I'll use HotAir as my source... Newt's response Lisa asks Newt (politely, it seems) what he was thinking when he endorsed Scozzafava.:
“ Gingrich:...... “Lets just start with, she is the nominee of the local party, my bias is to be for the nominee of the local party, and I don’t second guess the local party, she has signed a no tax increase pledge, she is endorsed by the National Rifle Association, she has come out against Cap and Trade, [crosstalk] she is opposed to the Obama Health Care plan, she will vote for John Boehner instead of Nancy Pelosi.
All of those things together make her it seems to me, a legitimate, authentic, Republican nominee. In addition, the last poll that came out yesterday, she is well ahead of, and she is much more likely to beat the Democrat than Hoffman because Hoffman doesn’t live in the district, he’s never won an election in the district, she represents the biggest county in the district, she actually knows the local issues, and Hoffman has says publicly he doesn’t know the local issues..
So I just think it is a mistake for the Conservative movement, to think splitting in the special elections is a smart idea, if we give that seat to the Democrats, shame on us…
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/10/25/video-gingrich-answers-hoffman-supporter-at-book-signing/
first one I found.
I’ll just give you another one, since this is such a fun activity.
http://www.angrywhiteguy.com/?p=4266
Yes Newt Gingrich does 180 and now supports Hoffman… yep Dede Scozzafava drops out of the race and then Newt spins his support for Hoffman… so tell me this Newt if Scozzafava was such a great choice to begin with as a anti-Pelosi, anti-tax, anti- big government canidate… then why did she turn around and endorse the pro-Pelosi, pro-tax, pro big government DEMOCRAT canidate? Explain that!