"If she quits, this will be yet another case of the ultra GOPers getting what they all yearn so for........DEFEAT, when victory was at hand."
Are you kidding? Pirro would not even have gotten 40% against Hillary. I mean, Giuliani could beat Hillary, and Pataki (who would get the Conservative Party line as well, since he is pro-choice on abortion but not an extremist on social issues) could make the race very competitive, but Pirro would have had NO CHANCE, and she knows it (why else would she drop out?). I wish Pirro luck in the AG race if she switches to that race, and she might actually win that race (I hope so, anyhow), but she just doesn't have what it takes to run against Hillary.
My dream ticket in NY would be Giuliani for Governor and Pataki for the Senate. Unless those two gentlemen run, we can't beat Spitzer and Hillary. So, if we are going to lose anyhow, we might as well nominate candidates who will be standardbearers for the GOP's principles and who may help convince inner-city voters that the Democrat Party has abandoned them on moral and cultural issues. So, unless better candidates come forward, I will support Randy Daniels for Governor and John Spencer for the Senate.
Pataki couldn't win an election for dog catcher, right now, and he wouldn't lay a glove in Hillary, if he ran against her.
Ruddy isn't going to run against her...again. He's now making pits of money in the private sector and being one of 50, instead of THE one ( mayor, governor, president ) won't seduce him away from his lucrative businesses.
If everyone and his uncle hadn't gone after Pirro, the minute she announced, she might not have beaten Hillary, but she would have wounded her quite badly and she's the ONLY one who could have done that. Pirro is being offered the AG spot, because she CAN win it hands down and the N.Y.GOP has nobody else to run. But, she doesn't want that job. So, would YOU run hard for a job you really don't want and were coerced into running for?
As far as Pirro and the AG is concerned, I see it this way.....she either won't run for it, or she runs 1/2 heartedly and loses.