GOP looking for a strategy to outflank Paladino’s Conservative threat

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By Robert J. McCarthy | News Political Reporter
As Carl P. Paladino ratchets talk that he will once again “swing a baseball bat” at New York’s Republican establishment, some of the party’s top figures are countering with a brushback pitch of their own.

Key GOP leaders may be calling Paladino’s bluff as he threatens to reprise his 2010 run for governor next year – this time on the Conservative line – if he doesn’t approve of their selection of a gubernatorial candidate. After The Buffalo News reported last Monday he was considering that option, Paladino got statewide media attention and also appeared on Fox Business Network.

Though New York Republican Party leaders are lying low and declined to comment after’s Paladino’s threat, others warn that the party must revive its “Rockefeller Republican” roots and neutralize Paladino if it harbors any hope of beating incumbent Democrat Andrew M. Cuomo next year.

“In order to build a coalition, especially when you’re the minority party, you need to remember you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar,” said John J. Faso, the 2006 Republican nominee for governor. “It can be counterproductive to get into this kind of rhetoric and name-calling.”
http://www.buffalonews.com/city-region/gop-looking-for-a-strategy-to-outflank-paladinos-conservative-threat-20131116

[BlueToTheBone]

1. Run Paladino Run!

Not the Cuomo is such a prize.

[hrmjustin]

2. I hope so as well.

Cuomo does leave a lot to be desired.

[BlueToTheBone]

3. If Paladino did run, Cuomo would sweep

the election. I'm sure there would be the usual 28% that would love the idiot, but the rest would have to go with Cuomo.

[hrmjustin]

4. I think there are some rural voters who voted for Cuomo who is angry over the gun control issue

that could lower his vote totals. But yes he would still win in a landslide.