Former NY GOP governor Pataki will run for president in 2016

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By HOLLY RAMER

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Former New York Gov. George Pataki is the latest Republican to get into the race for president.

In a video posted Thursday morning on YouTube, Pataki says America needs to recapture the spirit of unity that spread through the country in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He was in his second of three terms as governor when the attacks struck New York and Washington, and Pataki highlights his role in New York and the country's recovery in the video.

"We are all in this together. And let us all understand that what unites us is so much more important than what might seem superficially to divide us," Pataki says in the video which includes a logo that reads, "Pataki for President."

Pataki is expected to formally announce his candidacy later Thursday. He's scheduled to speak in Exeter, New Hampshire, which served as the state capital during the Revolutionary War and claims to be the birthplace of the Republican Party.

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[Jack Rabbit]

1. Be sure to buy his new book, at your bookstore soon

[EEO]

2. "Oh good," said no one.

[workinclasszero]

10. :D

[bigdarryl]

3. LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL!!!!!!!!!!!

[Sunlei]

4. new republican brand- "GET RICH BY RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT" launder your cash as tax free, R charity'

[calimary]

14. And DO NOT forget to invoke 9/11!!!

I bet he'll start calling himself "America's Governor" in a riff off the spectacularly successful 9/11-laminated and tattoo'd rudy giuliani!

[DFW]

5. Pataki has no chance. He's almost sane.

That doesn't fly in their party these days.

[Kelvin Mace]

18. I don't know about sane

If he sincerely is running for president and thinks he can win (as opposed to doing it as a money-generating publicity stunt) then he is delusional.

[DFW]

22. Well, I did say almost

And thinking he can win the nomination against an extremist in his party does indeed border on delusional.

[workinclasszero]

6. Republicans are gonna need a bigger clown car

All these grifters just can't pass up the free nationwide publicity for their BS books and the chance to have "former presidential candidate" as a title behind their name

[durablend]

9. I don't even think the clown bus is big enough

Clown tractor-trailer is next me thinks....

[LibDemAlways]

11. A clown train is needed at this point. Never knew

there were this many delusional Repukes out there.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

17. Here you go

Just need the trailer.

[calimary]

15. It's a banana boat.

Maybe better make that a Banana BARGE. They're bigger.

[Kelvin Mace]

19. At this point a TARDIS is required

[Backwoodsrider]

7. republican base is splitting

some our finically conservative from the northeast, others are conservative Christians from the south and a lot are pissed off Independents. Will they band together fall of 2016 behind the repub candidate who knows but its going to be fun watching the car. I think democrats are going to lead the way for change

[underpants]

8. Can't we all just return to that oh so wonderful time after 9/11?

Wow that is your pitch? Harkening back to the glorious days of death, destruction, and panic?

[alp227]

12. George Who?

What's next, a Los Del Rio comeback (had to make a '96 kind of reference)?

[cosmicone]

13. How low the republican party has sunk

From such towering leaders like Teddy Roosevelt to Eisenhower who had integrity.

Nixon was a paranoid crook but he was head and shoulders above the current crop.

I couldn't agree with anything Reagan believed in but he was charismatic and would be considered liberal by today's standards.

Under normal circumstances, Pataki would be a good candidate but he'll have to veer so far to the right to get any traction that he will look like a clown by 2016.

If I were a republican, I'd weep.

[catbyte]

16. WTF does "We need to fall in love with America again" even mean?!?

These meaningless, lame ass platitudes are one of my biggest pet peeves. I don't think Pataki has a snowball's chance in hell to win the nomination because he's not crazy enough for the baggers, but I'm sure it'll be a very lucrative proposition for him.

Y-A-W-N...

[Delphinus]

20. Isn't he a Democrat?

I heard this news break on NPR and they said "Democrat".

[olddots]

21. most of these fools should be running for the bathroom .