[drjimmy]

Yeah. It would be so much better if we were in Amo Houghton's district. Or Sherwood Boehlert's. I hope I don't need to flag this for you with a sarcasm alert.

[drjimmy]

By the way, any of you folks here in the City of Evil going to see Scott Ritter at Cornell tonight?

[AuH2ORepublican]

"Yeah. It would be so much better if we were in Amo Houghton's district. Or Sherwood Boehlert's."

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You're right, Houghton and Boehlert aren't that much better than Hinchey, but at least in their districts you'd have a chance of knocking them off in the primary and electing a real conservative in the Fall (Bush carried both districts in 2000). Boehlert barely survived a primary challenge in 2002, and Houghton is around 80 years old and likely to retire soon (he was thinking of retiring after 2000, but decided to stick around so that they wouldn't break up his Southern-Tier district). Whoever gets the Republican nomination in those districts would be the prohibitive favorite in the general election. While a Republican can beat Hinchey, he wouldn't be the frontrunner, and probably can't be a Golwater Republican . . . .