BY FROMA HARROP The Tea Party wing of the Republican Party had the perfect strategy for upstate New York’s 23rd congressional district: 1. Support a candidate who doesn’t live in the district – in this case, Conservative Douglas Hoffman. Savage the local Republican choice, Dede Scozzafava, and hound her into dropping out. 2. Condemn the local Republicans who had picked the moderate Scozzafava as being “insiders.” And have the finger-pointers be Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, […]
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