[kcvl]

she told everybody she was a Republican, and she said she was a loyal Republican

I guess Newt wasn't smart enough to LOOK AT HER VOTING RECORD or he thinks we are too stupid to do it.

[ellery]

He (and Boehner, and Pete Sessions) looked at Scozzafava’s voting record—that’s why they backed her so strongly.

Evidently they were excited that there was a republican candidate who held all those “enlightened” and “sophisticated” leftist views—they called her the future of the GOP.