Why Pataki is important

He told The Hill that he won’t rule out a presidential race
in 2012. He’d be a great addition to a line that would hopefully include Perry,
Palin and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal. That would leave Mitt Romney holding the
coat for the Bush people. But all of these others add substance and character to
what is the sea change known as the Tea Party. It is heartland-based, and the
American century ahead will find its strengths and prosperity in the American
heartland.

The fledgling spirit of the Tea Partiers, like Tamino, may
need three words for guidance on its journey to maturity. Those words might be:
passion, perspective and packaging. Palin provides passion and Perry the
comprehensive abilities of a well-run and healthy state manager. But Pataki
provides perspective. His recent six-stop tour, Revere America, geared to repealing
ObamaCare, adds class and character to this grassroots movement.

“Obama’s government-controlled healthcare significantly
jeopardizes jobs, our economy and our children’s futures by spending $1
trillion and adding $600 billion in new taxes on families and businesses,” says
Pataki. “ObamaCare represents an unprecedented overreach of the federal
government into the lives of individuals and tramples on the Constitution as
evidenced by 19 states filing suit against the federal power-grab.”

It is of vital importance that this movement include someone
from the Northeast, preferably New York, or it runs the possibility of
dangerously dividing red states from blue. Giuliani has the passion but not the
perspective. Pataki is that man. Honest Jeffersonian strengths are growing in
the heartland, reaching already beyond the states’ challenge to ObamaCare.
Minnesota and other states are now formulating legislation that would build a
high legal threshold to any future federal legislation. These strivings are
necessary and must find equitable solutions in our time.

And as long as Bill Maher, Noam Chomsky, Frank Rich, Tiny
Fey and David Letterman scorn the Tea Party and Sarah Palin — German fascists,
Ku Klux Klan, slut, “two-headed circus freak dog,” I read about Palin in a
North Carolina newspaper this week; writes on her hand and has a Garfield
calendar on her desk — the movement will grow and clarify. This debased
commentary suggests a troupe of vampires in the twilight and triggers an
archetypal and instinctive Buffy the Vampire Slayer conditioned reflex out
there with the plain folk in Sunnydale, and she comes with a sword.

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