Scozzafava Quits Congressional Race In NY District 23

Wow. With only days left before the election, Dede Scozzafava , the maligned liberal Republican candidate for the Congressional seat for New York's 23rd District has called it quits. Her name will still be on the ballot but she's told her supporters to go ahead and vote for others. Isn't it odd that she wouldn't endorse the Conservative?

Here's the story at Breitbart:

NY Republican abandons election bid

A New York Republican on Saturday abandoned her bid to enter the US Congress, days before an election that pitted her against a Conservative Party rival and divided the country's political right.
In a statement Dede Scozzafava said that after several months of campaigning her supporters should feel free to defect to rival camps, even though her name would still appear on the ballot.
The mother-of-four was figured in what would have been a low-key Congressional race for New York's 23 district, but which has been transformed into a battle for the soul of the Republican party.
Despite her selection as the Republican candidate, Scozzafava -- who backed legal abortion and gay rights -- struggled to rally the party's conservative base.
Many Republican Party notables flocked to her deeply conservative rival Douglas Hoffman, including former Alaskan governor and failed vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, and Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty -- both believed to nurse White House ambitions.
After a drubbing at the hands of Democrats in last year's presidential and congressional elections, conservatives have called for the Republican party to return to its "core values."
"I am and have always been a proud Republican. It is my hope that with my actions today, my Party will emerge stronger," Scozzafava said.
Hoffman still has to face the Democratic candidate Bill Owens in the Tuesday poll.