Pataki's future
George Pataki's reception in the North Country has always been mixed. In the past, conservatives distrusted him for his big-spending and his environmentalism.
Moderates adored him -- until last week, when he threw one of their own, Dede Scozzafava, under the...well, you know the rest.
Now both camps view him with deep suspicion. What were Pataki's motives for abandoning Scozzafava -- the GOP's hand-picked candidate -- when the chips were down?
A Senate run perhaps? Not according to ABC News.
Former New York Gov. George Pataki (R) is being urged by major Republican donors and the party apparatus in Washington to run against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D) in 2010. While he has not made a final decision on a Senate run, Pataki has told at least one major GOP donor in private that he is not interested in becoming a senator at the age of 64 and would rather run for president in 2012.So what do you think? A lot of Conservative Party-Tea Partiers likely to support Pataki over Palin?
posted by Brian Mann @ 11/07/2009 08:33:00 AM
7 Comments
7 Comments:
I would take Pataki over Gillibrand.
I would take a potted plant over Palin.
Pataki for President? He was a disaster as governor.
highest in the nation tax burden, nonexistent upstate job growth, bloated state budgets, late state budgets, APA tyranny, etc. And of course he was a huge supporter of Bush.
Pataki won't get my vote. Not for senate, president, governor, etc.
Just a year from retirement, go for it.
A good portion of the current fiscal problems in NYS can be laid at Pataki's feet - not all, but a lot... he was, after all, the governor for 12 years. While he was letting the numbers run up in NYS, George Bush let the numbers run amok at the federal level. (I'm really trying to understand where the "liberals" are accused of "tax and spend" when it's been the Republicans that have been at the helm for some of the worst deficits in this country's history.)
Pataki for President? I don't think so.
Remember this friends, Patatki was an immense improvement over his predecessor. And there were people screaming about every acre of land Pataki added to the State and every dollar he spent on it. We were told to shut up, that it was for the good of the people. Think what Whitney Park could have been- something like the National Parks where people can actually drive in to an area and picnic, etc.
No for President. A very,very nice man. Met him several times. Lovely family, very much regular folks. Still not Presidential material. But I'd jump at him over either of our Senators for that position.
Huckabee will be the GOP 2012 nominee.
Gillibrand will beat anyone as long as Paterson's not on the Dem ticket.
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