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The fact is, it is the province of pyschologists to determine what is dysfunctional behavior. Even if I agree with Paladino’s opinion of gays, politicians need to stick with public policy matters, especially while they are running for office and even more so while governing. The dysfunction Paladino should be focused on is the insane taxing and spending that goes on in Albany.

He has focused on the insane taxing and spending that goes on in Albany. This time, he was speaking to a group of Hasidic Jews. They vote according to their common beliefs and they vote in large groups. From the comments I have read on the Yeshiva World News website, they like Paladino both for his desire to take a baseball bat to the state's corruption and his frank statements about issues such as gay marriage.

I admire Paladino for his guts and gusto. It's refreshing and bold. It is, IMO, what the people really want from their leaders rather than the PC baloney that has kept us in chains for too long. New York is not just the cesspool called Manhattan, so he may just have a chance to win the governorship.

He has focused on the insane taxing and spending that goes on in Albany. This time, he was speaking to a group of Hasidic Jews. They vote according to their common beliefs and they vote in large groups. From the comments I have read on the Yeshiva World News website, they like Paladino both for his desire to take a baseball bat to the state’s corruption and his frank statements about issues such as gay marriage.

I admire Paladino for his guts and gusto. It’s refreshing and bold. It is, IMO, what the people really want from their leaders rather than the PC baloney that has kept us in chains for too long. New York is not just the cesspool called Manhattan, so he may just have a chance to win the governorship.

Paladino has no qualification that I know of to describe any group as being “dysfuntional”—unless it is the corruptocrats who have buried NY state in red ink, who he is ostensibly running to replace. And it would be their policies that would be meaningfully called dusyfunctional.

Exactly what Hasidic Jews think of homosexuals, how they came by their opinion (assuming there is one), what its relevance is in the governors’ race, I dunno. You say Paladino is a gutsy guy but you say he was telling Hasidic Jews what they want to hear. Sounds like the same old thing to me.

(And by the way: what would Paladino do as governor to end the gay “dysfunction?” Barbed wire? And what if he decides something you do is dysfunctional? He has this claim on an expertise in what is dysfunctional because he__________—??)