They bought a very liberal Republican candidate in Dede Scozzafava. I prefer the term DIABLO. But this is what happens when Republicans ignore a more Conservative candidate over a candidate who is more Democrat than Republican.

DIABLO = Democrat In All But Label Only

Scozzafava is a Democrat except for her party label. If you don’t know, here’s her background. I saw Newt on Fox News yesterday where he finally came out in support of Hoffman, too late Newt. You’ve already soiled yourself. And to Romney the waffler, nice leadership. You must be taking lessons from the dithering Obama.

The Republican leadership spent almost a million dollars on a candidate and this time their grassroots base revolted and succeeded in showing the beltway GOP elitists where they can shove their money! Nice job of alienating your base in a time when the GOP desperately needs their base support. What did they get for their money, yesterday Dede Scozzafava came out and endorsed the Democrat candidate in the NY-23 race. At the very minimum Scozzafava could have kept her mouth shut when she dropped out of the race but nope, she had to come out and endorse the Democrat. That’s because Scozzafava is a DIABLO!

This isn’t the first time this has happened. The RNC has a history with candidates like this. Erick Erickson at Redstate gives a few examples of this same scenario happening.

We hear this all time — conservatives in the GOP have to play nice with the moderates.

We never hear the other, that moderates should play nice with conservatives. Why is that? Consider the facts:

In Michigan’s 7th Congressional District, conservative Tim Walberg challenged the very liberal Joe Schwartz in the 2006 Republican Primary and won. Walberg went on to win the general election.

In 2008, Schwartz endorsed Democrat Mark Schauer and Shauer used that endorsement to squeak out a win in this +2 Republican District.

There’s more examples at the link. The most obvious example of course is Arlen Specter who the RNSC endorsed over the more conservative Pat Toomey, Specter is now a Democrat! They are pulling the same old story with the Florida Senate race for 2010, endorsing and backing the very liberal Charlie Crist over Marco Rubio who is an up and comer conservative candidate.

If the Republican establishment doesn’t wake up, change their leadership 2010 will not be the sea of change they are expecting.

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