O'Malley Launches Federal PAC ~ Presidential run in the future?

[octoburn]

In a sign of lofty national ambitions, Gov. Martin O'Malley has created a federal political action committee that could become the main financial vehicle for a presidential run in 2016.

O'Malley spokesman Rick Abbruzzese confirmed Thursday that O'Malley has put in the papers to register what is being called the O Say Can You See PAC with the Federal Election Commission. The PAC gives the governor a federal political vehicle for spending on races at both the national and state level.

Creation of the PAC was first reported Wednesday in the Washington publication Roll Call. In the modern political era, such a committee is practically a prerequisite for a candidate to launch a presidential campaign.

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Let the gnashing of teeth begin!

[VOSA]

The only gnashing of teeth you'll here is when Cuomo or Patrick etc., start chewing up Marty fatuous ***.

[Sprightly]

You call it teeth gnashing when people who cannot stomach the man are upset that he might run for POTUS?

Whatever floats your boat. Call me a teeth gnasher. When he runs, and I've said for years that he will, I will get back into the arena and give it my all to work toward his defeat.

[Mitchum]

LOL I'm sure he is going to lose sleep over that one.

[Sprightly]

LOL I'm sure he is going to lose sleep over that one.

Don't you have some lavish vacation to take?

[DaggerJohn]

Gnashing of teeth? More like 'licking my chops'. I can't wait to see the little puffed-up pretender carted off to the land of failed and forgotten politicians.

America will be so dead broke in 2016 that it will not be able to afford any tax-and-spend liberal Democrats. They'll be as obsolete as buggy whips.

[Mitchum]

Don't you have some lavish vacation to take?

Nope I'm done with vacations for now. I have to pick up a contract somewhere so I can pay the property taxes.

[octoburn]

You call it teeth gnashing when people who cannot stomach the man are upset that he might run for POTUS?

Whatever floats your boat. Call me a teeth gnasher. When he runs, and I've said for years that he will, I will get back into the arena and give it my all to work toward his defeat.

Wow. You'll "get back into the arena", huh? It's a wonder he's gotten this far, having such formidable foes on this forum as he does.

For now, it might be best if some of you just try to stay calm, lest the frenzy peak too soon even before the campaign even begins.

[yeah]

he would make a great president

[baltimoreron]

he would make a great president

Google the Peter Principle. It applies to Marty. (And thanks for the laugh.)

[Marshan Man]

I don't think he'd survive a dem primary. I don't even think he'd win MD in a dem primary... if he did the results would be close... kinda like the Mfume/Cardin Senate primary from a few cycles ago...

[Sprightly]

Wow. You'll "get back into the arena", huh? It's a wonder he's gotten this far, having such formidable foes on this forum as he does.

For now, it might be best if some of you just try to stay calm, lest the frenzy peak too soon even before the campaign even begins.

You are certainly free to be as sarcastic as you please. It won't change a thing.

[Sprightly]

he would make a great president

Of what?

[EmDot]

O'Malley Launches Federal PAC ~ Presidential run in the future?

OMG, I hope not.

For some reason, I just can't stand the man.

My post would get deleted and I'd probably be banned if I wrote what he makes me think of.

[Cetshwayo]

Obama had his Hope and Change moniker

What would Owemallie's be?

Pack and Tax?

"As your President I would pack your state and neighborhoods with New Americans who you will pay for by providing healthcare, education and citizen benefits with my Taxing of every facet of your life"
Presidential Candidate Martin Owemallie
paid for by friends of owemallie mitchum treasurer

[baltimoreron]

Obama had his Hope and Change moniker

What would Owemallie's be?

Pack and Tax?

"As your President I would pack your state and neighborhoods with New Americans who you will pay for by providing healthcare, education and citizen benefits with my Taxing of every facet of your life"
Presidential Candidate Martin Owemallie
paid for by friends of owemallie mitchum treasurer

That's pretty much his legacy. Oh, that and yummy Smith Island Cake.

[ivanbalt]

Does O'Malley know it's a lot harder to raise taxes/fees/whatever at the federal level?

[octoburn]

That's pretty much his legacy. Oh, that and yummy Smith Island Cake.

Actually ~ Smith Island Cakes are Brian Murphy's legacy. And they are very good!

[Steveg85321]

I dislike (I swore the day he forced the distinguished police commander out for an un-PC memo that I would never ever vote for him) and disagree with O'Malley (on everything he does or stands for). That said, I don't see why a person like him shouldn't have presidential aspirations (even though I feel that he makes decisions detrimental to our state in order to position himself nationally). It's what ambitious politicians do (that and the skeezy fundraising through the governors' club and now his PAC which I'm sure will be equally slimy). Unlike others on this thread, I expect him to be successful at it, if not as president as VP or secretary of something. He is a perfect Democratic candidate, good looking and full of crap, style over substance, feelings over reason, good on TV, managing his office in perpetual campaign mode, offering all kinds of giveaways we cannot afford to pander to the weak-minded voters - really quite a lot like our current POTUS in fact. I think he's a natural.

[Eastside Terp]

I can see the commercials now with O'malley saying he feared the Bush Administration more than Al Qaeda ........

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...-2005Feb8.html

O'Malley Likens Bush's Proposed Cuts to Sept. 11 Attacks

Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley yesterday compared President Bush's proposed budget cuts to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, saying that Bush, like the al Qaeda hijackers who crashed planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, has launched an assault on America's cities.