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As Scozzafava bows out and leaves Hoffman and Owens in the race its becoming more apparent that Progressives, whether they are Blue or Red are more and more worried.  Over the next few days we will see them begin the tired rhetoric of trying to attach Hoffman to bias, dirty tricks, and a group of upstart outsiders that just flew right in to New York’s 23rd District.  Of course the natural thing would be to defend Hoffman.  Perhaps mention how even Progressives have done the same thing?  Yet that would just fuel the beast and serve no purpose other then to point fingers.  So let’s just call a spade a spade and all understand that the tactics being utilized are those mined by the Progressives during Obama’s Presidential run.  For the most part they are not wrong.  Utilizing the Internet and getting citizens engaged is at the very much the foundation of our politics.  How is this wrong?  We should not allow our process to be dominated by an oligarchical structure that relies more on money and prominence of a corporate political machine then on citizens.  Consider this.  Why is it relevant that other citizens come to a district to help a candidate?  In the first, as I have mentioned,  Progressives take a national and even a world view then its time conservatives and liberty minded folks do as well.  Fair is fair after all.  In the second, even though “strangers” come to a district to help out this does not mean the citizens of that district are coerced into voting another way or that these outsiders are voting at all.

Yet let us not overlook something.  Even as Progressives attempt to isolate Hoffman and his widely popular conservative views, they are pointing out the fact that Progressives are not the majority they claim they are and perhaps not in the right after all.  Since assuming the majority they have assumed a moral right to what they think is correct. This has been a foundation of Pelosi and her ilk’s presumed authority.  Why else would they and Obama cut any other voice out of the American political process?  This is exactly what happened to the GOP under Bush.  They assumed that since they were elected again that they had the moral right to do what they were doing.  The country responded by electing Obama.  Sadly I think we reacted to rashly, yet what choice did we have?  I will admit that we did not have much, if any at all.  It is time to understand that we do not need one two political parties, but we are so far down the corporate political road I am not sure how we get back.  Still it should be abundantly clear that we can vote for whomever we want if we can support him/her.  Hoffman shows this and its becoming increasing clear to others

Over the course of the next few hours leading until the ballot casting in NY23, Progressives will isolate, divide, and turn you into something you are not.  Time and time again they fail to understand the nature of our rights and liberty, that somehow, as plain citizens we understand as a matter of fact.  One where our liberties are non-negotiable. Progressives would have you give up your rights for a group of citizens.

In other words Pelosi and her Progressives would have you enslaved for others to be free.

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With the effects of the NY23 race, and seeming self-destruction of the GOP, conventional wisdom would have us believe that we are seeing the demise of the GOP, and very quickly those same experts would offer advice on how they should change.  All too often that change is to mold the GOP into an image of what the proponent feels it should be.  In doing so they fall into the same trap.  These experts will use statistics and numbers to show how either a younger, or poorer, or some sort of lesser equated group is the path to victory.  By supporting the goals of obviously rejected policies of Scozzafava, Pelosi, and of other better known Progressives, some would have the GOP to emerge as the new left.  Then were does that place the liberal?  This argument misses the point.  The one I would use is that we are seeing the effects of having been divided; of being factions and the reemergence to the idea that we are individuals not herds.  That our individual rights are more important then the best of feelings.  Most certainly we are seeing the fragmentation of a party. Yet it is only a reflection of us.  As a body of citizens we have fallen into division.  Perhaps my analogy of warfare previously was inaccurate.  In warfare there are sides, lines are drawn, camps are created, and while what is happening in NY23 has the same feel it also transcends that idea.  What we are seeing is the opposition to faction.

Still one is given the obvious argument to the the NY23.  Will the GOP survive?  It is not the outcome but the after effects.   I am most certain it will.  Like the Democrats survived the schism of Hillary Clinton and Obama the GOP will survive this.  Yet that is the very crux of the point.  Both parties have become too big to fail.  They are massive political corporations that seek to do one thing each election period.  Create a product for public consumption.  Their products are candidates for the political machine. One should look upon the New York 23 race as an example of the opposition to faction.  The democrats have lead this schism, and the GOP are just merely the first to feel it and have become unwitting pawns in the game.  It had begun during the Presidential elections and the GOP followed the prim rose path laid before them.  Both parties have shown us the truth behind the dangers of political parties.  Both sides, red/blue, donkey/elephant, have shown us that they have become judge and jury of political causes.  They determine for us what is good and true and then seek to create laws and regulations to control it. 

