Posted on 11/30/2005 9:27:56 PM PST by nj26
Searing divisions among New York Republicans deepened yesterday as a growing number urged Jeanine F. Pirro to drop her bid to unseat Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. Concerns also emerged that departing Gov. George E. Pataki was no longer able to unify the party.
On a day of rapidly developing events, more Republicans joined what appeared to be a mounting effort, led in part by Joseph L. Bruno, the State Senate's majority leader, to press Ms. Pirro to run for state attorney general instead. But other Republicans warned that any switch by Ms. Pirro might alienate some county leaders who could retaliate by working against her.
United States Representative John E. Sweeney, a prominent upstate Republican, urged Ms. Pirro, the Westchester County district attorney, to consider shifting gears and seizing the Republican nomination for attorney general. "I have told her privately I think there is no doubt she could win as attorney general," Mr. Sweeney said in an interview. "I'm nudging her."
A strategist for another leading New York Republican in Congress put it more bluntly, saying many in the party thought she had been a disappointment so far as a Senate candidate. She may serve the party better by running for attorney general, the strategist said: "She has a résumé that is custom-made for attorney general."
Aides to Ms. Pirro said yesterday that she had no intention of switching races. Yet at the same time, the pressure on her has revealed the worsening warfare within the party, not only over its Senate candidate, but also over its candidate for governor in 2006. Many say the battles stem from a leadership void as Mr. Pataki prepares to leave office, contemplating a presidential bid in 2008, and as Mr. Bruno, the Legislature's most powerful Republican, maneuvers for influence.
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Ahem, Hillary will have an opponent. His name is John Spencer. He isn't an uberRINO like Mz. Pirro.
Good ole NY Times..Hillary's paper.
If he's a real conservative, he won't stand a chance in NY.
Hey, they can go pound sand or pack fudge, whichever they prefer. ;-)
This is an uphill race and see the history of the GOP there. Besides Jack Kemp who never won statewide how many Conservatives have held office?
Shouldn't we at least attempt to take a reality position here?
We either run bonafide alternatives to liberals or don't bother to run anyone. Enough is enough.
No Democrat since elections for the Senate were decided by popular vote (1916) has ever been defeated in the state of New York. Running liberal RINOs one after another has only caused a disastrous erosion in party fortunes in NY, in MA, in NJ, in IL, in CA...
That's the REAL reality position.
With the number of well-documented scandals and other sordid details of her past so readily available, I fail to see why any halfway-competent and reasonably well-funded candidate could not beat her. All she has is heavy media bias (which matters much less than it did five years ago) and an unjustified aura of formidability going for her.
To this day, the 2000 campaign declared only about $401,000 for the gala Hollywood concert. Prior to the final amended filing to the FEC, Peter Paul provided cancelled checks, invoices, and bank statements documenting about $1.6 million.
Can Hillary say she didn't know? No, that is not possible. More than two weeks before the final amended FEC filing, Peter sued Hillary. David Kendall accepted service. Included in the documents were those cancelled checks, invoices, and bank statements.
Pirro had her issue. She should have been holding press conferences and demanding answers. She had no interest in the issue. And so, her campaign goes down the crapper.
Yes, she should get the hell out of the race. She is just wasting everyone's time.
How odd if Democrats could ever think for themselves!!
So what's happening with the Peter Paul lawsuit....?
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
"pataki no longer able to unify the party"? When did this RINO pataki ever unify anyone or anything behind him?
"No opponent"? This bit of ratmedia wishful thinking shows how off from reality these people are.
Therein lies the rub, the fact that Pirro won't go negative on Hillary. If Pirro won't do that, then Hillary will emerge from the race stronger than she was before. I supported Pirro before she made that remark because I thought that a woman attacking a woman would make it difficult to impossible for Hillary to complain about the evil Republican men beating up on a poor little girl (Hillary). That dynamic being gone, there's no reason to support Pirro.
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