony conservative cause. Here is that case.
"On June 6, 2007, Bork filed suit in federal court in New York City against the Yale Club over an incident that had occurred a year earlier. Bork alleged that, while trying to reach the dais to speak at an event, he fell, because of the Yale Club's failure to provide any steps or handrail between the floor and the dais"....He settled out of Court.
Bork? That Bork?. LMAO
Bret:
Imagine if some Attorney for Clinton fired Ken Starr and then turns up a few years later as a Supreme Court nominee. Tell me what the Right would say. The Head organ grinders and all their monkeys would be all over it for years..
Regan made a lot of mistakes, this was just one more.
All conservatives should thank on bended knee the fact that Bork was " Borked."
He does not believe their is a right to privacy in the Constitution AND ( ready for this Bret)..Bork has denounced what he calls the "NRA view" of the Second Amendment, something he describes as the "belief that the constitution guarantees a right to Teflon-coated bullets." Instead, he has argued that the Second Amendment merely guarantees a right to participate in a government militia.[22]
Unbelievable that the wackos on the Right still scream like it was a bad thing for Bork to be denied a seat on the Supreme Court. He was not, and is not, worthy..
Whoa people! I just offered up the verb and the wikipedia definition. Wipe the froth off you mouths and the spittle off the screen!
And people talk about right wing nut jobs......
Anonymous Bret4207 said..." Whoa people! "
You are being intellectually dishonest. The obvious intent of your quoted scribe was to make it appear the Democrats had opposed a "great man "for the Job because of his political leanings.
You purposefully left out the reasons he was not approved by most Democrats and some Republicans.
No, yo were implying more than just offering up a "verb." Puleese!
8:29- WOW!!! You can read my mind?!?!?! Did you have to go to school for that or did you pick up a kit at Walmart?
We were discussing verbs, I offered one up in a similar vein as the article. If that is beyond your ability to comprehend then that's not my problem. There's also "a Lewinsky". Does that need explanation too or does it speak for itself?
"Does that need explanation"
Now focus. The story is about how Scozzafava was skewered and demonized by the right wing of her own party. It was about how she is standing up to the thug element that attacked her personally , is still standing up to them, and who will ultimately win that contest.
Bork? Lewinsky? What did that have to do with anything?
Personal attacks? Walmart? Really. I had given you more credit then that. Still do, everybody has bad days.
Let me get this right. Dede's pro choice, pro card check, pro gay marriage, and generally a big government type "Rockefeller" Republican. She ran against a conservative who's none of these. He explained her positions better than she did, so explain to me how she was skewered? Demonized?
I don't get it?
According to the Sunday Weekly supplement in the WDT this week, Dede received phone calls from Andrew Cuomo, Charles Schumer, Bill Clinton, and even Bill Owens, all at the behest of Rahm Emanuel. Rahm instructed these calls to be made to her. They all carried the message "Dede, do the right thing (endorse Ownens)". Talk about a veiled threat.
Dede yielded to the pressure and endorsed Owens, and then blamed Sarah Palin for making her do it.
It seems Dede has made her own bed, and now must lie in it. She shouldn't be able to be elected Republican Dog Catcher in this district after such a sellout.
Yeah, that WDT supplement didn't do much to enforce the "Dede is the true Republican" idea did it?
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To the last commenter: Don't refer to other participants as children.
Be respectful and make your points or move on.
-Brian, NCPR
Brian, To say I 'm shocked simply won't suffice...sarcasm brian sarcasm thats all it was-I didn't swear I didn't call anyone a dirty name... freedom of speech at it's finest right here at NPCR Aha no longer will I add my blog to the other 5 to 7 times I ever have. Thanks for kicking me in the stomach. Next time have your coffee 1st,
Sorry if I over-reacted. It's not a lack of coffee.
It's a growing impatience with name-calling and unnecessary provocation.
If I err occasionally on the side of School Marm it's in the best spirit of keeping things civil.
Brian, NCPR
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