I read this story off the AP wire this morning, and when I got to this part, I simply stopped reading. Now I'm used to liberal media spin, but this claim is so beyond outrageous and an outright lie as to say a pile of $hit is Godiva chocolate. Rocky's spending habits as NY Governor were so legendary that he made some of the most freewheeling liberal Democrats look like tightwads. Anyone who could claim a politician who shamelessly spent a cool billion taxpayer dollars at the height of a recession (that in late '60s/early '70s dollars, mind you) on the ghastly monstrosity known as the Empire State Plaza project in Albany and be termed a "fiscal Conservative" ought to be hit in the head with a shovel until the white meat shows.
That was just someone who was ignorant. Rocky was conservative on foreign policy issues though.
If 2006 becames the bloodbath that some posters here say it willl be, it would be interesting to take a body count of the casualities. Which faction would suffer more - Red Meat Conservative or RINOs?
Regardless of the casualty count, I may have to brace for another grandstanding speech by Ray LaHood and Mark Kirk on how the GOP can be the dominant party if Republicans followed their leads.