Carl Paladino (And His Baseball Bat) Concede To Andrew Cuomo

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by Frances Martel | 12:47 am, November 3rd, 2010

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“You have not heard the last of Carl Paladino,” the surrealist New York Republican gubernatorial candidate growled to voters. He may have lost by upwards of 25% to Democrat Andrew Cuomo, but his concession speech sounded like anything but tonight as he brandished a traffic-cone-colored baseball bat and advised his opponent to bring the bat to Albany, or “run the risk” that someone would use it against him.

The baseball bat, Paladino explained, was a metaphor for “the people”– a weapon which the government could work constructively with or allow others to use to hurt them. “As the next governor,” Paladino warned Cuomo, somewhat menacingly, “you can grab this handle and bring the people to Albany, or you could leave it untouched and run the risk of something wielding it against you.” An aptly bizarre end to a barely coherent campaign.

It created one of the more cheerful moments of the night on MSNBC, where Keith Olbermann called the speech “wonderful” but chided Paladino for holding a bat so orange “no self-respecting adult of either gender” would be caught with it, while Rachel Maddow tried to understand the logic behind crafting such an image of himself after a loss. Lawrence O’Donnell reminded her that this is the image he created “to respond to the image that he is crazy and maybe violent.”

The end of that speech (and the MSNBC crews reactions) below:

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skyfet

Didn’t do him any good! Now take your bat to the construction site. Byeeeeee
DaTruth

NYS is a mess, and it’s a one-party state. There’s no way to blame Republicans for this disaster that is NY. I didn’t vote for Cuomo, but I’m hoping he actually means what he says in cleaning up Albany, because he’s really saying cleaning up his own party –the ONLY ones who have power here. The Dems have the Governorship, the Senate and the Assembly. There’s no one to point the finger at but themselves.
timzank

DaTruth said:
NYS is a mess, and it’s a one-party state. There’s no way to blame Republicans for this disaster that is NY. I didn’t vote for Cuomo, but I’m hoping he actually means what he says in cleaning up Albany, because he’s really saying cleaning up his own party –the ONLY ones who have power here. The Dems have the Governorship, the Senate and the Assembly. There’s no one to point the finger at but themselves.

Your State (my birthplace) will be an officially bankrupt 3rd world like state in 5 to 10 years tops, which is fine with me. Along with California, New York will become the blueprint for progressive democrat failure on such a grand scale even the entrenched libs will wake up and/or move.

Sadly, the only way these places and deluded people will pay attention is when they no longer have ANY money left and come begging to the fed and the other states for help, which is precisely the time to kick them in the head repeatedly and let them choke on their own vomit.
ranaverde

One clown and one psychotic…or is it two clowns?…
alamo2

timzank said:
Your State (my birthplace) will be an officially bankrupt 3rd world like state in 5 to 10 years tops, which is fine with me. Along with California, New York will become the blueprint for progressive democrat failure on such a grand scale even the entrenched libs will wake up and/or move. Sadly, the only way these places and deluded people will pay attention is when they no longer have ANY money left and come begging to the fed and the other states for help, which is precisely the time to kick them in the head repeatedly and let them choke on their own vomit.

Are you related to Paladino? This is one of the more delusional diatribes on here in quite some time. I guess you consider Mississippi and other conservative states to be huge financial successes! And then to say that you want to kick New Yorkers in the head repeatedly and let them choke on vomit: wow, you are really something. And to say that NY will be officially bankrupt in 5-10 years is plain silly. You know very little of that state.
http://www.armwood.com armwood

DaTruth said:
NYS is a mess, and it’s a one-party state. There’s no way to blame Republicans for this disaster that is NY. I didn’t vote for Cuomo, but I’m hoping he actually means what he says in cleaning up Albany, because he’s really saying cleaning up his own party –the ONLY ones who have power here. The Dems have the Governorship, the Senate and the Assembly. There’s no one to point the finger at but themselves.

New York is a one party state? You must have had some of that medical marijuana. New York City, the economic engine of the state and where half of the states population live has been run by a Republican mayor for around ten years.
crclarkNY

Politicians of both parties here have a choke hold on the government and they like it that way – which is why the major party Republicans in NY (Pataki excluded…) bailed on Paladino – they don’t want things to change. As for Cuomo, he’ll do just enough to look like he’s reforming things but not enough to make a difference.
alamo2

crclarkNY said:
Politicians of both parties here have a choke hold on the government and they like it that way – which is why the major party Republicans in NY (Pataki excluded…) bailed on Paladino – they don’t want things to change. As for Cuomo, he’ll do just enough to look like he’s reforming things but not enough to make a difference.

Oh come on!! People bailed on Paladino because he was plain nuts! As you say, “Mean people suck.” And Paladino is plain mean. And he showed absolutely no clue as to how to govern, or campaign for that matter.

And it is truly amazing that you know more about Cuomo’s ability to govern better than the people who voted for him. I guess it is OK to say that America dodged a real bullet when Angle and O’Donnell were defeated?
http://www.armwood.com armwood

alamo2 said:
Oh come on!! People bailed on Paladino because he was plain nuts! As you say, “Mean people suck.” And Paladino is plain mean. And he showed absolutely no clue as to how to govern, or campaign for that matter.

And it is truly amazing that you know more about Cuomo’s ability to govern better than the people who voted for him. I guess it is OK to say that America dodged a real bullet when Angle and O’Donnell were defeated?

Paladino is not atypical for New York State. i went to a private prep school on Staten Island and out od a graduating class of 32 about 17 or 18 had attitudes and behaved like Paladino. I was the only black kid in the high school for two of my four years and the only black kid in my class from the 3rd through the 12th grade. The kids like Paladino were like him openly racist and they didn’t like him understand it was even wrong. They were very violent. I almost lost my left eye after one attack. It’s a cultural thing, typical in the north east. Cuomo is from a whole different world. He is a sophisticated though hard nose politician. He is not as liberal as his father.