This is not exactly what you’d call a first tier race, in spite of Gillibrand’s low name I.D. In an odd turn of events, Blakeman’s estranged wife is dating Paul McCartney.
Why wouldn’t big talkers Giuliani and Pataki be willing to take on Gillibrand. Both know they have no hope of winning the Presidency, but they continue to trade off that faint hope instead of rolling up their sleeves and confronting the Dems head-on. Giuliani did a great job for NYC both before and after 9-11, but there’s work left to be done and he should be in that race (which I think he could easily win). Reminds me of the line from Supertramp’s “Rudy”:
Rudy thought, that all good things,
Come to those that wait.
But recently, he could see,
They may come too late.
Giuliani has let his last opportunity to serve America pass him by and he’ll soon be just a footnote in history.
If two Republicans end up on the general-election ballot, our odds of beating Gillibrand will go from slim to none.
If the Conservative Party is going to hand-select its nominee instead of holding a primary, I wish that it waited for GOP voters to select their nominee and then decide whether such nominee is acceptable or not for purposes of the Conservative Party endorsement (and withholding its endorsement only in cases in which the GOP nominates a bona fide RINO). Picking one horse early on, and having him on the ballot as a spoiler even if he is only marginally more conservative than the GOP nominee, is not only a good way to get the Democrat elected, it’s a formula for failing to get enough votes to keep the party on the ballot (which is precisely what happened to the Liberal Party when it endorsed Andrew Cuomo in 2002 only to see him lose the Dem nomination toCarl McCall; Cuomo only got like 3% of the vote and the party lost its ballot access and folded).