D'Amato pushes knife further into the gut of the NYGOP

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D'Amato's endorsement makes no difference.

Sptizer should stick to fighting crime.

His social views will lead New York only further down the road to moral bankruptcy.

Of course, I can't say Weld's social views are any better.

What a pathetic choice New Yorker's face.

Both leading candidates, Spitzer and Weld, are morally bankrupt.

Ahh you mean equality

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D'Amato's endorsement makes no difference.

Sptizer should stick to fighting crime.

His social views will lead New York only further down the road to moral bankruptcy.

Of course, I can't say Weld's social views are any better.

What a pathetic choice New Yorker's face.

Both leading candidates, Spitzer and Weld, are morally bankrupt.

Ahh you mean equality

No, actually, I mean moral bankruptcy.  From what I understand, both favor same sex marriage.  Marriage is not an equality issue.  Marriage is not a right.  Marriage is a privilege, for one man and one woman.

Might I remind you, before you go and accuse me of being narrow minded, that even the 2004 Democratic ticket, John Kerry, the great liberal, and John Edwards, were, and still are, as far as I know, both opposed to same sex marriage.

Same sex marriage shouldn't be an issue in NY. If any candidate came out against it they would be slaughtered. The GOP needs to base their campaigns on economic issues or else they'll get nowhere in NY.

The social Conservatives with help from the Conservative Party is doing a great job of making a horrid situation for the GOP in the state, and pushing the NYC suburbs  (especially Long Island and Westchester) which the GOP needs to win the state, even further into the Dem column with the way they are handling and treating any candidates to the left of Bush socially.  If they acted this way when Pataki was a candidate he wouldn't have had a chance.

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Senator Pothole should be ashamed if he sales out the NYGOP, NY Conservative Party, and the NY Right to Life Party which stuck by himthrough thick and thin.

Fcuk the last two. It's the NYGOP who needs his help, not the joke parties.

Without those "joke parties" no Republican has won statewide in nearly 30 years, particularly Senator D'Amato who would have LOST each time (with the possible exception of 1986) without those votes.

Pataki had their endorsments, but he is FAR from a social conservative.  Bottom line as I said for a Republican to win statewide they need to win Long Island and Westchester.  That is a big reason why Pataki did well, not because the NY Conservative Party  endorsed him (which is pretty strange considering how socially liberal & pro-choice Pataki really is).  Any republican who plays the Conservative Party line and/or the Right to Life Party line would get absolutley obliterated on Long Island and Westchester and as a result get obliterated in the Govenor's race.