Even More Bad News For The Republican Party.

Earlier today we took Newt Gingrich (and the GOP) to task for their support of RINO Dede Scozzafava, a leftist who cost an honest-to-God conservative a Congresional race in upstate New York.

Folks like Newt Gingrich and Michael Steele better start paying attention, you best start nominating some true consevatives, not just someone who calls themselves a Republican.

In what could be a nightmare scenario for Republican Party officials, conservative activists are gearing up to challenge leading GOP candidates in more than a dozen key House and Senate races in 2010.

Conservatives and tea party activists had already set their sights on some of the GOP’s top Senate recruits — a list that includes Gov. Charlie Crist in Florida, former Rep. Rob Simmons in Connecticut and Rep. Mark Kirk in Illinois, among others.

But their success in Tuesday’s upstate New York special election, where grass-roots efforts pushed GOP nominee Dede Scozzafava to drop out of the race and helped Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman surge into the lead on the eve of Election Day, has generated more money and enthusiasm than organizers ever imagined.

Activists predict a wave that could roll from California to Kentucky to New Hampshire and that could leave even some GOP incumbents — Utah Sen. Bob Bennett is one — facing unexpectedly fierce challenges from their right flank.

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Newt Gingrich Illustrates What Is Wrong With The GOP

Yestrday’s races for Governor in New Jersey and Virginia are being hailed by many conservatives as foretelling what the Democrats will be facing in the 2010 Congressional elections.

And to an extent, that’s a safe assumption.

Republican Chris Christie defeated incumbent Governor Jon Corzine in heavily Democratic New Jersey in spite of, or perhaps due to, five campaign appearances by President Obama.
This is the first time in 12 years that a Republican has won a statewide race in New Jersey.

In Virginia, the victory of Bob McDonnell is being hailed as a repudiation of President Obama, who last year become the first Democrat in 44 years to carry Virginia in a Presidential race.

However, before the Republican party powers-that-be dislocate a shoulder by patting themselves on the back, they have a major issue to deal with, as is illustrated in this video:

At one time, I had a great deal of respect for Newt Gingrich.

That is no longer the case.

Gingrich exemplfies exactly what is wrong with the GOP.

Take note that in the video, his smug dismissal of the views of true conservatives such as Sarah Palin and Tim Pawlenty, and his support for Dede Scozzafava.

Scozzafava’s strongest challenger, before she dropped out out the race and threw her support to Bill Owens, cost the people of New York’s 23rd Congressional District the opportunity to be represented by a man who actually holds conservative values, Doug Hoffman.

Gingrich’s support for Scozzafava just proves that the Republican Party spent nearly a million dollars to support the campaign of a candidate who could be a poster child for the term RINO.

You would think that a light bulb would have gone off over someone’s head at the RNC when Scozzafava received endorsements, either directly or behind the scenes, from Planned Parenthood, left-wing bloggers, the Working Families Party and ACORN, just to name a few.

Yet the GOP and one of their biggest stars, Gingrich, threw their unquestioning support behind this woman simply because she has an “R” after her name.

Despite Newt’s babbling in the video, the GOP supported a candidate that holds far-left socialist views as extreme as any Democrat you would care to name.
Simply because she was registered as a Republican.

Therein lies the lesson that the Republican Party needs to learn right now.

If they fail to do so, not only will the 2010 elections prove to be a bloodbath for conservaties, it will just strengthen Obama’s chances for 2012.

Obama Shows More Integrity Than Republican Senator

Yesterday we did an article regarding how Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens may be stepping down at the end of the court’s current term.

We mentioned how the Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee had simply caved in and voted for the conformation of Sonia Sotomayor.

That prompted one of our readers to comment that he was disappointed when his Senator, Lamar Alexander voted in favor of her appointment, because in the Senator’s words, that “to have voted against her simply because he disagreed with her would have been wrong.”

Senator Alexander, you are not a newcomer to politics, when are you going to learn how things are done?

Allow me to remind you of a few quotes taken from your website:

“Even though Judge Sotomayor’s political and judicial philosophy may be different than mine, especially regarding Second Amendments rights, I will vote to confirm her because she is well qualified by experience, temperament, character and intellect to serve as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

“In 2005, I said on this Senate floor that it was wrong for then-Senator Obama and half the Democratic Senators to vote against John Roberts – a superbly qualified nominee – solely because they disagreed with what Senator Obama described as Roberts’ “overarching political philosophy” and “his work in the White House and the Solicitor General’s office” that “consistently sided” with “the strong in opposition to the weak.” Today, it would be equally wrong for me to vote against Judge Sotomayor solely because she is not “on my side” on some issues. ”

Senator,Senator, Senator.

When did you lose your sense of direction?

My differences with his philosophy aside, President Obama, who at the time was Senator Obama, showed something that you and your fellow Republicans lacked.

The courage of his convictions.

He knew that Roberts was eminently qualified for the position, but he also knew that Roberts believed in almost everything that he opposed.

And knowing that his appointment to the Supreme Court could prove to be an impediment to the agenda of himself and his fellow liberals, he voted against him.

You and many of your fellow Republicans, on the other hand, by voting in favor of Sotomayor, ignored your own system of values, as well as the values of all conservatives, simply as a matter of political expediency.

Perhaps the reasoning put forth in your statement was an honest reflection of your thoughts at the time.

But myself and millions of other Republicans can’t help but suspect that you and your fellow Senators voted the way that you did for other reasons.

Possibly you were afraid of being seen as obstructionists.

Maybe (and this would be my guess) you were afraid of alienating  Hispanic voters.

Whatever the reason, the bottom line is that you and your fellow Senators treated your own political convictions, as well as those of millions of conservatives, like so much garbage.

The Democrats, on the other hand, have no such qualms when it comes to someone they oppose.

One only has to look at the near-rabid attacks against the nomination of Robert Bork to understand that.

And if you are suffering from the delusion tha taking the “moral high ground” makes you and your fellow Republicans somehow better than the Democrats, there is not much that I can do to change that mindset.

However, consider this.

Sonia Sotomayor, a woman who stands for almost everything conservatives oppose, is heading to the Supreme Court.

As if with the Democrats, in control of both the House and the Senate, as well as the Presidency, needed another advantage.

Until the Republican Party stops worrying so much about being seen as the “nice guys”, and starts to adopt the same tactics as used by our opponents, we will always be playing into their hands