The Story Of Eric And Andrew, A Drama With Many Acts

Talk about team players.
Apparently, Andrew is all about Andrew.

cp — what if Paladino fires the hairy arm and says he wants to emulate Cuomo and run his own campaign (discussed on Dicker this morning). Roger Stone put Paladino on the national radar screen. If Paladino is worth a nickel of his money he’ll stop talking the way he is talking. Only people who want to lose talk that way. You have to do what you have to do to win. And that is to act like a gentleman.

BETTER YET….. I think I heard on Dicker (I am so unsure I heard right) that conceivably anyone can take the Conservative line. It could be Faso, right? That would be an interesting twist of the screw.

vis a vis Please keep your opinions (blows) about Mr. Paladino (or any other candidate for that matter) above the belt. You may disagree with everything that he says or stands for and that’s fair game. But Cuomo’s surrogates are saying that Paladino is unfit due to his insulting statements. Well “his hairy arm” is a comment that is about one’s inherited physical characteristics … and is totally inappropriate!

Yes! He can embrace the Sharpton Annex to the AG’s office at the same time!

I don’t think this country was founded on sports metaphors. Andrew Cuomo knows full well, due to Schneiderman’s shameless pandering during the primary, that Eric will do everything within his power to maintain the benefits for a few at the expense of many.
Andrew Cuomo has a new vision for the Democratic party which is not at odds with this state being again competitive for business and innovation and growth.
Should he scrap that plan, to which New yorkers have responded favorably, for the good of the “team”?
As for the third member of the “team”, Tom DiNapoli, how can Andrew endorse him when he’s investigating him for pay to play transactions for which one party already paid a 12M fine?
Schneiderman and DiNapoli both represent the kind of transactional politics that are at the root of Albany’s dysfunction. As long as Schneiderman sucks up to Al Sharpton and DiNapoli is under investigation I am glad Cuomo is staying far away.

My late father had a joke: “How do porcupines make love? Carefully, if at all.”

Lazio cannot just step down and let the Conservative Party support Paladino contingent upon his “cleaning up his act.” He is on the ballot and cannot simply withdraw from it and the Conser/vative Party cannot simply award the line to Padadino.

Mike Long fixed it for Lazio from the get go and forced the GOP to follow suit … as a rabbit for Cuomo. He wanted Mandy to coast. Cuomo is still the desired choice. The Conservative and GOP establishment have a lot invested in the status quo. This not only includes their patronage, nepotism and croynism in Albany, but their very positions as party leaders (and all that entails).

Cuomo is not trying to create a “Big Tent” for any bipartisan or non-partisan purposes. He is doing it to cover against having his father, his mother and him being exposed for the rampant, systematic and systemic corruption in the agencies and authorites related to jobs hiring and promotions (with approval from two major unions, but for different reasons). The agency/shadow leadership “Team” is self serving and cruel. Paterson might have figured that out by now and not allowed agencies to “target” retirements and just told that anybody who wants out is out. This targeting thing goes back to Cuomo I and places the executive power in the hands of the agency bureaucrats (who try their best to keep the commissioners in the blind about the actual mechanics about what is going on underneath them. They want them kept busy with things like soda and sugar!

If Paladino knows what to look for, it is there. If exposed, it now only will defeat Cuomo, but force his immediate resignation as AG. The Feds are controlled by the Dem Party and absolutely do not want to indict Cuomo, his father and … his mother. It will destroy the entire infrastructure of the Democratic Party … both in New York … and in Washington.

All Well and Good, Student, but shouldn’t you take a moment to acknowledge that you were off base with vis a vis? A mea culpa or an “oops sorry” only takes a second?

Hairy arm — ha ha ha ha ha !
(Look it up, student. Even an old goat like me can do that.)
Ha ha ha ha .

LOL. OK, you Guys win.

That shouldn’t be taken overly seriously.

That Mr. Outsider Cuomo is really Mr. Insider and the public is saying so is the real issue, isn’t it? Upstate isn’t as backward as Downstate portrays it to be!

Oh, and that my hope is that I’ll always have a hairy … head!
Thank the Lord that so far, so good!

Have a Good Day, Guys!

Thanks for sticking up for me Carpet Bagger and cp. I provided the link to an explanation of the hairy arm theory, Student. So I guess now we’re ok…. good.IM isn’t going to happy, though, : )

IM — I had a choice of two levers to pull. It was either Lazio or Paladino. Paladino is a businessman — and I have a soft spot for businessmen having been raised by one of the smartest businessmen in New York.

Yeah, they’re not always politically correct. However being politically correct isn’t politically correct in 2010.

Plus as I said before — it’s a lot more interesting with Paladino in the picture than it would have been w/Lazio,. What’s bothering you? Are you worried Paladino might win? It appears as though the hairy arm has had a waxing. The arm is still in the picture, though. Don’t get me wrong. Paladino needs to be smarter with his words. Hiring a woman today (saw in another post) is a great move.

Thanks again Carpet Bagger and cp.

Yes, he frightens me. You know from previous discussions that I am far from a Cuomo groupie, but despite his “businessman” credentials—and I know how much you respect that and certainly for good reason—I really believe that Carl Paldino, if elected, would be an unmitigated disaster for this state and I still have to live here at least two more years before I can escape. Running the government of a state is not the same as running a business–it just isn’t. You can’t choose who you want as your customers and you can’t do only what turns a profit to the exclusion of everything else. You just can’t. You are accountable to every man, woman and child who lives within the borders of the state, and you can’t just go running around shooting your mouth off and alienating people with whom you need to collaborate. It’s as simple as that.

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