From the New York Times’ wonderfully titled “Don’t Cry For Me, Stephen Minarik” post-mortem on the 2006 New York State GOP debacle, I found this amusing piece of insight from Joe Mondello (Minarik’s successor):

He (Mondello) said on WROW that Mr. Pataki had to know he was not a front runner, but that perhaps he thought he could get the nod if the ‘08 Republican primary got messy and there was “blood on the floor.”

That’s an understatement. The thing better be a freaking slaughter house if Pataki has any chance of getting the Republican presidential nomination.

Here’s Jon Stewart’s take on “president Pataki” (from the Daily Politics). Sometimes the truth hurts.

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