Billion-dollar Bloomberg bid for White House?

Hotair ^ | 01/23/2016 | Ed Morrissey

[catfish1957]

Maybe a 4th candidate

And hopefully a conservative.

I said a few days ago that this may be the most fractured election since 1860. I still believe it.

[CincyRichieRich]

Awesome. No supersized sodas,just supersized commie lies.

[kearnyirish2]

Bloomberg is much less likable than Trump, and I don’t seeing him winning any southern or Midwestern state (outside of Illinois). I can’t believe he would even be a serious contender - though he could hurt Republicans in the same manner as Perot.

[Zhang Fei]

Bloomie is a teeny weeny dictator with a Napoleon complex IMHO.

He won two NYC mayoral elections. As to Napoleon complex - unlike Napoleon, he defeated all of his combined adversaries in the financial data world and in NYC politics. He's also worth $40b, and his dad was just a realtor. That's not nothing.

[Zhang Fei]

Certainly true. And he's certainly done the math. But maybe he could explain it to me: I have trouble seeing a path for him to win New York State, which I think he'd have to do. He'd have to split the Democratic vote with someone (unless they nominate him!) and would thereby lose the state. That's because upstate is very un-liberal. Baby Cuomo, incumbent governor and son of a multi-term governor, made a deal with a now-convicted felon in the state GOP who delivered Long Island to him.

You're thinking too small. Bloomberg could spend more money than both parties combined on the presidential election. He could buy out state and local level Democratic Party organizations and a good chunk of the Republican ones, by offering operatives bags of money. He spent hundreds of millions of dollars on winning the NYC elections. I expect he will spend billions to win the presidency. It won't even make a dent in his $40b net worth.

[Mears]

“and his dad was just a realtor. “

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And his Mom was just a waitress.

I still don’t like him. :-)

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[Zhang Fei]

“And his Mom was just a waitress.”

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Not exactly, but she was a sharp cookie:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/20/nyregion/charlotte-r-bloomberg-mayors-mother-dies-at-102.html?_r=0
Mrs. Bloomberg was born Charlotte Rubens in Jersey City in 1909. She received a bachelor’s degree in accounting from New York University in 1929. She married William H. Bloomberg in 1934.

The family moved to Medford in 1945, where Mrs. Bloomberg raised her children, volunteered and worked as an office manager in Boston. William Bloomberg died in 1963. In her 90s, she was co-president of her synagogue, Temple Shalom. And even after that, she read two newspapers each day.

[EinNYC]

NOOOOOOOOOOO!!! And HELL NOOOOOOOOO!!! Ship the destructive little runt to an island so remote it has no zip code and bash the bottom in of all its boats.

[Stentor]

Donald must be shaking some scary trees to have Gollum appear out of the muck. I hope his boys have him covered with security and airplane maintenance. I’d trust the Odunga SS as far as I could throw them.

[Ted Grant]

Bloomie will attract white liberal snobs, and that’s it.