Posted on 11/08/2010 9:09:12 PM PST by pissant
Sarah Palin isn’t the only former governor/former mayor who’s mulling a run for president in 2012.
On ABC’s “Top Line” today, former Gov. George Pataki, R-N.Y., told us that – as Palin has said – he’ll run for president if he determines the other Republican candidates don’t offer the right kind of leadership going forward.
“When you look back at the past two years, it's been very disappointing, not only -- not just for Republicans, but for the American people,” Pataki told us. “And I think it shows the importance of experienced leadership -- leaders who have shown the ability to govern and to move forward in a nonpartisan way, leaders who have been tested and shown their ability to get through those tests.”
“What I'm going to be looking at is, do we have the right people out there who have that experience, who have experienced leadership, who have been challenged and who can bring people together -- not just Republicans and conservatives, but conservatives [and] Democrats. And make a decision on who else is out there, and whether or not they have those characteristics we need to be able to win this election and govern successfully.”
Pataki, like Palin, was a mayor before he was governor.
“It was a challenging job, mayor of Peekskill, let me assure you. Twice the size of Wasilla,” Pataki said.
Pataki said he would support Palin, R-Alaska, should she become the Republican nominee for president, citing his reluctant support for tea party gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino, R-N.Y., in his home state as evidence that he would fall into line behind her.
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Great! Someone to bleed votes away from Romney.
Pataki will try to fill the void Mittens would.
“Pataki” is Hungairian for ‘hubris’. Or is it ‘stupidity’?
Yes George,true!
But you are uninspiring! And you’ve already broken Reagan’s 11th Commandment.
Georgie, Georgie, Georgie! Were you in a cave last Tuesday when they were tabulating the election results?
It's taken from his general description.
More acceptable than Romney or Gingrich.
I’m sure that someone can tell me right away why Pataki is immediately unacceptable, but off the top of my head I don’t know why.
Fuhgeddaboudit, einstein. Nobody cares about you anymore. Nobody outside the stagnant backwater province of NY ever even heard of you. Go home.
That is exactly what a Pataki candidacy would be. I'm all for it.
2A
D.O.A.
Forget it, Georgie. Not supporting Carl shows your support for the liberal political insider, Cuomo, the HUD kingpin. You ‘insiders’ are all a bunch of evil bturds. I thought you were dead, hadn’t heard of you in a while. You pop up because you want something? The answer is NO - go back in hiding.
... and abortion. He is basically the political twin of RINO Rudy.
Minus the charisma.
Besides that (which be true), who gonna be Pataki's running mate? Rick Lazio ???
GEEZ !!!
But I want a partisan to govern. I want someone who is sick and tired of liberals destroying our nation and will stand up to them like a man. I don't want someone who will say one for you one for me in dividing up between our government agencies what remaining rights and freedoms we now have left. I'm sick and tired of hearing the very word nonpartisan itself. It reminds me of another word. BOHICA.
Not exactly. Pataki couldn’t clean Rudy’s shoes. Rudy was a worker, Pataki, a figure head.
There are a lot of RINO’s thinking about it
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