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Rick Lazio for New York Governor
Pajamas Media ^ | 07/08/2009 | Jazz Shaw

Posted on 07/08/2009 11:57:30 AM PDT by fiscon1

Much like no-limit Texas Hold ‘em poker and hermit crab racing, politics is a game where you are rarely offered a second chance these days. Perennial candidates in national or statewide races — a regular feature in America through the first half of the 20th century — have been largely driven toward extinction by a prevailing political wind which banishes losers to the gulag of the Trivial Pursuit realm.

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TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: gopprimary; lazio; ny2010; ricklazio; statepolitics

1 posted on 07/08/2009 11:57:30 AM PDT by fiscon1
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To: fiscon1
a bit of a RINO but a conservative in NY. I don't think he would win...but Rudy might...another RINO.

either way, you have to take what you can get here in NY, but try to keep our RINOs out of national politics.

2 posted on 07/08/2009 12:05:58 PM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Vaquero

If Paterson is renominated, he can be beaten by almost any Republican.


3 posted on 07/08/2009 1:01:26 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

maybe we can nominate ‘Tbe Mayor’


4 posted on 07/08/2009 1:03:00 PM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

and by ‘the Mayor’ I mean FReeper Rus Thompson.

not Rudy or Ed Koch or (saints preserve us), Bloomers.


5 posted on 07/08/2009 1:07:09 PM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: fiscon1

Who wants to preside over those morons in Albany anyway?


6 posted on 07/08/2009 1:09:18 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or Tyranny)
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Who wants to preside over those morons in Albany anyway?

Ain't that the truth.

problem is 99.8% of all politicians are in it for themselves and if we are lucky and they are good at what they do, they take our side.

7 posted on 07/08/2009 1:18:57 PM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: tflabo

That’s what I said. You’d have to be a serious masochist.


8 posted on 07/08/2009 1:20:12 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: Vaquero

Is he really a Mayor?


9 posted on 07/09/2009 3:02:39 AM PDT by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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