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Bloomberg, key moderates to brainstorm on third-party Presidential bid
NY Daily News ^ | 12/31/07 | ADAM LISBERG

Posted on 12/31/2007 8:22:52 AM PST by jimbo123

Mayor Bloomberg will join a group of fed-up bipartisan bigwigs in Oklahoma next week to urge that our next President rise above partisan gridlock - giving Bloomberg a potential launching pad for a presidential bid.

The two former senators who started the group told the Daily News that America needs a President to bring the country together - and if the Republicans or Democrats can't do it, they're prepared to back Bloomberg.

"He's shown the ability to bring people together," said one of the hosts, former Sen. David Boren (D-Okla.), now president of the University of Oklahoma. "He brings to the table a tremendous wealth of personal experience, and his commitment to bipartisanship is very strong."

Boren and former Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) told The News that the meeting is a serious gathering of moderates, not a Bloomberg-for-President meeting in disguise - but he wouldn't rule out backing Bloomberg if he runs.

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008election; bloomberg; brainfart; hillary; perot; rino; thirdparty
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To: jimbo123


From the Post article:


TEAM SPIRIT: Mayor Bloomberg will join Gary Hart and Christie Todd Whitman in Oklahoma to call for more bipartisanship in the '08 race.
61 posted on 12/31/2007 9:56:20 AM PST by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: jimbo123

Interesting flashback. Strange things happen in a 3-way race. I hadn’t realized that Clinton came within a couple hundred thousand votes of winning TEXAS in 1992.


62 posted on 12/31/2007 9:58:33 AM PST by nj26 (Border Security=Homeland Security. Put Our Military on the Border! (Proud2BNRA))
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To: jimbo123
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Thomas Paine

63 posted on 12/31/2007 10:00:07 AM PST by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: mewzilla
Fmr. Bloomberg Adviser: '08 Run '80% Probable' if Parties Nominate Extremists (Romney an extremist?)

Run, Bloomie, run!

Bwah hah hah hah hah...

64 posted on 12/31/2007 10:01:53 AM PST by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: mewzilla

Excellent quote. Thanks.


65 posted on 12/31/2007 10:11:18 AM PST by CitizenUSA
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To: CitizenUSA
You're welcome :)

Meanwhile, on a sorta Bloombug-related note...

Bedbug epidemic attacks New York City

66 posted on 12/31/2007 10:12:44 AM PST by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: nj26

Bloomberg’s run is all about one state and ensuring the democrats win it: Florida.


67 posted on 12/31/2007 10:17:55 AM PST by jimbo123
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To: Laptop_Ron
It would be a godsend to the GOP.

A visible interposition of God!

Bloomie would draw off the votes of those NE kooks who call themselves the GOP members, but are no farther right than Mao.

He would draw all of those so called NE “moderates” who are just to the left of Mao.
That what he won with in NYC and that type of bleeding will cost the clintion millions upon million to fight for the formerly secure and cobalt blue NE states.

Bloomie couldn’t get the votes of two dogs and a pig in the Red states, and that combination may well sink the dems in 08.

68 posted on 12/31/2007 10:17:58 AM PST by bill1952 (The right to buy weapons is the right to be free)
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To: freespirited

Maybe the polls are an accurate picture of the way folks think now, but when push comes to shove, and the Sulfur Breather is actually nigh to the White House, I think you’ll see a closing of Republican ranks and a jitter and quacking in the ranks of the Faithful.


69 posted on 12/31/2007 10:23:37 AM PST by samtheman
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To: bill1952

A Bloomberg/Nunn ticket will hand Florida to the democrats.

Bloomberg has already had private meetings with Hillary and Obama on his strategy.

Bloomberg will not campaign against democrats, just like Perot didn’t campaign against Clinton.

You should you probably re-think your jubilation over his run.


70 posted on 12/31/2007 10:23:40 AM PST by jimbo123
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To: bill1952
Bloomie couldn’t get the votes of two dogs and a pig in the Red states, and that combination may well sink the dems in 08.
I think that's pretty self-evident. People who think otherwise aren't thinking this through.
71 posted on 12/31/2007 10:24:50 AM PST by samtheman
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To: freespirited

Name a red state you see Bloomie getting a lot of Republican votes in.


72 posted on 12/31/2007 10:25:34 AM PST by samtheman
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To: jimbo123
America needs a President to bring the country together - and if the Republicans or Democrats can't do it, they're prepared to back Bloomberg.

Bloomberg for President?...what a croak!
This guy is on ego trip, period!

73 posted on 12/31/2007 10:29:13 AM PST by danmar (Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today!)
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To: samtheman

Who wins Florida in a 3 way race?

1992
Clinton 39.0%
Bush 40.9%
Perot 19.8%

1996
Clinton 48.0%
Dole 42.3%
Perot 9.1%

2000
Bush 48.85%
Gore 48.84%
Nader 1.64%

2004
Bush 52.02%
Kerry 48.05%
Nader 0.35%


74 posted on 12/31/2007 10:41:42 AM PST by jimbo123
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Boomberg isn’t even a RINO. A RINO virus infection would move him to the right. And so, what does that make moderates who line up behind him? ...What is a “serious” moderate, and what on earth do they bring to the table that the left doesn’t already pretend to offer? With Boomberg leaving the pile, we can expect a moderately progressive agenda to promote liberal extremism incrementally, so as to deceive dimwits.


75 posted on 12/31/2007 10:44:53 AM PST by pallis
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To: jimbo123
A Bloomberg/Nunn ticket will hand Florida to the democrats.

LOL! - I think that you had best rethink your think!

I’ve lived in Florida since 81, and I will bet large, folding sums of money that Bloomie could not get over single digits here.

In addition, I would bet - see me if he decides to run - smaller amounts that he won’t get more than 1%. (in Florida)

I don’t know where you are from, but you seem to have an MSM view of Florida and it’s voters.

76 posted on 12/31/2007 11:08:18 AM PST by bill1952 (The right to buy weapons is the right to be free)
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To: jimbo123

Who wins Florida in a 3 way race?

Do you not even read your own post??

look at the trend in Florida. It isn’t even a swing state anymore.


77 posted on 12/31/2007 11:10:29 AM PST by bill1952 (The right to buy weapons is the right to be free)
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To: jimbo123

Bloomberg is out to get someone.....Hillary or Rudy?

He will enter if:
Hillary is nominated?
Rudy is nominated?


78 posted on 12/31/2007 11:14:58 AM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Moveon is not us...... Moveon is the enemy)
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To: bill1952

As a Florida voter that says it’s no longer a swing state, are you saying that ANY of the current GOP candidates will carry the state in a 3-way race?


79 posted on 12/31/2007 11:26:46 AM PST by jimbo123
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To: commish
Hillary will get 40-45%, Republican will get 38-42%, Blooomers will get the rest and it will be just enough to give Hillary the WH.

Bingo.

"They" know exactly what they are doing, and exactly what the figures are.

Bloomberg IS a mole.

And the "they" extends far far beyond the Clintons.

80 posted on 12/31/2007 12:54:01 PM PST by jnsun (The LEFT: The need to manipulate others because of nothing productive to offer)
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