Posted on 05/11/2007 8:09:22 PM PDT by 1066AD
LOL!!
No new RINO’s!!
A third-party run would be interesting
I’d love to see that dimwit run as a third party. All he’d do is siphon off votes for the Dem candidate. He’s a loon, he might get some votes from “Republicans” in New York and Massachusetts but fat chance in hell the GOP would win those states anyways. Bloomberg in one huge gun-grabber, as bad as Hillary or Feinstein.
I think a Bloomie candidacy hurts the Dimmycraps. He’s very close to them on the issues.
Being a leftist, one would assume that to be that case. However, if we hearken back to the Perot campaign, we recall that it was not so much Perot's policy positions that derailed Bush I. Rather, it was the fact that 100% of Perot's campaign advertising was ANTI-BUSH!. So, in effect, all Perot's campaign dollars were used to elect Billary.
Possibly Bloomberg has the same plan, ie. no real expectation of winning the Presidency himself, but only to spend his millions attacking the GOP candidate and thereby helping Hitlery win.
This is great news. The man is far far to the left of the mainstream GOP and conservative Independents. It is hard to see how . . . if he gets 20% of the vote that it would be 10 and 10 from Dems and GOP. He’s running left. We’re not going to nominate a leftist.
In fact, if he enters the race I suspect Thompson does the next day.
A lot of folks try to pretend that abortion is not a litmus test. Well, it IS in the Democratic party. If someone is pro Abortion, they can siphon votes off of Dems.
Bloomberg has been a major disappointment in New York-—I am 20 mi. over the GW Bridge,in NJ, and I’ve been watching him from Day One.
I still have NO idea what he is doing as Mayor.
It makes me miss the wild asexual neuroticism of Ed Koch,and I couldn’t stand Koch.
If Bloomberg REALLY thinks he stands a chance as a Presidential candidate, he’d better but a cap RIGHT NOW on his campaign spending, because he will bankrupt himself within 6 months, and he will find out even sooner that running for President is in another league altogether than running for Mayor.
A Centrist my ass!
Mayor Bloomberg's latest claim to fame is as the ringleader or at least instigator of unofficial straw purchase attempts of firearms in various jurisdictions outside his own, in probable violation of federal and state laws concerning the purchase of firearms, so he can put pressure on the dealers of said firearms to open their records to his snoops in the guise of making Noo Yawk somehow, safe from crime.
Imho, the man is a criminal ringleader who has conspired to deprive citizens of the United States and other states outside his jurisdiction of a fundamental civil right, and has enthusiastically done so without evident reservation or remorse.
He is patently unfit for the office of POTUS, and would thus be a likely Democrat candidate.
Republicans should throw him out of the party tommorrow!!!
Yes, they should throw him out of the party.
As for the presidential race, such a candidacy might help us. While it would initially create the illusion of even greater opposition to the Republicans than there is, Bloomberg’s politics, which are not that different from the Dems’, would become clear soon enough even if not immediately. In addition, a New York mayor with a Jewish name is already presumed to be a liberal — which Bloomberg, of course, is. All in all, it would draw votes from Shrillary or any other Dem.
Ron Paul, Sam Brownback. Tom Tancrado, and anyone else that don't matter in the least!
“Ego-trip fantasy” pretty well covers it, whether Bloomberg hates any of the Republican candidates or not. I agree that Perot detested the elder Bush. But politically, the comparison doesn’t really matter. Because Perot had a significant natural appeal to Middle America, whereas unless I’m missing something — I can’t imagine what — Bloomberg has zero appeal to Middle America. I saw him on C-SPAN once, and he is a very charming public speaker under the right circumstances. He may initially draw real interest. But he won’t end up either getting a significant vote, or peeling more than a handful of people away from the Republicans. To put it bluntly, he’s an arrogant, super-rich, liberal Jewish New Yorker who has nothing in particular to boast about in terms of a NYC record — a brand (New York reformer) that Rudy has rightly pre-empted anyway. No sale, Bloomberg.
Bloomberg, Hillery, etc “Centrist” (i.e. “Moderates”)?
Only by comparison with Party stalwarts of the old U.S.S.R. or the current leadership of North Korea, of the DNC.
Considering how many Jews seem to have learned nothing from WWII Germany, it is understandable they still favor the Dem Party.
One is forced to conclude Jews are described by the term, “stupid smart people”.
I mean, way back when, there was this guy wandering around doing subtle stuff like raising the dead, water into wine, curing blindness, leprosy, walking on water, etc. and that was just too subtle for even the Jewish religious establishment to figure out.
Another RINO?
Just what we need.
Other then liberal N.Y. and a few other silly places like that he hasn’t a chance.
We need to shoot him down.
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