Pataki Biggest Threat To Gillibrand: New York Magazine

Daily Intel:

Kirsten Gillibrand has, up to this point, been very lucky. With her powerful guardian angels Chuck Schumer and Barack Obama watching over her, countless Democrats mulling a primary run have been convinced to sit this one out. High-profile, big-name Republicans like Rudy Giuliani and Peter King have bowed out on their own. For someone considered so vulnerable -- an appointed senator, still largely unknown, with a malleable ideology -- it's almost a miracle for Gillibrand that nobody has stepped up to the plate yet. But that doesn't mean there aren't still plenty of possible challengers waiting in the wings, and Harold Ford Jr. is only the most vocal and visible one. But who among them will actually enter the race, and who actually poses a threat to Gillibrand?

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Comments

[MIKEinNYC]

11:55 PM on 01/13/2010

Pataki would be a credible candidate except that he's already 65, a tad old for a freshman senator, in my view.

[wedgie]

04:08 PM on 01/13/2010

Gillibrand is from upstate. As a person who lives upstate and deals with the economic situation here, let me say this: the last thing we need is a NYC superstar looking for a national platform from which to ignore upstate New York.... ie: Hillary Clinton.

And I'm a progressive, myself.

Seriously. We need someone who gives a damn about upstate New York. And frankly, Gillibrand has supported the Public Option and a number of other progressive causes.

[AnnC0725]

04:25 PM on 01/13/2010

Progressives are communists..that's what they decided to call themselves in the 20's and 30's when they couldn't win elections under the communist party banner. So please quit using that term..unless of course.....

[wedgie]

08:57 PM on 01/13/2010

Annco,
If I was a communist I wouldn't be anti labor unions and pro small business.

Try and stay on the same page with those of us who are realists. Okay?

Thanks, sweetie.

[pj-smith]

11:13 AM on 01/13/2010

First, it would be nice to see a real progressive run against her in the primary.

[noaxe397]

10:16 AM on 01/13/2010

George Bush, George Pataki, Rudy Guliani.

What do they have in common?

They are all republicans who were in power on 9/11.

Dems seem to have forgotten this and they need to forever hold the six feet of these three men to the fire every day for that fact otherwise the GOP will try to re-write history by saying 9/11 did not happen on their watch.

Oh, wait a minute........