Pataki Considers 2012 Run For President

[brooklynite]

Source: NY1

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.

Read more: http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/145473/pataki-considers-2012-run-for-president

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...because what the Republican field really needs is blandness to compare to the crazies...

[Me.]

1. What A Joke

A dead eye dick thinking he should be running for pres

[Ozymanithrax]

2. Actually, for the corporate conservatives, they do need that...

Some of the rights movers and shakers believe that the Crazies can not win. Now, with the economy in a shambles, and Obama's approval rating dropping like a stone, they think they can win, if they have a candidate who can can pretend to be moderate and appeal to the independents.

[Butch350]

3. Polls Fluctuate.

[Ozymanithrax]

5. Yes, polls fluctuate, but like sharks they smell blood in the water...

especially since they are the ones that put it there.

If Obama's numbers come up, and it looks like he is cruising for a victory, the people who can fake sincerity and centrism will withdraw, and they will let the crazies have their figurehead to appease the right wing fringe.

[angstlessk]

4. But can he survive the primaries as a moderate?

[Ozymanithrax]

6. It depends on who counts the votes...

And if the crazies split the vote and no majority winner is chosen, then they can chose whoever they want to. If someone like Perry wins, he will be pressured to take on one of the Corporate folk as Vice President to appeal to the independents, and he will serve as the power behind the thrown.

[no_hypocrisy]

7. He won't get adequate financial backing.

And all he can campaign on is "I'm not them."

[sofa king]

15. "I'm not them" may carry a lot of weight.

Frankly, I'm hoping that all of the heavy-hitters smell blood in the water and move in this election cycle.

The Republicans don't seem to be real damned good at predicting the stated outcomes of the agreements they have already made over the past year. Those agreements all have consequences that will be obvious (and very damaging to the GOP) early next year. Things look good now; by this time next year, anyone unlucky enough to win the nomination will be well on the way to an historic whoopin' and a shuttered career.

[xxqqqzme]

8. OMG, there is another one out there

that hasn't announced yet? Isn't the bottom of the barrel coming into view?

[BlueStater]

9. Good Lord.

I guess now that Tim Pawlenty is gone, someone needs to fill his role as the boring, ignored candidate who obviously isn't going to win.

[kestrel91316]

10. He doesn't stand a chance. He isn't a Rapture-ready Bible Beater (TM).

[artesman]

11. If you look at the Republican primaries historically

there are always candidates like these and by that I mean not just people who have no chance of getting the nomination but who are proxies or attack dogs for some other more substantial candidate. I will give you more examples

John Huntsman has no chance of getting the nomination. Until the day he announced no one even knew who he was. But, he obviously is running as the attack dog for some other candidate, most likely Romney.

Other times there will be candidates who will run in order to spit votes in such a way that some other candidate wins. In case of Pataki, I could speculate he is most likely getting in the race (if he eventually does), to split the vote in the New York primary.

Republican primary politics is this kind of vicious lowlifey game. They are always stepping over each other with these kind of dirty tricks. Its exactly the kind of politics you would expect inside a party bought and paid for by the corporates.

[EC]

12. Of course he does...

he was just waiting for someone to ask him.

[neverforget]

13. TPaw left a gapping hole of sleepiness in the Crazy Train Conservatives

[COLGATE4]

14. There's always room for one more clown in the Repub clown car

[NYC Liberal]

16. Pro-choice, pro-gay rights, pro-hate crime legislation, pro-gun control.

Nope. He is never getting the Republican nomination.

[Bombtrack]

17. and he wouldn't have ever been governor if it wasn't for Howard Stern

[Major Hogwash]

18. Come on in, the water's fine. It's a little deep in that end, so come over here to the kiddy pool.

We're all just sitting around and waiting for the lifeguards to kick us out.

LoL

[Kingofalldems]

19. He is looking for a VP slot

[Beer Snob-50]

20. does anyone think he can actually beat obama though

let's face it, he could be considered the adult in the repub field.