Paterson: 'You Don't Give Up'

[ccharles000]

“Clearly I’m running for re-election,” Governor David Paterson said one day after his awkward meeting with President Obama, who telegraphed his desire to see Paterson exit before next year’s gubernatorial race.

Paterson tried to latch onto the legal victory handed to him by the state Supreme Court Court of Appeals today, which affirmed his authority to appoint a lieutenant governor. He said that during the court battle, “All I read is about how I’m going to lose” which “is very much like the discussion we were just having” about his political prospects.

Speaking to reporters at Columbia University, on West 168th Street, Paterson said the message is “you don’t give up. You don’t give up because people tell you what they think is going to happen. You don’t give up because people tell you who’s running and who’s not before they ever announce to do it. You don’t give up because you’re unpopular when you feel you’ve made the right decisions and when people get a chance to look at what you’re up against and reflect on it.”

He added, “And if you keep the attitude that you don’t give up, you may get to prove people, when the final tabulation is in, that you were doing the right thing. And that’s what happened with the court decision today.”

Paterson chalked up Obama’s intervention to Washington politics.

http://www.politickerny.com/5407/paterson-dont-give

[Renew Deal]

1. Yes, you lose in an expensive primary.

:shrug:

[dionysus]

2. realpolitik is lost on many, especially here.

[WeDidIt]

3. I think I have a better chance of winning the GE in NY than Paterson

and I don't live in New York.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

4. Sometimes you should, seriously. nt

[masuki bance]

5. Paterson blames weak Obama record for friction

"Well, this is going to make David Paterson a lot of friends in the White House, as he tries to put himself in the president's shoes:

If you look at it from their perspective, they haven’t exactly been able to govern in the first year of their administration in the way that other administrations have, where you would have, theoretically, a period in which the new administration is allowed to pass the needed pieces of legislation.

One of the things that has made the White House angriest at Paterson is his linking his woes to the president's. The last time was about race, of course, which made it worse."

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0909/Paterson_blames_weak_Obama_record_for_friction.html

[Pirate Smile]

6. It is getting really easy to understand why his approval numbers are in the gutter.

:thumbsdown:

[WeDidIt]

7. I wuldn't want to vote for Paterson if I lived in NY

He's a train wreck.

[Pirate Smile]

8. I guess he doesn't want to get out with his dignity intact.

It is obviously going to be ugly. He sure as hell isn't winning any new friends in the Democratic Party.

[burning rain]

9. Gotta suspect Paterson will be hurting for money in the primary.

A lot of donors surely won't want to buck the prez, now that the word's out.

[TreasonousBastard]

10. This isn't the captain going down with the ship, this is...

the captain scuttling the ship.

Rick Lazio, who is best known for running against Hillary a while back, just out his hat in the ring. Could Rudy be far behind?

[Thrill]

11. Is Cuomo running?

[Phx_Dem]

12. YOU should.

Edited: "You" meaning Patterson, not you CCharles. :D