Have fun with 'Club For Growth' Newt.

You supported the 'Moral Majority', Lee Atwater and his protege Karl Rove, Ralph Reed and the 'Christian Coalition' and now you get The Club for Growth, Randall Terry, The Minutemen, Redstate, World Net Daily and Dick Armey's adopted Teabaggers.

Good luck with that

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how would endorsing the candidate from the Conservative Party (NOT a republican) make her any less loyal as a republican than endorsing the candidate from any other party???

Liz Benjamin at the Daily News has a good breakdown of the repercussions of Scozzafava's endorsement on her future political career: http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2009/11/dede-democrat-by-default.html#more

Is Gingrich not a joke ? Why does anyone think he has a future ? He is not electable - he will not run for any office - he trails a long string of fiascoes behind him ...

The more he talks the better - a living breathing reminder of all the mistakes his party has inflicted on our republic in the last few decades.

I guess getting railroaded out of a political party can affect your loyalty to that party. Go figure.

I've got a name you need to study up on there Newt. Georges Jacques Danton. I think you'll find it relevant.

Shouldn't old newt be lobbing his complaints against republicans bringing in a teabaggingcarpetbagger. A righwingfundie who was an accountant with the Lake Placid Olympics that went bankrupt and had to be bailed out by the Fed.

He doesn't know the issues of the district and didn't even show up for a debate. When attending an editorial board Q&A; he had to bring in Dick Armey because he can't answer the questions the way the right wing wants him too.

Seems like she IS a republican and holds republican values above ideology or power.

Let's get this straight - Republicans abandoning a Republican candidate for an Independent party candidate is better than a Republican abandoning an Independent Party candidate for a Democratic candidate?

"How could she have accepted all that support?"

What support? You think your support is a ringing endorsement? You do remember how incredibly unpopular you are with most people, right? And the fact that 'all that support' (besides you) from fellow Republicans went to Hoffman.

"she told everybody she was a Republican, and she said she was a loyal Republican."

Note the past tense. I would question my loyalty too if I were her.

Parties exist for the benefit of their members. Defined, parties are their members. If a party's members won't support other members (and indeed actively campaign on the behalf of someone outside of the party who is directly competing with another member), the party's members are ignoring their responsibility as party members.

Newtie, Scozzafava didn't betray the Republican party. The Republican party betrayed her.

He has every right to be upset. He stuck his neck out for her and she took a lot of GOP cash.

If a Dem did that to me, I'd be extremely upset.

Newt and his Republican buddies are just amazing. They are so deeply offended that this woman has endorsed the Democrat. Why shouldn't she? She was vilified by her own party and told, in no uncertain terms, that there was no room in the GOP for anyone that might be a fiscal conservative, but has room in their beliefs for alternative views on social issues.

If you don't goose-step with the "teabaggers" you're not welcome. So she did the only sensible thing. She threw her support to the candidate that welcomed her input.

These people think that they can abuse and humiliate people relentlessly, and then act the wounded party when they defect to the other side.

They may get away with it in this rural district that hasn't sent a Dem. to congress since the Civil War. And apparently they will capture the Governor's race in Va. and quite possibly NJ. And maybe it's for the best. It will embolden them to think that the litmus test is a viable way to run their party,

But winning local elections is one thing. 17% of Americans refer to themselves as Republicans. Let's see how well the hard-right approach works in '10 and '12.

Rush said this yesterday on his show that with Scozzafava dropping out and putting her support behind Owens, the Democrat, she now has hurt all the RINO's in Washington. I heard that if she would have won this seat in NY-23, she was going to switch parties after being sworn in. Reminds me of another RINO that did that... oh yes, Arlen Specter. We don't need anymore RINO's in Washington. Only TRUE CONSERVATIVES!!! RINO's hurt our party more than anything!