Editorial: 'Anger, alone, won't cut it.'
Republican candidate for governor Carl Paladino gestures during an interview at the Holiday Inn in Liverpool Oct. 20, the site of a $250-per-person fundraiser for his campaign. Republican Carl Paladino’s hometown Buffalo News is endorsing his rival in the New York governor’s race, declaring “there is no choice” but Andrew Cuomo.
The endorsement continues a sweep so far for the Democrat. Cuomo’s endorsements include The New York Times, New York’s Daily News, the New York Post, Newsday, and the Upstate newspapers in Rochester, Poughkeepsie, Kingston and Glens Falls.
Sunday’s Buffalo News editorial says that while it’s trendy to sneer at career politicians, a good career politician knows how to get things done.
The editorial states Cuomo alone has a chance of turning the troubled state toward what it calls rational decision making.
Paladino says the Buffalo News has often backed candidates who lose.
From The Buffalo News:
Two big problems: (Paladino) doesn't have the temperamental balance to actually serve as governor. Anger, alone, won't cut it. Loose cannons -- which is basically what 69 percent of voters in a new poll believe Paladino to be -- don't succeed in leadership positions.
What is more, even if he could succeed, he has ruled himself out as a fit candidate as governor. His despicable comments on gays and lesbians, alone, demonstrated that he cannot be entrusted with representing New Yorkers equitably. The racist and pornographic e-mails he sent suggest the same about minorities and women. Those are not trifles; they are threshold tests. Paladino flunked.
» Read the full editorial: Cuomo for governor [The Buffalo News]