Excelsior

Dede Scozzafava, the very liberal Republican candidate in New York's 23rd Congressional District, has withdrawn from Tuesday's race to replace John McHugh, the Republican Congressmen whom the alleged sectarian Leftist Barack Obama has appointed as Secretary of the Army. The way is now effectively clear for Doug Hoffman, of New York State's longstanding Conservative Party.

Hoffman, like his party, cannot see how damaging global capitalism and its wars are to the moral and social values that he rightly holds so dear. But this is still an astonishing development. Could the next stage be the emergence in national politics of conservatives, such as certainly exist in America at large, who can see the problem with capitalism and neoconservatism, from an explicitly conservative point of view? Could it? Could it really? Dare to dream, say I. Dare to dream.