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.
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looks like an old folks home directory.
Interesting numbers for Florida, which appears to go Republican in a 3-way, 3 out of 4, anyway.
And anyway, it depends a lot on who the 3rd party candidate is. Bloomberg might have some appeal somewhere, but I’m 100% positive it’s not the same appeal, to the same demographic, that voted for Ross Perot.
There are sooo many DemocRats running in this election! Hillary, Barrack Hussein, Silky Edwards, Rudy, Huckabye, maybe Mitt, and now Bloomberg, too?
Oh, how to choose, how to choose???
OK...I heard it with my own ears a few minutes ago. Bloomberg was being interviewed at the New Year Celebration and he was asked...WILL YOU BE RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT....BLOOMBERG SAID NO!!!
I agree. A reporter (NBC, I think) was interviewing Bloomberg and his daughter at Times Square shortly before the ball dropped, and asked him if he was going to run for President.
Bloomberg's answer was low-key, but unambiguous. Something like "No, I won't run, but I intend to speak out on the issues and promote non-partisanism" or some such thing. Lame answer, but clear enough with respect to his intentions.
That trial balloon he floated must have done a Hindenberg.
I believe the donkeys went crazy and let him know about it. They realized he’d hurt them a lot worst than the Republicans. That’s why he’s not running...you can bet he’d run if it would have hurt the Republicans badly.
Those New Yorkers have the tendency to screw up a soup sandwich.
It's not a matter of "a lot of GOP votes." It's a matter of just enough votes that would have gone to the GOP candidate to swing the state's EV to the RAT.
Nader got a miniscule percentage of the vote in Florida. But it was enough to give the state to Bush and save the country from eight years of Weird Al Gore.
Florida is a state where Bloomie could easily take enough votes away from the GOP candidate to give the state to the RAT candidate. It has lots of snowbirds who divide their time between NY and Florida, and some of them are Republicans.
And I repeat what I believe, despite polls that are predicated on a completely hypothetical event a full year (when they were taken) from the actual election:
There are many people disposed to vote anti-Republican but not able to stomach voting for Hitlery who will jump at the chance to vote for this billionaire beanie boy from NYC.
Have you ever SEEN the guy? I live in the NYC TV broadcast area and I see him on TV all the time. He is a monumental TWEEB of the first order. I cannot image one Republican in a MILLION (talking about red state Republicans, not New York Republicans) voting for this nerdful nannystater from new york city.
You'll get no argument from me. Mayor Nannystate makes my skin crawl. Can't stand the creep. Wish he'd take his five billion, his paternalism, and his ego and buy himself an island in the South Pacific. What makes him think an unmarried man all of 5'7" can win the presidency is lost on me.
As for why any Republican would vote for him, yeah it beats me too. But I think the reality is that we have among us people who will vote for a guy who is worth 5 billion, figuring he must be a winner. Of course there is more to being the kind of winner we need than a financial statement.
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