Despite the fact that Carl Paladino basically owns Buffalo, and could crush anyone in town much like Brad Wesley in Road House people on the street tell the Times that they’ve become disillusioned with him as a credible candidate. Interestingly, many were willing to overlook Paladino sending bestiality e-mails or comparing health-care reform to 9/11 or calling Sheldon Silver an “Antichrist or a Hitler,” but soured on him after his confrontation with Post reporter Fred Dicker. [NYT]