Peter King: 'I’m running for president'

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By Julian Hattem - 09/08/13 10:35 AM ET


Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) is running for president.
In a radio interview this week, the Republican lawmaker told a New Hampshire station that he was in the state “because right now I’m running for president,” according to The New York Daily News.

The visit was King’s second of four trips to the traditional home of the nation’s first presidential primary.

The announcement makes King the first Republican to officially declare their intentions to run for president in 2016.

King has previously expressed an interest in running for president, though Democrats including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi have had their doubts about his seriousness.


Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/320885-rep-king-im-running-for-president-#ixzz2eJlXJcj3

[Cooley Hurd]

1. Rec for the clown car picture!

[QED]

6. Agreed

Sums it up nicely. I was wondering which nutter would replace Bachmann.

[Jim Lane]

11. I don't think he qualifies as Bachmann-level nuttery.

You may be thinking of Steve King, a Congressman from Iowa.

My personal guess is that the Bachmann mantle will be assumed by Ted "Carnival" Cruz, who is fully qualified for the position.

[MoonRiver]

2. 2016 clown car is filling up fast!

Bring on the clowns!

[hrmjustin]

3. Behold America is saved now! Peter will save us.

[RGinNJ]

4. I just love it!

Let them run out all their crazies and line them up for inspection just like the last election. This is going to be fun to watch.

[pscot]

5. I once had a Chevy of that vintage

But I was very selective about who got a ride.

[kentuck]

7. Why? Is the dogcatcher position already filled?

Sorry. I don't give Mr King much hope of winning.

[OregonBlue]

8. The problem with King is that he is just not very bright. The bigger problem is that he doesn't know

it.

[SnowCritter]

17. Dunning-Kruger, anyone?

[Rozlee]

25. Being bright isn't a requirement to run for office for Republicans.

In fact, intelligence is looked on with high suspicion. The only half-way bright Republican is Jon Huntsman and teabaggers tore him to pieces in the 2012 primaries.

[progressoid]

9. Bwahahahahaha!

This should be fun.

[Matariki]

10. Oh no. Not this guy! Not "we'll take care of the counting" Peter King.

Here's to his massive down in flames fail.

[Botany]

16. + 1,000,000,000,000,000,000

this was 2 or 3 months before the 2004 election and a drunk Peter King let
the cat out of the bag that the republicans manipulate the vote.

[jmowreader]

12. We need forty more of them to jump into the race, and LOTS of debates

The more debates the better; it makes campaigning against them much easier because they threw the Eleventh Commandment under a bus long ago.

[Marie Marie]

13. Well someone had to pick up where Michele Bachmann left off.

Now I know why I was always afraid of clowns...

[rppper]

14. And so the freak show begins.....

....mouth a-foaming and rhetoric blazing....thank you congresscritter King!

[JI7]

15. is he hoping to beat Giuliani and Fred Thompson's record on the worst runs ?

[FSogol]

18. Everyone should send him a letter of congratulations, written in crayon, and a penny for his

campaign coffers.

[gussmith]

19. Hummmm

And I'm laughing

[dballance]

20. Woo Hoo. That's good news! Late Night Comics Rejoice!

Let the GOP once again fill their clown car with candidates. This will be fun to watch.

[KamaAina]

21. Of what country?

Dumbfuckistan?

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

22. President of what? nt

[old guy]

23. Oh my.

Another in a long list of repub failures whose name will never be on the ballot for President.

[treestar]

24. Clown number 1 reports for duty. nt