Bloomberg mulls a $1 billion run

The Washington Times ^ | May 14, 2007

[Rennes Templar]

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is prepared to spend an unprecedented $1 billion of his own $5.8 billion personal fortune for a third-party presidential campaign, Ralph Z. Hallow will report Tuesday in The Washington Times. "He has set aside $1 billion to go for it," a long-time business adviser to Mr. Bloomberg tells The Times.

"The thinking about where it will come from and do we have it is over, and the answer is yes, we can do it." The $1 billion would represent about one-fifth of Mr. Bloomberg's personal fortune. "Mike has been meeting with Ross Perot's most senior people about how they did an independent run in 1992," the Bloomberg business adviser said.

Republicans tell The Times that they are taking the Bloomberg threat seriously, while the mayor's associates say they are fielding calls from staffers for Republican Sen. John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign, which the Bloomberg adviser compared to "a biplane on fire and spiraling down."

[pissant]

Don't want a glabalist?

[Gritty]

Let him spend his $1,000,000,000.00 if it makes him feel happy. He’s not going anywhere. He’ll never be President.

[pissant]

Plus, he’ll only get liberals to vote for him.

[airborne]

What kind of man spends $1 billion of his own money to get a job that pays $600,000?

[Norman Bates]

This will potentially be a huge problem for any eventual GOP nominee.

[DTogo]

So that’s what our republic has come to, buying the Oval Office...

[pissant]

Wrong. A huge problem for the dems. This guy is not a republican. He’s a fetid liberal with an R by his name. Soon to be I by his name.

[Jim Robinson]

Yeah, well even if Rudy does get the nomination, I doubt he’s going to be picking up much of the left of center vote, much less the antiwar vote. Leftist abortionists, gay agenda, gun control, illegal alien supporting antiwar liberals will stick with the socialists, greenies and democrats. And of course, millions of pro-life, pro-family, pro-gun, pro-national security, pro-liberty conservatives will avoid him like the plague. Sorry someone is seriously miscalculating. Rudy will be going down in flames.

[gondramB]

>>Rudy! v Bloomberg v Hillary! = YUCK!!!<<

A three way split of the liberal vote like that might let a fourth, conservative candidate get elected without all the compromises conservatives are usually called on to make.

[Petronski]

This will potentially be a huge problem for any eventual GOP nominee.

I don't see how. He comes in leftward of Rudy. He doesn't appeal to any pro-life pro-gun voter.

I frankly don't understand how he would appeal to anyone at all, but it comes out of the Giuliani/Clinton/Edwards pool if at all.

[Eccl 10:2]

Rudy G would make a much more threatening third-party candidate.

Bloomy would, as others have said, simply siphon off Liberal NE voters from states we likely wouldn’t win anyway. He might put California back in play for us, though.

[rhinohunter]

I am very confused as to why Bloomberg would do this IF he has any desire to win,

He doesn't.

His desire is for Hitlery to win. He will spend 100% of his billion dollars on ads bashing Fred Thompson.

That's the Perot model. If you recall, the entire focus of his '92 campaign was anti-Bush.

[paul51]

I am very confused as to why Bloomberg would do this

Because he is so self absorbed and full of himself he actually thinks he could win.

[mysterio]

It's funny, he's supposed to be such a businessman. But he appeals to no one but the worst statists. It's amazing that he has such little sense of that.

I'd rather see him take the billion and set up a little island kingdom. We can move the other people who hate freedom to his island. He can be their emperor.

[sageb1]

yuk

[OKIEDOC]

Personally Bloomersberger reminds me of a great big rich sissy who would rather squat to pee than be seen standing up like a man.

I do not know what his advisers are telling him but he has an even less chance of becoming President than Hellary becoming a feminine woman or a macho man after her next sex change operation.

[pawdoggie]

He will be to Hillary Clinton as Ross Perot was to Bill Clinton....her ticket to the White House

Think! He's a New York Liberal, from whom is he most likely to siphon votes? Sure, he'll try to pass himself off as a "moderate", so will Hillary, but it won't wash in either case. If he took enough votes away from her Heinous in few New England states, it could represent a GOP margin of victory. Maybe that's why he's doing this, to pay back the GOP for nominating him for Mayor (or at least that's what Hillary may say).

The real "Ross Perot" threat is that "moderate" organization dreamed up by (among others) Jimmy Carter adviser, Ham Jordan. It's tailor made for the next disgruntled Republican who fails to secure the GOP Presidential nomination (McCain perhaps?). If that happens, the Republicans may thank their lucky stars for a Bloomberg "left jab" at Hillary. In any case, Mikey Bloomberg is grossly overestimating his personal charm.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

If he commits at least $500 million to defeating the Republicans, he get’s an honorarium at the Dimocrat Hall of Shame.

[TennTuxedo]

Think! He's a New York Liberal, from whom is he most likely to siphon votes?

Remember, the liberals vote lock step with their leaders-union bosses, plantation masters, etc. Bloomberg is not going to siphon off as many liberals votes as you think.

[Williams]

Jim it is fair to say it will be a cold day in Hell before Rudy gets your vote. I just hope a Fred Thompson can get the nomination and win the big one. Right now the nomination seems totally up for grabs.