Scozzafava Is Out

Interesting twist in the NY-23 special election. Dede Scozzafava, the moderate republican, is withdrawing from the race with less than a week to go. So much for moderate republicans.

What does this mean for the conservative and the dem? Most likely the repub voters will go for the crazy candidate. Then, I think the dem will lose and the ultra-conservatives in the party will use this as a rallying cry for other extremely right people to come forward pulling the repub party farther to the right.

This is a major problem because without moderates in the republican party, they will continue to isolate themselves to the south or odd districts in the through out the country but never building a national movement. We just had 8 years of fanaticism and Americans are just too moderate for more helpings of crazy right now.

Gavin Newsom Is Out

Mayor of San Francisco Gavin Newsom is out of the California governors race. He announced on friday saying:

"With a young family and responsibilities at City Hall, I have found it impossible to commit the time required to complete this effort the way it needs to - and should be - done,"

His polling numbers were in the tank and his bank account didn't have enough zeros to inspire him to continue. The other major problem was banging his best friend's wife and how that will be used in the campaign.

Obama's Bringing them Home... Sorta

Well, living up to his campaign promis, Obama is bringing troops home....in 19 months and...not all of them. From The Post

"His plan calls for withdrawing most of the 142,000 service members now in Iraq by the end of August next year, leaving 35,000 to 50,000 in place until Dec. 31, 2011, when all U.S. forces must be out of Iraq in accordance with a status-of-forces agreement negotiated last year between the Iraqi government and the Bush administration. Obama said Friday he intends to honor that agreement."

Well, it is not quite what we needed but it is what we got.