I don’t think this will end with Kudlow and Regan apologizing to Rush, but stranger things have happened:
Bomb-throwing GOP gubernatorial hopeful Carl Paladino was left red-faced yesterday as his first public-policy effort, the naming of a four-member “blue-ribbon tax-cut team,” collapsed just minutes after it was announced.
Two of the men Paladino identified as team members, CNBC business-show host Larry Kudlow and former state Comptroller Ned Regan, said they had never even spoken to the candidate and knew nothing about the panel.
Regan said he wouldn’t serve while Kudlow laughed uncontrollably when asked if he would.
Kudlow cracked up for several seconds after learning of Paladino’s “announcement” from The Post and then said, “I don’t know Mr. Paladino. I don’t know what to say.”
PeakVT
Kudlow will come around once he realizes it’s another opportunity to be a smarmy, lying jackass in front of a camera or two.
Kryptik
Why do I predict these two bowing down and apologizing to Paladino within the day, after ‘POPULUZT RAAAAGE!’ from the Tea Parties and the Usual Suspects?
Ash Can
Jeezus, what a frickin’ genius. What ought to be even funnier is the inevitable backpedaling, spin, clarification, defense, CYA, etc. that Paladino is likely spewing forth even as I type this. Nice counterpoint to this morning’s Quinnipiac poll.
This story warms my cockles. It reminds me that, yes, some blatant assholery really does get punished.
Nick in PA
Yet Quinnipiac today has Paladino within six of Cuomo. Now, either that poll is the worst outlier of all time, or we are headed for 75 lost House seats and 12 Senate. ‘Cause Murcans are all, like, angry and stuff.
beltane
Wasn’t Kudlow going to run for Dodd’s seat in CT? Is he a New Yorker now, or just a roving ambassador for Wall Street.
Culture of Truth
I like this guy.
Paris
‘Tax cut’? I thought you said ‘fax your butt’. So I did.
Punchy
Palandino is a palindrome for On I DNA lap. Which sounds like a Palin Drone to me.
beltane
@Nick in PA: I saw this morning that Quinnipiac also had Lazio up over Paladino by 12 before the primary, so maybe their finger is not exactly on the pulse of the NY electorate.
Zifnab
@Ash Can:
Nonsense. There is no backpedaling in the Tea Party Brigade. Now is when all good, honest, and true Americans must come together and denounce the liberal media for trying to paint Paladino as some kind of raving idiot. Where is my fair and balanced media coverage? We should string up Kudlow and Regan beside Karl Rove.
Mark S.
Along these lines, Quinnipiac has a poll where Cuomo leads by only six, but again, they leave Lazio out. What percent is Lazio likely to get, 10%?
ETA: You heard it here first, gang.
MikeJ
@Punchy: Anagram, not palindrome. Add his first name and it’s an anagram for Paranoid Call or Crania Ad Poll.
fourlegsgood
@Culture of Truth:
which guy?
I swear to god, if NY elects this asshole, it really will be the end times.
kommrade reproductive vigor
Clearly LIEbrul ACORN thugs got to these two fine ReaLAMEricans. Or maybe they’re not really Americans!! Check their long form vault copy Birth Certificates with laser embossed seal!!
Also2 – Is “bomb throwing” Media Speak for Explosively Flaming Asshole?
Kryptik
@Nick in PA:
This is what’s getting me so far as the election closes in. No matter the bat shit insanity that gets aired out publicly, it just. does. not. hurt. these fuckers. It actually seems to fucking endear them to the ‘Likely Voters’ polled, judging by the way that even the batshittiest teabaggers keep fucking gaining
Face
Palandingo only down 6, which is probably near the +/- of the poll. That’s quite disturbing.
Jeff
@Nick in PA: almost certainly an outlier– first of all they don’t include Lazio as the Conservative candidate,, secondly it is only a week from the primary so he is still getting the bounce from “Carl Who?”
and the public hasnt had a chance to be exposed to the full on crazy of the Paladino experience.
Jeff
@Kryptik: Before we panic — remember that a lot of these voters will come back to the fold when the election is closer, they just want the experience of flirting with the bad boy, they probably won’t let him f**k them.