No one  is able to judge their own cause, because self interest would certainly bias that judgment, even to the extent of corrupting one’s integrity.  If one person cannot judge their own actions then most assuredly a body of people cannot be both judges and parties at the same time.  Yet here we are faced with a Congress and a Court system that does not concern itself with the rights of individuals but with the rights of large bodies of citizens.   Politicians on all sides, GOP, Democrats, Green, Socialists are nothing more then advocates to the causes which they determine.  Yes corporations are in there as well vying to make sure profits are continued and that we remain comfortably where we are.  Yet both, politician and business man play a deadly game in which each thinks they control the other.   It is pure arrogance to think that good people will prevail and are able to handle these opposing interests.  It is impossible to ensure that good people will always be in power.  Cap and Trade, Health Care, Gay Marriage, these are nothing more then tools in order to keep us warring amongst ourselves and divide us while we await the great leader that will somehow calm the storm and bring his or her version of truth and justice to us. 

In New York, and even in New Jersey and Virginia we are seeing the rumblings that perhaps party does not matter. How are political parties any different from the cookie cutter antics we see from reality TV shows like American Idol?  A candidate is paraded before us, recites chapter and verse either what we want to hear or a well thought out presentation of what we ought to hear.   We are swayed by the moment and how they look, what they say, the nuisances of the words they choose.  Then on the appointed time we are herded to the voting booth to cast our ballots.  Some day we may even text them in.  The schism illustrated in New York is one that shows us that national views forced on a local level are not the answer, and yet those that would divide us fail to see that embracing the differences that make that local level great would serve them far greater.  In a recent debate Hoffman was criticized by Scozzafava for not knowing a certain local issue and yet this is not the platform she is running on.  How is this valid?  If Scozzafava were concerned with the differences in her local area then she would not be supporting the Progressive views of Pelosi and other social advocates.  She would be concerned about her district.   If Health Care is a problem in NY23 then what has the local effort done to solve or help?  The argument is nothing more then a means to divide us.  To cause argument

How then are we to decided?  One would advocate that the polls depict what is going on or that we will wait and see.  Both are fallacious arguments in the sense that if Hoffman looses then perhaps the fundamentals of Conversativism and Liberty are not valid and not the majority.  In this I take a page from George Soros and point out that modern advertising has corrupted our process.  That no matter where you look we are being cut, sorted, and divided.  That we are customers of the system and not owners.  That we are in fact nothing more then pawns.  The sense and prevailing concept of Liberty is not a Conservative belief.  Nor a Christian belief.  Not even a Democrat belief.  It is a time tested fact that has a thread drawn through time. 

There are,and were others that believe this before I.

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The Progressives have come out with their Public Option Plan. Is it V Day or D-Day? It all depends on which side of the fence you are on, and maybe not even that. Progressives are starting to show that they are not united. The ideology supported by Pelosi and her fellow Progressives is being forced upon a nation that has rejected it time and time again. This is most evident both within New York and Virginia, and will soon play out through out the U.S. Be ready for Progressives will not be silent in pointing out that supporters for conservatives or liberty backed candidates do not live in the districts they are campaigning in. All the while doing it themselves. It is true that campaigns will seek out people from other areas to help do the leg work or man phones or provide staff. Yet this is nothing new and it should only point out how corruption has crept into the system. Besides, Congress assumes authority on national matters. Then why cannot the Citizen do likewise? It is their time and money to lend. If they choose to help another district then it is their right….for now that is. It is hard to be clean when we are all in the mud.

Yet the assumption that Progressives make is that it is better to sacrifice self for the better of the group. You as an individual do not matter. Within the New York District 23 Race this plays out in epic form and will be amplified on a national scale later on. The key to navigating the messy minefield that is about to be laid out is to understand the ideology resting within Congress lead by Pelosi and her ilk. Scozzafava has been singled out as a Progressive within the GOP, or a RINO (Republican In Name Only). A term that has been applied to a long string of GOP politicians who have been supporting Progressives, lead by Pelosi. Most recent of this is Cap and Trade. Health Care reform has yet to come to a vote but if Cap and Trade is any evidence the citizens have no certainty on how their representatives are going to vote. What we do know is that Scozzafava is supported by unions, and her support of stimulus spending (note its abject failure in New York). What we do not know is how much further she and those like her align with major Progressive issues. If elected the country could be facing the same uncertainty we faced with Cap and Trade. How many more chances are we going to take on a truly unknown vote?

