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If this is how NY liberals are feeling, we’re going to have fun in 2010.

Wow. I haven't commented about Maureen Dowd in *ages*. There's this entire nostalgia vibe going on here.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  January 25th, 2009 at 10:27 AM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

For those who don’t feel like risking the SAN/Intelligence loss that can come from reading one of Dowd’s columns, let me summarize: I like Blagojevich more than I like Paterson, because Blagojevich is clearly insane – do you hear that, Illinois voters? Insane – and Paterson did my friend Marquise Caroline Kennedy-Schlossberg wrong by not picking her right away.  That let the awful, awful Clintons destroy the chances for the best choice for the NY Senate, and never mind all those Republicans out there who were revving their chainsaws and grinning evilly.  I hope that they primary that gun-loving, bailout hating Gillibrand – and that they primary that adulterous, drug-using governor, too!  That’ll show ‘em.

OK, I may have added a little subtext there, but really: the title is “Whose Governor is wackier?” and everything (via Hot Air Headlines).  That tells you something right there.

Come, I will hide nothing from you: we really did want Kennedy in that spot: she did nothing to deserve it, she wasn’t particularly suited for it, and she wouldn’t have known the first thing about how to hold it in 2010.  And it would have been a seat that the Democrats would have been embarrassed to lose, so they’d have thrown huge gobs of money at it in order to keep it; more money than they really should have.  Governor Paterson worked that out, darn it – so no Kennedy.  Instead, he stuck in the most conservative Democrat he had to hand – one with an actual electoral record and an ability to raise money to boot – because Governor Paterson is a loyal member of his Party*.

But if that loyalty is going to be repaid with a brutal primary fight on both the Senatorial and gubernatorial level – and let’s not forget that NY-20 is going to have two election battles in the next two years, and that it’s still considered a leans-Republican seat – well.  It all depends on whether Dowd speaks for New York liberals in general, or just herself.  Because I have to tell you: I don’t mind seeing New York Democrats spending the next two years ripping themselves to shreds over the fact that their Governor decided to give the Senate seat to somebody currently** sensible on guns and the bailout.

I don’t mind seeing that at all.

Moe Lane

*It’s also going to help him with his electoral prospects.  Or, at least, that was presumably the plan.

**Note the word “currently,” Senator Gillibrand.  Your value to the Democratic Party is inversely proportional to the amount you accommodate yourself to New York liberals.  Friendly advice?  Keep that in mind.

Crossposted at Moe Lane.

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  • Deskpilot

    fit the NY/US liberal ruberic. She will be pilorized, (or is that Palinized) by the DaKo’s and Huff Po’s so as to be neutered of any credibility before the primaries, regardless of any legislative accomplishments in the US Senate.
    If she does do anything that is good for the country, no mention; good for the spread of Obama socialism, heaps of praise.

    She may even have to get an NRA membership and purchase and train with a firearm in order to protect herself from all the political backstabbing she will encounter.

    To paraphrase a RS posters’ tag line, if your making enemies in your own camp, you must be doing something right.

  • BlueStateSaint

    Gillibrand is/was my congresscritter. The current, and former, Minority Leaders of the NYS Assembly (Jim Tedisco and John Faso, respectively) have lined up on the Republican side to run for the seat, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see Sandy Treadwell (former Gov. Pataki’s Secretary of State) try for it again. I’d go for either Faso or Tedisco, myself. Both are pretty conservative.

    There is someone on the Dems’ side, but I can’t remember who it is.

  • http://www.RedState.com/ETCartman Kenny Solomon

    ………is “A” rated by the NRA and apparently is a member….also she even may be (gasp !) a hunter.

  • bk

    As to your comment: “Come, I will hide nothing from you: we really did want Kennedy in that spot: she did nothing to deserve it, she wasn?t particularly suited for it, and she wouldn?t have known the first thing about how to hold it in 2010.”

    Did we think something similar in 1960 when Teddy Kennedy, who had never even held a real job in his life, was earmarked for the Senate seat he still owns today? He’s a worthless piece of crap who has never done a productive thing in his life, yet he rode his family’s coattails into a lifetime appointment to the Senate.

  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    …didn’t get the nod this time. :)

  • fisk2521

    The local paper in the Finger Lakes has an editorial ‘questioning’ Paterson’s choice for Senator . . It was pretty apparent that it would be a ‘problem’ for people like Dowd since Gilibrand does support the Second Amendment of the US. My God, how horrible…. I’m sure we will see the ‘newspaper’ here work to oust her when the election rolls around. They were so blatant in the Presidential campaign about Obama (and not just in the editorials that I stopped the subscription.

    I hope there is a Republican available for election to the Senate, but as an independent voter, will certainly consider Gilibrande after I understand her politics.

    Upstate New York is never represented because of the control of the state by NYCity. We send them their electricity, their water, and we get their prisoners and garbage…..and most likely since Obama sits in the White House …. coming soon …. more Indian reservations, taking more land into trust by the feds and off tax rolls, that serve the Democrats in their fund raising efforts.

  • randy streu

    In New York politics, certainly among our elected federal Legislators, she is at least as “conservative” as some of our (R)s.

    We’ll have to wait and see whether the Senate liberalizes her on some of these issues… but there’s a very real chance that, come next election, the only difference between her and her opponent is the letter after their names.

  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    NT

  • randy streu

    Do we change the New York Republican Party by rewarding with votes a so-called Republican who acts like a Democrat?

    I understand it’s good for our numbers, and that we could use all of those we can get — but what’s the point if he’s just going to be the exact same as Gillebrand anyway (or worse — remember, she was against Amnesty, -and- the bailouts)? It isn’t a net gain on policy on a national level, and is, frankly, a net loss to the State Party to keep somebody like that on the inside.

  • streetwise

    A fractured Democratic party makes a Senate pickup possible. Watch Congressman Peter King.

  • randy streu

    However, she’s from Upstate New York, which is fairly Conservative, even on the Dem side. She may get challenged, but it’ll be a close primary, and she may come out on top.

  • Adjoran

    The same desiccated old hag who Pinch Sulzberger used to keep hidden from the view of decent folks behind his “subscription wall?” The same one who wrote a piece a few years ago lamenting the difficulty of aging, surgically-enhanced former fun girls have in attracting single men?

    Who gives a rat’s patootie what she thinks? As you acknowledge in the opening line, she is one of those odious writers who leave the reader diminished for having read her work.

    For all the speculation on NY-20 and its allegedly strong Republican leanings, remember the Democrats have taken full control in Albany now. We can expect this district to be drawn out of existence after the 2010 Census, so the dramatic fight will be over who gets the seat for two whole years.