{"id":1262,"date":"2009-11-05T07:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T11:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/11\/05\/did-dick-armey-just-throw-doug-hoffman-under-the-bus\/"},"modified":"2009-11-05T07:34:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T11:34:00","slug":"did-dick-armey-just-throw-doug-hoffman-under-the-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/11\/05\/did-dick-armey-just-throw-doug-hoffman-under-the-bus\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Dick Armey just throw Doug Hoffman under the bus?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This shocker in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1109\/29161.html\">today&#8217;s Politico<\/a>, in which conservative activists reject any notion that they lost NY-23.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Armey, the former House GOP majority leader, noted that Democrats had seized on Hoffman\u2019s inability to address local concerns. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThe fact of the matter is, he didn\u2019t pay enough attention to the local concerns, and they were able to tag him as being unaware of the local needs and concerns,\u201d Armey said. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Wasn&#8217;t it Armey himself who described local concerns as &#8220;parochial.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20091023\/OPINION01\/310239957\/-1\/OPINION\">Watertown Daily Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Coming to Mr. Hoffman&#8217;s defense, former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-Texas, who accompanied the candidate on a campaign swing, dismissed regional concerns as &#8220;parochial&#8221; issues that would not determine the outcome of the election.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>National conservatives deliberately helped to shape Doug Hoffman into a national symbol, one whose stand on abortion, same-sex marriage and President Obama largely defined him.<\/p>\n<p>For them to complain now that he didn&#8217;t focus enough on local stuff strikes me as a stretch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This shocker in today&#8217;s Politico, in which conservative activists reject any notion that they lost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[874],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}