Is George Pataki Planning To ‘Steal’ The New Hampshire Primary?

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by Mark Joyella | 1:41 pm, June 2nd, 2011

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In a column called “The Great New Hampshire Heist,” TIME‘s Mike Murphy suggests a possible dark horse candidate swooping to victory in the nation’s first primary: former New York Governor George Pataki. Comparing Pataki’s low profile “caper” to the media spectacle of Sarah Palin‘s bus tour, Murphy argues “Pataki is going to try to steal the New Hampshire primary.”

Murphy concedes it’s a long shot, but here’s the logic: Pataki ignores the polls and the sideshows and gets on TV in New Hampshire with a strong message spot. Pataki moves up quietly in the polls, reaching second or third place by summer, and then, whammo:

The national media discover the Pataki surge and get bonkers about it. With that national attention, reboot the once massive Pataki money machine in New York State and start attracting more national money and support. Light the right match, and if it combusts correctly, stand back and watch the fire grow.

It’d be a fun theory–and just a theory–if it weren’t for the fact that Pataki is on the air in New Hampshire with a strong message spot, airing on WMUR:

The ad comes from a Pataki-sponsored group called No American Debt and is perfectly attuned to New Hampshire’s flinty primary electorate. So while others are playing cat and mouse with reporters, inspecting farms in Iowa with more hogs than people and pleading with legions of self-appointed Tea Party generalissimos, Pataki is running a very effective spot in New Hampshire.

Here’s the New Hampshire spot, from No American Debt:

2012, George Pataki, Mike Murphy, New Hampshire primary, No American Debt, Time, WMUR

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See what happens when Rudy thinks about runing?
eingriff

Pataki fever?

He had better get the sunlight of official investigation focused on Obama, to determine whether Obama was eligible in 2008, free from election fraud that gave him the margin of victory then, an actual U.S. citizen, and not a flaming Comintern mole. The issues of eligibility and citizenship are not much more important than the crimes and fraud integral to concealing the truth about them.

If Obama is not exposed, he will build such a machine of fraudulent concealment, deception, and criminal conspiracy, including physical intimidation at the polls, that nobody will be able to beat him.
RhapsodyinBlue

George Pataki the big spending former Governor who is Pro Choice and left office in disgrace and his state in financial ruin? This man must have an ego the size of Montana if he thinks he has any chance of winning.
THE REAL ROYAL KING

It’s a shame Pataki and Rudy! both from New York. Maybe, Rudy! can establish residency in Connecticut and we can have a Patak/Rudy ticket. That would be a Republican dream ticket!