NY 23rd- the tea baggers come home to roost. The "sleeping giant" is indeed awoken. LOL

[underpants]

One of the most watched races this November is the New York 23rd district. This is a district that is truly "upstate" bordering on Canada, Maine, and Vermont. It was represented by John McHugh until he accepted President Obama's offer to be Secretary of the Army.

So according to NY state law there is no primary in such a situation. The party leaders get to hand pick the nominee. In this case it was state legislator Dede Scozzafava but there is a problem. Seems the "core" Republicans in that district have become so empowered by the fanning of flames under the teabag fire that they are supporting an Independent Doug Hoffman against the Democratic nominee Bill Owens.

The people that created this monster, who "awoke this sleeping giant" failed to realize that any creature will always return to its home. You can't just create something and unleash it on your neighbors it WILL come home. And it is coming home to roost on them.

Now we have Palin and Pawlenty and Santorum all rallying to support Hoffman. While the original genesis of the teabag operation, Newt Gingrich, now is saying that supporting Hoffman is a "mistake". Oh my

Newt moved quickly into the power vacuum after the empire crumbled but he let in too much oxygen and now he has a fire on his hands.

The oddest part about this is that Newt and Dick Armey (leader of the second phase of teabagging) are making appearances in New York state. The New York Republicans have never wanted anything to do with their Southern brothers (Newt, Dick, Frist, Haley Barbour) and didn't need to mainly because they had their own sources of money. The southern Republicans ran roughshod over everyone while they controlled the pursestrings (and still do) and that left all of the New England Republicans out of the loop (save for the two moderate women from Maine) and now that beast is extinct and the homebase is now completely isolated.

We appear to have yet another power vacuum. The teabaggers were thought to have done what they were created to do which was an illusion of size to cover for the money pouring into DC from the health industry to kill reform. We all know that that is the way now but people don't like being slapped in the face with it....so the teabaggers were used like wet fish to slap the populace in the face and while they reeled from the stink (and some joined the crowd-because even a crowd of wet fish attracts a crowd) the money came in, as we knew it would. But who will fill it?

This appears not to be a fight or a referendum on Obama as it is an isolated, specific fight in the GOP.

If you think they have looked like floundering fools for the last year just wait until you watch them try to put out a fire but slapping at it with wet fish...and some of the fish refusing to serve the cause anymore.