You vote for politicians who advance the policy you favor – conservative Republicans.

I vote for politicians who advance the policy I favor –
progressive Democrats.

What do I say when Spitzer or Hevesi turnout badly? GET RID OF THEM. They are a disgrace. But it doesn’t mean what I believe is disgraceful.

How do you feel when conservatives like Larry Craig or David Vitter get caught doing sumpthin bad? No different than me – you continue to believe in conservative principles, and you oust the bad guys even if they believe what you believe.

(And for the record, Eliot Mess was pretty conservative for a Democrat: pro-death penalty, against progressive taxation vs. raising fees on the middle class. So he was no great “liberal” to me).

Bottom Line: We disagree on philosophy, but we agree that ethics matter. Bad ethics, Eliot? Good bye – no matter what your party is. Ditto a conservative bad boy. Has nothing to do with “liberal” or “conservative”.

Fair enough?

August 9th, 1974.

March 12th, 2008.

Somewhere, my friend John Faso is either laughing or crying—maybe both. John was nearly elected NY Comptroller in 2002, only to lose by a nose to Alan Hevesi, who resigned in disgrace in late 2006, after winning re-election owing to sheep voters. That same year, 2006, John Faso lost in a landslide election to Eliot Spitzer.

Now: John is not necessarily the “Mark Green” of New York electoral politics (though Mark Green IS the “Washington Generals” of NY politics).

Yet I wonder what those pattern-voting Democrats think as they ponder their recent statewide officials, and their descent into darkness once hubris and corruption has been discovered?

Let’s see how John Faso reacts.