WASHINGTON (CNN) – Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has taken considerable heat from conservative activists for endorsing Republican Dede Scozzafava over Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman in next month's special congressional election in New York. But Gingrich is defending his approach to re-building the Republican Party. It begins, he said, by accommodating those who might disagree with you. Both parties have to recognize, you can create a center-right majority in America, which