Die on your feet or live on your knees

Too long to post in full here, but I thought some of you would enjoy:

Gov. Palin, who herself is turning into a de facto kingmaker for Conservatives, seems to understand with organic fluidity what very, very smart politicians like Newt Gingrich do not: the era of the RINO has come and gone, and the Era of Choosing Sides has begun.

So, Conservatives are struggling with a question: do we go all in for Doug Hoffman, a successful accountant who’s never run for public office at risk of splitting the GOP vote and thus giving a free ride to the Democrat (and Working Families Party) nominee Bill Owens, to Capitol Hill? Although the question has already been answered by funds, endorsements, etc for Conservatives, do we do the pragmatic thing and support the GOPer candidate Deidre Scozzafava, a woman who has been endorsed by NARAL, Planned Parenthood, and the Working Families Party (parent-company: ACORN) repeatedly, but is – in fairness – the woman picked by GOPer leaders in NY23?

The answer in NY23 is now easy, and getting easier by the day. Sarah Palin broke the dam with her endorsement (and in deference to Fred Thompson, who I supported in the GOPer primaries of ’08, he was there first), and now the endorsements from other politicians Conservative and skeptical alike are pouring in. I don’t buy the polling that Hoffman has taken the lead – yet – but what is obvious is that Conservatives, bastard step-child of the GOP for years, have had enough. We were mocked for the Tea Parties, we were mocked for the Town Halls, and let’s not even start on the mockery Sarah Palin has endured over the last 13 months.

In short, we’ve reached a point where the adults are about to attempt to regain control of the dinner table.

Cross-posted here.