[presidio9]

The party might even consider doing what the Democrats did in the 2000 Senate race: importing their best candidate from somewhere else to vie for the New York seat. Hillary Clinton showed the Republicans how to play that game. Now why not turn the tables?

Because it's not necessary. Chucky Cheese can be beaten without resorting to the bush-league tactics employed by the Democrats. Why give them the satisfaction of pointing out that we are engaging in the same behavior we criticized them for. Because the intelligent members of the Democrat Party know that the are on the flat-out wrong side of every policy, they enjoy nothing so much as irrelevant topics that cloud the issues.

[only1percent]

You may not like Schumer, but he's going to be damn hard to beat. Most politicos I know think that he's neatly ascended to the Moynihan seat, i.e., the "statesman" Democrat with massive positives and miniscule negatives. Like D'Amato (who Schumer took out), Hillary will be the lightning rod Senator, getting in trouble for this and that, and vulnerable to a strong opponent.

[dez]

". . . the intelligent members of the Democrat Party."

A small minority of Democrat voters, to be sure.