Senate

That Was Quick

By Jay Newton-Small | @JNSmall | March 2, 2010 | +

This morning Ben Smith over at Politico floated the idea that billionaire Mort Zuckerman might challenge Kirsten Gillibrand for Hillary Clinton’s old Senate seat in New York. This evening in a post on the New York Daily News, a paper he owns, he says he’s not gonna run. With Harold Ford out as well, this has been a good week for Gillibrand’s campaign.

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  • pafro

    A 72 year-old man that just had a baby?

    I am assuming that the woman was 40 years old or less.

    Gross. I’m sure that plenty of people would vote for that sort of creepiness.

  • Cliff

    Let’s face it, Ford wasn’t going to pose a threat to Gillibrand.
    .
    No one’s shedding any tears over their lost chance to vote for Ford.

  • deconstructiva

    Maybe the Tea Party will run someone this fall. That should bring some drama to Gillibrand’s race.
    .
    Speaking of Tea Parties elsewhere, it’ll be interesting to see how Nevada’s Tea Party candidate affect Reid’s race. Apparently there’s lots of TP infighting there.
    http://www.lvrj.com/news/tea-party-crasher-arouses-anger-85800257.html
    .
    (discusses NV’s R primary and mentions TP) – http://www.lvrj.com/news/tarkanian-joins-republican-field-of-reid-challengers-86087842.html

  • nflfoghorn

    Maybe she was looking for a father figure ;)

  • nflfoghorn

    OT: Dang. Ann Richards warned us about governors from Texas….

    http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/03/02/texas.election/index.html?hpt=T1

  • markstev

    Ben Smith is always wrong. That’s what so right about Ben Smith.

    So very far, far, far right on the Conservative chain at Politico.

    Personally, I’m going to miss Mortimer Zuckerman’s bid for the U.S. Senate. Why, without ole’ Mortimer, Avigdor Lieberman will have one less blind advocate in the country club known as the U.S. Senate.

  • apr2563

    Neither would Zucherman. He is too tied to Wall Street.

  • apr2563

    You know Politico. Throw a bunch of stuff out there and once in a while you might be right. Nevertheless, the beltway press will quote them.

  • FlownOver

    Politico: Winning the Morning, Accuracy Be Damned.

  • kevin

    Actually, it’s apparently a mystery as to who the mother was. Weird.

  • kevin

    I’m pretty sure that’s their official motto.
    .
    It’s not every day that Dick Cheney uses them as his official press office. It just seems like it.

  • sacredh

    Please tell me the mother isn’t Bristol Palin.

  • kevin

    Ugh. Goodbye, breakfast!

  • afguy

    You know, I’ve been trying for some time to get the “Tea Party” afficionados here to tell me who their candidates are (and for that matter, what their concrete platform is) but I’m not having much luck.
    .
    I’m still of the opinion that “Pissed, Paranoid, and Perpetually Picked On” is kinda thin…
    .
    Can someone “flesh” them out a little more for me, with ideas they would implement if elected?

  • Ffred

    The TP (love it!) is inherently anti-government. How can they logically endorse any candidate? Oh, I forget, this is the political arena – logic has no place here.

    Calvin: The word ‘Lost’ isn’t even in our vocabulary!
    Hobbes: How about “Mommy”?
    Both: MOMMMYYY!!

  • afguy

    Ffred,
    .
    Somehow, “Elect us… We Won’t Even TRY to Govern” doesn’t get my blood pumping…
    .
    Maybe it’s just me though…

  • kevin
  • pafro

    Did you see this movie about Politico? I laughed for about an hour after I watched it. And like Doug J, I wonder what it means that I know all of the Politico jokes involved.
    http://www.balloon-juice.com/2010/03/01/for-the-truly-hard-core/

  • Ivy_B

    Gee, I thought their story this morning would be that Dick Cheney really didn’t have any coattails since he strongly endorsed Kay Bailey, as did GWB and James Baker. I guess the weak coattails story only matters when Obama can’t drag Jon Corzine across the finish line in an election already lost.

  • Ffred

    I meant that I love that acronym, not the party itself, as in what should I apply to my posterior?

  • lcky9

    Maybe Obama could just knight someone to take Hillary’s place.. than he can claim NY as his Kingdom.. NY is lost anyway just like Detroit and a few other cities..where the citizens just keep voting in the same junk and expecting things to be getting better..

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