No one should really be surprised about this, but alas people are. This is what Doug Hoffman’s campaign had to say:

“This afternoon Dede Scozzafava betrayed the GOP,“ Senior Communications Advisor Rob Ryan said in a statement. “She endorsed a Pelosi Democrat who will spend more, tax more, and push the liberal agenda that is dragging down this nation.”

And this is what Robert Stacy McCain said:

Indeed, in the span of 36 hours, Scozzafava has gone from being a RINO to being an ex-Republican. Having planted this knife deep into the back of the GOP, Dede cannot now expect to win re-election to the state assembly as a Republican next year (or any year, ever, for that matter). Maybe that Working Families Party line will prove a winner for Scozzafava. Or maybe not.

And Ed Morrisey:

Doesn’t this prove the point conservatives had been making about Dede Scozzafava all along?

I guess I should not be surprised by the reaction from some on the right, but it is still galling nonetheless. These people relentlessly hound a lifelong Republican, call her everything but child of God, run another candidate that steals votes away from her which causes her to have drop out of the race and then they are shocked, shocked, that this person would go and support the Democrat in the race?

Give me a break.

To quote a wise person: when someone doesn’t want to play with you, you find someone else to play with. Scozzafava realized that there were a lot of people that not only didn’t want to play with, but wanted to push her out of the sandbox. So, she went and found someone who would play with her.

If conservatives are mad that Scozzafava has gone to play with the Democrats after such shabby treatment, they only have themselves to blame.