Congressman Peter King (R-2) has visions of running for President in ’16:
“Most presidential candidates have reasons and rationales about why they are running … Peter King, the gruff congressman from Long Island, has an anti-vision. He doesn’t so much want to be president as he wants to keep some of his Republican colleagues from being president … “My main thing first of all is to take advantage of the opportunity with my name being mentioned to get out and speak about issues I care about, and secondly to make sure that the Rand Paul and Ted Cruz types don’t take over the Republican Party.” …”
King is one of the last of the Rockefeller Republicans. Running to the left of Governor Christie, he’d like the national GOP to be more like the New York GOP. The fact that the state committee is a joke and has been on a downward spiral for decades precisely because it has been run by people like Pete should be enough to discredit him.
“… Some of the wounds of King’s image are surely self-inflicted … There was the time, in the wake of the shooting of Congressman Gabby Giffords, he proposed a bill that would have barred anyone from carrying firearms within 1,000 feet of an elected official (the rest of us, apparently, would be left to fend for ourselves.) …”
Because politicians are closer to God than the rest of us. He’s been pushing gun control schemes for years:
“… In 2006 and 2008, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence endorsed King on its website … King has been a vocal proponent of expanded background checks and has introduced stricter gun control measures, particularly in the wake of mass shootings …”
Fortunately I cannot see his campaign getting any traction.