Flash! New York Conservative Party in Decline!

The Times reporting yesterday's last week's last month's last year's last decade's news:

Perhaps no minor party has shaped modern-day politics in New York as profoundly as the state's Conservative Party, sending a little-known candidate to the United States Senate in 1970 and helping orchestrate the defeat of a Democratic star, Gov. Mario M. Cuomo, a generation later.

But now, with the steady erosion of its base of power over the last decade, the party faces the grim prospect of going the way of the Brooklyn Dodgers, The New York Herald Tribune and the subway token.

That little known candidate, 3rd term Governor George Pataki, has all but completely abandoned his partnership with the party for political expediency in state that seems to grow more liberal by the hour. The Conservative Party has now been overtaken in membership by the Independence Party, whose only distinction appears to be that they aren't Democrats or Republicans. Do they lean right? Well, they backed Ralph Nader for president in 2004. If that was to siphon off votes that would have otherwise gone for Kerry, maybe. But in a state where it wouldn't have made a difference I have grave doubts.

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[Franklin Jennings]

"But now, with the steady erosion of its base of power over the last decade, the party faces the grim prospect of going the way of the Brooklyn Dodgers,"

Send 'em to LA!!!