Pataki won't fly in the south. As a RINO it is pretty hard to capture the white house without the South.
There isn't three voters here in the south that would vote for this boob that aren't transplanted new yorkers.
I don' t think it's fair to call Pataki a boob. He's a smart guy - someone who got into Yale on his own merits. And he's quick on the uptake. I wouldn't exactly call him a RINO either. He came into office with a real desire to lower taxes and reduce regulation, and one of his first moves was to get NY's death penalty statute enacted.
That said, somewhere during his tenure he lost his fervor and became more interested in getting re-elected than in doing much with the office. And I do agree that he stands no realistic chance of winning the GOP nomination.
Pataki won't fly in his home state! It'll be my first presidential election in 2008, and I'm not casting my vote on the most liberal backstabbing antimoral timid appeasing hack of a 'Republican' I've ever had the immense pleasure of being governed by.