Posted on 01/24/2016 4:45:05 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Former GOP presidential candidate George Pataki is predicting that Democrat Hillary Clinton's "legal issues" will force an outside candidate to jump into the 2016 White House race as a white knight.
"People talk about the problems in the Republican Party, but I think Democrats have a bigger problem," the former New York governor told host John Catsimatidis on "The Cats Roundtable" on New York's AM-970 on Sunday.
"Hillary Clinton is cratering, the scandals just keep coming. She has grave legal issues that could totally prevent her from continuing her campaign, and the alternative is a self-avowed socialist who has never run anything."
Pataki added that it would not surprise him to see an "outsider jump into the race" like Vice President Joe Biden, California Gov. Jerry Brown or Secretary of State John Kerry.
Despite his previous pronouncements that Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has no chance at the GOP nomination, Pataki conceded that his prediction isn't borne out by reality.
"He's just tapped into anger towards Washington, anger towards politicians," he said.
"I understand the anger, but the solution is not to get behind someone who expresses the anger but does not have the necessary solution. I hope people coalesce around somebody who has a positive vision about how to bring Americans together."
Pataki dropped his bid for the White House last month after failing to gain traction in the polls. He was a mainstay on the undercard debate stage.
..."Mr. Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York City, has in the past contemplated running for the White House on a third-party ticket, but always concluded he could not win. A confluence of unlikely events in the 2016 election, however, has given new impetus to his presidential aspirations."...
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Rich New Yorkers on parade!
Hillary!
Trump!
Bloomberg!
Oh, so Plugs, Gov. Moonbeam, or Lurch are viable options, Mr. Pataki?
No wonder you were on the undercard...
...and stayed there.
Biden will jump in.
So we have this Democrat who is about to win the Republican nomination, and now there is a Republican wants to run as a Democrat?
“Legal” issues?
You would use the law to oppose socialism? But it is upon the law that socialism itself relies. Socialists desire to practice legal plunder, not illegal plunder. Socialists, like all other monopolists, desire to make the law their own weapon. And when once the law is on the side of socialism, how can it be used against socialism? For when plunder is abetted by the law, it does not fear your courts, your gendarmes, and your prisons. Rather, it may call upon them for help.
What law, George?
See post #3.
/Bastiat
Hillary must have tons of "killer material" on Biden.
Right.
So much for all the lament about Uniparty government.
Pataki is lobbying for the Democratic nomination himself.
He could make a good case if he played it right.
Joe Biden would lose a battle of wits with Putin’s dog.
If he means 'bring Americans together' functionally becoming 'Gulag those pesky bitter clingers' as Democrats' end goals then I'd agree with him because that's the true way Democrats think.
Ouch !
Confirms the fact, I think.
well there’s kerry. He might just Lurch into the campaign. He does after all have the experience
Nominees are selected at the nominating conventions. If Hillary drops out, the DEMs aren't going to forego naming a nominee.
And after the conventions, the party can substitute as it desires, should the nominee become unavailable. It can do this up to the moment electoral ballots are transmitted to Congress, which is about a month after the general election.
True, but he did manage to clean Paul Ryan's clock in the last debate.
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