I am cross posting this from the NY forum. I think it deserves more attention. The NY Post as you know is a Murdoch owned paper. It is conservative. It's tabloid. It loves controversy. This endorsement is amazing. I am sure it had to do with Carl Paladino stating that he would take a reporter out, but it says a lot more, IMO. It says to me, that the GOP nominee is simply too crazy to be governor. It's almost too much to edit it.
<snip> Spitzer's legacy is David Paterson, an amiable fellow who in his own bumbling way was even less qualified for high office than his damaged-goods patron.
But whereas four years ago the Republican Party offered the estimable John Faso as its gubernatorial candidate, this year the man at the top of the GOP ticket is a Buffalo businessman with a towering temper and a well-documented contempt for the truth.
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Meanwhile, the Democrats once again have put forth what appears to be an ambitious, articulate attorney general who has presented detailed plans for New York's future which reveal a realistic understanding of the state's problems and prospects and the seriousness of purpose needed to address them.
It is on that basis that The Post today endorses Attorney General Andrew Cuomo for governor -- in the hope, if not necessarily the full expectation, that he will be the strong, reform-driven chief executive the Empire State so desperately needs.
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At the outset, there was something refreshing about Carl Paladino, the erratic, energetic political neophyte who took down the Republican establishment.
He won the primary by showing that he understood the frustrations New Yorkers grapple with daily -- and by speaking to them, directly and forcefully.
But he was long on anger and short on answers. (Throwing Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver into Attica may appeal at an elemental level, but it is not a policy prescription.)
Then a screw popped loose.
Paladino revealed himself to be undisciplined, unfocused and untrustworthy -- that is, fundamentally unqualified for the office he seeks.
In addition, his embrace of the utterly bizarre Roger Stone and his execrable Sancho Panza, Michael Caputo, as principal advisers is compelling evidence of a profound ethical myopia.
And now he is silent on the issues.
Read the rest, They
REALLY did NOT want to endorse him -- but Carl is just too damn crazy.
This is all kinds of awesome for me.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/waiting_for_superman_hNnRQCGyidGy96844qWFwO
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