Have you been following the race in New York's 23rd congressional district? The special election is Tuesday. Until this weekend, it featured three candidates: Republican Dierdre Scozzafava, Democrat Bill Owens, and Conservative Doug Hoffman. Former Alaska governor Sara Palin, Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, and former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson, among other Republicans, came out in support of the Conservative Party's Hoffman. Newt Gingrich endorsed Scozzafava. Mitt Romney voted present. Conservative Republicans rebuffing the Republican nominee moved liberal Republicans, and Democrats enjoying the spectacle of infighting among their rivals, to question the party loyalty of Palin and the other Republicans supporting the Conservative Party candidate. Ironically, it is Scozzafava's party loyalty that turned out to be suspect. This weekend, the pro-choice, pro-gay marriage Republican dropped out of the race and endorsed the Democrat. Like Palin and Pawlenty, Scozzafava's loyalty may be to principle and not party. She stood no chance of winning, and as Palin and company sensed, her principles more closely meshed with the Democrats than with conservatives. Whether she winds up on Obama's payroll or not will greatly help explain the motivation for the 11th hour suspension of her campaign.

"Mitt Romney voted present."

Brilliant.

As we have seen in spades, liberal Democrats will try to win at all costs. They typically have no platform or solutions so they have to resort to the dirty and the underhanded to get elected.

Not a new phenomenon, but what we had here was an attempt to infiltrate the GOP with a leftist candidate in rightest garb. Your reference to this faker potentially getting a position in the Obama Administration is likely not that far off as that was the plan either way.

The worst (or, maybe the best) part of this is the exposure it's given to faux "Conservatives". And there are a lot of non-conservatives in the GOP. Let's hope this is the start to eradicate then from the Party.

You can start with 'Mr. Gloabal Warming' Gingrich and move directly to Lindsey Grahamesty and the Huckster.

It's disappointing that Newt endorsed the liberal Republican. Every once in a while, I'm mildly interested in him as a presidential candidate... and then he does something like this.

Looks like I'll be writing my own name in again.

Palin called out the rat! and the rat ran back to its libbie hole. GO SARA! i love that woman.