Pelosi's Republican Clone

Sometimes Republicans do the dumbest things, acting in direct opposition to their own self-interests. Such is the case in the special election for the House of Representatives in New York. American Thinker tells us about the Republican-approved candidate:

Texas Representative Jeb Hensarling is supporting “an ACORN-friendly, union-pandering, tax-and-spend radical Republican” in Dede Scozzafava, to quote Michelle Malkin, because Hensarling does not “want to lose this seat to Nancy Pelosi for a generation.”

Excuse me Rep. Hensarling, Nancy Pelosi is an abortion rights advocate who also supports gay marriage -- same with Dede Scozzafava.

Nancy Pelosi supports massive tax increases; Dede Scozzafava voted for the same six times in the New York Assembly.

Nancy Pelosi supports “card-check” legislation that arm twists workers into labor unions -- same with Dede Scozzafava.

Nancy Pelosi is supported by leftist blog Daily Kos -- same with Dede Scozzafava.

If Rep. Hensarling hasn’t caught on yet, I'm sure Nancy Pelosi has.

All she needs to do is put a wolf in lamb’s clothing, that is get a leftist to declare him or herself a “moderate” Republican, and not only will the National Republican Congressional Committee funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Republican National Committee into your wolf’s campaign, but you can also get Newt Gingrich to come out and endorse your Trojan horse as the type of principled leader the GOP needs.

The Democratic Party does even need to suit up for the game anymore; they can just let Republicans score touchdowns for them.

According to one report I saw a few days ago the campaign manager for Scozzafava won't even rule out a party change after the election. This seat may swing Democrat no matter who wins.

This campaign has spurred conservatives to create a "Dump Dede" website and to throw their support behind a conservative candidate Doug Hoffman who is also in the race. Unfortunately, Republicans who aren't paying attention may end up splitting the conservative votes between Hoffman and Scozzafava and thus electing the Democrat.

That would be bad, but frankly I'd rather have someone in there who admits they're a Democrat rather than someone who votes that way while pretending to be a Republican.

The sad thing is the previous congressman who left to take a post as head of the Army won that seat with 60% of the vote and was a staunch pro-life candidate. It wasn't necessary to find a liberal Republican in order to win.