After the Nov. 4 election — which saw Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa soundly defeated even on Staten Island — GOP Chairman Michael Tannousis called the results a “victory.” Really?

I don’t see it that way. To me, it was a loss within a divided and distracted party.

More importantly, we now have a socialist in power because of the lack of judgment and leadership within the local GOP, which seems to think that ranting, raving, and cursing out anyone who disagrees is a winning formula. Hint: it’s not.

In what became the worst-kept secret on Staten Island, the Republican Party quietly abandoned the borough’s top Republican running for re-election — Borough President Vito Fossella.

Why? Because he had the courage to stand up to the “gang,” as many now call party leadership.

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