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"Big" Republicans, the 'official' GOP, will definitely have a nice hand-print on their faces when this election is over. The GOP deserves this slap in the face, from the budding Conservative Party; a well-deserved slap to the likes of David Frum and Meghan McCain; Olympia Snowe and even Newt Gingrich: those who drift too far left (Frum and his ilk, both McCains, and those two lobsterpot bimbos from Maine), and blindly support the Party First and abandon their principles (that would be you, Newt).

Surprisingly, David Hoffman can win this hotly contested race.

Sure he can. Yes, he can! There's massive momentum on his side: ringing endorsements from Sarah Palin, Jim DeMint, Fred Thompson, Steve Forbes, and other Conservatives.

From the New York Post...

Doug Hoffman for Congress

New York's 23rd Congressional District lies near Canada, far to the north -- but next week's special election merits attention throughout the state.

That's because the Republican candidate in that race, Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava, is the product of an obscenely corrupt political bargain by GOP bosses that sells out their party -- and New Yorkers generally.

Because of that, and because so many of her positions ill-serve the interests of New York and the nation, The Post today endorses businessman Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party nominee.

No, Republicans needn't toe the conservative line without any deviation. Moderate GOPers like Rudy Giuliani have managed to stray on some issues without wholly betraying their party.

But a Republican should adhere to certain minimum GOP principles. Scozzafava is just too far to the left too often.

And not only on social matters, like same-sex marriage and abortion. In Albany, Scozzafava has been such a profligate tax-and-spender, she can almost make Speaker Sheldon Silver blush.

With the backing of the ACORN-allied Working Families Party, she supports Big Labor's favorite organizing bill -- card-check -- as well as the federal stimulus, opposed by every House Republican.

Hoffman, by contrast, understands the dangers of unchecked spending, monster deficits and ever-higher taxes -- i.e., concerns of average working Americans.

Scozzafava is the hand-picked candidate of former state GOP chairman Joseph Mondello. His successor, Ed Cox, should learn a lesson from this fiasco.

Voters in this traditionally GOP district can send a useful message -- by sending Doug Hoffman to Congress. [emboldenings mine -ed.]

Just what we need. No, really! A party schism, where we Conservatives send a message to those GOP'ers who would drift too far Left: a nice slap in the face.

As with McCain, I'd rather see the true leftist win, the Democrat, rather than a Republican in Name Only. McCain was a mistake. Yes, I'm glad BHO won the presidency. The exposure of just how far Left the Democrats have drifted was a necessary evil. We will see BHO's poll numbers continue to reflect the growing disenchantment with his far-left positions as time goes on. If we can keep the country intact, maybe we can overcome the Hard Left Progressive shift at the midterm and in 2012.

We can't thwart a hard left turn by moving to the middle. We must provide counterbalance by moving Hard Right. Hoffman and the nascent Conservative Party provides the 'first strike' against the GOP members who want to give ground.

I'm strongly in favor of the Conservative Party, and against the GOP as it's positioned right now.

There will be no more donations to the Republican Party until we Conservatives can check their support of candidates like Scofflaw (sorry, Scozzafava).

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