NY: GOP Delegates Reject William Weld and Back Faso Instead

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Is it me or does it look like the nY GOP is trying to hand the Dems the State Senate??

No matter who it is Weld or faso they will both get absolutley demolished by Spitzer, its not going to be close.   Faso will do better upstate, Weld downstate.  It is downstate NY specifically Long island which somehow the GOP has all 9 state Senators that the GOP can least afford Faso.  Weld being from Long Island and being quite socially liberal will still get beat easily by Spitzer.  However Weld will keep the margins quite a bit closer than the social conservative Faso would which will more than likely have some rollover effect on the state senate races on Long Island.  The GOP will probably lose some of the state senate seats on Long Island regardless, but they will lose more with someone as conservative as Faso on the top of the ticket, especially with it looking like the GOP will have 2 social conservatives at the top of the ticket in Faso & Spencer. 

Not that McFarland or Weld have any chance of even being close in their races, but by going with the more conservative candidates they put other seats at risk because of people who are turned off by conservatives.  Not only that, but they push suburban NYC (Long Island and Westchester especially) even further into the Dem column than they already are, and thats the last thing the GOP can do if they ever want to be even remotley relevant again in NY politics. 

The state GOP seems to be moving right at a time where the area they most need to be competitive in, in order to be relevant is moving leftward, a pretty stupid idea.   Long island already is pretty much Dem on the National level, but by bowing down to upstate conservatives, especially social conservatives the NY state GOP may have handed the Dems Long Island for good and dug their own graves of ever having any future in the state. 

Yep, the NY state Republican party is being destroyed by Bush, and they're stupidly walking off the cliff. William Weld is a decent man, and the stupid Bush supporters can't support decent men. When Weld was running against Kerry, the two would sometimes go out for a beer. Republicans can't stand someone who doesn't blindly hate John Kerry.

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Is it me or does it look like the nY GOP is trying to hand the Dems the State Senate??

No matter who it is Weld or faso they will both get absolutley demolished by Spitzer, its not going to be close.   Faso will do better upstate, Weld downstate.  It is downstate NY specifically Long island which somehow the GOP has all 9 state Senators that the GOP can least afford Faso.  Weld being from Long Island and being quite socially liberal will still get beat easily by Spitzer.  However Weld will keep the margins quite a bit closer than the social conservative Faso would which will more than likely have some rollover effect on the state senate races on Long Island.  The GOP will probably lose some of the state senate seats on Long Island regardless, but they will lose more with someone as conservative as Faso on the top of the ticket, especially with it looking like the GOP will have 2 social conservatives at the top of the ticket in Faso & Spencer. 

Not that McFarland or Weld have any chance of even being close in their races, but by going with the more conservative candidates they put other seats at risk because of people who are turned off by conservatives.  Not only that, but they push suburban NYC (Long Island and Westchester especially) even further into the Dem column than they already are, and thats the last thing the GOP can do if they ever want to be even remotley relevant again in NY politics. 

The state GOP seems to be moving right at a time where the area they most need to be competitive in, in order to be relevant is moving leftward, a pretty stupid idea.   Long island already is pretty much Dem on the National level, but by bowing down to upstate conservatives, especially social conservatives the NY state GOP may have handed the Dems Long Island for good and dug their own graves of ever having any future in the state. 

Yep, the NY state Republican party is being destroyed by Bush, and they're stupidly walking off the cliff. William Weld is a decent man, and the stupid Bush supporters can't support decent men. When Weld was running against Kerry, the two would sometimes go out for a beer. Republicans can't stand someone who doesn't blindly hate John Kerry.

oh stop it.  just stop it.

stop kissing up to bill weld.  when he won 70% of the vote in massachusetts, you were probably blaming diebold.

by the way, instead of selling insurance, the guy weld beat in 1994 is now the head of the pittsburgh school system.

Why would I care what percentage of the vote someone gets for Massachusetts governor, which is basically a figure-head positiion? If the Republicans are stealing elections in Massachusetts, they're doing a pretty sh**tty job.

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Willaim Weld is a left-wing nut case from Taxacussets.

LOL, that's a pretty dumb attack.  Here's all of the problems with it.
1. William Weld has spent more of his life in NY
2. New York has higher taxes
3. Gore did better in NY than MA