Posted on 12/30/2007 6:55:06 PM PST by NYC Republican
Buoyed by the still unsettled field, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is growing increasingly enchanted with the idea of launching an independent presidential bid, and his aides are aggressively laying the groundwork for him to run.
On Sunday, the mayor will join Democratic and Republican elder statesmen at the University of Oklahoma in what the conveners are billing as an effort to pressure the major party candidates to renounce partisan gridlock.
Former Senator David L. Boren of Oklahoma, who organized the session with former Senator Sam Nunn, a Democrat of Georgia, suggested in an interview that if the prospective major party nominees failed within two months to formally embrace bipartisanship and address the fundamental challenges facing the nation, “I would be among those who would urge Mr. Bloomberg to very seriously consider running for president as an independent.”
Next week’s meeting, reported on Sunday in The Washington Post, comes as the mayor’s advisers have been quietly canvassing potential campaign consultants about their availability in the coming months
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I’m moving closer trying out for a professional football team.
This is so wrong.
RINOS on the attack...BANZAI!
He will hurt the Republicans bigtime, particularly with Independents disgusted with Hillary but reluctant to vote Republican. That is a huge group.
If that rich sot runs it will be in secret alliance with the Hildabeast, you can count on it.
He’s always been a donkey up until very recently. All show...
The arrogance of this man is beyond description.
Bloomberg is liberal. He has a lot of money and could buy anything or anyone but Bloomberg is an empty suit.
I am thinking he is trying to pull a Perot. Remember he met with Obama in a very public meeting at a deli in NYC. but both parties would not comment on the meeting. Very creepy bunch of liberals running now, add one more and it is over the top in creepy empty suits.
He will win independent votes away from Dems. With his stands on tobacco regulation and gun control, he can't win libertarians. With his positions on abortion and gun control, and his party of convenience membership in the Republican party, he can't draw republicans. He won't get many Democrats, because is no different than Hillary, Obama and Edwards, but without the party backing. But he can take a significant chunk of independents who would have voted democrat. This will help republicans at very little risk to conservatives.
Bloomberg's primary appeal to Republican/Independent voters will be in states in the Northeast -- where the Democrats have a huge advantage anyway. He'll be lucky to get more than 0.1% of the vote in any state between the Delaware River and California.
And I'm sure it's not Hillary's infamous line: "You f_king Jew bastard!"
"How's VP sound to you, Michael?"
There have been high profile mayors from NY, Bloomberg ain't one of them. I think even Dinkins was more well known, and he was a jack@$$.
President of what?
Will he run with Donald Trump?
Ask the smokers in NY if they want this guy. He makes a case for social engineering out of everything he can find. He doesn’t even meet the level of RINO
Here in Ohio Appalachia, if I dropped into my favorite watering hole and said, "Bloomberg for President," no one would even hear me.
100% CORRECT.
That’s a successful businessman for you.
I think that depends on the nominees. If the Republicans nominate Huckabee, he’ll almost certainly take more GOP votes since many socially moderate or liberal but pro-business Republicans will abandon Huckabee for him (although without him some of these might otherwise go to Clinton or Obama).
If you think Bloomberg will grab Republican or Libertarians in the North East, you probably also believe all blacks have rhythm and Italians have have curly moustaches and own monkeys and are organ grinders.
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