Then again, what modern day Republican isn't a whore?
http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/04/pataki-hits-the-road-with-petition-to-repeal-health-care-collect-1m-email-addresses.phpPataki Hits The Road With Petition To Repeal Health Care, Collect 1M Email Addresses
Former New York Gov. George Pataki (R) had kept himself out of the fray during the health care debate, a move that seemed smart for a moderate Republican expected to take a run at the White House. But Pataki bounded back into the public eye last week, waving the tea party flag with a new group that officially aims to get health care repealed -- but looks an awful lot like the seeds of a new campaign to establish his conservative credentials.
Pataki launched his organization, Revere America, with the lofty initial goal of collecting one million signatures on a petition to repeal "ObamaCare."
The petition is full of tea party dog whistles: The law (or "bill"): "ignores the will of the majority of Americans who vigorously oppose government controlled national health care;" "tramples on the Constitution" and "represents an arrogant disregard for the personal freedom of the people of the United States."
But the petition's real purpose, as Pataki admitted in a C-Span interview, is to "get over a million e-mail addresses of people who would support us in working to repeal ObamaCare." And, presumably, of people who would support a Pataki for President campaign.
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