For those of you who haven't been following it, the Republican Party took a huge step backwards in the New York District 23 race for the House of Representatives. The local party nominated Dierdre Scozzafava who doesn't so much qualify as a RINO (republican in name only) as she's just an outright liberal who should be running on the Democratic ticket. She's pro-abortion (anyone who calls it pro-choice is trying to distract you from the truth of the position), was endorsed by ACORN and accepted that endorsement, ran as part of the progressive Working Families Party previously (which is an offshoot of ACORN) and she's in favor of tax and spend policies. This despite the fact that a true conservative, Doug Hoffman, was interested in running, and indeed, decided to run on the Conservative Party ticket.
The National Republican Party and several prominent republicans endorsed Scozzafava, mostly citing to the local party decision to nominate her. Meanwhile, other conservatives who felt principle should proceed party, put forth their support for Hoffman. (This apparently made NBC ecstatic and they ran stories on in under every local market.) National radio and TV personalities Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity (who also have the three largest radio audiences in the U.S.A. and two of the three highest rated cable news commentary shows) all endorsed Hoffman and decried the support of what is essentially a female Obama who somehow snuck into the party.
Luckily, something behind the scenes convinced Scozzafava to suspend her campaign. I hope she eventually decides to fully remove her name from the ballot, but this allows the conservative candidate to hold the full support of the GOP. I'd like to think that the Republican Party worked behind the scenes to get this to happen, knowing that the local party had made a dramatic mistake, but we'll probably never know.
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