Pataki website shows hints of presidential run

The early makings of George Pataki’s presidential website were accidentally made public this morning before media reports surfaced of the site’s existence and the prototype was scrubbed of any mention of the former New York governor.

As first revealed by the news site PolitickerNY.com, a "George Pataki President" logo sat in the upper left corner of the site with tabs below labeled “Debt Crisis Plan” and a link to his biography. Another tab titled "The Pataki Record" highlighted nine issues ranging from the budget and taxes to education. Immigration and social issues, like gay rights, were not highlighted.

Pataki spokesman David Catalfamo told CapitalTonight.com: "Can’t run a campaign without a website -- the hosting company apparently made a mistake and has prematurely made it searchable. The site is still in development and will only be launched if the Governor decides to get in the race."

The site was created by NetBoots, the same company that created a website for Pataki's organization "No American Debt," which favors reducing the federal debt. According to the NetBoots website, the company was "launched to ensure all conservative candidates, organizations, and grassroots movements have access to powerful, professional websites."

Both the Pataki site and "No American Debt" site have the same image of an American flag and Statue of Liberty in the banner.

NetBoots has created sites for Mike Lee's 2010 Senate run and Jane Corwin, a Republican who lost in a special Congressional election in New York this May.

The mistake has only increased speculation that Pataki will announce his presidential candidacy soon. Pataki will be attending the Polk County Picnic in Iowa on Saturday, along with other Republican presidential hopefuls Rick Perry and Ron Paul. 

Darrell Kearney, finance director and events chairman for the Polk County Republican Party, told NBC News he expects a “major announcement” from Pataki at the event.

*** UPDATE *** Catalfamo tells NBC News: "Governor Pataki was one of, if not the first, candidate to take an online donation, and if we launch I would expect to have a very aggressive online campaign."

A check of GoDaddy.com shows Georgepataki.com is registered to Campaign Solutions in Alexandria, VA.  They describe themselves as "a full-service online consulting firm specializing in fundraising, advertising, mobile, social media, and web development. We've raised more money online than any other political consulting or public affairs firm in history."

It has done work with Michele Bachmann's presidential campaign and McCain-Palin in '08.

Also, GeorgePataki.com does not expire until July 2013

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Oh hell why not?

There can NEVER be too many clowns in a circus...

*popcorn*?

  • 16 votes
#1 - Wed Aug 24, 2011 3:23 PM EDT

Feisty

Oh hell why not?

There can NEVER be too many clowns in a circus...

*popcorn*?

Feisty

Make mine caramel; the more clowns the merrier. They are an absolute delight to watch while they clown around.

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#1.1 - Wed Aug 24, 2011 3:46 PM EDT

After championing the gay marriage law for NY, there is no possible chance the Tealiban will ever allow Pataki to be the Republican nominee.

But it would be fun to have one more clown. *chuckle, snicker*

  • 7 votes
#1.2 - Wed Aug 24, 2011 3:53 PM EDT

What would be really cool is for Hillary to run.

There is still lots of time, and the way Obama's numbers are tumbling ....... Hillary could grow her hair down to waist, dress up in a black Stevie Nicks witch outfit and as long as can humm 3 bars of "Don't Stop Thinking About Tommorrow" she would probably win in a ....... primary "Landslide."

Then again, Hillary is smart enough to realize that she sure dosen't want to "inherit" the damage done by Obama ("inheriting" Bush's mess was one thing, but "inheriting" Obama's mess is ridiculous.)

Obama has probably killed liberalism for another 10 years anyway.

  • 7 votes
#1.4 - Wed Aug 24, 2011 3:58 PM EDT

Poor dispirited libbies - you got Perry's stock rising, and Obama's crashing.

Now that the tipping point has been reached on Obama [credit downgrade] the only question is whether his approval ratings go to 35% or to 30%.

Eventually the approval rating and right track/wrong track numbers will intersect.

I'm thinking about 5 days after his totally awesome and huge jobs speech.

Should be fun, right libbies? Sure it will.

  • 7 votes
#1.5 - Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:12 PM EDT

But here's the deal, Spank- even though there are independents and democrats that are not happy with Omama for whatever reasons, you really think they are going to say "well, electing one of these GOP clowns with the TeaBaggee pedigree will be best for us"?

Y' really think that's how it will unfold? Really?? Wow.

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#1.6 - Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:30 PM EDT

Who?

