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To: DBrow
That depends on what topics he campaigns on. If he hits the correct Republican notes, he can siphon votes. That’s just what Perot did- a careful triangulation of several hot buttons for Republicans and poison pills for Democrats, and Billy Jeff won with 48% (or something) of the vote.

But look at the hot buttons he's actually hitting: gun control, same-sex marriage, and abortion -- for all of them, he takes the Democrat line.

Moreover, Bloomberg is actually from New York; he's an ACTUAL northeasterner -- as such, he could well tie up a lot of the Eastern Seaboard's Democrat votes.

And we cannot forget the most important of all: he is not Hillary Clinton.

At the same time, Bloomberg is not much of a threat to take Republican votes -- each of those same hot-button issues turns off large groups of R voters.

135 posted on 06/19/2007 3:42:22 PM PDT by r9etb
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To: r9etb

Conveniently, those are issues Rudy himself supports.

Well, this move presents a nice dilemma for the Rudy supporters. They say the only reason they support Rudy is because he’s the only one that can win. I have doubts that’s the only reason for some of them.... If a Liberal Dem runs like Hill from N.Y., and a Liberal “Indy” like Bloomberg runs from N.Y., just how likely is it Rudy tops both of them in a national race and retains conservatives?

Yeah, I think we all know the answer to that.

Conservatives are on the right track for victory. Let those two fight and divide the liberal vote. We nominate a conservative, retain the South, and have a good chance of picking off the MidWest full of reagan conservative Dems.


152 posted on 06/19/2007 3:51:01 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: r9etb
But look at the hot buttons he's actually hitting: gun control, same-sex marriage, and abortion -- for all of them, he takes the Democrat line.

Same stuff RinoRudy supports, and he actually had his 15 minutes of fame here on FR.
Some Freepers fell for him just like Sean Hannity did.

154 posted on 06/19/2007 3:54:10 PM PDT by ASA Vet (NO More RINO's)
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To: r9etb

Well, we’ll see. I’m stocking up on microwave popcorn; this will be fun (if the Republic survives it).


244 posted on 06/19/2007 6:16:18 PM PDT by DBrow
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