Posted on 09/13/2010 11:39:30 AM PDT by OldDeckHand
Term-limited New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is at work expanding his national profile, delivering a string of high-profile candidate endorsements around the country and using his outsized megaphone to become a spokesman for swaths of disgruntled elites who were once part of President Barack Obama’s base.
What he wants isn’t entirely clear. The mayor, armed with a $15 billion fortune, publicly denies in the most emphatic terms—death, incapacitation—any interest in cutting short his third term to run for higher office.
But his schedule and growing portfolio suggests he's looking for a national voice or something more, one that echoes well beyond the city’s five boroughs, and he is attracting attention from elites who have become disillusioned with the White House.
His last time before the voters in 2009—which came after a controversial move to extend term limits—resulted in a surprisingly narrow five-percentage point win, even after spending a staggering $109 million.
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Having said that, I can't believe he thinks he would have even the most remote possibility of becoming President, and I don't think a 3rd-party run helps Obama - Bloomberg is WAY too much of a nanny-stater to appeal to the Tea Party crowd, or even most independents that generally value personal freedoms. Bloomberg is no populist Ross Perot, either. I just don't think Bloomberg is going to run if it hurts Obama.
But, when a man has $10-billion in the bank, anything is possible.
would it be incorrect to wish he crashes and burns????(figuratively of course)
my pre-written response to all things Bloomberg:
Bloomers is a Crony-capiatalist, nebbish, poor little rich boy, self hating jew, tiny buttwipe of a man...the only reason he is probably not a fag (the jury is still out) is that he has the greatest aphrodisiac of all time, billions of dollars....he decries the 2nd amendment, but whines about how the enemy’s first amendment rights to worship are being usurped....even though Islam is NOT a religion but a murder cult.. © Vaquero 2010
I think he wants Biden’s spot in ‘12.
New Yorker’s might like him, and I said “might” but his unpopular approval of the GZM and his haughty lecturing the rest of us won’t be forgotten, so whatever national ambitions he has, will only be embraced by the Left.
Bloomberg puts up $100 million and buys the VP spot under Obama in 2012? In Bloomberg’s mind, he’s set up for a run at President in 2016?
Obama gets money and one less opponent in 2012.
But his schedule and growing portfolio suggests he’s looking for a national voice or something more,...
I suspect he knows full well he stuck it to New Yorkers by putting his seal of approval on the GZMosque. He’s looking for a safe haven before all hell breaks loose.
Probably aims to be treasury secretary but maybe VP. Cheney showed him how big a role a powerful personality can play, and unlike Cheney, he is part of the Establishment.
Another Arlen Spectre, except on steroids. He needs to follow Spectre’s example and go away.
I wonder who he is campaigning for? Personally, anything that Bloomie is for, I’m against it.
Same here. I can’t stand the puny jerk.
Bloomberg praises himself immensely (by how often he praises the idea) as a “non-partisan” “non-ideologue” and a “politician concerned with practical results and not ideology”.
While he lifts those things up as assets and while they do help define his politics it is not as flattering as he believes it to be.
Why? It means he lacks any core principles about government and the role of government - whatever “works” is O.K. with him. I often question which are worse, for us and for the country - our ideological opponents like Obama or the useful idiots like Bloomberg.
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