“... The Conservative Party is little more than a patronage mill....” — NY Post Editorial, 3/17/14 edition
According, to the Post’s Editorial Board, “Minor parties once served a useful purpose here as an ideological check on Democrats and Republicans. No longer. The Conservative Party is little more than a patronage mill; the Working Families Party is a clearinghouse through which elected officials are bought by the public-sector unions; and the Independence Party stands for nothing at all, having spent much of the last few years under investigation....” (See “EDITORIAL – Rob’s declaration of independence” by NY Post Editorial Board, 3/16/14 [similar text appeared in print edition of NY Post on 3/17/14 ] [http://nypost.com/2014/03/16/robs-declaration-of-independence/]).
What the Post has finally articulated about the New York State Conservative Party in yesterday’s editorial praising Rob Astorino’s decision to renounce any attempt to get the Independence Party line is exactly what this blog has repeatedly announced about the Brooklyn GOP’s and it’s candidates’ misguided efforts at chasing after Conservative Party endorsements. It’s gone on for about the last five decades; and it is long overdue to be dumped for practical and moral reasons.
Interestingly, many of the candidates that get the endorsement of Jerry Kassar’s Brooklyn Conservative Party also manage to get the Independence Party line, as well. This suggests that there might well be a multi-faceted type of political corruption involving paired or multiple third-party endorsements afoot. That is certainly something that needs to be looked into.
Jerry Kassar and the word corruption in the same breath? Interesting...How about we add a little something about that Bay Ridge State Senator and maybe we have the start of something here...
ReplyDeleteIf a candiate for DA can't make politica contributions then NO candidate should be allowed to give a party any $ before or after receiving their line.
ReplyDeleteCandidates' not being allowed to buy third-party lines; are you some kind of un-American ?
DeleteWait a minute, in almost all U.S. jurisdictions it is not allowed....
The way the conservative party screws around I'm surprised they oppose abortion.
ReplyDeleteDo they ?
DeleteMike Long, himself, said that the pro-choice and pro-gay positions of Joe Lhota wouldn't preclude the Conservative Party's endorsement of him for mayor or his running on their line. The result was predictably awful.
In recent years, the Conservative Party has virtually abandoned anything that is conservative.
BACKFILL: THE “JERRY KASSAR EXPOSED AS A CLOSET LIBERAL – OR IS THAT ‘RADICAL’ ” EDITION
ReplyDeleteKASSAR’S COLUMN ENTITLED “COMMON SENSE DISTURBING” CERTAINLY IS ! ! !
In Kassar’s most recent so-called “Common Sense” column in this week’s Home Reporter is his biggest clunker yet when it comes to any claim that he might make about being any kind of conservative. Buried in that column is the following: “...names like William Buckley, Ronald Reagan, Barry Goldwater, M. Stan Evans, Bill Rusher and Tom Wicker were often spoken in reverence for the important roles they played in the beginning and for many decades....” (See “Common Sense: Disturbing” by Jerry Kassar, 3/17/14, Home Reporter Spectator
[http://www.homereporternews.com/opinion/common-sense-disturbing/article_549305f8-ae22-11e3-8503-001a4bcf887a.html]).
REALLY, THE NEW YORK TIMES’ TOM WICKER MENTIONED AS A “CONSERVATIVE” ALONG WITH BUCKLEY, REAGAN GOLDWATER, EVANS AND RUSHER ! ! !
NOT ONLY IS THAT A GROSS LIE, IT IS AN ABSOLUTE DISTORTION OF WHAT A RADICAL, LIKE TOM WICKER, WAS REALLY ALL ABOUT.
Sure, Wicker wrote a book that helped reconstruct Richard M. Nixon entitled “One Of Us” — but Wicker’s point in that book was that Nixon’s domestic program institutionalized LBJ’s Great Society and that he was an effective “liberal” president on many domestic matters.
Wicker also advocated that Black Americans abandon the Democratic Party — NOT for any conservative reasons — but to pursue a more radical and liberationist civil rights, economic and social agenda. That might have come out of his alliance with William M. Kunstler and Black Panther Party Chairman Bobby Seale after the NY State Police and National Guard put down the Attica Prison uprising.
OR MAYBE, KASSAR MEANT SOME OTHER TOM WICKER — IF SO, KASSAR SHOULD MAKE THAT CLEAR