This is one of those political phenomena that bubbles up out of nowhere to take the establishment by surprise.How or why the party regulars in NY23 thought that Dede Scozzafava would be acceptable to anyone to the right of Karl Marx will forever remain a mystery. Even Nelson Rockefeller might have been on Hoffman's side in this battle, given the blatant, far left liberalism of the candidate. Rocky may have been a moderate -- but he was an eminently practical man and a superior politician to boot. No doubt he would have seen this revolt coming from a mile away and either sought to bend to the will of conservatives or distanced himself from someone like Scozzafava.It hardly matters now. Those Republicans like New Gingrich and the Congressional GOP campaign wizards who thought they had a winner when they handpicked Scozzafava are now left stuttering in disbelief over the wave of support that has decimated their candidate and elevated Hoffman into a statistical dead heat with the...(Read Full Post)