  • 3 votes
#1.7 - Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:31 PM EDT

Feisty---I can picture Pataki sitting around with his advisors--they look at Perry, Bachmann, Santorum, etc and think---if these yahoos can get votes, surely I can get the nomination.

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#1.8 - Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:36 PM EDT

Make mine caramel;'

You got it GF - I'll even mix a little cheese corn in with it...

  • 5 votes
#1.9 - Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:37 PM EDT

Feisty---I can picture Pataki sitting around with his advisors--they look at Perry, Bachmann, Santorum, etc and think---if these yahoos can get votes, surely I can get the nomination.

NO kidding SF!

I figure anyday now - Joe the Plumber will throw his wrench into the ring! ;o)

  • 7 votes
#1.10 - Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:38 PM EDT

You bet Drive By. It's going to be ABO.

People will look around and ask themselves: "Self, am I better now than I was before the current guy?"

And we all know the answer to that.

Now is it fair? Is it all Bush's fault? Doesn't matter. Basic human nature is what it is. Most folk will not continue to go with the guy that is in power when things got, and in this case stayed bad.

You all will say - but, but it al the republicans fault. But the folks will ask what -

The wars, cause Obama is a cowboy too. The debt, cause Obama is the $4 trillion dollar man. Is it taxes, cause Obama has adopted Bush's tax policies, i.e cut taxes on the rich.

So what the libbie retort?

Presidentin's hard Drive By, but you know that.

  • 3 votes
#1.11 - Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:52 PM EDT

spanky

As usual, your talk always lack merit. just throw it in the air and see if it sticks but you know what, keep leaving in your la-la land. Reason/s for down grade we know.

A very good insight on what to expect very soon, Gas price prices is going to plummet. Not because loon Bachmann said so (she said that without facts) but because Libya, that you all flip flopped, will soon start producing again.

Libbies are not dispirited but all fired up.

  • 6 votes
#1.12 - Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:56 PM EDT

Glad to hear you are all fired up Pius.

I do wonder though - what was Obama's approval ratings this time last year? How about the year before that?

Or perhaaps you could specifically identify in what way what I said lacks merit?

Libya's production will continue to lag. The civil war hasn't even started yet.

But gas will likely decline due to the overall economy and because demand is going down. And brother, not a moment too soon - Havasu for Memorial day. I'm blow through the usual 400-450 gallons. Have not decided if we'll take the motor home or suv out.

Of course and sadly, demand for everything is going down. You get a load of durable good orders? How about new home sales?

Funny thing is it would appear that Libbies are dispirited. The worm has turned.

But hey - you get out there and prove me wrong.

  • 3 votes
#1.13 - Wed Aug 24, 2011 5:08 PM EDT

Feisty Redhead Roselle, IL

NO kidding SF!

I figure anyday now - Joe the Plumber will throw his wrench into the ring! ;o)

Feisty, yup

Joe the dumber plumber; being dumber is the qualification to get the ticket for Tea -NUTS!!!

  • 2 votes
#1.14 - Wed Aug 24, 2011 5:32 PM EDT

Spanky have you noticed how the moonbats keep trying to convince themselfs everything is going to be alright. They really think that those who haven't partaken of the koolaide are gonna buy another 4 years of it was somebody else's fault. So what was the hope and change the messiah promised once again. Was it higher unemployment, a weaker economy, higher gas prices, higher airfare, more debt, wasted stimulus, a country more divided than anytime in recent history if ever. This is what the great barry has given us and remember whoevers fault it was he was going to fix it in his first term. As far as gas prices dropping they would have to drop 33% to get where they were when this idiot in the White House took over. And don't give me this racist crap either, the womb he was carried in till birth belonged to a caucasian, that is unless you believe somehow his father trumped his mother as to his race. If you do go ahead and put your sexist hat on. Yes DBO put me down for one that firmly believes this socialst experiment is coming to an end. By the way fiesty I'm saving my popcorn for the quarterly jobs creation speech, and then there's the moonbats that talk about Perry only creating minimum wage jobs, their jobs, income for working people to pay taxes so the lazy libbies can lay on their sorry behinds and complain about everything.

  • 1 vote
#1.15 - Wed Aug 24, 2011 7:46 PM EDT
Reply

Isn't Pataki kind of old? Well, I guess the Republicans always have to have an old guy in their line up. It's what passes for "diversity."

  • 9 votes
Reply#2 - Wed Aug 24, 2011 3:27 PM EDT

Isn't Pataki kind of old?

At first I though it said, "ODD" and was ready to agree; Guess I'd agree anyway.

