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Bloomberg no longer a Republican
yahoo.com ^ | Jun 19, 2007 | SARA KUGLER

Posted on 06/19/2007 3:40:02 PM PDT by neverdem

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To: romanesq
My guess is that Bloomberg will position himself as a moderate with competence in Private Enterprise. That is something Hillary can never claim having lived on the public dole her whole adult life. If you think Bloomberg is going to try to compete with Hillary, I think that’s incorrect. He will attempt to pull voters toward what he defines as the middle.

It's comedy to have this debate so early without knowing who the GOP nominee is. But there are really only two likely scenarios. If Ru*#, whoops almost said his name again, you know that guy, wins, Hillary is President.

The guy who has to be doing cartwheels right now is Fred Thompson. I'm not quite a Fredhead yet, but geez louise, he has just been given a 75 MPH batting practice fastball belt high right down the middle of the plate. The only question is can he hit it. If he plays his cards right and is a worthy candidate, he is in the right place at the right time to sieze history here.

If Fred is the GOP nominee, all of the traditional Red States are in the bag. He only has to pick off a few of the swing states like Florida, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan...which is certainly possible with Hillary and King Bloomberg splitting the left wing vote.

261 posted on 06/19/2007 9:30:10 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
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To: neverdem

I usually only dance a jig when a rapper or some other scumbag dies,,,but today WHOO-HOO!


262 posted on 06/19/2007 9:32:07 PM PDT by gilor (Pull the wool over your own eyes!)
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To: slapshot
Then you need to read about the bill that anti-gun Democrat Senator Lautenburg of NJ and Attorney General Gonzales have cooked up HERE

You have to read the bill carefully to see why it is so dangerous to every American who owns a gun or ever intends to buy or possess a gun. This abomination will allow the AG's office to deny any law abiding person the right to buy, own, or have possession of any gun or ammunition just on the SUSPICION that he or she MAY possibly have some connection to a terrorist or a terrorist organization. An arrest or conviction for a terrorist crime is not necessary to qualify any person at any time as being under suspicion of being somehow involved in terrorism, and the government will be exempt from having to give a court it's reasons for suspecting you if you take your case to court.

The mere fact that Bush would appoint an AG who would join forces with an ultra-liberal NJ Democrat Senator to try foisting this kind of totally unconstitutional law on law abiding Americans is enough for me to renounce whatever loyalty and respect I ever had for the man, and less than a year ago I had quite a bit of both. I am now to the point where I will actually be glad to see him leave the White House and go back to TX.

263 posted on 06/19/2007 9:33:49 PM PDT by epow (Blessed are those servants, whom the Lord when he cometh shall find watching:)
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To: neverdem; AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
Thanks neverdem.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg left the Republican Party on Tuesday and switched to unaffiliated, a move certain to be seen as a prelude to an independent presidential bid that would upend the 2008 race. The billionaire former CEO, who was a lifelong Democrat before he switched to the Republican Party in 2001 for his first mayoral run, said the change in his voter registration does not mean he is running for president.
...or able to win the presidency. But he might be a spoiler candidate, handing NY state to the Republican candidate for the first time since, who, Ronald Reagan?
264 posted on 06/19/2007 9:37:04 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Time heals all wounds, particularly when they're not yours. Profile updated June 15, 2007.)
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To: FredZarguna

I never asked him to join!


265 posted on 06/19/2007 9:38:43 PM PDT by linn37 (Love your Phlebotomist)
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To: Eric Blair 2084

Frankly, and I know I’m treading on thin ice here, I might prefer a Hillary presidency to a Rudy presidency. Why? Because Hillary is at least an open liberal dem. You know where she stands and the GOP would feel no hestitancy to oppose everything she’d try to do. She’s an open enemy, easy to target. One of the problems with the Bush pseudo-conservative presidency is that the GOP Congress and rank-and-file Republicans all felt obligated to defend him on numerous crap, because not to do so would be to lend support to the dems. Same thing with Rudy. With President Giuliani as the chief standard-bearer for the GOP, it really would become set as the Liberal Party #2. And then where would we be?


266 posted on 06/19/2007 9:41:15 PM PDT by marsh_of_mists
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To: KingLiberty

Shriver vs. Hillary-now THAT’s a matchup worth admission and popcorn!!


267 posted on 06/19/2007 9:42:29 PM PDT by jragan2001 (NO)
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To: FredZarguna

“He didn’t leave the party—we left him!”

