Things are getting desperate on the right when a former three-term Republican governor of New York is going to step into the GOP's 2012 mess. Gawker reports:

_{Pataki —who "was recently spotted watching the last Republican presidential debate at a bar in Chelsea" — is "strongly considering entering the crowded race for the Republican presidential nomination" as early as next week.} 

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Looks like Dave Weigel's thoughts about Republicans going down a brokered convention route to find their candidate might not be so far fetched: 

_{Thus the scenario—floated every four years—in which the race drags on, no one locks up the nomination, and the convention doesn't pick a candidate on the first ballot. This is the first GOP presidential primary of the Tea Party era, with state parties that have been taken over by the sort of people who decapitated Sen. Bob Bennett of Utah, Rep. Mike Castle of Delaware, and (less successfully) Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska. It's the first post-Citizens United primary, which makes it theoretically possible for candidates to be bailed out by Super PACs funded by the sort of people who really started sweating when President Obama went after private jets.} 

Team Obama must be delighted.