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Conservatives owe NY-23 candidate Doug Hoffman immeasurable gratitude. He overcame impossible odds (single digits just a month ago) to come within two points of defeating Democrat Bill Owens. Hoffman had zero name recognition. National Republican Party officials dumped nearly $1 million into the race on behalf of radical leftist GOP candidate Dede Scozzafava, who [...]

Hey, how did that six-figure RNC donation to the NRCC plus $85,000 to the New York GOP plus nearly half-million-dollar investment in advertising and other independent expenditures on behalf of radical leftist Dede Scozzafava work out?
She repaid the GOP by endorsing Democrat candidate Bill Owens. Some gratitude, eh?
“Since beginning my campaign, I have told [...]

Halloween treat.

Plus: The rejected RNC solicitation form of the day.

Newt and Dede sitting in a tree, erasing lines between “R” and “D” (TobyToons via RedState):

The latest Club for Growth poll on NY-23 shows conservative candidate Doug Hoffman continuing his surge over the liberal Democrat and the radical leftist “R” in the race. (Caveats: Sample size is small and CfG is pro-Hoffman. Still. Hoffman’s got [...]

The most prominent GOP endorser of radical leftist NY-23 congressional candidate Dede Scozzafava is openly musing about running for president in 2012.
No, thanks:
Callista and I are going to think about this in February 2011. And we are going to reach out to all of our friends around the country. And we’ll decide, if there’s a [...]

Call them out.

Judge the Margaret Sanger award winner by the company she keeps:
Fundraising reports for all the candidates in the New York special election are due today, but the candidates have been required to report all donations above $1,000 in the final weeks of the race.
And, to get a sense why conservatives have been so cool to [...]

So, Newt Gingrich is invoking Reagan to defend his endorsement of radical leftist Dede Scozzafava in the NY-23 special congressional election?
Triple-gag:
“If you seek to be a perfect minority, you’ll remain a minority,” says Gingrich. “That’s not how Reagan built his revolution or how we won back the House in 1994.”
Let’s quote Reagan back to Gingrich, [...]

If you have given to the NRCC, RNC, or Newt Gingrich under the impression that they are using the money to support conservatism, you might want to ask for your money back.
As I mentioned in my column post on the NY23 special election, the NRCC is using conservatives’ money to back a radical leftist and [...]

This is what happens when you get too much Beltway on the brain.
Newt Gingrich — who sidled up on a couch with Nancy Pelosi for one of Al Gore’s global warming ad campaigns — championed President Obama’s education speech today.
Subtext be damned.
Gingrich, you should know, has been on a summer road trip with police-bashing, [...]

It’s on! Or maybe not so much:
The House Energy and Commerce Committee has added Republican former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) to the roster of witnesses for its hearing on a climate bill today. He joins former Vice President Al Gore on the witness list.
The Hill is reporting the meeting of these two as a [...]

Really?
He crumbled on the behemoth bailout.
He cuddled Nancy Pelosi on Al Gore’s global warming couch.
And he’s played footsie with Hillary Clinton on health care.
Is Newt Gingrich really the best choice for RNC chairman?
You tell me:

Should Newt Gingrich be RNC chairman?

Yes.

No.

Please put him out to pasture.

Doesn’t matter. I stopped giving $ to the RNC years [...]

Together again.

Vote.

Couch buddies no more.

Green: The color of capitulation.

McCain-Feingold gets in the way of Newt Gingrich’s presidential aspirations.
Looks like he’s got his hands full with “American Solutions.”
More here.
Is there more to the story?

…over its requirement that employees speak English.
It’s ridiculous.
Newt Gingrich asks: “Why is the government undermining the efforts of charities to encourage people to learn English? And doesn’t it have better things to do with our tax dollars?”
Apparently not.

Eavesdropper. Blabbermouth. Corruptocrat.
Well, well, well. Remember left-wing, sleazebag loon Jim McDermott, the Democrats’ favorite hypocritical wire-tapper? There’s breaking news on his decade-old case (hat tip: William A.):
Rep. Jim McDermott had no right to disclose the contents of an illegally taped telephone call involving House Republican leaders a decade ago, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
In [...]

Newt goes to Focus on the Family’s James Dobson to acknowledge his extramartial affair carried out during the Clinton/Lewinsky era:
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was having an extramarital affair even as he led the charge against President Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky affair, he acknowledged in an interview with a conservative Christian group.
“The honest answer [...]

Here’s our second Hot Air video report from CPAC–An interview with Newt Gingrich during his visit to bloggers’ row.
Topics covered: illegal and legal immigration, the Diversity Visa Lottery (he’d kill it), Visa Express and Saudi visas, the matricula consular card (he said he doesn’t know about it), the war, and defeating Hillary Clinton. My [...]

Bryan Preston, Ian Schwartz, Erick Stakelbeck, and I will be covering the 34th annual Conservative Political Action Conference for Hot Air. I’ll also liveblog events and photoblog here at mm.com throughout the 3-day conference. If you’re planning to attend, we’ll have a booth in the exhibitor hall that opens at 10am later today. In addition [...]

The annual Conservative Political Action Conference will kick off later this week. Hot Air and I will be there covering the action, manning a booth, shooting video, signing books, and reporting on the scene.
Patrick Ruffini sends word that Rudy Giuliani will attend. Via the Politico’s Jonathan Martin:
I reported a piece last month about how [...]

Getting away with it
Hello, culture of corruption:
Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., violated House ethics committee standards by giving reporters access to an illegally taped telephone call involving House Republican leaders a decade ago, the ethics panel said Monday.
In a report released days after Congress adjourned, the ethics panel said that McDermott, a former ranking member of [...]

Former Gingrichite Arianna Huffington scolds Hillary Rodham Clinton for being a political fake.
I think I need to go to the emergency room and get my sides sutured up from bwa-ha-ha-ing at Arianna Huffington’s op-ed attacking Hillary Clinton in the Los Angeles Times this morning.
So, what’s Arianna’s beef with Hillary?
There are politicians with great instincts as [...]

Disgraced GOP Rep. Mark Foley’s instant messages with an underage page are absolutely appalling. He was a 54-year-old man abusing his position of power with a 16-year-old boy. Based on all the reporting so far, and there may yet be more to come, Rep. Foley was exactly the kind of sexual predator–“sicko,” in his own [...]

Hot Air affiliate Flip Pidot of Suitably Flip, inspired by the Rep. William Jefferson case, has the photoshop of the day:

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Meanwhile, Roger L. Simon notes Newt Gingrich’s tin ear. Denny Hastert’s got it, too. Glenn Reynolds has more.
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Foiled again!

Baghdad Jim McDermott finally gets his due:
A federal appeals court ruled today that Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., violated federal law by turning over an illegally taped telephone call to reporters nearly a decade ago.
In a 2-1 opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that McDermott violated the rights of House [...]

Democrat Rep. Jim McDermott of Seattle, who leaked the contents of an illegally recorded cell phone conversation between former House speaker Newt Gingrich and Rep. John A. Boehner, is complaining about the NSA’s warrantless surveillance progam.
Audio clip here.
Chutzpah.