I wonder if Bloomberg has ever been on the ground in “flyover” country. No one outside New York knows him. And yet he thinks he can win a Presidential election. Sounds like he listens to his posse too much.


268 posted on 06/19/2007 9:44:31 PM PDT by REDWOOD99
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To: sarasmom

Best post on this thread.


269 posted on 06/19/2007 9:50:21 PM PDT by indcons (Linda and Hugo Chavez - same goals, different methods)
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To: epow
I meant my post # 263 to reply to slapshot’s comment in his post # 36 “I do not want my guns confiscated”.

If the Lautenburg/Gonzales bill is passed and signed into law, and apparently Bush has promised Gonzales that he will, no one’s guns will be safe from confiscation, and then the person whose guns are taken will not be able to legally buy or obtain in any way another gun. If you sue the AG for taking your guns without good cause and without compensation, the government will not have to give a judge it’s reasons for suspecting you of terrorist activity or even affiliation with a terrorist group.

If you think a Republican administration would never confiscate your guns using this bill if it becomes law, just imagine what a Democrat administration with Hillary as president and Chuck Schumer as AG could and would do with it.

270 posted on 06/19/2007 9:50:34 PM PDT by epow (Blessed are those servants, whom the Lord when he cometh shall find watching:)
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To: marsh_of_mists

You are definitely on thin ice, but if you think that conservatives didn’t have to swallow their pride to support the President you are wrong.

It’s sort of like the wife who puts up with her husbands annoying transgressions until she finds him in bed with the Mexican maid.

He signed McCain Feingold...we stayed quiet.

He passed the Medicare part D prescription drug benefit, the biggest expansion of the welfare state since the New Deal...we stayed quiet.

He decided to take out Saddam (which Al Gore and Hillary were all in favor of too), and now the only guy who can control these insane islamofascists in Iraq has been hung from the gallows...and we defended him.

He lost his veto pen somewhere in the waste basket under the overturned coffee grinds while Congress increased Federal spending by twice the rate under Bill Clinton...we stayed quiet.

We loved him and we are loyal.

But check out the immigration threads.

We just found him in bed with Consuela the hot Mexican housekeeper. That was it. Enough is enough. The divorce papers will be served.


271 posted on 06/19/2007 10:00:07 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
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To: KingLiberty

All polls show that Blpoomberg would take votes away from the GOP,not the Dems, thus putting The Arkansas Grifters back in the White House.


272 posted on 06/19/2007 10:19:30 PM PDT by Sam Spade
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To: SandyInSeattle

Watch the MSM to now write endless stories about how the Republicans are “too right wing” for him etc, ad nauseum.


273 posted on 06/19/2007 10:20:18 PM PDT by boop (Now Greg, you know I don't like that WORD!)
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To: GoMeanGreen

That makes him even more dangerous.


274 posted on 06/19/2007 10:52:16 PM PDT by RightCenter
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To: Sam Spade; Clintonfatigued
All polls show that Blpoomberg would take votes away from the GOP,not the Dems, thus putting The Arkansas Grifters back in the White House.

Do you have any links to these polls? Are these polls similar to the ones that show Giuliani tanking as folks in the rest of the country have learned his stand on various issues?

275 posted on 06/19/2007 10:54:40 PM PDT by neverdem (May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
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To: NYer

Is it really of our own choosing that mankind falls into only one of two catagories? Strange and wonderful how politics shape as right and wrong. Let all politics and politicians stand on one or the other—righteousness or sin. If God wills such Mercy, let us vote our heart for right or wrong with no candidate hiding their heart on the issues!

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“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit upon his glorious throne,
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and all the nations will be assembled before him. And he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
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He will place the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.


276 posted on 06/20/2007 2:10:28 AM PDT by SaltyJoe ("Social Justice" for the Unborn Child)
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To: neverdem

He’s running! WhoooHooo!

He only steals from Hillary. Those two can duke it out for the communist vote.


277 posted on 06/20/2007 3:16:07 AM PDT by FastCoyote
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To: Right Cal Gal
Which I guess leaves Bloomie the less deranged members of Daily Kos.

All three of them.

278 posted on 06/20/2007 5:30:00 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (Abortion is to family planning what bankruptcy is to financial planning.)
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To: sarasmom

I never knew he was.


279 posted on 06/20/2007 5:42:13 AM PDT by SmoothTalker
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To: neverdem

Was he ever a Republican??


280 posted on 06/20/2007 5:43:00 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ("The Cracker" will be renamed "The Crapper")
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