NY POST endorses Cuomo over Paladino

[Raine1967]

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/waiting_for_superman_hNnRQCGyidGy96844qWFwO

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.

Spitzer Lite, in an elephant suit.

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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Certainly a discussion of issues would have been useful. Yet, scandalously, the GOP was unable to field a credible candidate in what is shaping up everywhere else in America as a strong Republican year.

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.

Wow, just wow.

[speedoo]

1. Wow is right.

Anytime that rag endorses a democrat, you know the republican is truly horrible.

[Smarmie Doofus]

2. And maybe the DEM is not so great. nt