The last time the Republicants won NY at the presidential level was 1984.

I have as much chance of wresting the Republicant domination for president as George Pataki.

that your predictions perhaps may be valid in some alternative universe, but not this one.`
I'd love to know what you base them on.

Not yet guys.

His current reality seems a bit skewed.

It's not as if he's a beloved political figure in NY.

The fine people of New York must either have forgotten about him or don't remember him fondly, including Republicans who give him a desultory six percentage points of their votes:

http://www.politico.com/p/polls/person/latest/george-pataki#.VSFbaPnF_Xo

There are a dozen or so candidates in the race unless you are going to hang your hat on a technicality like filing papers.

Walker, Bush, Carson, Rubio, Huckabee, Perry, Santorum, Huckabee et all aren't running...

In the highly unlikely event it's just going to be Cruz v Pataki my money is on Cruz over the bland and uninspiring New York Republican party apparatchik , George Pataki.

...for total laziness.

No explanation of why George Pataki would have a chance in hell of winning the Republican nomination.

No explanation as to why someone who's been out of office for 10 years would have the remotest appeal to New York voters.

The first thought I had as I read this was those small handful of Chicken-Little posters who were convinced that Rudy Giuliani was an existential threat to Democrats' chances to win the Presidency in 2008 because he was going to turn the entire Northeast red. This was well past the point he was being ridiculed as Rudy "Noun, Verb, 9/11" Giuliani.

Tacky's only a threat in the same sense that Lake Michigan would be in danger of combustion if water had the same physical properties as gasoline. It ends with an inevitable conclusion having started from an impossible premise and never crossing into the possible at any point in the chain of reasoning.

Or is this still Saturday Night we're talking to?

Is there something else specific you would like my opinion on. I'd be delighted to oblige.

which also happens to be about 10 miles from Hilary’s home. I can assure you, even this close to his home base, there is NO WAY he’d carry Westchester.

If he runs, he wouldn’t even make it past the primary. No one likes him here, and there is no way an East Coast Republican will get the nod from the party (unless it happens to be super-crazy Paul Le Page). Ain’t gonna happen.

Pataki/Fiorina vs Hillary/Biden.

How is Pataki's support among teabaggers and the religious right?

And wouldn't the things he'd have to say to win support in those quarters cost him support in NY, removing his main alleged advantage?

Pataki came out for repeal in Indiana.

...for the Republicans to simply shed than I think you're accounting for.

Including NY

Pataki