[nopardons]

NO...he NEVER has and he never really even called himself a "Republican"; he just ran with the R after his name. Everyone KNEW that he was a lifelong Dem and hadn't changed his stripes. Bloomberg is a TRUE example of the term RINO! Actually, he's even below a RINO.

Why on earth do you imagine that anyone,ANYONE, least of all Bloomy, ever considered him to be a "CONSERVATIVE"?

[af_vet_rr]

Because unfortunately the criteria has been lowered for what passses as a Republican and a Conservative (the two have definitely diverged for many politicians, and have been watered down by many others).