Did David Letterman talk him into doing this?

  • 5 votes
#2.1 - Wed Aug 24, 2011 3:40 PM EDT

Pataki is old, but unlike Joe Biden, is not senile.

  • 5 votes
#2.2 - Wed Aug 24, 2011 3:58 PM EDT

Isn't Pataki kind of old?

Well, Ron Paul is 76.

  • 4 votes
#2.3 - Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:08 PM EDT

Hey devie - you think he could plat D-1 football?

That seems to be oddly important to you.

  • 3 votes
#2.4 - Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:13 PM EDT

"...you think he could plat D-1 football?"

Bet he could. IF he gets zoning approval first...

  • 3 votes
#2.5 - Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:35 PM EDT

A swing and a miss Drive By.

Try hard. Being a funnyman is hard.

Not presidentin' hard, but still.

  • 3 votes
#2.6 - Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:53 PM EDT

Yes it is hard, being a funny man, when all the good jokes are at the straw polls, county fairs and goat f*cking contests.

But hey- whyncha try it sometime??

  • 1 vote
#2.7 - Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:59 PM EDT

A man's got to know his limitations.

  • 4 votes
#2.8 - Wed Aug 24, 2011 5:02 PM EDT
Reply

I don't think this is going to be a fair fight. I think their side need to go out, and get some more guys.......

  • 8 votes
Reply#3 - Wed Aug 24, 2011 3:36 PM EDT

LOL,..... dbo... where is that quatation from ? I know that is from a movie, but I just can't find it.

  • 2 votes
#3.1 - Wed Aug 24, 2011 3:45 PM EDT

My crystal ball says..........He'll run. I see Perry and Mitten panicking. Pataki will want to be wise so, he steers centre and that means losing. TP's strangulation of GOP absolutely real.

  • 2 votes
#3.2 - Wed Aug 24, 2011 3:51 PM EDT

Dirp- don't know, but it made me rack my brain too, until I just decided to plagarize it for the humor value. Burt Reynolds? Longest Yard??

  • 1 vote
#3.3 - Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:33 PM EDT

Maybe a take off on "We're gonna need a bigger boat " ?

    #3.4 - Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:44 PM EDT
    Reply

    Wow, it's gonna be fun watching Pataki play "Tea Party". His bona fides as a fiscal conservative will be tested early as he has to explain why he needed to fly the state chopper home to Peekskill every weekend.

    • 4 votes
    Reply#4 - Wed Aug 24, 2011 3:42 PM EDT

    Keep laughing. If Pataki is the VP nominee, given Obama's approval rating in New York, (not to mention New Jersey- he's upside down in both states), you liberals will have a hard time carrying Illinois.

    The Mrs. Should be gathering cardboard boxes. Packing is such a pain.

    Obama shelved in 2012.

    • 5 votes
    #4.1 - Wed Aug 24, 2011 3:50 PM EDT

    Man, it's going to be dicey if they can hold Weiner's old seat.

    • 4 votes
    #4.2 - Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:17 PM EDT

    And let the jokes about holding Weiner begin in 5, 4, 3, 2.....

      #4.3 - Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:45 PM EDT

      As much as I appreciate a good Weiner joke, my comment is actually legitimate.

      Dems are mighty worried about the seat, a seat in the bluest of blue towns.

      But feel free to bust one out if you got one.

      • 3 votes
      #4.4 - Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:56 PM EDT

      [Man, it's going to be dicey if they can hold Weiner's old seat.]

      Still focused on that Wiener, eh Schpanky?

      • 1 vote
      #4.5 - Wed Aug 24, 2011 6:48 PM EDT

      I'll bet Obama's "Jobs speech" will be laced with "Blame Bush Rhetoric" as usual..

      What would be surprising is if it wasn't.

      Isn't it telling that after almost three years, Obama stoops to the desperate level of actually asking businessmen their opinion on how to improve the economy?? Doesn't this say that not only Obama doesn't know what the hell he's doing, it also makes it clear that his advisors are just as worthless??

      Maybe the Dems consider Obama's first four years as On-the-job-training. LOL

        #4.6 - Thu Aug 25, 2011 3:47 AM EDT
        Reply

        12 years with this duffus as my governor was enough...and, he didn't do much of anything that could be remotely remarkable here for NY when he was governor. Now, that Gov. Andrew Cuomo, he's done more in his first year as NY Gov. than Pataki did his 12 years!

        Cuomo 2016!!!

