OT: Don't the citizens of NY mind being Hillary's stepping stone?

[rox63]

I guess this has some relevance to our forum in that it's related to the '08 presidential race. I may get slammed by some for saying this, but here goes:

It's been common knowledge since Hillary Clinton announced her 2000 run for the NY Senate seat that she planned to use that seat as a stepping stone towards running for president. Does anyone here remember a time since then when that wasn't the common assumption? I'm sure most people in NY knew that as well. So why did they go ahead and elect her anyway?

I know the citizens of Massachusetts resented the hell out of Mitt Romney for using us as his stepping stone towards a presidential run. Of course, Romney also went around trashing the state in his frequent travels around the country, something that Hillary hasn't done to NY. But we know that Romney didn't really give a rats ass about us, which has made a lot of us really cranky for quite some time.

So why don't the folks in NY resent Hillary for the fact that she's really just using them to advance her own presidential ambitions?

[beachmom]

1. From all accounts I've heard, Hillary is a very good senator for NY

She does the bread and butter issues for her state. They are happy with her. I think in 2000, she really had to prove herself for that term. This term, I guess it's very obvious that she's going to run for president. It may be that the mentality in NY is different than Mass. I'm recalling all of Tay Tay's Liberals in Liberal Land stories. Mass. is . . . a very interesting state.

[TayTay]

2. That it is.

I forgot that in the recent Gubernatorial race that we had debates with 4 candidates. We had Deval Patrick for the Dems, Kerry Healey for the Repubs, Grace Ross for the Green/Rainbow Party and Christy Mihos as an Independant.

Deval Patrick is African-American. Ahm, the topic of race did not come up, not really. Grace Ross is a socialist and an 'out' lesbian. The topic, ahm, never came up. (Well, it didn't. Auntie Grace had a lot of good points and a lot of people thought Deval should put her in his cabinet. She was working hard to keep the Democrats honest. My mother liked the woman and thought, you know, for a socialist, she's not a bad talker.)

Okay, we are a little liberal sometimes here. Sometimes. Sometimes I think that if an African-American and a socialist, who is also an 'out' and proud lesbian, were in a Gubernatorial race in say, Utah or Alabama, the idea that these people were who they were might have come up. But I don't know that to a fare-thee-well and am not prepared to make judgements of other states.