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Bloomberg Leaves Republican Party (Breaking)
WCBS-TV | 06/19/07 | WCBS-TV New york

Posted on 06/19/2007 3:13:48 PM PDT by StatenIsland

Mayor Michael Bloonberg has announced that he is leaving the Republican Party, and will continue his Mayoralty as an Independent.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: bloomberg; goodriddance; nycmayor; rino; surprisesurprise; unity08; whodathunkit
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To: SuziQ

“Wasn’t Bloomie a Democrat before he went to the Republican party?”

No he was a liberal elitist Upper East Side Democrat. It’s a special breed grown in New York. I know them well and have a special love for them. Like a plague of locusts.


181 posted on 06/19/2007 4:15:06 PM PDT by romanesq
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To: So Cal Rocket
"He’s going to be the Ross Perot of 2008, giving us a Clinton Presidency."

LOL! The ONLY people who even give a rat's a-- about Bloomberg is New York City, which would never go GOP anyway. He would siphon more votes from the liberals, not the conservatives. That would help Fred Thompson and hurt Hillary Clinton.

182 posted on 06/19/2007 4:18:00 PM PDT by TommyDale (Rudy Giuliani’s candidacy is fading faster than an abortionist’s conscience.)
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To: StatenIsland

dont’ let the door hit ya on your way out bloomeee. Did anyone ever take this guys seriously anyway???? He was a joke to us and we don’t even live in New York. He’s a Wannabee. He’s NO Giuliani. Tried to be but was just not there.


184 posted on 06/19/2007 4:18:38 PM PDT by cubreporter
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To: StatenIsland

Has he got enough money to actually buy the Presidency?


185 posted on 06/19/2007 4:18:52 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: SkyPilot

If Bloomberg runs as an independent Rudy, and Mitt have NO shot at winning a general election now. Thompson must be doing a jig over this. Not so sure about McCain because of regionalism. This might tip the scales and get Gingrich to announce. An independent helps the true conservatives more than the RINOs.


186 posted on 06/19/2007 4:22:44 PM PDT by Delacon
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To: r9etb

I see no evidence that most conservatives would vote for Rudy. And for your contention to be true, they would have to.

I’ve watched the polls for a year. You know who wins the Republican majority of the vote? No one.

There is a reason Thompson is rising so fast in the polls. All those undecideds that outnumbered what the other three were polling, are breaking towards him. before his entrance they were sitting this election out undeclared. Of all signs concerning what conservatives will and will not do, I find that telling.

I also find telling the pro-life block “leaders” have been making it very clear they will not support nor vote for Rudy. their word holds weight with that crucial block of voters Reublicans need to win. One went so far to say he’d vote third party.

I find it telling the owner of this site has made it very clear where he stands on a rudy candidacy and taken strides to campaign against him here no matter whether he won the nomination or not.

I don’t believe, as you do, most conservatives would back him. I need better evidence then Hillary is shrill, given using pelosi as a ghost didn’t work in 2006.

And Bloomberg is just as likely to take from rudy’s liberal base as Hillary. Again, it all comes back to conservative’s intent. And the examples I put above give ample reason to believe they’d be chilly to rudy under any circumstance.


187 posted on 06/19/2007 4:22:50 PM PDT by Soul Seeker (Kobach: Amnesty is going from an illegal to a legal position, without imposing the original penalty.)
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To: Conservativegreatgrandma

God save me from a subway election.
*Rudy
*It
*Bloomberg

Pick a New Yorker, any New Yorker. Spare me.


189 posted on 06/19/2007 4:23:29 PM PDT by Taking Congress back in 2010
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To: H.Akston
Ever since 1981, there’s been a Bush or a Clinton in the Executive branch.

And, except for 1964, there's been a Bush, Dole, or Nixon on every Republican ticket going back to 1952.

190 posted on 06/19/2007 4:23:40 PM PDT by mwyounce
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To: So Cal Rocket
He's going to be the Ross Perot of 2008, giving us a Clinton Presidency.

Sadly, I agree with you.

191 posted on 06/19/2007 4:24:23 PM PDT by Churchillspirit (We are all foot soldiers in this War On Terror.)
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To: Soul Seeker

And, picking up on my post above, if it really came down to a split liberal vote with conservatives only being able to define the winner, that makes a conservative nominee the most electable so they don’t stay home. :-)


192 posted on 06/19/2007 4:25:17 PM PDT by Soul Seeker (Kobach: Amnesty is going from an illegal to a legal position, without imposing the original penalty.)
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To: StatenIsland
And Ronald Reagan wept...

LOL!

193 posted on 06/19/2007 4:26:54 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: So Cal Rocket

If he steals votes, it won’t be from the GOP.


194 posted on 06/19/2007 4:29:59 PM PDT by Thane_Banquo ("Give a man a fish, make him a Democrat. Teach a man to fish, make him a Republican.")
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To: mwyounce

Almost like an oligarchy, isn’t it?


195 posted on 06/19/2007 4:30:36 PM PDT by H.Akston (Conservatives are frugal with the public's resources.)
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To: So Cal Rocket

What makes you think he’ll hurt Republicans?


196 posted on 06/19/2007 4:30:37 PM PDT by saganite (Billions and billions and billions----and that's just the NASA budget!)
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To: Liberty Valance

“Has he got enough money to actually buy the Presidency?”

Well the common wisdom is that you’ll need $200 million. Bloomberg can spend five times that.

And still keep his Upper East Side mansion.


197 posted on 06/19/2007 4:32:06 PM PDT by romanesq
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To: StatenIsland

He should be honest. If he is going to change parties, may as well be totally honest and change to Democrat.


198 posted on 06/19/2007 4:32:52 PM PDT by gidget7 (2Th 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:)
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To: StatenIsland

Woohoo, that’s got to hurt the Dems more if he runs for prez. No self respecting conservative would ever vote for him anyway unless his opponent was even more liberal than he is.


199 posted on 06/19/2007 4:33:19 PM PDT by Reagan is King (Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave.)
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To: gidget7

“He should be honest. If he is going to change parties, may as well be totally honest and change to Democrat.”

He’s not interested in honesty. He’s interested in winning a three horse race.

Hillary has asked for a meeting with Bloomberg to show him her friends program otherwise known as the Vincent Foster amnesty.
Once forgiven, you’ll never need forgiving again.


200 posted on 06/19/2007 4:35:11 PM PDT by romanesq
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