Nixon son-in-law pulls out of US Senate race against Hillary Clinton

[deadparrot]

NEW YORK (AFP) - Ed Cox, son-in-law of former US president Richard Nixon, withdrew from the race for the Republican nomination to challenge former first lady Hillary Clinton for her New York seat in the US Senate.

Cox, a 58-year-old Republican lawyer married to Nixon's daughter Tricia, pulled out of the nomination race after New York's Republican governor, George Pataki, backed another candidate.

"The Governor is the leader of the Republican Party," Cox said in a statement. "Out of respect for his position and his decision, I have decided to stop my campaign for the United State Senate."

Clinton, 57, who was elected by a comfortable margin in 2000, is standing for re-election in 2006, amid widespread speculation that she could seek the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051014/pl_afp/uspoliticsnixon

[MaineDem]

1. Whom did Pataki back? Pirro???

Guess that old Nixon connection won't work any more. Awwwwwwww.

[SteppingRazor]

3. Yup. Both Rudy and Pataki did:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/story/341768p-291823c.html

[MaineDem]

5. Thanks. I hadn't heard that. (nt)

[Cha]

15. pataki doesn't have any

pull..cox should have gone for it. pirro is famous for "where's page 10?" Or whatever page number she was missing..Jon Stewart did an hilarious schtik on that!

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. Translation: "I don't want to get my ass kicked by that lady"

Right, Ed?

[bluestateguy]

4. Land-slide, LAND-SLIDE

Hillary will win over 60% of the vote and she will finish the campaign with a big war chest too.

And that extra money ain't gonna be used for a Carribean vacation, if you know what I mean.

[SteppingRazor]

6. agreed. This will be one of the biggest blowouts of '06. n/t

[AX10]

7. 2000: 56% Clinton / 43% Lazio

2006: 64% Clinton / Rest to loser.

[Tight_rope]

8. Good...us Texas folks are happy to heart that!

[Historic NY]

9. He should have stuck around.......

Pirro has some mob troubles. Then again it look like a replay of 6yr ago.

New York Daily News - http://www.nydailynews.com/
Mobster: Paid 10G for Pirro probe aid

[MADem]

21. Pirro cannot read from her own damn notes!

Her announcement speech was the funniest fucking thing I have ever seen. All Hill has to do is run fifteen seconds ads of that nitwit stumbling, and flipping through her notes. No comment desired or required!

Just what NY needs, seeing as they are the bullseye in the TERRA dartboard!!!!

[HockeyMom]

10. Put a fork in ALL of them

Pirro, Cox, whoever. Hillary is going to WIN. They can send all their money from around the country, as they did with Lazio, won't make a damned bit of difference.

[VegasWolf]

11. He felt the Hillary heat. nt

[Ellen Forradalom]

12. I hope this is half as much fun

as our Illinois Senate race last year. It was a riot to watch anyone who approached Barack Obama self-destruct.

[brentspeak]

13. Well, there's a quitter

Pataki is supporting someone else, so he folds up his tent. Democrats have more guts.

[Ignacio Upton]

14. They are trying to muscle out Cox and the others in order to

help Jeanine Pirro. They are doing to her what the Republican establishment did to Bush in 2000. Rest assure, as a Westchester County resident, I can tell you that Pirro will be destroyed by next year. She and her husband are so horribly corrupt (her limo driver is one of the highest paid officials in Westchester County, more than the President of Westchester Community College!) And as for her husband's tax troubles on personaly gifts, many of those "business gifts" were Jeanine's! She had to have known what was going on.

[DinahMoeHum]

16. As a fellow resident of Westchester County, I concur. . .

and, cross your fingers, we're gonna clean the DA's house this November with Tony Castro sweeping the broom!!

www.tonycastroforda.com

:kick::kick::kick:

[Ignacio Upton]

19. I hope Castro does well

I hear he's in a close race with Janet DiFiore (a Pirro clone who has been accused of intimidating the Right to Life candidate to step off of the ballot and drop out.) Also, do you have any word on the County Executive Race? How is Spano doing and what are his chances for re-election?

[hadrons]

17. "pulls out"???? was he in it??????????

[hadrons]

18. "pulls out"???? was he in it??????????

[wisteria]

20. She won by a comfortable margin the last time because she

really has no competition. I wish her well and hope she wins then decides not to run in 2008.

[fujiyama]

22. Haha This is great

Now we will see theh Clinton-Pirro race. This should be a riot! I'm not thhe biggest Hillary fan but I'm goin to love watchhing her kick Pirro's ass.

Granted she woulda kicked whhomever's ass, but Pirro seems so stupid and so corrupt as well withh hher mob connections.