Murdoch begins ‘draft Bloomberg’ movement as market uncertainty rises

The GOP leadership nominates a gun banner - why not? The party of “Freedom and small govt” passed the so called Patriot act.

I look at it going to become a Trump/Cruz ticket.

Oh, great. A whacked-out megalomaniac anti-gun-obsessionist.

Bloomberg should run. As a Democrat.

No way.

He’d make the perfect independent. Pull lots of votes from the left and get almost none from our side.

The Gelding of Rupert Murdoch (from HILLARY’S SECRET WAR)
WorldNetDaily.com | July 14, 2005 | Richard Poe
Posted on 07/14/2005 10:58:55 AM PDT by Richard Poe
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1442911/posts

Trump widens lead over U.S. Republican presidential field: Reuters poll (Now 32% pulling away)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3328688/posts

A bowel movement.

When an administration finally begins to grab guns it will be a Republican administration not a Democrat one.

Why? The same reason that only Nixon can make a deal with Red China. Only a Republican can push through gun grabbing.

Conservative stalwarts Bill Kristol is leaving the door open for an “October surprise,” even suggesting the possibility that a business person, such as a “saner and sounder” version of Donald Trump, could emerge.

Kristol and other neoconservatives are starting to panic as their boy Jeb tanks in the polls. Christie, Pataki, Graham, and other liberal Republicans aren't going anywhere either.

Fortunately, the strategy of recruiting another liberal Republican to be their standard-bearer will backfire, because it will split the GOP establishment vote, in much the same way that the RNC has been trying to split the conservative vote with a glut of pseudo-conservative candidates.

So Murdoch is now trying to force feed us another nothing candidate. I think we should have had enough of the media feeding us a candidate that is sure to lose. They say Trump is arrogant how about this a-hole, what level of arrogance can be applied to him.

Fortunately, the strategy of recruiting another liberal Republican to be their standard-bearer will backfire, because it will split the GOP establishment vote, in much the same way that the RNC has been trying to split the conservative vote with a glut of pseudo-conservative candidates.

Bloomberg wouldn't necessarily run as a Republican. More likely: third party or independent.

If all we're talking about is Murdoch tweeting from his yacht on the other side of the planet, maybe Bloomberg won't run at all.

I doubt Bloomberg will run, he doesn’t have much of a fan base outside of New York City, especially among Republicans. The bigger question is what the RNC will do to guarantee that an establishment figure gets the nomination as Jeb’s numbers continue to stagnate. Will they flail around looking for a last-minute replacement (as Democrats may have to do for Hillary if she’s indicted), or will they just find a way to rig things so that delegates vote for Jeb or a similarly acceptable candidate if things don’t go their way.

Murdoch is delusional if he thinks America might elect a social authoritarian like Bloomberg president. Likely life inside some sort of bubble accounts for Murdoch’s misapprehension.

I doubt Bloomberg will run, he doesn’t have much of a fan base outside of New York City, especially among Republicans. The bigger question is what the RNC will do to guarantee that an establishment figure gets the nomination as Jeb’s numbers continue to stagnate. Will they flail around looking for a last-minute replacement (as Democrats may have to do for Hillary if she’s indicted), or will they just find a way to rig things so that delegates vote for Jeb or a similarly acceptable candidate if things don’t go their way.

Have those "Anybody But [Carter, Clinton, Reagan, McGovern, etc.] movements ever succeeded? When it comes down to saying "We have to beat [so-and-so]," isn't that a sign that one has already lost?

I don't know what will happen or whether Trump can really go the distance, but if he does as well in the primaries as he's doing in the polls now, the nomination is his. That doesn't mean that the convention won't be stormy and tumultuous, with all manner of infighting.