Eliot Spitzer, New York's Democratic attorney general and candidate for governor, said this in a recent speech (audio here):

The political movements that have begun here - the labor movement, the environmental movement, the women's rights movement, the civil rights movements, the anti-war movement, that is New York.

The New York Sun responds:

There you have it, in a nutshell, every thing that's wrong with the modern Democratic Party, all in one Spitzerian sentence.

His likely opponet for governor in 2006, William Weld, has yet to seize on Spitzer's remarks. But Weld has been, unlike many others in the state's Republican party, aggressively attacking Spitzer and Democrats.

If Spitzer's remarks on New York as home to Democratic special interest groups don't raise eyebrows, perhaps this remark, from the same speech, will:

We are, and we have been, the base of the intellectual and political creativity - and opportunity - for every person.

Memo to Eliot Spitzer: You've got the Upper East Side Liberal Snob vote locked up; playing to them might be a bit of overkill.