Craig Howard is not happy with New York state Republican boss Stephen Minarik (via BuffaloPundit):

Come on Steve, back a real Republican and I'll back you. In fact you've missed a big chance. There are plenty of Republicans in upstate (although their number dwindles each year as they move south to increase the number of Republicans in Charlotte.)

They might stay here if they thought that the Republican party would work towards cutting New York's spending -- and its taxes -- and its regulations. But it never happens. The NYS GOP is just diet-Democrat. Take a Spitzer program, subtract a couple hundred-thousand and tout it as conservative.

To be fair, New York hasn't had a fiscally conservative governor since Clinton - George Clinton.