Nope, still not presidential material. Not that he ever was.

Nope, still not presidential material. Not that he ever was.

Once upon a time, NY's odious Gov. Andrew Cuomo promised to be a good Democrat in order to hold off a spirited challenge from the Working Families Party. He fed them a bunch of bullshit about pursuing their policies (promises he broke literally the next day), and also promised to help Democrats regain the state Senate.

The clueless dolts at the Working Families Party bought it, as did people like NY Mayor Bill de Blasio, despite Cuomo's entire history of being a raging asshole. Everyone came together for the good of New York Democrats.

Except that at the same time, Cuomo was making promises to another group of people.



The state’s most powerful Republican secretly worked for months to help Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo win re-election — in exchange for Cuomo’s promise not to aid Senate Democrats in their Long Island races, a top New York GOP leader has charged.

Now one may say, "Why should we believe some sour-grapes Republican running to the NY Post making these claims"? The reason is obvious: because Cuomo did absolutely zero to help NY Senate Democrats win. He withheld endorsements, raised no money, made no joint campaign appearances, and even undermined several Democratic candidates.

So given promises to Democrats and Republicans regarding this November's elections, Cuomo decided to fulfill the promises he made to Republicans, while making a mockery of those he made to Democrats and the idiot Working Families Party.

And you know the irony of it all? Cuomo has done everything he has in the last year aiming for a dramatic bipartisan victory that would propel him into the upper tier of White House hopefuls. But when the dust cleared last Tuesday?

Cuomo had won, sure, but so much for his dominant victory, garnering less than 53 percent of the vote. The hapless Republicans got nearly 41 percent. Cuomo won 63-33 in the previous GOP wave of 2010. And even that was worse than Eliot Spitzer's 70-29 victory in 2006. Furthermore, two other Democrats got more votes than Cuomo—the Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, and Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

So Cuomo stabbed so many Democrats in the back to get a lopsided victory that never materialized. So while there wasn't much to celebrate last week, at least we have that: Cuomo's national ambitions deteriorated this year, and that's certainly something to be grateful about.