Oh Boy...Did I Speak Too Soon?

A list from Eve Fairbanks of 10 Things We All Didn't Know About Kirsten Gillibrand. As you'll see, it's not too comforting for we NYC libs:

"2. She bucked House leadership by voting against both versions of the TARP bailout bill in the fall.

3. A big gun supporter, she's been given a 100% approval rating by the NRA -- she's one of the extremely few Democrats on a federal level to win official NRA endorsement -- and, this fall, she voted in favor of a controversial bill to repeal District of Columbia laws prohibiting the possession of semiautomatics."

From the sound of this my grandfather would love her. As for me...well, at least she's a Democrat, right? Still, it looks like she tacks farther to the right than Hillary did, and it's a shame to have a moderate Democrat come from such a liberal state as New York. She'd fit better in, I don't know, Virginia or New Mexico or something.

I guess it came down to political calculation for Paterson. He wanted votes from upstate NY, where she's from, in his coming re-election battle in 2010, and he wanted support from women. Hopefully for him and for the rest of us Gillibrand doesn't turn into Sarah Palin of the Left. What a scary thought.