When a New York City daily tabloid starts acting like Humphrey Bogart doing the one-two on Peter Lorre and Elisha Cook Jr. in “The Maltese Falcon” those at the top of the Grand Old Party had better start taking notice, because rank and file Republicans might soon be looking elsewhere for leadership
I already mentioned the Friday Post Editorial at length in a March 1st comment, “BIG DEAL/ BIG TIME UPDATE: NEW YORK POST SLAMS NEW YORK CITY REPUBLICAN COUNTY LEADERS” ( See 3/1/13 comment to my 2/27/13 post below, “Marty Golden stepped-in to save Craig Eaton at the 2009 GOP County Convention....”; that comment specifically dealt with the Post’s 3/1/13 editorial, “New York’s clueless GOP,” NY Post Editorial, 3/1/13 [http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/new_york_clueless_gop_EwNWe3YJJnL3GJtKPStjII]).
All of that was followed by the Post’s Monday brew by Carl Campanile, who was even more scalding — “The city Republican Party is in shambles — engulfed by infighting and weak leadership that damages whatever chances its nominee has of winning City Hall this fall.....” (“City GOP Fears Death of Party” by Carl Campanile, 3/4/13, NY Post [http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/city_gop_fears_death_of_party_72MFtDvnoAdQh7vRnmMhwN]). Of particular interest to those of us in Brooklyn was the succinct introductory clause, “* Brooklyn’s party is splintered....”
For regular readers of this blog, this might seem old hat. However, the NY Post is a city-wide daily that is read by millions of people every week, and its full-throated criticism of the NYC GOP is reaching lots of Republican readers. For that reason alone, the Post’s repeated public scourging of the NYC Republican leadership should be viewed as an eye-opener rather than a pointless beating of a dead horse.
UPDATE: With just a few days left, March has been a very tough month for the "leaders" of the NYC Republican Party. It started with the New York Post doing a classic "bitch slap" on the city's GOP leaders; it was followed by the RNC and NYS GOP Chairmen doing a very public event in NYC without any of the NYC GOP chairmen getting a nod or a how do you do; and it winds up with NYC's GOP County Chairmen as split over mayoral candidates as ever. It's even worse for some of those "leaders", in several of those NYC counties the GOP elected officials and the rank-n-file in the districts are not following their "leaders" on their key decisions and dictats in the 2013 election cycle.
ReplyDeleteCertainly getting the worst of it is Kings County Republican Party Chairman Craig Eaton, who nears the end of March having dumped his first choice for mayor in 2013, but apparently without a candidate who has any time to accept his endorsement.