A nice little nod to WFB as a mayoral candidate over at the Plank. One thing I’m confused about: James Kirchik writes that “this was during the New York newspaper strike, when the Post was liberal and someone like John Lindsey could win the endorsement of the state’s Liberal Party.” I ask this out of ignorance, not sarcasm. What’s so weird about John Lindsey getting the Liberal Party endorsement? I don’t get it. Lindsey was certainly a liberal.

D’uh, my bad: This makes sense. From a reader:

I think they’re referring to the fact that the Liberal
Party became something of a patronage machine in the
Giuliani years. It endorsed him a few times (of
course, Giuliani isn’t the biggest conservative
around, or wasn’t seen as such at the time), the sons
of the party chief got jobs, and the Democratic Party
and real liberals rejected it, leading to a looney
situation in which Andrew Cuomo had their endorsement
for governor and went around telling people not to
vote for him.
It may also have to do with the founding of the party,
which I think was as a Cold War hawk party as opposed
to the mainstream New York Democratic Party, but I’m
not sure. In any event, the party is gone now.