NY-23 race, GOP suffers big hit.
About one week ago I pointed out that the NY-23 race is something you should be watching and this race just got more interesting. The GOP hand picked candidate and liberal Republican Dede Scozzafava has withdrawn the race and apparently endorsed the Democrat challenge instead of the conservative Doug Hoffman.
While Newt Gingrich and the rest of the out of touch Republican race refused to budge under growing pressure from small government supporters, Hoffman's popularity and support exploded. This is all good and well considering Newt's main point was the fear that a 3rd party victory could usher in a wave of challengers liable of stealing GOP votes and handing easy victories to the Democrats. Some have pointed out this rather legitimate concern, but there is no legitimacy here what so ever.
What Gingrich and others have failed to realize is that the Republican party offers virtually nothing new in contrast to the Democrat party and while they pay lip service to anti-government sentiment, their action falls on deaf ears. Face it folks, even since the mighty Reagan revolution the size of government has grown and grown and grown. Even if we were to cite several examples of positive legislation in tax cutting or welfare reform they are still mechanism by which government expands just not as quickly. We are not interested in retarding the growth of government, we are interested in SHRINKING it!
Now before you get all huffy and annoyed that government shrinking sounds cranky and fringe-like, remember this. Under FDR we experienced the largest government expansion in the history of the country and ushered in painful programs that are threatening to cripple this nation like Social Security. However government spending only amounted to 10% of the GDP. How about today? Government is spending 47% of the GDP! We now pay more taxes than we ever did (federal, state, local, sales, fees) and we are insanely in debt. If we went back to government levels just before WW1 it would represent a fantastic removal of waste, corruption and ultimately reduction of debt which is killing our purchasing power.
If you got some spare cash, then Doug Hoffman could use your help!
While Newt Gingrich and the rest of the out of touch Republican race refused to budge under growing pressure from small government supporters, Hoffman's popularity and support exploded. This is all good and well considering Newt's main point was the fear that a 3rd party victory could usher in a wave of challengers liable of stealing GOP votes and handing easy victories to the Democrats. Some have pointed out this rather legitimate concern, but there is no legitimacy here what so ever.
What Gingrich and others have failed to realize is that the Republican party offers virtually nothing new in contrast to the Democrat party and while they pay lip service to anti-government sentiment, their action falls on deaf ears. Face it folks, even since the mighty Reagan revolution the size of government has grown and grown and grown. Even if we were to cite several examples of positive legislation in tax cutting or welfare reform they are still mechanism by which government expands just not as quickly. We are not interested in retarding the growth of government, we are interested in SHRINKING it!
Now before you get all huffy and annoyed that government shrinking sounds cranky and fringe-like, remember this. Under FDR we experienced the largest government expansion in the history of the country and ushered in painful programs that are threatening to cripple this nation like Social Security. However government spending only amounted to 10% of the GDP. How about today? Government is spending 47% of the GDP! We now pay more taxes than we ever did (federal, state, local, sales, fees) and we are insanely in debt. If we went back to government levels just before WW1 it would represent a fantastic removal of waste, corruption and ultimately reduction of debt which is killing our purchasing power.
If you got some spare cash, then Doug Hoffman could use your help!
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