Three weeks ago:
Caroline Kennedy for the Senate!!!??? Whadda you, kiddin’ me or what? (Y’know.)
Unbelievable.
I wouldn’t vote for this woman as president of the local PTA.
“Y’know.” (Watch the video if you have not already done so.)
Really.
I’m sure that she is very nice.
And I am also sure that she is as media-dumb as a stick. Just for starters.
Read on for more.
Plus…she doesn’t look healthy enough to stand the gaff. She really doesn’t.
For her sake, I’m glad she copped out.
For our sake, too.
Now it’s Cuomo.
I said 8 to 3 against Kennedy in that earlier post.
Make it 10 to 1 for Cuomo. Watch. Probably before the day is over or maybe the next day so’s the Caroline story can calm down a little.
Almost certainly before the weekend. Gotta get it in the Sunday media mix.
I don’t know the machinations that went on… maybe Paterson telling her to find a way out because he wasn’t going to pick her, maybe something much more complicated…but “media-dumb as a stick” certainly describes her last-minute, on again/off again/on again retreat from potential Senatorhood.
She would have been a disaster.
And…she would have lost the election in 2010.
Bet on it.
New Yorkers would have eaten her up the first time she showed signs of weakness. And she certainly would have shown signs of weakness because…well, let’s face it, folks. She is weak. Maybe a very nice person; maybe quite strong in some respects. But politically? Fuggedaboudit. No talent. As in “weak”. No real desire; no fire in the belly. Contrast her to say Hillary Clinton for all you need to know on that account. In some sort of deathmatch between the two…and come to think of it, maybe the behind-the-scenes push and pull of this story was exactly that…on which of the two opponents would you place your money?
Right. You’ve got it.
This is the first serious political mistake that I have seen Obama make.
May it be the last.
Later…
AG
P.S. Bloomberg got dissed, too. Good. maybe “Change that we can believe in” includes not giving the obscenely powerful urban real estate interests that he represents any more power than they already possess. Wouldn’t that be nice! Maybe my reasonably priced Bronx neighborhood will survive after all.
