She might not be the Reagan carbon copy everyone makes her out to be on the right. But boy can she draw the supporters!: (H/T The Weekly Standard)

The people of the 23rd Congressional District of New York are ready to shake things up, and Doug Hoffman is coming on strong as Election Day approaches! He needs our help now.

The votes of every member of Congress affect every American, so it’s important for all of us to pay attention to this important Congressional campaign in upstate New York. I am very pleased to announce my support for Doug Hoffman in his fight to be the next Representative from New York’s 23rd Congressional district. It’s my honor to endorse Doug and to do what I can to help him win, including having my political action committee, SarahPAC, donate to his campaign the maximum contribution allowed by law.

Our nation is at a crossroads, and this is once again a “time for choosing.”

The federal government borrows, spends, and prints too much money, while our national debt hits a record high. Government is growing while the private sector is shrinking, and unemployment is on the rise. Doug Hoffman is committed to ending the reckless spending in Washington, D.C. and the massive increase in the size and scope of the federal government. He is also fully committed to supporting our men and women in uniform as they seek to honorably complete their missions overseas.

And best of all, Doug Hoffman has not been anointed by any political machine.

Doug Hoffman stands for the principles that all Republicans should share: smaller government, lower taxes, strong national defense, and a commitment to individual liberty.

Political parties must stand for something. When Republicans were in the wilderness in the late 1970s, Ronald Reagan knew that the doctrine of “blurring the lines” between parties was not an appropriate way to win elections. Unfortunately, the Republican Party today has decided to choose a candidate who more than blurs the lines, and there is no real difference between the Democrat and the Republican in this race. This is why Doug Hoffman is running on the Conservative Party’s ticket.

Republicans and conservatives around the country are sending an important message to the Republican establishment in their outstanding grassroots support for Doug Hoffman: no more politics as usual.

You can help Doug by visiting his official website below and joining me in supporting his campaign:

http://www.doughoffmanforcongress.com/donate3.html.

via Facebook | Sarah Palin: Support Doug Hoffman.

Yes, I know Palin had zero to do with it. But his campaign “War chest” went through the roof, in a week!

Via the AP: (H/T to HotAir)

Over the past week, New York House special election candidate Doug Hoffman has doubled the amount of donations he has received for his unusually strong third-party campaign.

Hoffman, the Conservative Party nominee in the Nov. 3 contest for the 23rd District seat, disclosed just more than $300,000 in total receipts in his pre-general election fundraising report, which covers the beginning of the race through Oct. 14. That included a $102,000 loan that Hoffman, an accountant and first-time candidate, made to his campaign from his own funds.

But Hoffman’s campaign also said that since Oct. 14, the candidate — who is in a tight three-way race to fill the seat Republican Rep. John M. McHugh vacated to become secretary of the Army — raised more than $200,000 online. He is opposed by Dede Scozzafava, a longtime state assemblywoman, and Democrat Bill Owens, a lawyer.

Hoffman’s campaign has received a boost from activists in the conservative blogosphere, who have rallied around his candidacy amid growing anger over the Republican Party’s decision to nominate Scozzafava, a GOP moderate who backs same-sex marriage and abortion rights and has ties to organized labor. By midday Thursday, 15 right-leaning blogs and news outlets posted calls for Scozzafava to withdraw from the race and let Hoffman carry the fight against Owens himself.

A significant portion of the contributions Hoffman disclosed in his report came via the political action committee for Club for Growth, the conservative anti-tax group whose early endorsement and more than a half-million dollars in ad spending have helped Hoffman’s campaign gain traction. The Citizens United Political Victory Fund also gave Hoffman the maximum $10,000 donation, other conservative PACs — such as Eagle Forum and Government is not God — chipped in, and donations were made by the state and Oswego County Conservative Party committees as well.

Hoffman picked up a high-profile endorsement from former House Majority Leader Dick Armey of Texas — a key figure in the “Republican revolution” of the 1990s and now a major backer of the “tea party movement” against government expansion — Thursday morning.

