Over the weekend, we heard that former New York Governor George Pataki might, or would, depending on the source, enter the race for the GOP Presidential nomination, perhaps as early as this week.
The GOP Establishment must be pushing him to enter the race as a “moderate savior,” since Romney and Hunstman are deemed too liberal or too Mormon by their whacko fundamentalist base. The problem is, Pataki is just as “liberal” as his fellow Northeastern governor Romney, and perhaps just as unacceptable. Add that to the fact that Pataki, out of the public eye since 2006 when he left office, is a has been who couldn’t even win his own state of New York for the GOP. So we will see how long this boomlet lasts.
Meanwhile, Teabagger organizers Peter Singleton, who is putting together a big Teabagger event in Iowa that will feature to comedic stylings of one Sarah Palin, has let it be known that he believes the failed half term quitter will launch by the end of September.
Said Singleton: “Labor Day will kick off the Republican campaign for the nomination. She is going to make a major, major speech.”
The GOP field has separated itself into a top tier, a plausible but unlikely tier, and a bottom no way in hell tier. Currently, the top tier is Rick Perry, Michelle Bachmann, and Mitt Romney. With the addition of Pataki and Palin, they would make up the plausible tier along with Governor Jon Hunstman. And the bottom tier is Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul and Herman Cain and anyone else too insignificant to recall right now.
The bottom tier is already struggling for oxygen. Two more canidates, especially one with the star quality of Palin, would probably end the candidacies of Cain and Santorum. Gingrich is arrogant and foolish enough to stay on until Iowa. And Paul will stay in until the convention. Glibertarians are crazy like that.