If I lived in NY-23, I don’t know how happy I would be about the wingnut-and-teabagger circus parachuting-in and interfering in provincial politics (wherein I agree with Newt Gingrich!).  At this point, it really is a pointless race for the Democrats, not in that it isn’t winnable, but that no matter what happens it’s bad news for the GOP. Incumbents in the Northeast get reelected because they deliver and/or avoid scandal, not because they engage in the far-right jihads of Mrs. Palin, Beck, et. al.  After all, NY-23 delivered for Obama by 5-points.
Continue the purge! Conservatism can’t be fail, it can only be failed, by gutless moderates unwilling to sacrifice electability in the name of defeating the Muslim-scourge, or the liberal-socialist-fascist Dark One.  After decades of courting extremists, the Republican establishment will have to reap what they have sown, as will their constituency. The streets will run with Cheetos and Mountain Dew, as the teabaggers celebrate their first electoral scalp, and the fact they have finally arrived in a fashion not seen since the Know-Nothings prowled the legislature.
Please, take your party further to the right. Keep venerating St. Ronald Reagan and palling-around with people that normally scare their neighbors:
The self-identifying conservative Republicans who make up the base of the Republican Party stand a world apart from the rest of America, according to focus groups conducted by Democracy Corps. These base Republican voters dislike Barack Obama to be sure – which is not very surprising as base Democrats had few positive things to say about George Bush – but these voters identify themselves as part of a ‘mocked’ minority with a set of shared beliefs and knowledge, and commitment to oppose Obama that sets them apart from the majority in the country. They believe Obama is ruthlessly advancing a ‘secret agenda’ to bankrupt the United States and dramatically expand government control to an extent nothing short of socialism. While these voters are disdainful of a Republican Party they view to have failed in its mission, they overwhelmingly view a successful Obama presidency as the destruction of this country’s founding principles and are committed to seeing the president fail.
I wish the same thing on New Jersey Republicans. All the happy talk and faith-based economics will get you nowhere. Cutting taxes may be good tactics during an election, but it’s a poor strategy for good governance. Please, Chris Christie, opt-out of government healthcare, so NJ can add record insurance premiums to it’s ‘highest’ roster of unemployment and taxes. It’s time to stop evangelizing and start allowing people to be bitch-slapped by the Invisible Hand.
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