Al D'Amato Endorses Fred Thompson
by Ryan Sager
Tue, 12 Jun 2007 at 8:08 PM
updated Tue, 12 Jun 2007 at 8:09 PM
Don't ask me why I was watching (you have to watch something when there's no "House" on), but on NY1's "Inside City Hall," Al D'Amato just endorsed Fred Thompson.
It's not (I repeat not) a surprise that the former New York senator would chose to oppose Rudy Giuliani, his hometown candidate. As I got into a bit in this column, the two men have had a longtime feud going on.
The feud also involved Mr. Giuliani endorsing Mario Cuomo for governor in 1994 against Mr. D'Amato's hand-picked candidate, the much-loved-by-conservatives (cough) George Pataki. Thus, this has to be seen as raising the chances of a Pataki endorsement of Mr. Thompson. (The two men have been spotted canoodling in Manhattan.)
"I think he can provide America with the kind of leadership that the people desperately need, and that this country needs," Mr. D'Amato said of Mr. Thompson at the weekly "wise guys" roundtable, which he participates in with former mayor Ed Koch, on NY1. "And, you know, if America doesn't have a leader that people can look up to, the world is in trouble."
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