So, why did this all happen? It is quite simple; the grassroots Conservative movement likes the guy. He is not a part of the Republican or Conservative establishment. I would be willing to believe Newt Gingrich is crying in his beer, er um, in his case; Milk right about now. That knuckle head should have known better than to support that Democrat-lite woman. If Sarah is behind it, you know the guy is going to win. Dede does not have a prayer in hell now.

Exit Question: Will there now be a Conservative civil war between the Palin camp and the Gingrich camp? Now that will be interesting to blog about and follow! 😯 😮

I was reading Pat Buchanan’s latest over on WorldNetDaily. It seems that again, Pat has invoked the ire of some on on the Liberal Left; and rightly so. Pat always writes his articles in the same format. A incendiary title, a thought provoking beginning, historical context in the middle and finally his real point and/or assertion at the end.

In his latest missive, he writes the following for his assertion:

Moreover, the alienation and radicalization of white America began long before Obama arrived. He acknowledged as much when he explained Middle Pennsylvanians to puzzled progressives in that closed-door meeting in San Francisco.

Referring to the white working-class voters in the industrial towns decimated by job losses, Obama said: “They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”

Yet, we had seen these folks before. They were Perotistas in 1992, opposed NAFTA in 1993 and blocked the Bush-Kennedy McCain amnesty in 2007.

In their lifetimes, they have seen their Christian faith purged from schools their taxes paid for, and mocked in movies and on TV.

They have seen their factories shuttered in the thousands and their jobs outsourced in the millions to Mexico and China. They have seen trillions of tax dollars go for Great Society programs, but have seen no Great Society, only rising crime, illegitimacy, drug use and dropout rates.

They watch on cable TV as illegal aliens walk into their country, are rewarded with free educations and health care and take jobs at lower pay than American families can live on – then carry Mexican flags in American cities and demand U.S. citizenship.

They see Wall Street banks bailed out as they sweat their next paycheck, then read that bank profits are soaring, and the big bonuses for the brilliant bankers are back. Neither they nor their kids ever benefited from affirmative action, unlike Barack and Michelle Obama.

They see a government in Washington that cannot balance its books, win our wars or protect our borders. The government shovels out trillions to Fortune 500 corporations and banks to rescue the country from a crisis created by the government and Fortune 500 corporations and banks.

America was once their country. They sense they are losing it. And they are right.

Now, let me clear, this is not an attempt to defend Pat’s (and no, that is not me… I wish I had Pat Buchanan’s money!) assertion. I simply will offer the the following: Factually, Pat is correct; America is no longer a Anglo-Saxon Nation anymore, America is a culturally diverse nation. It always has been, as long as I have been alive.  Now, as for his assertion, that America ever was the “White Man’s” America, or as if they ever owned it —- is factually wrong on its face and smacks of a racist mentality. To explain further, Pat Buchanan is a Paleo-Conservative or someone of the “Old Right”.  The difference between Paleo-Conservative and a Libertarian can be distilled down to one simple word: Protectionism. Pat Buchanan is a protectionist; Pat yearns for the days, back in the 1940’s and 1950’s, when America was at war and the industrial revolution was in full swing and everything was being built here in America. Some, but not all, of the Paleo-Conservative right; yearn for the days, back before the depression and FDR’s new deal. Before all of the Governmental controls were put into place.

The problem with Pat Buchanan’s and all of the Paleo-Conservatives ideals is this; they are not rooted in modern day reality. In other words, the Paleo-Conservatives are living in the past. Their isolationist mentality is one of pre-World War II. In other words, times have changed. Some for the good, and some for the bad. It is a fact of reality. We are now a Globalist Nation, with a Economy that is global as well, we just cannot go back to the way things used to be. It is a sad fact of reality, but it is the truth.  Again, this is not a defense of Pat’s article. It is more of explanation as to why Pat wrote what he did; I truly do not believe that Pat is a racist, I think he is simply writing in the vein of a protectionist.

However, let me also offer this; While I do agree with Pat’s take on economics, which is basically the Austrian School. I highly disagree with his take on World War II, Hitler and such. Some of that nonsense that he writes, quite frankly, makes me squirm. I tend to believe that he is a Hitler Apologist. That I cannot and will not defend.