Exactly, they will pick a member of the country club, not someone who could invigorate the party and encourage new membership. I would be willing to bet that there are a lot of voters in NY sick and tired of the dems. But, they just have no viable choices come election time to voice that displeasure. When this occurs for a few election cycles, you lose membership and ultimately, become irrelevant.
Pirro was not the perfect candidate, but if the NY Republican party was truly focused on what matters, i.e. winning elections, rather than who's turn it was to run, they could see that Pirro would have given Hillary fits. Why? Simple, Hillary relies on the "victim" thing to win elections. She gets in the race, plays like a victim, wins sympathy and carries the day. Amazing how she goes from being the smartest, most powerful woman on the face of the Earth to a poor wittle victim, huh? I digress, she would not be able to play that card with Pirro. Hillary, for all her reputation, is not one-billionth of the politician her husband was. She is a one trick pony. Deprive her of that trick, she is done.
Pirro was a very weak candidate in my opinion. I don't live in New York so perhaps others have more insight into her abilities. None the less her bailing out should be taken advantage of not the opportunity for absolute surrender.
That is why you find a hero of 9/11 or the war against Islamo Fascism and taker her on fully with money and the backing of every third party in the state except the liberals. You make Hillary take positions she doesn't want to take. Make her sound like Murtha or Dean instead of Reagan.
The GOP in Illinois could have done the same in 2004 against Osama Bin Laden but failed. We will see if the New York GOP has more stones. I tend to doubt it.