A NYS Gubinatorial Teabagger Candidate?
Just when you thought that it was safe to go back in the water…,
you may get hit with another teabag. A life long Resident of Buffalo and CEO of Ellicott Development, Carl Paladino, is thinking about answering that bugle call. From Swing State Project:
• NY-Gov: I can’t see this being of any interest unless something goes seriously wrong and we somehow wind up with a David Paterson/Rick Lazio matchup and we need to shunt off some right-wing votes to get Paterson over the hump. But now there’s a teabagger-linked rich guy, Buffalo real estate developer Carl Paladino, saying that he’s considering a gubernatorial run, and that he “would go in as a pure independent.”
I had thought the Tea Party would have been long over by now. Come-on, haven’t they burst your pretty balloon and taken the moon away, already?!
My only response to this is (and this is coming from a long time Paterson supporter.): Run, Andrew, run!
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Carl is by far superior to Cuomo, Paterson or Lazio. If you want to change the dysfunctional nature of Albany, Paladino is the man. The other 3 represent everything that is wrong with NYS.
teabagger, that never stops being funny. you lefties are sooooo witty.
We’ll stop calling you “teabaggers” when you guys stop calling universal health care a “Nazi institution”.
We’ll stop calling it a Nazi Institution, which it is (Bismark started it, Hitler perpetuated it), when you admit that health care is made up of goods and services and you acknowledge that the most efficient and cost effective manner to provide goods and services is through a free market bristling with competition.
The only thing Hitler did with health care was deny it for six million Jews, and it wasn’t even the first right he took away from them. Even today a conservative leader like Chancellor Merkel wouldn’t dare to touch it. And the Germans do have competition. You can be on the government plan or on a private plan, which 15% of people are.
Oh, and the next time you break your arm remember that the x-ray that doctors are using to examine you was discovered by a scientist living in a “socialized medicine state”. Or when you develop Alzheimer’s that it was first diagnosed in a “socialized medicine state”.
Socialized medicine is the best. Unless of course you’re the Premier of New Brunswick, CA and you need heart surgery. In which case, you fly to an undisclosed location in the US for that.
Summing up an entire system based on the actions of just one guy? How intriguing.
Germany’s been butchered, dethroned, democratized, Nazified, butchered again, bombed into oblivion, liberated, divided, democratized again, prospered, reunited, and now cleaning up the mess the Soviets left. And after all they’ve been through in 100 years, they STILL have a system of universal health care that has provided three major discoveries and innovations that I know off the top of my head: x-rays, Alzheimer’s, linking smoking to lung cancer.
New Brunswick Premier Shawn Graham had heart surgery in the States?
That’s odd.
And here every news organisation across North America has been naming Newfoundland/Labrador Premier Danny Williams as the transient patient.
I know, I know… New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Labrador… why quibble over details when it’s only Canada we’re talking about?
The point is to attack the Canadian health care system as being socialised, inferior and requiring the standard (and strictly rumored) wait time of three months for an MRI.
We get it. At present time, the American version of health care coverage is vastly superior to the Canadian version. It’s just a pack of lies that anyone in the States suffers disastrous financial ruin over catastrophic illness or accident or is unable to afford or qualify for health care coverage. That just doesn’t happen.
Does it?
Hey, @Rebmann: (1) Bismarck wasn’t a Nazi; (2) the health care scheme he pushed through after uniting Germany wasn’t universal health care as we understand it today - the British actually instituted the first such system; and (2) Health care can’t be universal if it excludes Jews, Gypsies, Slavs, Homosexuals, and other untermenschen.
Stop being deliberately stupid, Mike, because you’re smarter than that idiotic, tired Hitler fetishism.
Anyhow, here’s my take on Paladino.
Why does this site attract the attention of the right at all? I can’t imagine why some people get their rocks off spouting venom to an audience that so obviously isn’t going to be persuaded by such arguments as they bring forth…