Posted by
The Hermit Crab on Wednesday, September 15, 2010 4:58:39 PM
Primary Day is normally frustrating for a conservative Republican crab like me. My New York State Republican Party has perhaps the most brain-dead leadership of any major state party. My only hope is that enough New York Republicans wake up and wrest control from "the fools who bring disaster upon us." We had one good sign last night, as insurgent Republican candidate
Carl Paladino dumped the hopeless (but Republican leadership endorsed) Rick Lazio, who hasn't held office or even been visible since he managed to lose the 2000 Senate election to a corrupt, megalomaniac politician's wife, and a lecherous, impeached politician at that. I've noticed that not even the Dem-media has been saying that Paladino's victory lessens the GOP's chances against Democratic nominee Prince Andrew Cuomo.
Other than that, the news wasn't much fun.
David Malpass lost the nomination to oppose New York's dumb blonde Senator Kirsten Gillibrand to a moderate Republican named
Joe DioGuardi, and
Gary Bernsten lost his race to oppose the appalling Senator Chuck Schumer to
Jay Townsend.
Am I disappointed? Sure.
Will I vote for the nominees who defeated them in November? Absolutely, and if you're a New Yorker, so should you. Don't ever forget, if you're a patriot, elections are at bottom about doing what is best for your country. They are not a chance for you to act out of self-interest or your personal pique.
There is no issue - none - where Gillibrand and Schumer are better than DioGuardi and Townsend. G and S are too dreadfully typical of Beltway Democratism today. Economically illiterate, contemptuous of public opinion, environmentally both hysterical and dictatorial, unable to accept and learn from reality, including the reality of their own fallability, they are a cancer in the body of America. They need to be cut out. The choice is no longer between the good and the arguably better, it is between the good and the disastrous.
It really isn't that difficult a choice.
By the way, if you live in New York, the Bill Nojay Show is perhaps the best source of information I know of for New York news. Podcasts and downloadable audio are available
here, and live streaming 2-3:00 PM
here. (Click on the Listen Live icon at the upper right corner of the page.)