What’s there to prevent Scozzafava from jumping parties after elected as Jumping Jim Jeffords did to give congressional power to the Democrats?
I suspect that is one of the reasons for Newt's stance on this election. He doesn't want to scare more RINOs into switching sides if they see full GOP assaults on their liberal values. So Newt feels he is sacrificing himself to keep the RINOs from feeling alienated by our party. Pretty dumb inside the beltway logic but there it is.
Scozzofava is Arlen Specter in drag. No doubt if she won, she’ll defect to the Democrats, which is why Daily Kos feels comfortable in endorsing her over Owens, who will lose this race either way anyway.