Rachel Maddow of MSNBC has a report you can watch here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj9ncTzmToU
which I summarize here:
For the first time in a long time, New York's 23rd district will not be run by the Republican party. That's because the rightist "Conservative Party" candidate has caused the moderate Republican candidate to bow out of the race and endorse the Democratic candidate. How does the GOP respond? Incredibly, by endorsing the Conservative Party candidate and running ads for him full of Tea Party-type language. The Conservative Party candidate, the apparently incompetent Doug Hoffman, happens to be a big fan of, and endorsed by, raving lunatic Glenn Beck of Fox (not)News. Plus the supposedly nonpartisan Tea Party organizer lobbyist group, Americans for Prosperity, are now working with fringe-nut Republican Michele Bachman on organizing a new Tea Party day, with the blessings of the Congressional leadership. All of which is tends to show that the Republican Party is being taken over by the right wing fringe. Which Democrats view generally as good news, because the fringe has alienated a lot of moderate Republicans. However, there is a danger that the new right-wing base of the Republican Party will be more active in organizing for upcoming elections than the now-complacent Democratic base.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj9ncTzmToU
which I summarize here:
For the first time in a long time, New York's 23rd district will not be run by the Republican party. That's because the rightist "Conservative Party" candidate has caused the moderate Republican candidate to bow out of the race and endorse the Democratic candidate. How does the GOP respond? Incredibly, by endorsing the Conservative Party candidate and running ads for him full of Tea Party-type language. The Conservative Party candidate, the apparently incompetent Doug Hoffman, happens to be a big fan of, and endorsed by, raving lunatic Glenn Beck of Fox (not)News. Plus the supposedly nonpartisan Tea Party organizer lobbyist group, Americans for Prosperity, are now working with fringe-nut Republican Michele Bachman on organizing a new Tea Party day, with the blessings of the Congressional leadership. All of which is tends to show that the Republican Party is being taken over by the right wing fringe. Which Democrats view generally as good news, because the fringe has alienated a lot of moderate Republicans. However, there is a danger that the new right-wing base of the Republican Party will be more active in organizing for upcoming elections than the now-complacent Democratic base.
