Posted on 09/15/2010 3:55:19 AM PDT by Scanian
Well, New York Republicans went out and got themselves an angry man. They may come to regret it.
That's the upshot of yesterday's gubernatorial primary, in which Carl Paladino, multimillionaire developer from Buffalo, pretty much expelled the GOP establishment's candidate, ex-Rep. Rick Lazio, from public life.
Actually, Lazio can be said to have lost this race far more than Paladino won.
To say the former Long Island legislator kept a low profile is putting it mildly: Lazio ran as the Invisible Man -- refusing to debate, speaking in platitudes and generally just boring folks to tears.
Even his notoriously uninspired 2000 US Senate effort against Hillary Clinton looked dynamic by comparison.
In other words, he was pretty much the antithesis of Paladino.
To give the Buffalo firebrand his due, he seems to understand the problems facing New York -- and he speaks to them directly and forcefully, masterfully connecting anecdotal accounts of government malfunction to the epic dysfuntion that defines contemporary Albany.
That said, he's a tad short on the solutions side.
Vowing to solve Albany's problems by parking Sheldon Silver in Attica makes for red-meat campaign rhetoric, but it is not a public-policy prescription that will carry him very far in the weeks ahead.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
No matter who wins a GOP primary, the poison-stream press manages a way to to make it spell “D-O-O-M” for the Republicans
Another hatchet job on a non-establishment candidate.
Angry? Where have you been the last year and a half. Versailles on the Potomac parasites have been deaf to we, the people. We don’t need them; they need us.
Nobody, but nobody, should contribute one cent to the establishment. Give directly to the candidate. Maybe when they have to layoff people, they’ll get the message.
The NY Post political reporter Frederick Dicker was gay rage, code pink hysterical last night over Paladino’s win. He was declaring that Paladino has no chance at all and that Cuomo has no vulnerabilities at all and is loved by all New Yorkers.
These rinos and gop party establishment are as bad as the dems.
These rinos and gop party establishment are as bad as the dems.
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Worse: “Beware the wolf in sheep’s clothing”
Well, New York Republicans went out and got themselves an angry man. They may come to regret it.Ironically, Fox NC just interviewed Scott Rasmussen & Doug Schoen about their new book,
- Mad As Hell :
- How the Tea Party Movement Is Fundamentally Remaking Our Two-Party System
According to their thesis, being an angry Republican isn't exactly putting yourself on the wrong side of the electoral mood in 2010.
I agree that Paladino’s chances are slim in November, but that’s a lot better than Lazio, who had NO chance in November. At least now we have a real choice. Had Lazio won the primary, it would have been a choice between 2 liberals. Seems like this journalist should become a career politician. He has the integrity for it. To suggest that Paladino offers no solutions to New York’s mess is an outright lie.
Paladino said he will spent 10 million of his own money to win this. if Dem turnout is low and he can get all the upstate people out, he can win.
You’ve hit the nail on the head, specifically the NY Times.
Consider this:
September 1 - PPP poll shows OH voters would rather have Bush as president than Obama
September 6 - Obama turns from Bush-Bashing to, now, Boehner-Bashing
September 12 - NY Times runs a front-page hatchet piece on Boehner, a guy most NYers haven’t even heard of
September 14 - DCCC begins running anti-Boehner commercials
See how the NY Times is just a Dem propaganda tool - a useful artillery piece in any coordinated Dem offensive. The Times does this to all upstate candidates, either ignores them (ie John Faso), or villifies them if it can’t ignore them - the attacks on Paladino will begin today.
We need to force the media to pay attention to Paladino.
Why the hell would they? Like Lazio was some prize that we should have nominated and lost 'quietly'?? Are you kidding? It was Paladino or nothing and he's going to win in November. Anyone NYer who watched his victory speech can tell you that.
I live here and am 1000000% on the paladino bandwagon.
>>> See how the NY Times is just a Dem propaganda tool
True enough but this is about an editorial in the New York Post. The Post is Murdoch owned and therefore a bogeyman to the Times and liberals generally. In NY political matters they are entitled to be heard.
But nonetheless Lazio was damaged goods to begin with and didn’t have much of a shot against Cuomo. No harm to roll the dice with Paladino. It may work and if it doesn’t, you still aren’t really making matters any worse.
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