Poll: Was Sarah Palin wrong on New York?

November 4, 8:57 AMMacon County Conservative ExaminerRobert Moon

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In a stunning rebuke of the radical leftist insanity being relentlessly (and unconstitutionally) imposed on America by the Obama-Pelosi-Reid axis of incompetence, voters delivered a devastating blow to Democrats on Tuesday, sweeping in Republican administrations at every level of government in Virginia...and even electing New Jersey's first GOP governor in more than a decade.

The one exception was New York's now-infamous 23rd congressional district race, in which national conservatives like Sarah Palin roundly endorsed a third party conservative over the liberal Republican nominee only to turn around and lose the district to Democrats for the first time in more than a century. Establishment elites like Newt Gingrich had said since the beginning that it just wasn't a smart strategy to lose the seat on principle, rather than "keeping" it by supporting a liberal.

So, was Gingrich right? Should the conservative movement have tolerated a pro-abortion tax-and-spend leftist endorsed by ACORN and the SEIU (Scozzafava) just to get someone with an "R" next to her name in office? Or were we right to draw a line in the sand and give voters a clear choice between liberalism and policies that actually work?

When Obama, Pelosi and Reid are done nationalizing what Democrats have done for Detroit, California and New Jersey, are we going to be better off having true conservatives (Hoffman) to offer up as an alternative, or should we abandon our principles entirely and present them with Democrat-lite John McSpecter RINOs?

Who was right?
Sarah Palin
Newt Gingrich

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