Normally I wouldn't care much about the outcome of the race for New York's 23rd Congressional District, and neither would you. But the events of the past few weeks turned the fight for that seat into a referendum on who'll control the very heart and soul of the Republican party. Thankfully, the good guys won last night -- and by good guys I don't mean Democratic candidate Bill Owens, although he did in fact take the election; I mean that moderate, rational Republicans -- and by extension the whole country -- triumphed by firing a major shot across the bow of the tea-bagging whack-jobs who've hijacked the narrative within their party.
For those who haven't been paying attention: GOP NY-23 candidate Doug Hoffman essentially took on centrist (and therefore "not real") Republican candidate Dede Scozzafava by going fringe and consequently endearing himself to the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, and a host of 9/12 lunatics who stuffed his campaign coffers and trumpeted his candidacy as the first volley in the fight to take back the party and America. The atmosphere eventually became so poisonous that Scozzafava dropped out of the race and last week went so far as to endorse Owens, the Democratic candidate.
So despite all the supportive noise on Fox News and talk radio, how'd the Palin-anointed future of the GOP fair last night? Well, you know the answer.
Chris Kelly, writer for Real Time with Bill Maher, has a great take on it over at the Huffington Post:
The Huffington Post: Dud, Baby, Dud: The Lesson of Doug Hoffman/11.4.09
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