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I care because I know where you are sitting you probably think that NYS is a liberal state. IT is not. It is a Democrat state. The GOP fails when it puts up liberal GOPers. IN NYS minor parties can cross endorse candidates. Winning the Conservative Party endorsement is often crucial for victory in local races through out the state. In many places the Conservatives have supported pro-life local Democrats. Statewide no GOPer has been elected without Conservative Party support. Pirro will not get the Conservative Party support. This is not what it seems from the outside

I dunno...Giuliani and Pataki have been successful, and they certainly can't claim to be conservatives. Give Pirro a chance. She is electable, with good on-camera 'presence'.

Hillary Clinton got 43% of the upstate (North of Putnam and Ulster Counties) vote in 2000. Kerry got 70% of the NYC vote and beat the President in Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester counties.

NY government is indebted to the public employee unions like my own UFT and the AFCSME to the point where the Governor and Legislature no longer have the power of independent thought In the last eight years "conservative" George Pataki never encountered a spending plan he didn't accept. He bought off Rivera and the Hospital workers of 1199 and increased Medicaid spending by a third.

New York may not be a moonbat state from Montauk to Erie County, but it's a liberal big government state and a conservative of the type celebrated here on Free Republic would get enough votes to garner the fourth row on the ballot in the next election.