Scozzafava shows her true colors

http://rsmccain.blogspot.com/2009/11/ny23-live-from-watertown-ny-surprise.html

The fact that Scozzafava is now backing the Democrat can't be written off as sore losing -- it's confirmation that she is a Democrat in Republican clothing. So, why couldn't the Republicans who supported her see this?

There's a deep schism in the Republican Party which is more than adjustment after losing the election. This is an ideological split. The Republican moderates are filling a vacuum created by the Democratic hard shift leftwards. The progressives have moved so far into statism, that the ordinary mixed idea of statism/free market, which has given us a mixed economy regardless which party has held power, has left a vacuum between the progressives and limited government/free market advocates who still exist in the Republican Party. This vacuum is being filled by Democrat and Republican moderates.

It's a strange political breakdown. Although the media is attempting to frame the conservative base as the far-right extremists, they aren't. The far-right extremists who've been associated with racism or religious fanaticism have been marginalized -- you don't see the David Duke or Jerry Falwell types having any influence in the Republican Party. And, to associate Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter with the old far-right extremists is a stretch even for the most partisan Democrat hack. The conservative base is becoming the opposition, while the moderates are in that strange space created by the extremes of progressivism. Where the moderates from both parties have power is that they can block progressive policies, along with the Republicans who represent the base -- or the moderates from both parties can help implement the progressive agenda, fighting over not if the government should control the economy, but how much of the economy government will control.

This is why I still have little confidence in the Republican Party -- the moderates are really moving to an old Democrat position, one of mixed ideology and support for a mixed economy. The limited government movement will either become the new Republican Party, or they will be a movement without a party and the Democrats will be in power for a long, long time. It's becoming clear that the limited government movement will not vote for moderate/mixed economy Republicans.