"[Quite] frankly, you have to understand the fact that Rudy Giuliani was a McGovern Democrat, he was endorsed by the Liberal Party when he ran for Mayor. In his heart, he's a Democrat. He's paraded all over this country with Bill Clinton and, in fact, he's very comfortable with Mario Cuomo. But what Rudy Giuliani wants is to be bailed out in the city, in the mess he's in, and everybody understands very clearly in politics that they struck a deal, that Mario's going to continue to be the big spender, save Rudy the options of raising taxes by pouring money statewide into the City of New York and bailing it out." --
Interview with Michael Long, Chairman N.Y.S., Conservative Party, CNN Crossfire, October 25, 1994
Great, Quote Michael Long, the man who couldn;t pick a winner in one-horse race, and who sat at the head of a dysfunctional conservative party that couldn't make up it's mind which millionaire to run in most years for which state office (and who somehow always wound up with Ron Lauder or that other jerk who runs the Buffalo Sabres).
Michael Long is to conservative politics what Lance Ito is to serious jurisprudence.