Posted on 08/11/2005 1:15:59 PM PDT by areafiftyone
Edward Cox, the Manhattan lawyer and son-in-law of the late President Richard Nixon, said Thursday he is not leaving the race for the Republican nomination to challenge Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's re-election bid next year.
``We're going to stay in this race,'' vowed Cox just one day after Jeanine Pirro, the Westchester County district attorney and apparent favorite of many party leaders, formally announced her candidacy.
``We'll support whoever the Republican nominee is, but we expect to be that nominee,'' Cox told The Associated Press.
Meanwhile, another prospective GOP challenger, former Yonkers Mayor John Spencer, told an Albany radio station he was also not quitting and was ready to go to a September 2006 Republican primary, if necessary.
``I'm staying in the race and I expect to get the Conservative (Party) line,'' Spencer told WROW-AM.
No Republican has won statewide office in New York without Conservative Party support since 1974.
Spencer said he could envision a scenario where Pirro could wind up as the Republican candidate while he would be on the Conservative Party line.
``I'll split the two liberals,'' Spencer said, referring to Pirro and Clinton.
``That would be the worst-case scenario, but it is an interesting scenario,'' he added.
Pirro's past support for abortion and gay rights, including her advocacy of civil unions, has not endeared her to state Conservative Party Chairman Michael Long.
Cox told the AP that in a conversation with Republican Gov. George Pataki in February, the governor had told him there were only two real candidates for the Senate nomination, Cox and Pirro. Pataki said Cox was the best Senate candidate, Nixon's son-in-law told the AP.
There was no immediate comment Thursday from Pataki.
Cox, like Spencer, said Pirro's candidacy was doomed to fail because she would not be able to bring the Conservative Party around. Cox, who said he is anti-abortion, predicted he could do that.
Cox and Pirro have both said that, in the end, they do not expect a Republican primary.
Cox, who is married to Patricia ``Tricia'' Nixon, told the AP that polling he has done found that his relationship to the late president was not a liability with New York voters. Tuesday was the 31st anniversary of Nixon's resignation from the presidency over the Watergate scandal.
While Cox and Spencer were vowing to stay in the race, Pirro was on Day 2 of a three-day announcement tour with stops in Rochester, Syracuse and in southern Saratoga County where she was to meet with some area county GOP leaders.
Also eyeing the GOP nomination is William Brenner, a tax attorney from Sullivan County.
But Pirro WILL bloody Hillary. :-)
dont dems do the same thing in conservative states?
I dont see Howard Dean clones running in southern states.
it is called pragmatism..
many here get confused between the conservative movement and the GOP. One is a philosphical movement the other a party. The job of a party is to win.
Arnold Schwarzenegger had a better chance of winning. I knew and posted that since day one, right after he announced it on the Jay Leno show. You and I even predicted he would reach around 50% of the votes by the time the election was over. He took 48% of the vote.
This case is different. You have the DA-wife of a convicted felon who knew the ongoings of her husband despite of whatever she says. Stuff about that will surface - not now, because it's early, but in due time. By the time all these shenanigans are exposed, Hillary will be riding high.
Don't you think I want Hillary to lose and get the hell out of NY, or at least get bloodied and impoverished? But with Pirro, the odds for this to happen are slim in my book.
You know, I've never underestimated the power of the media and their ability to influence people. If they can scare people with a stroke of the pen by the mere mention of the name Nixon as in: Ed Cox is the son-in-law of Nixon –just for marrying Tricia Nixon 3 years prior to Nixon's resignation and nothing to do with Watergate- imagine how much they would influence the sheeple when they start reporting on Pirro's husband convicted for tax evasion and doing time in jail for 17 out of 29 months, and his mob connections with his DA-wife by his side?
For WIW I found a link about Pataki supporting Cox. I don't give it much credit now since I've found Pataki's people are behind Pirro, but anyway here it is:
“He has the backing of Pataki and many other influential people both Republican and Democrat.
If the New York GOP doesn't get this settled very early in the process, I predict that a long, drawn-out primary battle is going to leave EITHER candidate pretty much bankrupt by the time the general election rolls around.
Pirro doesn't have the state's conservative vote because she's too liberal and I doubt she'll get it, but even if she gets it, we'll still lose for the reasons I mentioned above. It's just bloody awful!
Mebbe I'll move to Wyoming or something. LOL.
That's the new country version of that Marc Cohn song, isn't it? I heard it on the radio a couple of weeks ago -- it sounds pretty good!
I found a few George Straits, but I don't think they were all that good.
Hmm . . . Which songs were they? I'll tell you if I like them.
By the time you reply this post I'll be sleeping LOL, so I'll just leave you with this one. Nighty night.
Be good now.
Sweet dreams!
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