Pataki Edges Closer to Running for President

[brooklynite]

Source: Fiscal Times

In an exclusive and wide-ranging interview with The Fiscal Times late Wednesday, former New York Governor George Pataki made his strongest suggestion yet that he may jump into the race for the GOP Presidential nomination.

Saying that he has “not as yet heard one of the Republican candidates outline a strong, comprehensive approach” to dealing with America’s debt crisis, the 65-year-old, former three-term governor said he hopes a candidate with a serious deficit-reduction plan and the ability to defeat President Obama steps forward to fill the void. “If not, I’ll certainly feel compelled to take a look,” he said.

For the last several weeks Pataki has acted a lot like a potential candidate, raising his profile through a group he formed in April, No American Debt. He’s traveled to New Hampshire, Iowa, and Washington, D.C., meeting with supporters, holding fundraisers, and sharing his anti-debt message in forums of all kinds. “We are engaging in generational theft, stealing from our children so that we can live beyond our means. That’s not the America I grew up in, and that’s not the America that I think the American people expect,” Pataki said on Wednesday. “It’s not what we should be getting from the failed political leadership in Washington. We deserve better … and I’m going to do everything in my power to make sure that we do have better.”

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Nuts are always more enjoyable when you provide an assortment...

[MineralMan]

1. Whoa! They're gonna need a bigger clown car.

That's clear.

[tridim]

2. I assume BobDole will also enter the race soon.

Followed shortly by Dan Quayle.

Goooooo Repubs!

[Renew Deal]

3. The debates will be like a circus car

lol

[BeyondGeography]

4. Goofy

[GodlessBiker]

5. He will wrap up the very boring people vote.

[soleft]

6. This is a plot to make Pawlenty look scintillating

[KamaAina]

8. Snarf!

:rofl:

Where've you been? :hi: How're things down at the shore?

[Blasphemer]

12. LOL! I was thinking Romney....

But yeah, Pataki has the charm of a dung beetle.

[KamaAina]

7. I always thought he had what it took

to run for Vice President. The man is clearly Vice Presidential Timber. :eyes:

[EC]

9. If you mean Chaney like

yep, you're right. He's as mean as they come.

[KamaAina]

10. I was thinking more along the lines of Hannibal Hamlin

destined to become a dusty historical footnote.

[Historic NY]

11. Another jackass enters the ring....

[JI7]

13. is he still around ?