The New York Governor's Primary

In New York, my favorite whipping boy, Rick Lazio, was defeated in the Republican primary for governor by nearly 2 to 1 by Carl Paladino, a millionaire who ran as a Tea Party Populist:

Mr. Paladino, 64, energized Tea Party advocates and social conservatives with white-hot rhetoric and a damn-the-establishment attitude, promising to “take a baseball bat to Albany” to dislodge the state’s entrenched political class. He also outspent Mr. Lazio, pouring more than $3 million of his fortune into the race, while Mr. Lazio spent just over $2 million.

“We are mad as hell,” Mr. Paladino said in a halting but exuberant victory speech in Buffalo shortly after 11 p.m. “New Yorkers are fed up. Tonight the ruling class knows. They have seen it now. There is a people’s revolution. The people have had enough.”

So often in politics one has to choose between the corrupt establishment and the populist nut jobs. I'm counting on popular Democrat Andrew Cuomo to stop this guy.