Pataki Won't Rule Out 2012 Presidential Run

[brooklynite]

Source: NY1

Sixteen years to the day after his upset victory over Andrew Cuomo's father in the race for governor, former Governor George Pataki says he is not ruling out a run for president in 2012.
During a wide-ranging interview for tonight's “Inside City Hall,” NY1’s Michael Scotto asked Pataki if his active involvement in this mid-term election cycle meant that he was planning on throwing his hat into the 2012 presidential race. The three-term executive said that he is looking at the field and assessing the contenders.

Pataki: “I've learned enough to never say yes or no with absolute finality, so I'll see going forward.”

Scotto: “So you haven't ruled it out?”

Pataki: “No, I haven't.”

Read more: http://www.ny1.com/content/news_beats/politics/128543/pataki-won-t-rule-out-2012-presidential-run/

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George Pataki has an ego that blinded him to reality in 2008, and is blinding him again. It'll take more than setting up a PAC ("Revere America") and jumping onto Tea-Party popular issues to convince conservatives that he's a potential Presidential choice.

[TheWraith]

1. HAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

That is all.

[tularetom]

2. ROFLMAO

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:
:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:
:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

I'll bet Palin doesn't even know who the fuck he is.

[HockeyMom]

8. As a Republican, Patakai wrote the toughest GUN CONTROL

laws in the country, over a decade ago. Hello, Sara? Like that one? He also was very much Pro Choice, and for GAY MARRIAGE. Horror, horror, horror!!!!!!!!

[TheWraith]

13. No, Pataki does not support gay marriage.

He supports hate crime legislation, but not gay marriage.

Nevertheless, he would be pretty much unelectable even as a Democrat.

[sally cat]

3. Who?

[rpannier]

4. I was just saying the other day

Pataki should make a run for the presidency
Why should Guliani be the only former republican to hold office in New York that fails on an epic scale nationally

[Me.]

5. Lovely. George vs. Palin

:popcorn:

[The_Commonist]

6. George Pataki is just about the dumbest...

...politician to come from New York in forever.
Really, he's just a stupid man.

He might actually have a shot at this...

[jmowreader]

9. Pataki is one of the few credible Republicans making 2012 noises

And that sums up the GOP's main problem: they don't actually have anyone. All the GOP names are either dumber than rocks (Pataki), corrupt (Gingrich), not acceptable to the Protestant Right who actually runs the GOP (Romney) or all three (Palin).

[CreekDog]

7. In other news that doesn't matter

Pete Wilson would still like to be President.

:rofl:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Pete_Wilson_meeting_with_Les_Aspin,_Feb_3,_1993_-_cropped_to_Wilson.JPEG/225px-Pete_Wilson_meeting_with_Les_Aspin,_Feb_3,_1993_-_cropped_to_Wilson.JPEG

[RoccoR5955]

10. Pataki can KISS MY ASS!

If he runs, he'll NEVER win.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

11. He blew any chance he might have had when he endorsed Carl Paladino

[smuglysmiling]

12. too much video of him saying things...

that can be used to make him look like a obvious liar....

[Historic NY]

14. Clueless. because he ran Revere against REp. Hall he is entitled...Rove lied.