In 1988 New York Governor Mario Cuomo tantalized and frustrated Democrats by flirting with the presidential race before finally declining to run. Last week, while accepting his party's nomination for a third term, he stirred inevitable speculation about his designs on the White House in 1992.
Cuomo refused to promise that he would serve a full four-year term as Governor. He has already been doing some Washington bashing and finger waving about Republican greed's being the cause of the savings and loan mess; he considered deleting one such section from his address last week, then decided to leave it in. New...