        • 4 votes
        Reply#5 - Wed Aug 24, 2011 3:51 PM EDT

        Cuomo 2016!!!

        Sorry Pat -- I got to go against you on this one; Rahm 2016! ;o)

        • 2 votes
        #5.1 - Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:41 PM EDT

        Fat chance! Rubio 2016!

        • 4 votes
        #5.2 - Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:48 PM EDT
        Reply

        If there were few candidates on the GOP side, you moonbats would be spouting off as to how Obama scared off the competition.

        Instead, the Party line is to claim they all are a bunch of extremist nuts.

        With the polls showing even Michelle Bachmann with a good chance to beat the failed President, no wonder there are more candidates coming.

        • 6 votes
        Reply#6 - Wed Aug 24, 2011 3:57 PM EDT

        It isn't the party line that the republican tea party is a bunch of extremist nuts running for president.

        Lets see you have Perry leader of the army of god to steer us to the rapture and on the way he wants to end social security, then we have Romney with his magic underwear to fight for tax cuts to the rich and corporations are people too, can't forget Bachmann with her opinions trumps truth and facts and history who also voted to end social security.

        Sounds middle of the road to me.

        • 5 votes
        #6.1 - Wed Aug 24, 2011 5:03 PM EDT
        Reply

        Democrats not carry Illinois? Surely you jest!

        • 3 votes
        Reply#7 - Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:02 PM EDT

        Well, I don't know about Illinois, but he can kiss Florida goodbye

        http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=45733

        He's lost Pennsylvania, too. Pataki as VP carries NY and NJ.

        So, what's left to win? California and Illinois?

        • 5 votes
        #7.1 - Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:09 PM EDT

        Man those Illinois jobs number were bad in July.

        It must be a total coincidence that Illinois started to shed jobs at the exact same moment it raised taxes.

        Pure coincidence, right? Taxes are a great thing and are a fundamental plank in the Libbie playbook.

        • 8 votes
        #7.2 - Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:16 PM EDT

        It must be a total coincidence that Illinois started to shed jobs at the exact same moment it raised taxes.

        As an experiment, Illinois should raise taxes again. Just to prove the theory with some more data points.

        • 5 votes
        #7.3 - Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:21 PM EDT

        Well thank god - Perry's, Romney's, or Anna Molly's, that Feisty Industries is largely unaffected and can bear the extra tax burdens.

        I wonder if Feisty Industries has made any new hires this quarter?

        Perhaps we will get an update from the President and CEO? Or maybe from the Chief Operating Officer, Bev.

        • 3 votes
        #7.4 - Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:59 PM EDT

        I bet the people in Florida will be voting to end social security and medicare. I'll bet those retired people just can't wait for the republican austerity plan for the old to begin.

        So just what is your great plan to win over the retired in Florida, kill social security so we can give tax cuts for the rich?

        • 6 votes
        #7.5 - Wed Aug 24, 2011 5:07 PM EDT

        Uh, Americans First, it's kinda funny, you know in a ha, ha kind of way that you ask.

        Especially today.

        Head on over to RCP - they got an article you are going to want to see.

        37% in Flordia. That's pure doom Americans First, pure doom.

        • 2 votes
        #7.6 - Wed Aug 24, 2011 5:45 PM EDT

        Those polls are before the retired in Florida find out just what the republicans have in store for them.

        The Wisconsin people voted for republicans before they found out too. People are getting smarter and realizing that faux is nothing but censored news with dollops of fear, with dashes of lies.

        80% of the people polled also think we should raise taxes on the richest, but that is a poll all republicans seem to never see as they are beholden to their contributors the rich.

        • 1 vote
        #7.7 - Wed Aug 24, 2011 11:47 PM EDT
        Reply

        One thing I can say for curtain, Califonia will go to Obama, know ifs, ands, or buts!

        • 5 votes
        Reply#8 - Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:45 PM EDT

        He's got my vote, that's a given.

        • 3 votes
        #8.1 - Wed Aug 24, 2011 5:00 PM EDT
        Reply

        More the merrier go Pat go!

        • 1 vote
        Reply#9 - Wed Aug 24, 2011 6:28 PM EDT

        thetotas said, One thing I can say for curtain, Califonia will go to Obama, know ifs, ands, or buts!

        I agree and after that it will be certains for barry

          Reply#10 - Wed Aug 24, 2011 9:11 PM EDT

          Just another loser...

          • 1 vote
          Reply#11 - Thu Aug 25, 2011 4:47 AM EDT
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