Hope for America’s Future? The Nation Thinks So

Richard Viguerie, a key figure in wrestling the GOP from the hands of East Coast, Rockefeller liberals and launching the Reagan Revolution, sees NY-23 as a turning point in American history. 

The Nation—a very far left magazine—examines Viguerie’s views and find them . . . prescient?

With the decision of moderate Republican Dede Scozzafava, the party’s nominee in New York state special election for an open congressional seat, to suspend her campaign, the new "new right" — which Viguerie describes as "Tea Party activists, town hall protesters, and conservatives across the country" — can claim a clear victory in its struggle to define the GOP as a far more extreme party than that envisoned by Bush, Cheney or Gingrich.

"Because of what’s happened, we’re going to have some mischief-making, which is not positive for a party that needs to really focus on other fundamentals in order to make a comeback," says Republican strategist John Weaver, a veteran aide to 2008 presidential nominee John McCain.

But Weaver and his crew — including Gingrich, who backed Scozzafava — has been beaten. Badly.

And Viguerie and his crew get the bragging rights.

Calling the developments in the New York race "an earthquake in American politics," he predicted that it would be "the first of many challenges to establishment Republicans that we will see for the 2010 elections and beyond."

Viguerie is certainly right.

If Viguerie and his compatriots are correct, it is not just the Republican Party but America that is about to take the most rightwing turn in its history.

This is an early win in a long war.  We still have to lift Hoffman over Owens on Tuesday, beginning with our Nationwide Tea Party GOTV drive.  We then have to engage the current GOP leaders, explaining that we will not longer settle for the lesser of two evils.  We will lose a race by embracing good before we will lose our souls by voting for evil. 

But we should pause on Tuesday evening, thank God for brining together such a noble faction, and smile a bit in reflection on where we’ve come since that cold, windy day on the Arch steps in February. 

BigGovernment.com notes that today, November 1, has historical significance to movements and nations.