Which means she might be a Democrat we can learn to love…until 2010, when Rudy sends her back home:
Gov. Paterson, defying the liberal wing of his Democratic Party, has chosen little-known, NRA-backed, upstate Congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand to succeed Hillary Rodham Clinton as New York’s junior senator, it was learned last night.
The surprising – and, for many Democrats shocking – decision to pick the conservative Gillibrand, 42, from Hudson in Columbia County, was disclosed by the governor in calls to party officials and some members of the state’s congressional delegation, many of whom said they were unhappy with the selection, sources said.
It is clever politics, of course – she’s an attractive, young mother with some conservative inclinations which will be useful in the Democrats’ attempt to hold the seat in 2010. She’s sort of a Democrat Sarah Palin, with her NRA support and such. Cynical political gamesmanship aside, it is useful to get into the Democrat caucus some people of common sense, which this lady seems to have.
Still, we’ll have to beat her – nice, semi-conservative Democrat Senator still provides power for nasty, uber-liberal Democrat majority in the Senate. Better to have Giuliani in there.
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