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Yes, yes, I know -- the Democrats will probably lose gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia tomorrow, and 'they' think the results will serve as clues to how everyone will vote in 2010 and 2012. This Democrat is not thrilled, but not all that worried...a lot can happen in even six months...not to mention two years. 

The special congressional election in New York is the one that really fascinates most political junkies. Frank Rich of the NYTimes says:

"BARACK OBAMA’S most devilish political move since the 2008 campaign was to appoint a Republican congressman from upstate New York as secretary of the Army. This week’s election to fill that vacant seat has set off nothing less than a riotous and bloody national G.O.P. civil war. No matter what the results in that race on Tuesday, the Republicans are the sure losers. This could be a gift that keeps on giving to the Democrats through 2010, and perhaps beyond.[...]"

The teabaggers already ran off the moderate Republican, Dede Scozzafava. She withdrew from "NY 23" this weekend (and then endorsed the Democrat) The teabaggers also raised enough money and noise to push their Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman to the brink of victory in a district he doesn’t even live in.

If the teabagger candidate wins in NY tomorrow, look for radical righties to be emboldened to go hunting for 'moderate' GOP scalps in other districts. Their angry, energized base will take on more party establishment-approved candidates who don't toe their ideological line.

This surely won't go over well with the majority of Republicans...or with the rest of the country either. Thank goodness the teabaggers and birthers are a small minority of our 300 million citizens.

And, you know something is seriously wrong within the GOP when the wingnuts turn on Newt Gingrich - long thought to have great conservative ideas. Seems the teabaggers think Newt is too moderate...they don't like how he's trying to pull the Republican Party from the radical right to the more mainstream center.

A week ago Newt appeared on several Sunday talk shows flirting with the idea of running for president in 2012. Radical rightie pundits quickly shot ol' Newt down.

Yeah, the guy who led the GOP to a 1994 revival is now being dissed as a RINO -- Republican In Name Only -- just like they did the very conservative, Sen. Lindsey Graham.

The teabaggers were also pissed because Newt endorsed moderate Dede Scozzafava, and urged Republicans not to support the more conservative third-party candidate Doug Hoffman. And they probably still remember when Newt eased out Sarah Palin as speaker at a big GOP do...he didn't want her there out-shining everybody.

Like I said, we Democrats are not all that worried. The Republican Party has lost several recent elections, and has seen its 'brand' sink to 17 percent of Americans who identify themselves as Republicans, so it doesn't bode well for the GOP if they continue to divide the party and toss centrists out of the tent. The party needs to run moderate contenders if it wants to survive and maybe win a  national election or two.

Looks like they'll have to let this little Surge of the Teabaggers play out...and learn the hard way. There's just not enough of them.

Or. maybe we'll split into a 3 party system -- Democrats, the crazed wingnut teabaggers Conservative Party, and moderate to semi-crazed Republicans. Blue Dog Democrats should switch to the moderate/semi-crazed Republican party...it's where they belong, and I hope they don't forget to take Lieberman and Specter.

Anyway...more popcorn and on with the show!

Get this - guilt-ridden conservatives are all over the media trying to convince us that the Holocaust Museum murderer - James von Brunn - isn't really a right-winger, he's a leftie.

Let me get this straight -- a white supremacist consumed with hatred of Jews and blacks...who is a Holocaust denier...who said President Obama was created by Jews...who said Obama has a fake birth certificate...who hates the US government...who hates Liberals...who fears the takeover of our country by black governors...who tried to help his segregationist friend (John G. Crommelin). of the ultra right-wing National States' Rights Party, get elected Governor of Alabama...who has published his rantings on many rightwing hate websites like stormfront and freerepublic -- isn't really a right-winger?

Yep, sounds like a typical lefty to me.

We'll just see...after the police get through checking out the contents of von Brunn's car, court documents, arrest record, his 40 years of collected written ravings and his hard-drive....then we'll know how many of his favorite websites were of the leftie persuasion.

Sorry, but I tend to "pigeon-hole" Jew-hating, Afro-American-hating, militia-loving lunatics as rightwing. Deductive reasoning...it's just the way my mind works. Everybody knows that Neo-Nazism and white supremacy are forms of violent extremism of the right...not the left.

Hey, I wonder if they also have proof that the killer of Dr. Tiller is also a leftwing nut job as well...

BTW...I wonder what all his neo-Nazi skinhead friends think about being called "lefties" by their rightwing media BFFs? Doesn't look to me that they'd like it one bit. Has someone pointed that out to them?

It's all an old wingnut propaganda trick - redefine the meaning of a term loud enough and often enough and people will come to - even subconsciously - believe it's true. The swiftboater attacks on John Kerry is a good example...another is claiming that President Obama is Muslim who doesn't have a valid birth certificate.

It's so comforting to think that there are legions of heavily armed lunatics wandering this country coast to coast, getting fired up by the rightwing hate machine, blaming all their problems on them hippies who want to take away their SUV’s...looking for opportunities to shoot people who think like me.

But I won't hold my breath waiting for people like Limbaugh, Hannity, O’Reilly, Malkin, Beck and Coulter to realize that words have consequences...that they have all gone far beyond what should be tolerated in a moral society.

Yet, I have to be fair, the majority of Conservatives do not share these extremist rightwing views...too bad they're too chicken shit to stand up and disown these rightwing crazies because they're scared it might cost them votes in future elections.