Yesterday, I told Duane Lester that, for some reason, I’m just not interested in the NY 23 Congressional District race.

But today, I’ve found interest. Robert Stacy McCain:

Today, I had the same reaction when I found a couple of commenters squabbling about Hoffman’s position on immigration. Here’s the thing: What’s the deluxe enchilada plate we’re looking at now? ObamaCare.

If that passes, we’re doomed. Period. Good-bye, US of A. Hello, Sweden.

Doug Hoffman is a sworn opponent of ObamaCare. If a guy like that wins, in an underdog third-party bid where nobody gave him a snowball’s chance two weeks ago, what’s the message?

The message is that Democrats had better watch out in 2010. If a guy like Hoffman can win in a district that went 52% for Obama less than a year ago, it will be like a flare shot skyward from a ship on a moonless midnight. Add in a victory for Bob McDonnell in Virginia (which also went for Obama last year) and any Democratic senator or congressman with half a brain is going to start thinking, “Ruh-roh. This kinda looks like 1994 all over again.”

Read the whole thing. McCain may be right – a Hoffman victory might just push everybody – Republicans and Democrats both – further to the right.

Temporarily. We’ll need further pushing after that. And then further pushing after that. And that’s just to stay in one place. So push, damn your eyes. Push. And then…push some more.