You know its gotten weird when Newt Gingrich starts making sense and sounds like the grown up in the GOP.
The really sad part is thta we still haven't reached Peak Wingnut yet, where the rep from every GOP district is required to look and sound like the most committed and ideologically pure Texas Teabagger.
Gingrich Condemns Conservative Leaders For Driving Moderate GOPer Out Of NY Race
"This makes life more complicated from the standpoint of this: If we get into a cycle where every time one side loses, they run a third-party candidate, we’ll make Pelosi speaker for life and guarantee Obama’s re-election," said Mr. Gingrich, who had endorsed Ms. Scozzafava...
"I think we are going to get into a very difficult environment around the country if suddenly conservative leaders decide they are going to anoint people without regard to local primaries and local choices."
I think that this is the bigger story here. The neo-Confederate nutjobs who are now setting the agenda, platform and dynamic of the GOP are well aware that folks who are committed to voting center-right in perpetuity will not act as a moderating influence on the fringier candidates and ideals. Conservatives have shown that their self-hyped morals and imaginary courage are nonexistent when it comes to criticizing those who help keep their agenda high on a list, and that they are too intellectually lazy to seek solutions to genuine problems if a solution would violate the doctrinal template.
So yes, I call conservatives out for cowardice and laziness, and note that the national conservative agenda ignores local issues at its peril - something that Gingrich has noticed as well.