Kryptik
@Jeff:
I hope to god you’re right, I honestly hope to god, because it honestly feels like we’re in for a total rolling, and the media is manning the trucks.
ThresherK
When we’re speaking of Teabaggers (and therefore rightwingers), don’t we need something to tell us”bomb throwing” is a metaphor?
Calvin Jones and the 13th Apostle
@beltane: He’s a Wall Streeter through and through. He was never going to run against Dodd. He was thinking of challenging Schumer(as he’s the one who is actually up this year .. Gillibrand is just up for the rest of Hillary’s term).
Linda Featheringill
@Jeff:
You’re probably right. It is fun to flirt with the bad boy, as long as you don’t get in too deep.
soonergrunt
Maybe of Paladino offers Kudlow some cocaine he’ll come on board.
John Bird
@Nick in PA:
Yeah, it’s an outlier.
Catsy
@Linda Featheringill:
Or as long as he doesn’t get in too deep, so to speak.
BGinCHI
Paladino just can’t stop fucking that chicken.
John Bird
This can’t be overemphasized in the election:
The Tea Party candidates live in Fantasyland.
Satanic cult altars. GOP SWAT teams stealing primary ballots. Policy boards made up of people who don’t want to be on them. Led by someone who abandoned her real-life responsibilities for a career posting on Facebook.
The Tea Party does not mix with the real world.
It will work because it’s true. Who gets drawn to Know Nothing parties? Paranoid types, types who can’t hold down jobs and blame everyone else, xenophobes, conspiracy theorists. If they get pushed on this stuff, they will begin to act and talk crazier, and crazier, and crazier, to prove that they were never crazy to begin with.
We all know people like this; the Republican Party’s newest slate of candidates is made up of them.
John Bird
And just to clarify, what people are doing wrong is dismissing these candidates as crazy.
What we need to do is hammer these candidates straight up to election day on specifically how each of them is crazy, their own little nuanced crazy bugaboos, because it will get them to crazy it up more, and in public.
Tie this all the while to the Republican Party, why these people are Republicans, why the Republicans are backing these people (even in cases where the Republicans supposedly aren’t), and why their proposed policies reflect their crazy.
WereBear
@John Bird: I like your ideas, and wish to subscribe to your newsletter :)
Jewish Steel
@John Bird:
Yes. CRUSHING these candidates will pay dividends in other races down the road. Not to mention the service it does to the country generally.
ChrisS
@John Bird:
But instead what I’m getting are more emails from democratic candidates asking me for money and more groups knocking on my door at 8:30 at night asking me for more money.
Democrats don’t seem to know what they’re running on this year. Last time around it was hope and change. I hope at the end of this cycle I have something more than change left.
Jewish Steel
Also, too:
Paladin for the People!
Any People Who Spring to Mind!
Allan
The Governor of Nevada broke his hip after being thrown from a horse.
Can he prove that he was not on Paladino’s email distribution list?
Binzinerator
I keep picturing a shriner car pulling up and these guys with big shoes, funny noses and boutonnieres that squirt water piling out while the Benny Hill theme plays in the background.
Binzinerator
Sounds like a comic book villain to me. Which reminds me of this panel, via Sadly No!
Kristine
Granted that I am speculating, but I see Paladino as surrounded by yes-folk who jump to fulfill his every command. If that’s indeed the case, it doesn’t surprise me that he didn’t talk to his “team members” first. He either didn’t see the need to ask, or thought they would jump at the chance to work with him once they heard his plans. I look forward to more of this brand of Fail as his inflated sense of self and total lack of people skills become more apparent.
I know. Will NY voters choose as their governor an embarrassing, uncouth loudmouth? Guess we’ll see.
scav
well, Angelina Jolie will no doubt be his first lady once she meets him too, no?
Binzinerator
@Punchy:
Or an anagram for do’n a palin
calling all toasters
Carl P. Paladino = Palin crap load
Petorado
Lest we forget, for teabaggers making shit up isn’t a bug, it’s a feature.