Lazio Quits, Cuomo Getting Desperate
Adam Freedman ·
Sep 27, 2010 at 7:19pm
This just in. Today, Rick Lazio quit the race for NY governor, where he had been running on the Conservative line. So: no more spoiler, just one serious candidate to oppose Cuomo. Carl Paladino.
As Paladino looks more formidable, Cuomo looks more desperate. He's denouncing all tea partiers as "extremists." He's reaching out to such giants as Charlie Rangel to suggest that the tea party is racist. He's accepted the backing of the loony-left Working Families Party, and has stopped talking about standing up to unions.
New York being what it is, Cuomo remains the man to beat. But he's doing his best to look like a desperate man.
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Re: Lazio Quits, Cuomo Getting Desperate
Lazio out, Cuomo down, Paladino up.
Rapture, Adam. Rapture.
Sep '10
Re: Lazio Quits, Cuomo Getting Desperate
I just wish Murkowski and Castle had the same dignity in defeat as Rick Lazio.
May '10
Re: Lazio Quits, Cuomo Getting Desperate
Just hoping there are enough NY's how have somehow fled, or resisted the liberal-socialist-matrix who can vote for Paladino. This state is such a political disgrace.
I guess I will likely spend a good chunk of Election Night at Paladino's NYC headquarters (certainly there will be one...)...unless, of course, a Ricochet gathering is organized that night--yes? ;-)
Aug '10
Re: Lazio Quits, Cuomo Getting Desperate
In my first days of graduate school at Notre Dame, 1984, I witnessed the crowds amassed on the campus broadway, trying to press in to see Mario Cuomo give that infamous pro-abortion speech splitting the baby between his "devout" Catholicism and his ambitions in the secular sphere. Oh the evils that spilled back out of that auditorium that night. (Having just ranted about flawed notions of the "secular" in David Carter's "Tolerance" blog, I'll give that a rest for now.) I earnestly wish to see this young Cuomo go down to defeat on November 2, 2010, a parenthesis that took more than a quarter century, hopefully, to put in place.
May '10
Re: Lazio Quits, Cuomo Getting Desperate
I had to read that entire speech for a Separation of Church and State class. I usually prefer politics to be methodical and emotionless if possible, but seeing him peel, parse, and piece together his morals to fit party attitude made me want to ask "Is that heart only for beating, my man?" On the other hand, it seems the best way to make the other side realize what's really at stake is to have their own so clearly put popularity before morals and convenience before life.
Jun '10
Re: Lazio Quits, Cuomo Getting Desperate
That's Andrew "the Outsider" Cuomo to you. It's a new nickname he gave himself.