GRITtv: The F Word: Palin's Pet Hoffman Has Taliban Ties

One week before Election Day, the special election to fill a vacant House seat in New York's North Country is heating up. It's a three-way split, pitting a Republican, a Democrat, and a Conservative against one another. It's close. And the conservative on the ticket has the kind of support the Democrat running against him must have dreamed of. Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman has already received the backing of Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and the anti-public-spending Club for Growth. Like Palin, Beck, Limbaugh et al, Rohrabacher's of the belief that if Hoffman wins, it will send a message to the GOP establishment that they should run hardliners in 2010 and pitch to the Tea Party crowd on health care, government and everything else. It's a great endorsement -- as far as Hoffman's opponents are concerned. Having a Taliban funder joining the rogue's gallery backing the other guy has got to make it easier for the Democrat, lawyer Bill Owens. If he ekes out a victory amid the Republican infighting, he'll be the first Democrat to win that district in 140 years.