BUFFALO — Fresh from having romped to a lopsided victory in the Republican primary for governor, Carl P. Paladino vowed Wednesday to attack Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo “like General Patton,” saying he would exploit Mr. Cuomo’s “immaturity” and his “ego.”  “We’re going to charge, charge, charge,” Mr. Paladino said in a wide-ranging 40-minute interview with The New York Times on Wednesday morning. “General Patton, when they told him to get up there to the bulge and bring his Third Army and help those soldiers up there — it didn’t matter who was in his way. He charged, charged, charged.”  Sitting in the corner office of his real estate company in downtown Buffalo, with his late son Patrick’s gray pit bull, Duke, at his feet, Mr. Paladino said he would assail Mr. Cuomo’s record as federal housing secretary. And he would seek to blame Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, for the broader dysfunction of state government.  “This guy Sheldon Silver, who he calls one of his best friends, was first to endorse him,” Mr. Paladino said referring to Mr. Cuomo. “I hold him as very much a part of this last government.”  Later, Mr. Paladino referred to Mr. Silver, the powerful Assembly speaker, as a “dictator.”  And, echoing a widespread conservative argument, he asserted that Mr. Cuomo had “lit the fuse” on the nation’s housing crisis by pushing to lower lending standards at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two quasi-public mortgage giants.  Asked what he saw as Mr. Cuomo’s vulnerabilities, Mr. Paladino replied: “His immaturity. His ego. I think insular is a very good word for him.”  Mr. Paladino did not elaborate in great detail, but said the first time he noticed those characteristics was when he saw that Mr. Cuomo, arriving at an event, waited for his car door to be opened rather than open it himself, and did the same when entering a building.  Mr. Paladino dismissed concerns that the Republican Party would be rocked by his nomination, saying he had already fielded a congratulatory call from the party’s state chairman, Edward Cox. “We’re on the same page,” Mr. Paladino said. “He’s getting on the bus with us and we’re all going to the dance together.”  Having spent some $3 million of his own money to win the primary, Mr. Paladino insisted he would not bypass heavily Democratic Manhattan and Brooklyn in the fall campaign, but did not make firm commitments, saying only that he would buy ads in the city’s costly television market “at the appropriate time.”  He did, however, give some specifics on his plans to taunt Mr. Cuomo into debating him, saying he would send thousands of duck calls to Tea Party organizations around the state.  Mr. Paladino also sought to explain his rationale for proposing turning prisons into dormitories where welfare recipients could be given classes on hygiene.  When he was in the military training troops at Fort Dix in New Jersey, Mr. Paladino said, “We had to teach them basic things,” even that they should clean themselves daily and brush their teeth twice a day.
Fresh off his overwhelming victory, Carl P. Paladino, the Republican candidate for governor wastes no time lacerating his Democratic opponent as representative of all that is wrong with Albany.