Today, Dede Scozzafava endorsed Democrat Bill Owens in the NY-23 congressional election.

You remember Dede Scozzafava, the liberal that was running as a Republican?

In what is starting to become a recurring theme, Scozzafava turned out to be exactly who and what we said she was. Raise your hand if this surprises you in the least. Her endorsement of Owens comes after receiving calls from both Senator Chuck Schumer D-NY and Obama’s Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel, and meeting with Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY).

In the mean time, her campaign manager Matt Burns has endorsed Conservative candidate Doug Hoffman and had this to say about Sczzafava’s endorsement of Owens:

“In her heart of hearts, she’s a good person. She’s a capable legislator,” Burns said. “But I don’t think supporting a candidate who would back Nancy Pelosi is the best way to get our nation on the right track.”

Hard to believe this coming from a man who ‘ran’ (some might say ‘into the ground’) Scozzafava’s campaign, like he didn’t know his girl’s liberal history….but to his credit, at least he didn’t jump ship with her.

Newt Gingrich has now also decided to endorse Hoffman.

The theories on who exactly this will help are all over the place. One school believes that all the conservatives had already left Scozzafava for Hoffman, leaving only her liberal-leaning and union supporters, whould now theoretically move to Owens. Another school believes thas since Scozzafava was a Republican, her supporters will now line up behind Hoffman regardless of Scozzafava’s endorsement of the Democrat candidate. Some think this will change everything, some think it will change nothing. Personally, I have given up trying to figure it out.

I think - and this is something I’ve written in one form or other several times over the past couple of weeks - that regardless of how this turns out on Tuesday, conservatives have accomplished everything we’ve set out to do, and that was to deliver a message to the GOP that liberal candidates, or candidates who don’t support and believe in conservative principals, will no longer be tolerated.

Allahpundit over at Hot Air says it well:

But look. As gratifying as it would be to see Hoffman win, the guy didn’t become a conservative grassroots cause celebre because people are dying to see Doug Hoffman in Congress. He’s a cause celebre because conservatives wanted to send a message to the GOP about the future of the party, and that message has now been sent — and received, to the tune of $900,000 down the toilet — regardless of what happens on Tuesday.

I would only add that even if the GOP didn’t/doesn’t get it, I’d still rather see a split vote deliver the seat to a Democrat before giving it to a Democrat pretending to be a Republican.

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-Cnation