Boehner On NY-23: 'We Want Moderates In Our Party'

"we accept moderates in our party and we want moderates in our party."

It would seem many of your Congressional colleagues do not agree with you, Mr. Boehner.

If I were a Republican, I would be glad that Boehner is smart enough to realize how insanely bad Scozzafava's retreat is for their party in the long term. But he should have spoken up sooner, before the damage was done.

Boehner's comments are about as sincere as his skin color. I have no doubt that he, as as leader of the party, would prefer to support moderates than see himself relegated to minority status forever. But he's being untruthful when he calls this an unusual circumstance. Though it may be the first time the tea baggers have flexed their muscle in this particular way, he knows as well as you and I that this will embolden them and cause moderates to refrain from entering races like this.

When it comes to self-marginalization, the Republican party is off to the races.

Boehner said of Scozzafava that "clearly she would be on the left side of our party"

Supporting women's rights to choose, equal rights to GLBT and the middle class in this country is CLEARLY something a lefty would do? Did I hear you right, you anti-women, anti-gay, anti-middle class party leader pumpkin head?