Posted on 01/24/2016 10:06:39 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Edited on 01/24/2016 10:10:59 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Donald J. Trump's reaction to the potential run of Michael R. Bloomberg in the presidential race was simple: Bring it on.
"I would love to see Michael run -- I would love the competition," Mr. Trump said in a brief interview before a rally of several hundred people who lined up for hours to see him here.
Please Bloomberg who friggin RINO please run and drain votes from that old hag Hillary!
i cant see WHO would vote for him.
Suburban soccer mom types. Professionals uneasy with Bernie hardcore marxism. Dems would be stuck with the cities. Game. Set. Match. Melania can start picking out drapes for the White House the moment Bloomberg gets in the race.
Bloomy has a bigger wad of cash than the Donald...rumors are that Donald is jealous!
Trump would benefit from a Bloomberg indie run only if the Hildabeast is the candidate...Bloomberg’s Liberal outlook would split her support...
if the Dim nomination goes to the Bern, he’d be running against two multi-billionaires, which would be a great contrast to the Sanders populist/socialist message...I can hear the ads now...”these 2 billionaires are buying the election and they are the cause of all the problems for the middle class”...might be effective!
you not who! doh!
Bloomberg isn’t taking any GOP votes so it would be awesome
Every few years, Bloomberg feels the groundswell of people clamoring for a Bloomberg presidency, then it turns out it was just gas.
Bloomberg will run if it looks like Hitlery is going to be indicted or her numbers really tank.
Unfortunately, Bloomberg is a winning ticket for the Dems and Trump will eat his words.
Professionals i agree, but aren’t soccer moms somewhat majority republican?
It would be great for Trump, siphoning off hundreds of thousands of NE votes and giving the GOP a genuine shot at NY, CT, maybe a couple of others. GO BLOOMIE GO!
I would too. Would drain votes from RAT’s just like Nader did. Agree with Trump on that one!
I think Dems are DOA anyway. Hussein and Valerie have pummeled the hopes of most hard working Americans in their effort to make a welfare nanny state.
H&V have created what they hope is a permanent dependent class: the usual minority base, yes, but also the younger generation of millennials who have begun to think there is no hope in their lives without Big Government.
I think most voters are tired of it—and of the PC culture. The current whiners regarding the Academy Awards are symptomatic of such a mindset, and the act is growing old.
Hillary is about as unappealing as one can get it, and Bernie (while an honest liberal) isn’t electable in middle America.
Republicans especially ought to be able to win this.
Of course, they should’ve won handily in 2012, too...so if anyone can screw it up, they can! :)
Hillary and the RINOs are just too easy to beat. Can’t blame Trump for wanting some more people at the party.
So IF Trump wins the nomination, and IF Hillary wins the nomination, and IF Bloomboog runs, the choice will be:
Which New York liberal do I want more???
Yay....!
Billionaire face-off.
Now, nobody comes into possession of billions in net worth, without a certain set of attributes and attitudes about what money is and what makes it work. Both The Donald and Mikey were fortunate to have planned well in selecting the families into which they were born, but both have also been astute stewards of the fortunes entrusted to them.
But they have each pursued different courses in accumulating those monuments of great wealth. The Donald jumped into real estate early on, and parlayed it into the vast empire of which he cheerfully puts his own name at every opportunity.
Mikey started out with a degree in Electrical Engineering, and with an MBA from Harvard, toiled in the information technology side of things with Salomon Brothers, eventually working himself to a partnership in the firm. Salomon Brothers merged with another firm, and Mikey found himself with a severance check for $10 million in 1981. He went into business on his own, designing and establishing several innovative terminals that made it easier for traders to wade through data, and the company he formed, now Bloomberg LP, became widely successful, and by 1989, had accumulated a fortune estimated as about $2 billion. He then branched out into Bloomberg News and Bloomberg TV.
IN 2001, he chose to enter politics (as a “Republican”, whatever that means in New York) and succeeded Rudy Giuliani as Mayor of New York, a job he held for 12 years and during which he transformed from “Republican” to “Democrat” and eventually to “Independent”. Upon retiring from the Mayor’s office, he returned to the helm of Bloomberg LP, and his fortune now roughly $22 billion.
Not surprising that Mikey and The Donald know each other on a personal basis, they have probably met socially and in business venues hundreds of times, and the relationship has always remained cordial for both parties.
Would but that Ayn Rand could be here to see this and to make her observations, as was done in “The Fountainhead” and “Atlas Shrugged”.
He also said that he would love to run against Clinton. He likes the chew up the competition.
He’d take more votes from the Beast than Trump Look at 1980 and John Anderson. Same effect.
Nice mini-essay.
I don’t want either of them for President.
There are reasons the true greats, Rockefeller, Edison, Ford, Disney and others did not run for public office.
It’s getting to the point that the fact that someone even wants the job shows they have to be nuts, it’s become a Catch-22.
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