King is a RINO himself, although he leans to the right on some key issues, such as defense, so it’s not surprising.
This has nothing to do with the NY-23 race. If you would rather a middle of the road RINo instead of a Democrat in NY-3, King had to be visually opposed to the rabid right wing (especially Palin) to maintain his standing in the district he represents.
You, even if you don’t know it, want King to be reelected over any of the Long Island machine Democrats that would beat him if King was framed as attached to the hip to Palin or Hoffman.
Note the only real "conservative" Congressman King, STEVE King of Iowa, proudly endorsed Hoffman while Peter King was touting Scuzzyliberal and trashing Hoffman supporters.
Whether the Clinton impeachment, the 2008 presidential campaign, the veep selection (King urged McCain to pick Lieberman, but since Peter King's name isn't "Lindsey Graham" conservatives gave him a pass) the Scozzafava nomination, Pelosi's minimum wage scam, Cash for Clunkers, CAFE standards, "assault" weapons ban, SCHIP, big government pork for New York, this guy can always be "counted on" to not only side with the RINOs but try to bully conservatives into following them or else.
Peter King, darling of the NY media, best friend of the Clintons, and such a RINO that Obama wanted to reward him the post of Ambassador to Ireland as a "personal favor". What more needs to be said?
There's also the myth that Peter King is the "best we can do in NY" despite the fact that he represents a district drawn to elect Republicans (bring this fact up, and they'll go into some nonscene about how we gotta keep Peter around as long as possible cuz the Dems MIGHT draw the district out of existence three years from now. Whatever.)
Peter King is far more liberal than John McCain has ever been, yet many freepers still support this pro-Clinton, terrorist appeasing RINO scum. We've been trying to throw his RINO butt out of office since '98 but the challengers can never raise enough funds because "conservatives" fawn over Peter King every time he comes on TV and gives some token speech about being pro-life and anti-illegal alien (nevermind the fact he's diehard liberal on scores of other issues important to conservatives)
Peter King, Teflon RINO.
Can someone PLEASE remove this cancer from the GOP? It was diagnosed as fatal a decade ago.