Doug Hoffman Vindicates Me, Says He’ll Run Again

After Doug Hoffman lost the NY-23 Special Election, I had a number of conservative friends laugh at me when I suggested we’d be hearing from him again. “Ha ha”, they said as they threw rotten vegetables at me (figuratively, of course). “There’s no way Hoffman will run again. He’s not charismatic or handsome enough to think he can win again.”

I’m not one to take a victory lap, but…well, yeah. Yes I am one to take a victory lap and I think it’s time to lace up the jogging shows.

New York’s Doug Hoffman is visiting fellow conservatives in Washington, D.C., this week at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) and told The Washington Times he will be announcing his candidacy to run for Congress in New York’s 23rd District in 2010 in the coming weeks…

“We feel very very good about it. I think the fact that he [Bill Owens] violated three campaign promises the day he was sworn in, like voting for the health care bill, is going to give us a lot of leverage,” Mr. Hoffman told The Washington Times.

I don’t know that he’ll win the nomination. He says he will have the support of the Chairman of the New York Conservative Party which counts for an awful lot in that district. But he won’t have quite the thin field he had in 2009. Kerry Picket reports that he can expect at least three other challengers.

I admit I like Hoffman. I think he’s an interesting guy and, even though he’s not a particularly camera-friendly candidate, he’s going to have a platform that will deserve our attention. Will that be enough to let him win through the primaries? I don’t know, but it’ll be fun to watch.

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Tags: 2010 Election, Conservatives, Republicans

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