Al D'Amato and George Pataki have destroyed the GOP in NY. After a term of Spitzer and Cuomo NY'ers may start coming back, ie, liberal judicial appointments, higher taxes et al.
I have just read that D'Amato told Vacco (the former attorney general who was defeated by Spitzer) not to take the Right to Life line. That would have provided him with a margen of victory. What a disaster!