If you think republicans in NY have any intention of running a serious candidate against Clinton, you're mistaken. Pirro is a joke.
If you think any candidate who is not at least "moderate" like Pirro will ever win statewide in NY, you're mistaken.
If you believe that anyone even moderately conservative will ever win in NY State for the forseeable future, you're completely bonkers.
It won't happen. The best that can be done is to challenge the far left Demodogs with some "moderate" - thus Bloomberg, Gulianni, Pataki, etc... They may be very frustrating to those of us who would like someone with more committment to conservative values, but they are far less destructive to our nation and the state than the Demodogs.
The once iconic John Vliet Lindsay would have a hard choice deciding between Hillary and Pirro, but I think he would go with his heart and Hillary if he could!