There’s a Mel Brooks gag that goes with this that would never make it past the censors.  All kidding aside, New York’s Democrat A.G. has really turned it around politically.  Next stop….?

From the New York Observer:

Andrew Cuomo, who now leads a sitting governor by more than 30 points in a potential 2010 primary match-up, is living proof that, for an ambitious politician who knows what to do with it, there really is no better stepping-stone than the office of state attorney general.

The job really is an image-maker’s dream. Week after week, you can score enviable headlines by investigating and prosecuting the latest perpetrators of wrongdoing or injustice who happen to be in the news – actions that will win you praise for standing up to the bad guys and appreciation from voters of all partisan stripes.

And unlike, say, a governor, you aren’t under the microscope yourself; no need to worry about making appointments, tending to an unwieldy administrative bureaucracy, or working with an uncooperative state legislature in which (at least) half the members want to tear you down. When a polarizing issue comes along, the kind that most politicians strain themselves trying to finesse, you don’t even have to express an opinion: You’re a law man (or woman). You’re above politics.

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