E. J. what are you smokin? Your thesis that New York indicates the country's political direction is pure crap. New York was already trending Democrat when it voted for Hillary NY is already in the Democrat's pocket.
Polls that include the hinterland indicate that Hillary would not win the 2008 presidential election. Dah!
So how do you write your opeds? First you come up with a conclusion and then reach for supporting assertions?
So your message is, *stay home Republicans, the Democrats have already won. We don't need no "stinkng election."
* Democrate talking point # 7
To: PolishProud
I got as far as "written by E. J. Dionne". Stopped reading after that. Waste of time.
2 posted on
10/13/2006 5:53:14 AM PDT by
Republican Red
("There’s God, then there’s the president and then there's my father.”- 6 yr old Jack Roberts)
To: PolishProud
3 posted on
10/13/2006 5:55:39 AM PDT by
Plain Old American
(Remember who said what; Remind those who don't Remember; Vote and take a friend to the polls)
To: PolishProud
New York was already trending Democrat when it voted for Hillary It sure doesn't say much about the people of a state to vote for someone who has never lived there. Even people in Illinois were not that dumb. However, I suppose I should be thanking NY for "taking one for the team" and keeping Billary out of the rest of our hair.
4 posted on
10/13/2006 6:00:46 AM PDT by
pnh102
To: PolishProud
THe author has a point that NY is increasingly Democrat. It is. That's because Republicans are sick of the highest taxes in the nation and a persistant anti-business climate. Democrats will win NY but increasingly marginalize themsleves nationally.
It'll be interesting to see who will pay for New York's bloated welfare state once Spitzer completes his drive to run the financial industry out of New York City.
5 posted on
10/13/2006 6:02:29 AM PDT by
An Old Marine
(Freedom isn't Free)
To: PolishProud
LOL...EJ, you delusional twit, do you think any other state in the US would have elected Hillary! as their carpet-bagger senator? New York is not America.
To: PolishProud
The lunatics are dreaming
8 posted on
10/13/2006 6:36:41 AM PDT by
Kaslin
(No matter what the left says. G.W. Bush will be remembered as the best president of this century)
To: PolishProud
It's a wonder E.J. could find time to write... while playing pivotman in boardroom circle-jerks at the DNC.
9 posted on
10/13/2006 6:37:49 AM PDT by
johnny7
(“And what's Fonzie like? Come on Yolanda... what's Fonzie like?!”)
To: PolishProud
And the way the Republican coalition has broken up should have national Republicans scurrying for a new game plan. Most of NYS is made up of red counties.
So I have a plan: Upstate needs its own state.
12 posted on
10/13/2006 7:22:38 AM PDT by
mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
To: PolishProud
"The Republican collapse here has been driven by two streams of defectors: suburban moderates and upstaters."
Yes, these two groups have indeed "defected," largely to Red states like Georgia. Upstate New York is rapidly de-populating as a result of the high taxes and anti-business climate mentioned by An Old Marine in post #5.
To: PolishProud
But... but... everyone knows NY is the center of the universe. *snort*
16 posted on
10/13/2006 1:51:52 PM PDT by
Ditter
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