Podhoretz: Dead man Walkin'

May 6, 2005 -- RIGHT now some folks circling in orbit around George Pataki are thinking deep thoughts about the New York governor's future. Should he run for a fourth term, even though his competition will surely be the formidable Eliot Spitzer? Or should he forswear Albany for a shot at the Republican presidential nomination in 2008?
Yes, just think of the bumper stickers and campaign slogans:

"George Pataki — He Can't Get It Done!"

"Pataki for President: He'll Do for America What He's Done for Ground Zero!"

"George Pataki — From Hero to Zero!"

George Elmer Pataki is toast. Put a fork in him, because he's done. No politician can survive the sort of calamitous debacle over which Pataki has presided in and around the 16 acres of Ground Zero. No politician should survive it.

http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/43481.htm
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With friends like these...

All moderate republicans will continue to attacked until the Neocons have their new Fundamentalist puppet locking the nomination.

seems as though he's at least equal to the current whitehouse paperweight