{"id":394,"date":"2009-11-06T14:21:36","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T19:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=394"},"modified":"2009-11-06T14:21:36","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T19:21:36","slug":"pataki-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=394","title":{"rendered":"Pataki for President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Laugh of the day from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/george\/2009\/11\/manchesters-new-gop-mayor-hears-from-2012-hopefuls.html\" target=\"_blank\">George Stephanopoulos<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;&#8230; Former New York Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Pataki\" target=\"_blank\">George Pataki (R)<\/a> is being urged by major Republican donors and the party apparatus in Washington to run against <a href=\"http:\/\/gillibrand.senate.gov\" target=\"_blank\">Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D)<\/a> in 2010. While he has not made a final decision on a Senate run, <strong>Pataki has told at least one major GOP donor in private that he is not interested in becoming a senator at the age of 64 and would rather run for president in 2012<\/strong> &#8230;&#8221; <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sadly, the bar has been lower significantly for qualified presidential candidates recently.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D394&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden;  width:150px; height:21px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/li><li class=\"twtr\" style=\"width:90px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=394\">&nbsp;<\/a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/li><li class=\"gplus\" style=\"width:68px\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=394\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"ssb_linkedin\" style=\"width:64px\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">lang: en_US<\/script><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=394\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laugh of the day from\u00a0George Stephanopoulos: &#8220;&#8230; Former New York Gov. George Pataki (R) is being urged by major Republican donors and the party apparatus in Washington to run against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D) in 2010. 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