The race in NY-23 is a microcosm of why the GOP is still the primary enemy of conservatives in this country. In NY-23 Republicans are a solid majority of voters. This isn’t a blue district or a toss up but a solid GOP stronghold.

Fred Thompson does a much better job than I of deconstructing this disaster.

Surprise, surprise Newt Gingrich is supporting this woman who would be the single most liberal member of the House GOP Caucus.

Former House speaker Newt Gingrich tells NRO that he is sure that endorsing Republican Dede Scozzafava in the upcoming special election in New York’s 23rd congressional district was the right thing to do. “I endorsed the Republican who has been endorsed by the National Rifle Association, opposes the Obama health plan, signed the ‘no-tax-increase’ pledge, and supports a comprehensive energy plan like I do,” says Gingrich.
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Third-party candidates like conservative Doug Hoffman, Scozzafava’s challenger, often serve only to divide the GOP, says Gingrich. “Just look at what’s happening in New Jersey’s gubernatorial race,” he says, pointing to the campaign of independent candidate Chris Daggett, who has siphoned support from Republican candidate Chris Christie. “What’s happening in New York and in New Jersey should be a sober warning to every purist in this country.”
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“If you seek to be a perfect minority, you’ll remain a minority,” says Gingrich. “That’s not how Reagan built his revolution or how we won back the House in 1994.”

There is so much wrong with this drivel that I don’t even know where to begin but first I would say to Newt, “This is why no one wants to support you for president.” This guy is a RINO’s RINO.

Newt likes to use words like “purist” and “perfect minority” to slander conservatives that actually want to see conservative legislation enacted in this country. For guys like Gingrich, it doesn’t matter what happens after the ballots have been counted so long as the red team won the game. Actually passing conservative legislation isn’t a part of this process, just getting “the right people” into power is what counts.

Guys like Newt love to point out how conservatives can’t hope to win unless we support liberals for office (and they literally can’t get anymore liberal than Scozzafava, but to be fair she is about average for the New York assembly) but he has a very different definition of win than conservatives do. For us winning is when we reduce the size of government, improve national security, reduce the scope of federal power and respect the Constitution.

For Newt, and the other RINOs, winning is about winning elections plain and simple. The aftermath is irrelevant. Power is all that counts, what is done with that power is meaningless. This is why conservatives and RINOs will never peacefully coexist. We fundamentally want different things.

RINOs will throw any issue out with the bath water for victory. There is not a single idea they will stand their ground on. If it stands between them and electoral glory they will overnight become pro-union, pro-abortion, anti-war, pro big government, pro higher spending and pro higher taxes. Don’t believe me? Look at Scozzafava, she is a living example of the depths to which they will sink. And they folded so easily for a reason, they could have won without giving up the farm, but that would have required effort and more importantly, conviction and ideals.

What the RINOs don’t get is that our backs are to the wall. We are in a lose-lose situation right now. What is the practical difference between Scozzafava winning NY-23 and the Democrat winning? Nothing. Either way conservatives lose big. If we have nothing left to lose we’ll burn down the party before we see it become another version of the Democrats. When you give us no other options everybody will lose.

The RINOs say we must compromise our values or we won’t get their support. I would tell the RINOs to compromise their values instead but they don’t use them anyway. The truth is that unless the GOP runs reasonably conservative Republicans in reasonably conservative districts (like NY-23) then the party won’t get the voter turnout they need to pull out a win or worse a third party candidate like Doug Hoffman will swoop in either upsetting the apple cart and making it impossible for the “Republican” or making it possible for the Democrat to win in a GOP district.

If the GOP wants to win then they’ll play by our rules or they’ll continue to lose. Conservatives aren’t going to watch this country fall apart at the hands of socialists and not take some drastic political action. The GOP is fooling itself if they think this is the good ole days.

The RINOs at the NRCC and the RNC along with men like Newt Gingrich are a cancer in this party. Until they are purged we will continue to flounder in the wilderness.

Support Doug Hoffman and break the power of the establishment GOP.