About as unenthusiastic as I've *ever* been to vote for a Republican, but I did manage to hold my nose long enough to vote by absentee ballot for Pataki yesterday. Did it on Row "D" however, so the Conservative party would get the credit for the vote.
Bring back the Pataki of 1995. There was someone actually worth voting for.
The "Conservative Party" may as well close its doors if it is using its line to nominate candidates like Pataki...
I too voted for Pataki as unenthusiastically as any Republican candidate I ever have voted for. But what were my other choices? McCall, a guy I can respect personally but don't agree with politically? I mean, I've got to give McCall credit for pulling himself out of the projects, but that doesn't mean I'm gonna vote for a liberal democrat.
I briefly considered voting for Golisano, but the more I saw of him, the more I realized that I just don't trust him. The Weekly Standard reported that he threatened one of their reporters that printed something about him that he didn't like -- shows no respect for the 1st Amendment. And this whole thing about using lottery funds for state university tuition, while I like the idea (it's worked well in Georgia), now is not the time to put an expensive commitment like that, when the state's looking at a huge deficit.