Skip to main content

Pataki (S)urge


 HUGH HEWITT, TALK RADIO HOST: Governor, you signed the pledge to support the Republican nominee and you promptly broke it. By doing so, by Tweeting out that you would not support Donald Trump, have you released Donald Trump to be a free agent again or anyone else in the field?GEORGE PATAKI (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: No. Hugh, not at all. I have not broken the pledge because Donald Trump is not going to be the Republican nominee, period, flat out, I guarantee you that. I would vote...
HEWITT: Governor...
PATAKI: -- for the Republican nominee...
HEWITT: -- you said on Twitter that you would not support Donald Trump. If he's the nominee...
PATAKI: He's not going to be the nominee.
HEWITT: -- will you support him?
PATAKI: He's not going to be the nominee, Hugh. And let me just say one word here. This is an important election with an enormous number of challenges facing the American people. And the first four questions are about Donald Trump.
(CROSSTALK)
HEWITT: Would you really vote for Hillary Clinton...
PATAKI: No, I would not vote for Hillary Clinton.
HEWITT: -- or vote for Donald Trump if he's the nominee?
PATAKI: No, I will vote for the Republican nominee. But let me say this flat out, Donald Trump is unfit to be president of the United States or the Republican Party's nominee.
Look at what he did in Atlantic City.
He says he's going to make America great again?
He invested four casinos in Atlantic City and he said, essentially, I'm going to make Atlantic City great again.
Every one of those casinos went bankrupt. Over 5,000 Americans lost their job. And you know people who, in this difficult economic time, have lost their job and the pain that causes.
He didn't lose anything, 5,000 lost their jobs. He will do for America what he did for Atlantic City and that is not someone we will nominate.
TAPPER: Thank you, Governor.
PATAKI: Thank you.
This is the kind of "principled conservatism" that New Yorkers find so appealing - This guy signs a pledge then "tweets" to the entire world his intentions not to honor it, then bald face lies about it on national TV. Then has the unmitigated gall to attack Trump on the failure of Atlantic City casinos when he, as Governor of NY, did everything he could to expand gambling in his state thereby draining potential revenue from Boardwalk and Pacific Ave. He couldn't stand the idea of Trump and the boys creating an East Coast version of Las Vegas and reaping the rewards so he turned his State into a whore house and kept the money for himself. Pataki is the reason 5,000 Jersey schlubs lost their jobs - not Trump.

Then, after saying all this about his "pledge" he has the audacity to go after Kim Davis, the belligerent (God fearing) county clerk from Morehead, KY who won't issue marriage licenses to the counties massive homosexual community who's juvenile desire to have the cities name on their marriage license has made the backwards assed Kentucky town (always referred to as Rowan County in the press) ground zero of the gay revolution.
PATAKI: Jake, if I can comment on this. Yes, Kim Davis is different from Islamist radicalists from the Middle East.
But on the other hand, we have one rule in America, an elected official can't say I'm not going to follow that law if it conflicts with my beliefs. I think she should have been fired and if she worked for me, I would have fired her. We have to uphold the rule of law.
Got that Kim Davis? "You're Fired" and the Governor has no time for your impertinence (who does that sound like?). Just as an aside, for what it's worth, they actually voted on the issue of same sex marriage in Kentucky 10 years ago and by a 75% margin the people of the State approved a Constitutional Amendment restricting marriage to a union between 1 man and 1 woman. So, in one sense Kim is upholding the law - at least the law she and everyone in Kentucky had something to do with and the fact that the Supreme Court invalidated that law in one of the stupidest rulings they've ever handed down won't change the way the people of Kentucky feel about it.

So Pataki won't vote for Trump but he knows Trump won't be the GOP nominee so he's not breaking his GOP pledge (yet) but how can the Gov. be so sure - is his statement a not so subtle death threat to The Donald? Pataki should be thanking his lucky stars that Trump is in the GOP race because the Elvis from Queens has already accomplished 3 unbelievable things.

