Minnesota’s Michelle Bachmann endorsing Hoffman?

Yesterday on the Laura Ingraham show, Minnesota Rep. Michelle Bachmann made a good case for a Hoffman vote.  Though she stopped short of a full endorsement, Bachmann has observed that a Hoffman vote is simply common sense, if you want a Republican to win the seat:

Hoffman is on the ascendancy … and we have to win this seat, and people need to get behind the winning candidate, and it looks like that’s Hoffman.

She makes a valid point.  By now it should be clear that Scozzafava is not going to win.  Neither Hoffman nor his supporters will back down — indeed many Hoffman supporters have already said they’d prefer Democrat Owens to have the seat over Assemblywoman Scozzafava.  This means two things.  First, that it  is Dede, not Hoffman, who is the spoiler in this race.  And second, that if Republicans actually want a Republican to win, their only hope is to vote Hoffman.  Failure to do so lands an Owens victory squarely on the shoulders of Scozzafava and her supporters.

The GOP has made the mistake of believing that being “Democrat Lite” will win them power.  It will not.  Conservatives — regular Americans, in fact — aren’t concerned with the Parties’ ability to get or stay in power.  They are concerned with what those people will do with it.  Newt Gingrich doesn’t get it; Michelle Bachmann does.

A full endoresement for Hoffman, meanwhile, has come from former Majority Leader Dick Armey. And he, too, offers common-sense reasoning for his decision.

Finally, in a move surprising nobody, the National Organization for Marriage has endoresed Hoffman, while strongly condemning the Left-wing stance of Dede Scozzafava.

It would appear the writing is on the wall for the Scozzafava campaign. Nobody expects her to notice, but I have to wonder if the GOP does — and whether they plan to do anything about it, or go back to their 2008 strategy of blaming Conservatives for their failures.