Former New York Gov. George Pataki, who flirted with his own presidential run last year, endorsed Mitt Romney on Fox News this morning.
“This president has been running a general election strategy for a year while we’ve been mired in the trenches shooting at each other and it has to stop,” he said. “I think Mitt showed last night he has the breadth of support that warrants our rallying around him.”
Pataki said Romney certainly isn’t a “perfect” candidate, but that the GOP would be better off if Romney has time to work on those flaws rather than continue to fight from primary to primary.
“Mitt is not a perfect candidate,” he said. “He has a number of problems: it’s hard for blue collar families like mine to identify with him, it’s hard for econonmic conservatives to identify with him, he needs to do more to reach out to the Latinos, but I think he has to focus on that and defeating President Obama as opposed to winning the next primary and the next state.”
Pataki, a moderate Republican, won’t be much help to Romney with the party’s conservatives that still haven’t embraced him — but this endorsement adds one more voice to the growing chorus of Republicans calling for an end to the bruising GOP primary.
(Source: Politico)
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Santorum had his chance to be a second Reagan but came off as totally focused on social/sexual issues rather than economics. Paul is a bit too libertarian and isolationist for many Republicans but his son (a United States Senator) might make an excellent candidate, either as vice-president in 2012, or for president in 2016. Gingrich keeps putting his foot in his mouth, and seems more like a relic (cf. Harold Stassen).
So that leave Mitt. A nice guy. Nouveau riche, but that’s probably not a bad thing to be – made it the honest way, before going into politics. Religious bigotry is a problem, but most of the bigots are hardcore liberals who will vote for Obama regardless (conservative Christians seem quite willing to vote for him).
It does mean the Republicans need for Obama to mess up, but that’s not so hard to expect.
Very cute with changing the picture upside down. To me it seems a bit demeaning to do it to the pictures of respected elected officials and rabbanim.