  1. Trump has got over 20 Million Americans to tune in to a 3 hour GOP debate - that's 1 in every 7 households hearing the Republican ideology and platform and these are, for the most part, people who do not know ANYTHING about republicans or their ideas - these are greenfield votes for the taking.
  2. Trump is raising issues that no other GOP candidate has the balls to honestly bring up and because it's The Donald talking about it the press, who would mercilessly execute a normal politician for saying the same things, is absolutely powerless to stifle the debate. Issues are raised, including issues considered "conservative orthodoxy" and all the presidential candidates can discuss them without taking direct fire - the vitriol and bile gets dumped on Trump who's more than man enough to take it.
  3. Trump has elevated the game of every single GOP candidate and forced them to fight hard, think creatively and be themselves. He is the greatest thing to ever happen to these 15 laggers who anticipated summer/fall '15 to be a leisurely confab on the dais and find themselves performing for keeps on the big stage.

George Pataki is just along for the ride and he should kiss Trumps ring the next time they bump into each other in midtown. No one would watch a debate to hear what George Pataki has to say because he's a lazy machine politician who mumbles poll tested bromides and tries not to offend anybody. He's exactly the kind of GOP seat warmer who looses the general election and hopefully, in the not to distant future, he'll be staying home in Peekskill on debate night yelling at his TV.

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

The Real Story with Gretchen Carlson

She was "sexy", but "too much hard work." I'm a regular Fox & Friends viewer (mostly in protest of the other insipid morning programs like Today and Good Morning America) so over the years I've gotten to know Gretchen Carlson pretty well. Stuck between Steve and Brian she always seemed a prudish scold with an irritating, self-righteous demeanor that I simply put up with because I figured some people in the Fox audience actually liked her persona. It was obvious that Steve and Brian did not, but they were stuck with her like so many talking heads and had to make the best of it - which they did. Besides, she was no worse than any of the other women on morning show TV - I mean, you're only going to find a certain kind of person to do this kind of work and that kind of person is the Gretchen Carlson kind. Then, one day, she was gone and replaced by Elisabeth Hasselbeck and the F&F ratings began to climb, and climb and climb - in two months view...

The Pop-Tarts Bowl: Frauds v. Fakers

In the Techno-Fascist Imperium the "Holidays" festivities start on Columbus Day, when the Halloween candy pops up, and end New Years Day with college football Bowl games, black-eyed peas and collard greens. To be clear, the Imperium doesn't celebrate Columbus Day, au contraire, the Indigenous Peoples' Day psyop has been pushed hard by the IC for the past 50 years of failure but the candy... THE CANDY. This year's IPD got turned up to eleven when the colonizers of America's 51st state got kidnapped, raped and murdered by some indigenous maniacs on Sukkot 10/7 and, as a result, soured the festive '23 Holiday mood. Hey, we soldiered on, as it were, and kept on celebrating while the world burned: Halloween - Big for children and weirdos. Thanksgiving - Focus on God, country and family. Hannukkah - Jewish assimilation. Xmas - Santa Claus and gifts. Kwanzaa - Black Lives Matter. I'd call them Happy Holidays if it wasn't  a neo-Nazi dog whistle  to vocal...

Summer of the Jackals

In the spring of 2021 I had a near death experience when my Chevy Silverado loaded with 30 cases of wine was rear-ended at 50mph  by a young lady who was texting-while-driving at 9:30 AM. Her Mercedes sedan flashed in my driver side mirror a moment before impact and that microsecond of awareness gave me just enough time to pull my foot off the break and jam the gas so when she plowed into my trailer hitch the impact met no resistance and launched my truck across the road and into the woods. I had stopped in the road, left blinker signaling, waiting for an oncoming pickup truck to pass and, by the grace of God, it did pass me just as the distracted driver in the mirror slammed into my flashing taillight. Everyone walked away from the crash with no serious injury but if the impact had transpired 2 seconds earlier it would have been a “Road Warrior” bloodbath of terror and death. When I stepped out of my vehicle and looked through the roadside trees I had miraculously missed hitting i...