Pataki Considers 2012 Run For President

New York 1 ^ | 08-21-11

[MNJohnnie]

Great, just what we need more <1% candidates. At the rate we are going every GOP voter is going to have their own personal candidate to vote for in 2012

[dfwgator]

*Yawn*

[duckworth]

I also heard he’s auditioning to play drums for the next Led Zeppelin reunion. Why not?

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

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.

[Rodm]

Pataki and Huntsman can play Patti-cake in last place.

[Jim Scott]

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.

[Popman]

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

[dfwgator]

Good let Pataki smoke out the RINO’s who will back him

All two of them.

[Tanniker Smith]

Gov. Pataki, may I be the first to ask you: “Why?”

[Ted Grant]

He must really need the money.

[Signalman]

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.

[tsowellfan]

Christopher Columbus was once considered a "conspiracy theorist" but here we are now.

Thank an Italian for America

[Da Bilge Troll]

George Pataki from that bastion of conservative thought, New Yawk? Is he to the right of Tony Weiner?

[robowombat]

Why? Because one of George Soro’s trolls has promised the ex gov a very comfortable sinecure for his trouble. Like the has been governor of Louisiana their role is to be prepped to be the ‘independent’ spoiler candidate. If either palin, presuming she runs, or Romney get the nomination there will be GOP voters who are so angry they will be looking for a ‘protest’ candidate they can stand to vote for. So if any of these folks can attract 10 per cent or more in the primaries they are likely to find that his ‘conscience’ makes him run as an ‘independent’.

[TribalPrincess2U]

LOL

[EnglishCon]

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.

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Oddly enough, my first thought when I saw this headline.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

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.

[Venturer]

Don’t do it George , we have enough dipsticks running now.

[9YearLurker]

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.

[4buttons]

Even the most cursory review of the shape Pataki left New York in will illustrate what a howler this is.