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George Will said that Bloomberg is a liberal democrat. He just thought it would be easier to win the primary on the Republican ticket.

Green conceding as we speak (12:30am).

absolutely right. during the campaign, he refused to say whether he had voted for hillary or gore. meaning that he had.

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Well, he may be a liberal democrat but, this time with the Republican label, he's "our" liberal democrat. It's going to be interesting to watch a big-time Clinton supporter have to use the best of supply-side economics to re-build a city.

George Will said that Bloomberg is a liberal democrat. He just thought it would be easier to win the primary on the Republican ticket.

Actually Mike Bloomberg himself has stated that he switched parties because there was too much competition on the democrat side. He hasn't tried to hide that, so George Will, as much as I like the guy, wasn't revealing anything hidden. I like Bloomberg and here's why.... He seems straight forward and no nonsense, since he spent his own money on this election he isn't 'beholding' to any special interests and being the businessman he is, I figure he is not as anti-corporation, anti-profit as most liberal democrats. As a result he probably truly understands how the economy REALLY works rather than how liberals tend to try to "make it work". In addition, with that experience he may be just the person to convince big business to locate in NYC.

He may be a democrat at heart, but I don't know how liberal. Heck, Rudy is socially liberal which I don't appreciate at all, but he was still an excellent mayor, before 9/11 not to mention afterwards!

One P.S. here.....I do NOT have confirmation so this may not be true....but my source is involved in NYC politics (city council) and he said Bloomberg may possibly be taking this job w/o pay, saying he doesn't need the salary. Anyone else heard such a thing? And if so, can he do that to save the city money?