Posted on 12/04/2005 8:02:12 PM PST by neverdem
As if the sun were finally shining upon her, Jeanine F. Pirro strode coatless onto a chilly Manhattan sidewalk yesterday and declared to reporters that her campaign to unseat Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was "going extremely well," and she was in it to win it.
As if, only minutes earlier, Gov. George E. Pataki had not talked to her about withdrawing from the race, which he had.
Michael Long, the head of the state Conservative Party and an ally of Ms. Pirro's in some past campaigns, said yesterday that her Senate candidacy was in a "meltdown" and indicated that his party would only seriously consider supporting her for attorney general. As if she had the same $14 million in the bank as her rival, Mrs. Clinton, which she does not.
As if her political problems over the last five months had been forgotten, which they have not.
That conflict burst into the open this week over the troubled candidacy of Ms. Pirro, who is an object of interest in New York and Washington because she has been hailed for years as a future leader of the party, a future Pataki or D'Amato.
--WHY?--
The party chairman, Stephen J. Minarik III, has 62 county leaders to control, not to mention his tongue: he frequently gets into trouble with quips like his remark on NY1 News last month, when he said that one candidate for governor, John Faso, had ideas that seem straight out of "La La Land."
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Michael Long, the head of the state Conservative Party and an ally of Ms. Pirro's in some past campaigns, said yesterday that her Senate candidacy was in a "meltdown" and indicated that his party would only seriously consider supporting her for attorney general.
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It was a JOKE! Calm down, just kidding (I have a voting wife and three voting daughters).
Thanks. May the chorus rise and be joined by thousands more voices: No to Hillary.
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