Posted on 06/29/2006 8:45:42 AM PDT by presidio9
I don't believe any mayor of anywhere has ever become President, but if it's gonna happen, it'll be NYC. I believe the last NYC mayor to *eventually* end up President was TR.
I don't get this comparison with McCain. The two have almost NOTHING in common. Bloomberg is a social liberal, McCain is a social conservative. Bloomberg understands business, McCain doesn't.
I guess there are a few things they agree on, but they seem more different than the same.
I guess anybody who is a "moderate" is the same to the media.
Yes, huge losers...If Gore enters, it will be a dogfight between the two and leave them both battered and bruised. Mark Warner and Evan Bayh are the only others I think have a good chance of capturing the nomination.
What NYC mayor ever ran and lost?
Giuliani... no
Dinkins ... no
Koch... no
LaGuardia... no
Rockefeller... no
Tweed... no
Beame... no
Impelliterri...no
Van Wyck... no
Roosevelt... no, but he did eventually become President.
Those are the most famous NYC mayors; hard to imagine someone NOT on that list thinking he was a big shot enough to run for President...
Roosevelt was never mayor of NYC, he was the Police Comissioner before being appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy. When he was 28, he ran for mayor and lost, badly, to Abram S. Hewitt.
Oh let him run and destroy the lefties in the Dem Party. His ego alone will make his campaign implode.
Having someone mount a major third-party candidacy may be a major part of Hillary's strategy for winning in 2008, but Bloomberg doesn't seem like the ideal one to do it. Someone like Chuck Hagel or John McCain would be more useful to her...if she can't get one of them to run as her running-mate (bottom of the ticket).
Boss Tweed was never mayor of NYC, but he did nurture the political career of Al Smith, sheriff or NY, Governor of NY, and finally an unsuccessful presidential candidate.
Cuomo, at the very least.
Look up RINO in the dictionary and there will be a picture of Bloomberg. Then McCain.
That would be great!He would suck off votes from the rat and help us really kick ass.
"Micheal.... Michael, dear.... time to wake up now - you're dreaming."
Two problems:
1. Cuomo wasn't mayor
2. He didn't run for president.
:^D You're right on one thing: Cuomo IS the very least. It's OK, it happens... turns out TR wasn't mayor either... NYC Police commissioner, and governor, but lost the race for mayor. By a lot.
Dinkins would give him a run for his money for that title...
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