Political Class Dismissed

The following excerpt is a pretty good description of the changing political landscape.

“In her statement announcing suspension of her campaign in the special election for New York’s 23rd congressional district, Assemblywoman and liberal GOP nominee Dede Scozzafava refused to throw her support behind a fellow Republican, Doug Hoffman, who is running on the Conservative Party ticket in this particular race.

“That was one more example of the ‘closed tent’ mentality of big-government, establishment Republicans who have worked long and hard to keep conservatives out of power at the national, state, and local levels.

“The GOP leadership’s backing of Ms. Scozzafava was a slap in the face to Tea Party activists, town hall protesters, and conservatives across the country. The Washington GOP establishment’s abandonment of fiscal responsibility led directly to the election of Barack Obama as President and Nancy Pelosi as Speaker. The American people see the GOP leadership and establishment every bit as much a part of the problem as the Democrats.

“Doug Hoffman and NY-23 is an earthquake in American politics, and is the first of many challenges to establishment Republicans that we will see for the 2010 elections and beyond. The stupid decision by Republican leaders to pour $900,000 into the NY-23rd race against a conservative has unleashed a fury that will lead to new GOP leadership.

As a libertarian, this shift does not represent all of my views.  But, it does signal a seismic shift in the right direction.  Utopian progressive policies have led this country to the brink of destruction.  Without fiscally conservative changes there will be no United States of America in the near future.  Libertarians are a large part of this movement and will have plenty of opportunities to influence a return to the respect for individual freedom.

The first half of the existence of the United States resulted in the fastest and largest creation of wealth ever seen in the history of man.  That happened without massive government intervention because it allowed innovation and opportunity to flourish.  The second half of our country’s existence has witnessed the squandering of our wealth in direct proportion to the increase of government control of virtually every facet of our lives.

Big government has never been able to sustain itself over the long run.  Do you want an economic renaissance based on freedom or the death of our country by thousands of bureaucracies?  The choice is yours - vote this Tuesday.