Posted on 12/11/2005 7:09:15 PM PST by nj26
Jeanine Pirro is expected to quit her bid to unseat Sen. Hillary Clinton as early as tomorrow, prematurely ending what had been billed as one of the nation's marquee races. Just a few months ago, the smart, aggressive and charming Westchester district attorney was the darling of a Republican Party convinced she was the right candidate who - even if she couldn't beat Clinton - could at least slice into her high approval ratings.
But now, Pirro, 54, is being written off as the first political roadkill of the 2006 election season. And Clinton never even had to throw a punch.
What happened?
"She's been hurt by a lack of money and a campaign that from the beginning has been sputtering at best," said Marist College pollster Lee Miringoff.
Pirro, he said, also fell into the trap of making a central issue of her campaign that Clinton harbors presidential ambitions and won't finish a second term, a claim that, even if true, doesn't seem to matter much to most New Yorkers.
GOP insiders said they expect her to toss in the towel tomorrow when Republican leaders meet in Albany to gear up for next year's elections, which also feature races for governor, state attorney general, Congress and all 212 state lawmakers.
Officially, her campaign says Pirro has no plans to quit, but sources said she will be "drafted" to run for attorney general, a job for which many of her backers say she is well qualified given her background as a prosecutor and former judge.
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Oh Mary, your panties are in such a bunch...what a damned drama QUEEN you are.
More defeatist, self-fulfilling prophecy swill.
So we should just continue to bite the pillow and elect RINOs who'll do nothing but maintain the status-quo?
If not now, when?
Where's all of that supposed "knowledge", that you were bragging about earlier, pet? Un hunh...and you didn't even know that Bill Buckley ran for MAYOR OF NEW YORK! LOL
You haven't posted one salient fact, Mary, nor one refutation.
Spoken like a true elitist, cut off your nose to spite your face, dog in the manger, more Conservative than thouer.
Specter only voted for Thomas because his ass was up for re-election the following year.
No, Mary...I look at YOU!
When did the DU let you out of yours?
The factual truth is just killing you. LOL
You mean where I mistook you for human ? Oh, I sincerly apologize.
"Lindsey was a Conservative! Then, once he became Mayor, he had a mid-life crisis, or went completely insane; I don't know which."
=buzzer sounds= Oh, so sorry, Chester. What do we have as a parting gift for our contestant, Vanna ? Ah, yes, it's a fact-filled bitchslapping coming to you from yours truly. No, Chester, Lindsay (spelled with an "a", not an "e") was NEVER a Conservative, not in any shape, manner, or form. Lindsay was a hardcore left-winger from the get go. His distinguished predecessor in Congress, Frederic René Coudert, Jr., was a bonafide Conservative. But like the destructive trash of today's era, the RINO establishment types demanded Coudert vacate his seat otherwise "we wouldn't win" (sic). They insisted on ramming the aformentioned Lindsay scum down the voters throats in the Silk Stocking district, and downhill did things go from there...
"All I know is that everyone who knew him and knew him well, never saw it coming and were shocked, yes, SHOCKED, not to mention disgusted, by what he became."
What, you didn't expect a radical liberal to GOVERN as a radical liberal ? My, you are an intellectual behemoth.
"His record, as Senator, gave not the slightest hint to what he would turn into later on."
His record as Senator ? Chester, fortunately the state of New York was never subjected to his services in the Senate. He was a member of the U.S. House. You've been corrected AGAIN.
"And yes, long before the general public knew, his friends, who had worked to get him elected mayor, knew, because he became a totally different person in private."
Then we know whom to blame for that abomination.
"Lots of people come and go...it's the nature of N.Y. and always has been."
It is estimated ONE MILLION NEW YORK CITY RESIDENTS fled during his 8-year reign of terror. Nowhere in the history of the United States, no city, no political entity, had before (or since) seen that level of mass exodus that it witnessed between 1966-1980 (since Lindsay's damage continued unabated clear into the Koch Administration -- and for that matter, it wasn't until Giuliani that a lot of Lindsay's POLICY damage was corrected). Yes, Chester, it took nearly FORTY YEARS to undo even part of the damage America's Worst Mayor inflicted upon the nation's largest city. I am not surprised one iota to see you trying to excuse and take up for him. Of course, the one positive thing I can say for Lindsay is that he had the common courtesy to finally do something he should've done before he darkened the Republican Party's doorstep... he switched to the Democrat Party. You'll note as soon as he did that, they had even less use for him than we did. The 'Rats may be evil and ignorant, but they know political AIDS when they see it.
For all of your bloviating about how very much you know, you didn't know, until I posted it, that Bill Buckley had run for ANYTHING!
they want to destroy "RINOs" even if it means Democrats get elected.
I think it was from the hill camp and her lap dog, the media. No conservative would run in NY and conservatives know that - anyone BUT the beast. Hilderbeast did not want to debate Pirro, she would have been chewed up and spit out on TV. The beast cannot debate.
You lost the argument, Chester. Get over yourself.
More psycho ramblings...
Exposed once again.
Mary, you know and understand politics and campaigning, less than a box of rocks.
"My attendants know that I've slipped the bonds again and escaped from my padded cell!"
Better run, they're coming to take you away, Chester.
Ack, please. I don't want to turn to stone.
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