The GOP is not getting the message. Gingrinch said recently that,“If you seek to be a perfect minority, you’ll remain a minority, that’s not how Reagan built his revolution or how we won back the House in 1994." I would argue that Reagan won based on clear values. A clear line between what is right and is not. This is not the sole providence of Judeo-Christian lines, it is based on the fact that we are not a lawless creature of chaos but a being with purpose and rationality. That we cannot function successfully under coercion, and that rights are a necessary condition of our survival. How much more of a risk are we going to take on someone merely because they are backed by a party? Citizens are tired of representatives who do not represent their interests and being bullied into idea and concepts that did not include our consent.

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A lot of attention has been given to the special election race in the New York district 23.  For the Tea Party member, the Liberty leaning activist, or the Free Market Defender, it has become a symbolic gesture to what we will see in the 2010 election race.  For others it is a mild amusement that Hoffman thinks he can succeed.  No matter how one looks at it this is a win win situation for those beleaguered Tea Party gatherers and like minded individuals.  yet make no mistake if Hoffman does not win there will be jeering from both sides, though there will be an attempt at being magnanimous.  For the last year or so Tea Parties, Liberty activists alike have stomped the country like Diogenes looking for an "honest man" or perhaps just sprawling for a fight.  We got it in New York.

The Wall Street Journal reports some recent numbers and marks a problem for the Democrats.  Who exactly are they running against the  author asks?  To the politician the concept is one of rooted in demagoguery.  The best look or saddling up with the people.  Trying to be everything for everyone.  A "man of all people" as it were (yes I know one of candidate is a woman).  This is in fact the problem.  They have tried to cover every socioeconomic group and have failed to understand that this is about Liberty.  Tea Parties have demonstrated it for the past few months and even longer.  Politicians on both sides were sent a message, and it appears they were not listening.  It does not matter how it happened that Scozzafava was placed into the GOP slot.  It happened, and furthermore it just shows the root of the problem.  The Parties have become corporations, more concerned about remaining in power then the affairs of governing.   Obama himself, when faced with real Presidential issues such as Afghanistan pushes the decision off and chooses to remain in the comfortable position of campaigning.  If the 9-12 DC march did not open GOP or Democrat eyes then only sending a message will.

I look at this as a war.  In wars sometimes you wage a battle not for the purpose of winning that particular fight but to test your strength.  To test the mettle of your opponent and gauge their strength and will to fight.  New York is just such a testing ground for the Liberty movement.  Many look and wonder at who will win.  I think we already have.  Step back and look at the big picture.  People have rallied around Hoffman not vice versa.  There are no pretty Hope posters, no expensive art directors.  Just plain people out making it happen.  The citizens and supporters have rallied around an idea.  That idea is rooted in the basic belief that we do not have to sacrifice our rights and liberties in an effort to make others feel better.  It has also tested the ability for seemingly untested names (i.e. Palin) to lend a helping hand and make a mark.  Win or loss, Hoffman stands for more then he may know, and more then we realize.  It shows us that things can change from the bottom not on the whims of a philosopher king, and not the faux change we elected into the White House.  Our process is not one of rapid fire, jam it down your throat but its one of time, and deliberate movement.  We are forced to suffer in silence until the next election but yet that gives time to build up the pressure.  Would the NY-23 election be any more telling if this happened a month after the Presidential election?  Its takes time to build your voice; to gather your strength.  Even if Hoffman is not elected we take those lessons and move to the next.  New York is one of many battlegrounds yet to come up over the next year.

Progressives will turn Alinsky on us and ridicule the process.  Still the truth is there if you care to see it.  Even responding to the issue means they are worried.  There should be no doubt that Tea Parties have had an effect.  The rallying cry of Free Markets is getting to Progressives  Already the opposition within NY23 are using tactics to voice how they feel Free Market Capitalism is a failure.  Yet they are not honest in their approach as they have deep pockets themselves and have abused Free Markets in order to manipulate economic conditions.   It then supports the argument that this is not a war of parties but one of ideologies.  Its philosophies coming home to roost.  Gingrinch’s idea of not having "litmus tests" is proving to be a failure.  Stare into the darkness long enough…and it stares back.  No matter who wins, the Citizen already has.  Time will prove that out once the dust has settled and the race analyzed in the context of time, yet one thing is clear. 

The Citizens are speaking.  The tidal wave has only begun.

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