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Is he still a dirtbag? As of today? As of right now?

We'll see if his accusation against Cuomo is susbstantiated, as he claimed.

For the repentant sinner who gives every evidence of trying to avoid further sin and make amends, is there no redemption? I thought you were Catholic?

I try to be.

Again, accusing someone else and then saying "I'll prove it later" is pretty unappetizing.

And, as per your suggestion, I withdraw my equation of Edwards' and Paladino's affairs.

Despite the many parallelisms they are, as you demonstrated, not equivalent.

Dear wideawake,

Although I, too, am from New York, my family moved when I was young. Thus, I don't follow New York politics closely.

Nonetheless, my own memory is that regarding the Cuomo divorce, there were charges of infidelity and then counter-charges. Thus, when I heard Mr. Palladino’s statement, I didn't think it was particularly controversial (except, of course, with that part of the Ruling Elite that still insists that Mr. Clinton didn't have sex with that woman, and any other lie they need to tell on behalf of their political puppets).

Thus, I'm not sure that Mr. Palladino owes anyone an explanation or any proof. As it's a charge that's been made before in the public arena, to my mind, it's more up to Mr. Cuomo to prove it false. Just asserting that it's false, especially coming from the hellmouth of a prominent member of the POS (Party of Satan), isn't quite convincing.

Mr. Palladino is clearly not a professional politician, and I'm not sure that everything he says to the press is all that well-calculated. I think that's part of his charm.

I suspect that he was repeating what “everyone knows” about Mr. Cuomo, and was likely taken aback by the challenge, and thus ad libbed that he would “prove it later.” That hardly makes him a dirtbag. By any stretch of the imagination.

Mr. Palladino is what he is: a hard-charging, successful, driven New York businessman. Folks like this are often brutally blunt, forceful, even crude. You should know that.

These may (or may not) be flaws for someone entering the political arena. Or maybe, in any other time but the present, these might be flaws, but in the current time, they are valued by the voting public. I think that many voters are looking for citizen-servants, folks who run for office who haven't made a career of holding office. And I think that folks will put up with a lot of blunders, goofs, feet-in-mouths, etc. from men and women who ARE NOT POLITICIANS who fearlessly stand up to represent us.

Knowing that his good name would be dragged through the mud by folks calling him “dirtbag” because of the mistakes he made a decade ago, Mr. Palladino was pretty damned courageous to stand up and be counted this year. Knowing that the POS would try to rip the flesh off his bones, and that he did, indeed, have peccadilloes on which to pounce, Mr. Palladino’s willingness to serve anyway makes me think that he's an all right guy.

Not a "dirtbag."

I'd take him over Mr. Cuomo - or any of his ankle-biting critics who want to label him a “dirtbag” - every day of the week.

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