Posted on 05/17/2014 6:45:58 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Republican Senators Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio get thrown around a lot as possible GOP presidential candidates for 2016. One prominent Republican who does not get mentioned much in that context is Rep. Peter King (R-NY). But during one of his frequent interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Friday, King said he is seriously considering making a run at the nomination, if only to prevent those younger, more right-wing candidates from becoming president.
Asked by Blitzer about his 2016 plans, King said he’s “certainly looking at” the possibility, which will include a trip to New Hampshire next month. He said when he ran into Hillary Clinton yesterday he told her to “get ready.”
“I’m looking at this because I see people like Rand Paul and Ted Cruz, and to me, I don’t want the Republican Party going in that direction,” King said. Whether it’s him or someone else, he said he would do what he can to make sure the “realistic foreign policy wing” or “national security wing” of the party “does not give in to the isolationists.”
Rep. King has clashed with the younger generation of Republicans repeatedly over the last several years, recently saying Sen. Paul would make a “disastrous president” and acting as the leading critic of the Sen. Cruz-led government shutdown last fall.
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IRA supporter Mister King should be politely invited to find a new political party (something much farther left, one supposes).
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Thanks...it as needed to be said... Cruz/Walker or Cruz/Palin
“Peter is a dick.
King’s “likeness” is in the dictionary next to the words “Worthless Prick.”
I’m not sure how another member of the Republican left is going to hurt Cruz or Paul. Maybe he can take a few votes from Jeb, if the Republican left will allow it.
Actually, I hope he does run. So he can dilute the RINO vote with the obvious JBush-run even more.
Who?
King is a prominant republican? Well, that’s the problem right there.
His ego is a big as Bill EgoRielly. He can single handedly stop someone else from being president just by running.
I’m trying to cut out sugar. Then I read your post and now I want a SNICKERS.
And right there Pete, you should see the root cause of your future failure in such an endeavor.
You should but you don't.
And that is why you are really a liberal democrat.
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“..and to me, I don’t want the Republican Party going in that direction,” King said.
Yes, RINOs want the republican party to go the direction of the democrats. No news here.
A floating turd that is hard to flush....
“King said he is seriously considering making a run at the nomination, if only to prevent those younger, more right-wing candidates from becoming president.”
Go ahead King you AH. Anti gun lefty lefty rep you are. Hopefully you also don’t run for congress and you can go find a job in line with your talents, septic tank cleaner.
He’s so full of himself he thinks he would matter.
Ditto
Another self-congratulatory RINO willing to sacrifice for the state.
King is no more a conservative Republican than I am a flying nun.
It’s CNN. So Peter King just announced across every American airport, library and public building that he is “he is seriously considering making...” blah, blah, blah. At least the 17 people actually watching CNN heard it and now someone has thoughtlessly posted this at FR.
It’s like saying, “Look, nothing!”
Another RINO for Hillary...
Ditto. Emphasis on "used."
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