Posted on 03/13/2007 4:15:32 AM PDT by Obilisk18
ABC News' Gary Langer Reports: At an event last night sponsored by the New York Chapter of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Ester Fuchs - a Columbia University professor and, until recently, an adviser to New York Mayor Bloomberg - speculated that Bloomberg would run for president as an independent if both parties nominated candidates from their "extreme wings."
The example she gave was Romney and Edwards. With those two as their parties' nominees, she said, it was, in her view, "80 percent probable" that Bloomberg would run. He'd have to be convinced that there was enough space between the two nominees for an independent to drive through.
Clearly this was Fuchs' own hunch, not any approved pronouncement. But she is in a position to know something about Bloomberg's thinking. She was his "special adviser for governance and strategic planning" in his first term, then served on his re-election campaign as policy adviser for the second-term agenda, and was appointed by Bloomberg to serve as chair of the city's Charter Revision Commission.
We're becoming france.
Bloomberg doesn't seem quite to grasp either how odd or how insignificant he is - a megalomaniac who, outside the city of Manhattan, is utterly irrelevant.
‘Hip' Eatery Is Latest Closure After Rat Scandal
And look at what the guy's health department thinks....
Health Commissioner: Rats Are Not A Health Risk
The guy is surrendering to rats and he wants to take on al Qaeda?!
Run, Bloombug, run!
Caught On Tape: Mugger Attacks 101-Year-Old Woman In Queens
Since the mayor's still got a day job, seems to me he ought to be worring about NYC. And there's a lot to worry about.
Neither Hillary! nor Bill can be elected without the help of a megalomaniacal self-financing ersatz-Republican Billionaire. In 1992, it was Perot. In 2008, will it be Bloomberg?
He won't be getting many Pubbie votes.
But Ross Perot syphoned votes away from Bush because he actually had some conservative positions. Bloomberg is farther to the left then really anyone on the Democratic side. He's said that he doesn't think ANYONE should own guns. There's no way he gets a significant of Republican votes. He'll steal from Hillary. The only unclear question is, if he could somehow win some red states (I can't imagine which states those would be), he could send the race into the House of Reps where Nancy Pelosi would choose our next president. But really unlikely.
NYC mayor says U.S. depends on (illegal) immigrants
I'll bet even some 'Rats would turn up their noses :)
"I agree with you. Something stinks here. I can't stand Edwards, but he is certainly not more extreme left than Hillary. Hillary sounds like Hugo Chavez."
Conservatives are way too easily misled by their hatred of Hillary. Edwards is considerably more liberal then anyone else in the field. The man has said he plans to end poverty in 10 years if he's elected president. He's said, before the race even begins, that he plans to raise taxes. He's a protectionist extraordinaire (something that's not quite true with Hillary), and he's calling an immediate withdrawal of 40k troops. The guy is McGovern reborn. That said, Bloomberg is still more liberal then he is. We'd walk away with the election if those two buffoons were running against anyone with remotely centrist appeal.
Bloomberg's even more clueless than Chuck Hagel...
don't worry , ..
. . . Bloomie's nationwide ban on smoking will be his downfall [/srcsm]
Bloombug ought to be worrying more about fat rats than trans fats.
Upstate so needs its own state. STAT.
I'm no Rudy fan, but I know which NYC mayor I prefer...
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