It's no secret that Mike Lupica has scrawled his name and Ray Kelly's into a heart onto the ole' sycamore on the Daily News' playground, and today the columnist tells us all why Kelly would make such a fantastic mayor of New York City. "Some of the people polled say Kelly doesn’t know enough about issues beyond crime or terrorism," Lupica writes, "But there happens to be a good reason for that: Kelly has spent the last decade fighting crime and terrorism in his current job." So, that means we should give him a pass on the whole, "no other experience other than fighting crime or terrorism" thing?
Lupica, along with a laundry list of Republicans like Reps. Peter King, Michael Grimm, John Catsimatidis, and Ed Koch all think that Kelly's high poll numbers will translate into an easy win. But if people like him because he's not a politician, what will happen when he becomes one?
Maybe you don’t think running the NYPD qualifies him to run the city, or its schools. An awful lot of smart people do. They really should have asked the people being polled if they thought Ray Kelly himself would ever have to conduct a poll to make up his mind about anything.
Wait, so polling matters, except when Ray Kelly thinks it doesn't? When we interviewed Catsimatidis earlier this week, he told us, "What we need in New York City is somebody pro-business and pro-people." Does stopping and frisking 1,900 people a day sound "pro-people" to you?
