Yes, I’m making bold prediction that Carl Paladino will defeat Liberal knock off Andrew Cuomo because we New Yorkers are sick and tired of being taxed to death and having a dysfunctional government in Albany.
Paladino is the man who could blow it up and make government work for the people instead of the other way around.
Any New Yorker who would vote for Cuomo would need to be committed to Belleview for a psych evaluation because he’s more of what already exists in Albany, pro union, big tax and spend.
New Yorkers are not that stupid!
The New York Post reports that Carl Paladino -- an outsider fueled by the Tea Party but derided as a long shot by the state Republican establishment -- snatched the GOP nod for governor from former Long Island Rep. Rick Lazio, in a political upset that just weeks ago seemed impossible.
Paladino, a Buffalo developer who self-financed his campaign, was declared the winner over Lazio by 63 to 37 percent, with 84 percent of the votes tallied.
"If we've learned anything tonight it's that New Yorkers are mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore!" Paladino said in his victory speech.
His surprising surge came after critics dismissed him as a fringe candidate with a mouth bigger than his potential -- or his brain.
His campaign began with a series of embarrassing revelations that could easily have torpedoed his bid. He was caught forwarding racist and dirty e-mails, and referred to Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver -- an Orthodox Jew -- as "Hitler."
But Paladino, plainspoken and seemingly earnest, was backed by the influential Tea Party movement, as well as by voters impressed with his message.
Lazio, who was trounced by Hillary Rodham Clinton for the US Senate in 2000, said in his concession speech last night, "We wish we had a better outcome, but we're proud of the race we ran."
Don't Leave Without Clicking Other Great Stories in The Last Tradition. Tell two friends about this blog
