Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich doubled-down on his backing of Margeret Sanger award winning liberal Dede Scozzafava by declaring that backing conservatives only would lead to Pelosi being “Speaker for life.” Apparently, holding Republicans candidates to certain standards isn’t helpful in achieving a Republican majority:
“This idea that we’re suddenly going to establish litmus tests and all across the country we’re going to purge the party of anybody who doesn’t agree with us 100 percent; that guarantees Obama’s reelection, that guarantees Pelosi as Speaker-for-life,” he told Fox News last night.
Gingrich called Scozzafava a “liberal Republican” for her support of gay marriage and abortion rights. But he defended those positions as in-step with her district and her predecessor, former Rep. John McHugh (R-N.Y.), who was tapped to be President Barack Obama’s Army Secretary.
But he said that her endorsement from the National Rifle Association, her signing a no tax-increase pledge, and her opposition to cap-and-trade and healthcare reform legislation made her “adquately conservative in an upstate New York district.”
Is this such a bad thing? Let’s purge the party of RINOs. Let’s get people like Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins out of the party. We have a whole party of people working against us. Why bring them into the fold and then act shocked, SHOCKED when they vote against the best interests of the country.
There is a list of people I want out of the party, mainly because I don’t agree with them. It doesn’t guarantee an Obama victory. You know what guarantees that? Nominating one of the people that needs purged!
Put someone up against Obama who has the bold colors Regan talked about in 1975 and you will see Obama return to Illinois.
Michelle Malkin noticed Newt’s attempt at backhanding those conservatives who have come out in support of Hoffman by saying he’s not even from the district. She noted the New York Post’s endorsement of…Hoffman:
New York’s 23rd Congressional District lies near Canada, far to the north — but next week’s special election merits attention throughout the state.
That’s because the Republican candidate in that race, Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava, is the product of an obscenely corrupt political bargain by GOP bosses that sells out their party — and New Yorkers generally.
Because of that, and because so many of her positions ill-serve the interests of New York and the nation, The Post today endorses businessman Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party nominee.
No, Republicans needn’t toe the conservative line without any deviation. Moderate GOPers like Rudy Giuliani have managed to stray on some issues without wholly betraying their party.
But a Republican should adhere to certain minimum GOP principles. Scozzafava is just too far to the left too often.
And not only on social matters, like same-sex marriage and abortion. In Albany, Scozzafava has been such a profligate tax-and-spender, she can almost make Speaker Sheldon Silver blush.
With the backing of the ACORN-allied Working Families Party, she supports Big Labor’s favorite organizing bill — card-check — as well as the federal stimulus, opposed by every House Republican.
Hoffman, by contrast, understands the dangers of unchecked spending, monster deficits and ever-higher taxes — i.e., concerns of average working Americans.
For the record, there are now more people identifying themselves as conservatives than as moderates. Starting with that 40 percent, you try to skim away at the middle. You don’t go to the middle and try to skim away at the base. That’ is what we saw with the McCain candidacy. Now, these folks are trying it again in New York. It’s asinine.
Liberals should not be considered for inclusion in the party of Reagan and Goldwater. Purge away, conservatives. The Democrat party is more than happy to have another big government, abortion rights, ACORN and union plant working against the Constitution. We need more people like DOug Hoffman.
