Posted on 08/21/2011 11:41:30 AM PDT by MNJohnnie
A spokesman has confirmed that former Governor George Pataki is strongly considering entering the crowded race for the Republican presidential nomination.
Sources say Pataki, who left office in 2007, could make an announcement as early as next week.
If he were to run, Pataki would face several major obstacles including launching an operation with little campaign cash and facing several opponents who have been meeting voters in Iowa and New Hampshire for months.
(Excerpt) Read more at ny1.com ...
*Yawn*
I also heard he’s auditioning to play drums for the next Led Zeppelin reunion. Why not?
I’m starting to wonder if the multiplication of Republican candidates is not a leftist ploy to hopelessly fragment the conservative opposition? A little conspiratorial thinking perhaps, but none the less, I wonder.
Pataki and Huntsman can play Patti-cake in last place.
I doubt that former New York governor George Pataki is going to run for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. This is either a test balloon or wishful thinking on somebody’s part. However, what it tells me is that Republicans are quickly beginning to realize that, far from being the strong candidate for re-election the MSM are desperately trying to sell, Obama is probably going to be ‘easy pickins’, a la Jimmy Carter, and whomever wins the GOP presidential nomination has a very good chance of winning the general election. So, lots of wannabes are getting ideas. Most will come to nothing and I’m sure a few are ploys to get their name in the running for a potential cabinet post in the next Republican administration. I’m sure President Palin will consider them all.
Good let Pataki smoke out the RINO’s who will back him
It will be interesting to see how many dem voters move to support him
All two of them.
Gov. Pataki, may I be the first to ask you: “Why?”
He must really need the money.
Pretty soon, they’re won’t be enough room on the debate stage for all the candidates. And Mr. Pataki, you have NO chance so don’t even waste your time.
Thank an Italian for America
George Pataki from that bastion of conservative thought, New Yawk? Is he to the right of Tony Weiner?
LOL
Im starting to wonder if the multiplication of Republican candidates is not a leftist ploy to hopelessly fragment the conservative opposition? A little conspiratorial thinking perhaps, but none the less, I wonder.
Oddly enough, my first thought when I saw this headline.
It is terribly sad when one can no longer trust American politicians. Unfortunately experience has dictated the very definition of a politician now includes the terms “vice addict!” I mean all the traditional vices as well as lying to the extent of being unable to tell the truth.
Don’t do it George , we have enough dipsticks running now.
Hey, he actually served his third term and had 12 years as guv to Perry’s 10. Maybe with Perry’s people going after Palin now Pataki’s trying out as a big-state guv who at least is honest about his RINOism alternative possibility for her veep.
Even the most cursory review of the shape Pataki left New York in will illustrate what a howler this is.
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