you can’t have a purely left majority...yet that’s what we somehow have!
And a purely right-wing majority could minimize the Damage the 111th Congress has done with Obama
Temporarily. Obama used the campaign rhetoric of a conservative - less taxes, more efficient government, win at all costs in Afghanistan, etc, etc. He used that jargon to attract moderates/independents, and he did.
But, Obama then went and governed as a completely orthodox left-winger - raising taxes, spending with reckless abandon, criticizing America while abroad etc, etc. And, as a result, those same independents/moderates that carried him to victory are now running for the exits and account almost entirely for his plunge in the polls.
Having said that, Gingrich is wrong to endorse this lady in NY, because not only is she not a social conservative or a national defense conservative, she's not even a a fiscal conservative. To win and keep the independents/moderates you have to be fiscally conservative - you cannot spend with reckless abandon and you can't run historic deficits - which are both things that this DeDe woman both voted for, and what the pollsters are now telling us is what the independents/moderates dislike the most.