I hope the support shown to Hoffman by nationally respected Conservatives for 3 weeks, created an atmosphere for the skeert Conservative NY23 voter to actually pull the lever for him. The fact these local elections are now becoming national stories and and the stories are causing the needle to move is a good thing.

The guy was a regular dude. He had no means financial or otherwise to fight the DNC and Rino machine. They all just expected him to give up. Once Fred Thompson turned on the light things began to change. People like me who don’t even live in the state recognized we could help make a difference in a state where we don’t even live because we now know every one of those damn seats in the Halls of Congress MATTER! (I’ll be personally reminding them of that tomorrow!!)

So, Hoffman didn’t win that race, but I think Conservatives gained – at least in the insight area. Congrats new NY23 Dem Congressman – I wouldn’t decorate your office just yet………..

the base of any change is in ideology- we have to show and articulate that it is conservative principles that work, are the most democratic and keep us free and safe and that what is going on in washington today is destructive and the antithesis of a free republic. we have to show that even if we lose but especially if we win we will not betray these principles and sacrifice them as scozzafava and the republicans have for personal power, position or even to enact retribution. republicans or the label republican will not save us – reliance on the constitution, true separation of powers and the rule of law will. what this contest in particular has shown is how far politicians of all ilks have strayed from the founding principles of our chosen form of government.

and who do we think was blowing big sloppy wet kisses to dedekins to turncoat? obamaettes had to have been shoveling the Scoobie snacks at her to be a complete sleaze ball- every republican contributor should demand their money back from that which funded her campaign.( hello, what up ,spin master mickey s-call her out please.) she was a terrible candidate even if she had run as what she really is- a liberal democrat. she had Acorn ties, planned parenthood loves her and she has a union boss husband. what this election shows is how f’d up the GOP is. the Democrats in complete control have evinced nothing but contempt for the People- via nazi pelosi and the like they’ve made it clear that they are not going to listen to us. republicans may have been feeling lately we viewed them as our only hope but it needs to be spelled out that we are not going to take this sort of s*&@ from them either. maybe this race said as much to republicans as anyone about ideology and principles- scozzafava was losing before outsiders started throwing their weight around the district. if there was no hoffman, does anyone think the result would have been any different? if scozzafava had won there would still be a liberal in that congressional seat and maybe the republicans would never wake up, smell the RINO rot and rediscover some winning conservative principles to run on and rule by.

I’m interested in hearing the post mortem on NY-23. If Hoffman was shanghaied as a flag bearer, the flag might have accidentally fallen on his head knocking him out. I’m not saying Hoffman lost because he became associated with conservatism and conservatism itself did him in. He was running as a Conservative from the get go and doing well. It’s that the conservative movement looked to use NY-23 in a self-serving manner and that could have been a turn off for the locals. The good old American mind your own business attitude.

Of course, the Rs should have done a better job in picking a candidate in the first place. I hope that’s the lesson they learned. Conservatives have something to learn from this too. A movement can’t try to take over an election on overtly ideological terms. Ideology ultimately comes down to practical matters but election campaigns are not purist debates over how philosophy applies to everyday living. They are about solutions to local concerns generally within an ideological framework.

I’m not advocating that we be deceptive as the Left is about their ideological motives. One of the jobs we have is to reveal Obama and the Democrat hierarchy for the socialist ideologues they are. I’m saying we have to understand that the country is conservative in their gut but wary of ideologues. Our strength will come from presenting ourselves primarily as solvers of practical problems, not soldiers in an ideological battle.

Virginia has spoken. Americans have had it up to the ears with the Obama juggernaut. As Karl Rove explained to O’Reilly, Obama hasn’t governed the way “he led us to expect he would.” Translation. The president is a liar — and not on trivial issues either. He led the electorate to believe he was a centrist — he has governed from the left. He led the electorate to believe he would watch the deficit — he is a deficit extremist. He led the electorate to believe he would surround himself with the Volkers and the Buffetts. He surround himself with the Van Jones and the Valerie Jarettes and the Anita Dunns. The the 62-38 swing by 8:30PM EST is is a thirty point electoral swing since last November. And in a state whose northern heavily populated districts front on the White House lawn and whose news is national news. It’s early; New Jersey isn’t in. But the significance of this landslide cannot be understated. An electorally decisive part of the electorate who voted for Obama last November voted against him in Virginia today.

Which means: Obamacare is dead. For now.

Postscript: New Jersey, when you consider that Obama won the state by 15 points is also a landslide shift (20 points) — mainly among independents. By not governing as a centrist Obama has forfeited his margin of victory and doomed his health care reform. On CNN Carville said: If he doesn’t pass health care, the Democrats are going to get “slaughtered” because they will have shown that they can’t govern — they can’t get things done.

Now Obama faces a dilemma. If he moves right to retrieve the independents, he will lose his base. If he continues his leftward course, it is all over for him. He can’t win without the independents and they don’t like his spending and will like the taxes that are coming even less. He is going to have have raise taxes to pay for his deficits; he has a war which he can’t prosecute without losing his base and can’t lose without losing the center. He is already losing his base. The practicalities of governing, the compromises he has had to make to keep his Democratic majority in Congress have washed away some of the fairy dust he sprinkled over the young who thought he walked on water. The options he now has will do more of the same. The revolution is over. The reckoning is on the way. There is one caveat to keep in mind. It’s a two party system and Republicans are also capable of screwing up their opportunities.

Thanks so much for playing the Reagan speech from way back when in “64″ I was all of 5 years old and don’t really recall much of that election, however, my dad filmed me at the S.F. Airport when JFK landed at SFO, again I don’t recall it, however, I was there. Not ashamed to say that a few tears came to my eye’s hearing that call to action, mandate…whatever. Where have all the leaders Gone????

If we’re saved, it won’t be because Obama/Pelosi/Reid have seen the error of their ways, but because they simply were unable to beat Congress into submission. But they’re not done yet. Remember that the leadership can make life hell for those who don’t play ball. You may lose anything from your committee status to your key to the executive washroom.

It might be significant if the House were to select a new speaker who was somewhat more distanced from the White House. It would be significant if Hillary were to leave the Secretary post. Such events would indicate that Obama’s personal power was past its peak. His popularity has obviously declined, but that decline hasn’t yet translated into loss of political potency. That’s why the monstrous health care bill is still looming over us.