Posted on 06/19/2007 3:40:02 PM PDT by neverdem
Associated Press
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.
"Although my plans for the future haven't changed, I believe this brings my affiliation into alignment with how I have led and will continue to lead our city," Bloomberg said.
The 65-year-old mayor has increasingly been the subject of speculation that he will run as an independent in 2008, despite his repeated promises to leave politics after the end of his term in 2009. He has fueled the buzz with increasing out-of-state travel, a greater focus on national issues and repeated criticism of the partisan politics that dominate Washington.
This is a breaking news update. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
NEW YORK (AP) — 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.
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.
I usually only dance a jig when a rapper or some other scumbag dies,,,but today WHOO-HOO!
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.
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?
I never asked him to join!
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?
Shriver vs. Hillary-now THAT’s a matchup worth admission and popcorn!!
“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.
Best post on this thread.
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.
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.
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.
Watch the MSM to now write endless stories about how the Republicans are “too right wing” for him etc, ad nauseum.
That makes him even more dangerous.
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?
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.
He’s running! WhoooHooo!
He only steals from Hillary. Those two can duke it out for the communist vote.
All three of them.
I never knew he was.
Was he ever a Republican??
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