From my column today:

Jim Jeffords. Lincoln Chafee. Arlen Specter. Wayne Gilchrest. How many more bad examples do they need? How many RINOs does the Republican establishment need to support, over conservatives’ strenuous objections, before learning how untrustworthy and unreliable the fakers are, both legislatively and politically?

At least one more, apparently.

Enter Dede Scozzafava, the candidate handpicked by the local Republican establishment to run in this month’s special congressional election. The party bosses meticulously perused her record and unearthed an individual who is pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage, pro-tax increases, pro-porkulus, pro-card check, a recipient of a “Margaret Sanger Award,” once endorsed by ACORN, and in possession of a voting record that would place her to the left of almost half of Democratic state legislators. So naturally, the establishment decided that she would be the perfect candidate to run in a conservative district where even the Democrat would attack her for wanting to raise taxes.

Read the rest here.