[goldstategop]

George Pataki has governed for most of the past decade as a liberal Republican. He's the only kind of Republican who can win in New York State. The NY Senate GOP majority is mostly RINO. The Democrats control the Assembly. In national politics, the last time the Empire State went GOP was in 1984.

(Denny Crane: "There are two places to find the truth. First God and then Fox News.")

[neverdem]

George Pataki has governed for most of the past decade as a liberal Republican.

For the most part, that's true. But he initially ran as a conservative, with the additional endorsement of the Conservative Party when Giuliani endorsed Cuomo. He succeeded in corrupting the Conservative Party with patronage.

[qam1]

George Pataki has governed for most of the past decade as a liberal Republican.

Pataki has governed the state as a hard core ultra leftist. He is the most liberal governor in the country (When I fled NY to NJ I had a hard time hating McGreevy because even he is way more Conservative than Pataki).

He's the only kind of Republican who can win in New York State.

That's debatable, But yes he has ruined any "real" Republicans chances in the future. Liberalism is the cause of all the problems in NY, But because of Pataki and the RINOs in the Senate, Republicans will get the blame.

The NY Senate GOP majority is mostly RINO.

The NY Senate is ALL RINO, There is not a Conservative among them. They routinely vote unanimously on all kinds of liberal goodies like tax/spending increases, regulations, taking of freedoms, etc.

The Democrats control the Assembly.

There is not one iota of difference between the Assembly Democrats and the RINOs in the Senate.