A few years back Newt Gingrich paired with Hillary Clinton on healthcare and then he followed it up with an ad with Nancy Pelousi on the perils of Global Warming.  The healthcare gig with Clinton was enough for me to seriously doubt anything coming out Gingrich’s mouth or writings.  I long ago wrote off the NRSC and the NRCC as nothing but tools for statists and the entrenched Beltway Republicans ala George Bush and Karl Rove. 

So now, the NRCC has convinced Gingrich to endorse a Congressional candidate who isn’t even a RINO, she’s a Democrat in sheep clothing.  I know it’s NY but it’s not NYC.  There is nothing about this woman’s political career that even resembles the Republican platform.

In a special election for NY District 23 Dede Scozzafava has been the endorsed GOP candidate in lieu of a true Republican Doug Hoffman.

From Redstate:
Scozzafava :

* Supports the Obama stimulus
* Supports card check
* Supports Cash for Clunkers
* Supports Davis Bacon
* Refuses to sign no tax pledge
* Refuses to sign no pork pledge
* Voted to force all NY state employees to pay union dues
* Voted for higher taxes 190 times
* Voted for a bank bailout
* Has not demonstrated any support for school choice

Hoffman :

* Against the Obama stimulus
* Against card check
* Against Cash for Clunkers
* Against Davis Bacon
* Signed tax pledge
* Signed pork pledge
* Supports school choice

Which of these candidates sounds like the real Republican to you?

Additionally, Scozzafava is the ACORN backed candidate. And now we find out that Gingrich has endorsed Scozzafava.

Tea partiers and GOP regulars scuffle in N.Y. House race

In Pennsylvania, Sen. Arlen Specter earlier this year defected to the Democrats in the face of a strong Republican primary challenge from conservative former Rep. Pat Toomey, a Republican and former head of the anti-tax Club for Growth, which is backing his run.

The same players are flocking to Mr. Hoffman, a businessman with no political experience. The Club for Growth is pouring $250,000 into his campaign and a pair of one-time Republican presidential hopefuls, Mr. Huckabee and former Sen. Fred Thompson of Tennessee, have announced their support.

“I think it’s a combination of people seeing what the two major-party candidates are all about and what they’re seeing is business as usual in Washington,” Hoffman campaign spokesman Rob Ryan said. “The voters are tired of that and I think that’s why you have a third-party candidate right in the middle of this battle making it into a horse race.”

snip…Rep. Pete Sessions, chairman of the NRCC, predicted Mrs. Scozzafava will woo back conservative voters with Mr. Gingrich’s endorsement and by signing a no-tax pledge from Americans for Tax Reform, a group that had criticized Mrs. Scozzafava for not signing.

The GOP and it’s committees just aren’t getting the message that it’s Conservative base isn’t going along with them anymore. I guess Mike Pence is holding out against endorsing Scozzafava yet Jeb Hensarling of the NRSC is going out whole hog for a candidate that doesn’t even resemble a Republican. Promoting more Olympia Snowe’s will only alienate the base even more from GOP.

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