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.
BTTT
Let’s hold a party!
Don’t even think about PA: it will disappoint you every time.
I’m thinking he spends $500 million bashing the Republican candidate 24x7, and then receives $50 billion in payola from the next Clinton adminstration. As a bonus, the Democrats, who will hold an 80% majority in both houses, will let him run Conservative talk radio and the Internet.
You have to remember that HRC supporters don’t even know how to vote for ANYONE else. They have been committed to her since 1992.
Don’t be too sure about that. This man is far to the left and would appeal more to liberals than all but the far left fringes of the Republican Party. He’s even to the left of Rudy, as I understand it.
Bloomberg seems to ‘bloom’ in every party that serves his purposes at the time.
==He’s going to be the Ross Perot of 2008, giving us a Clinton Presidency.==
Not at all. Perot had appeal to middle American voters afraid (rightfully in my view, but I don’t want to get into this now) of free trade agreements. Bloomberg is basically the polar opposite of Perot: A socially libertarian, internationalist New Yorker. I can’t imagine a demographic he threatens more than the abortion-on-demand, limo-left wing of the Democrats.
==Hey Bloomie: Don’t let the door hit you in the ass, you fascist tool.==
I was going to say the same.
Only in NYC. On Hugh’s blog is some material on the run and where he might end up. Larry Sabato thinks he hurts the Dems. I do too but he could also be John Anderson. He is not Perot. He will not take many GOP votes but in Blue states, he might. He could open some Blue states up for a solid GOP ticket . Any of the GOP top tier would benefit from this move by Bloomie. With 5 billion to spend, he is the Indep.Liberal Soros! Hey, Mitt has almost as much dough.
But this time he won’t have Rudy to pull him across the finish line. The *only* reason he won in ‘01 was because of the nonstop commercials that Rudy did for him. Every time I turned on my TV, there was another commercial featuring Rudy Giuliani appealing to us to vote for the jerk with the Napoleon Complex.
Mayor B would have switched to the Dem Party, but likely they were too moderate for him.
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Bloomberg has always backed Hillary
His agenda is to deny the electoral vote threshold count required to a Republican who has the most electoral votes
Then the democrat House will select Hillary
Bloomberg would likely have been indicted had he not run and won as Mayor of NYC
The high taxes and fees Bloomie pushed on New Yorkers were never paid by him or his businesses - You know why
He was worth 6-7 billion - now 13 billion
He is banking on Hillary and Slick Willie to protect him
Darn, there goes the left-wing billionaire vote.
Furthermore, he thought he could dictate to other states what their gun laws should be, on the grounds that a gun bought in Virginia or North Carolina affected his city's safety!
Talk about hubris!
To add salt to the wound, the hurdles to honest citizens in Staten Island and other parts of NYC are in the stratosphere.
The truth is he is vehemently anti-gun rights, just like Rudy was and is.
Ahh what tangled webs they all weave.. makes you wonder if there is a decent politician in existence.
Our Governor just vetoed a Texas law to change the Supreme Courts ruling on Eminent Domain. Other states have made their own ruling on that but Perry wants that Trans Texas Corridor don’t you know!!
The program you mentioned was nothing but a PR gimmick, as all gun "buy back" programs are. The MSM eats them up, because they sound so good to sheeple and they mask the gun controls real agenda.
It is all about incrementalism. If you throw a frog into boiling water, he jumps out immediately.
Turn up the heat slowly, and he remains in the pot until he dies.
And it will be the Republicans' own fault. They have had 15 years since the original Perot fiasco to try to get states to implement some type of runoff polling (IRV, for example) but have put forth zero effort. They felt the two party system of two statist parties was beneficial because it effectively locks out any third party candidate. The Republican Party's hubris will be its downfall.
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