Is Michael Bloomberg the new Ross Perot?
I never cared much for Ross Perot. I saw him as the reason America got stuck with Bill Clinton twice. President Clinton was not a good steward of this nations national security.
Today we learn that the Anti-Self-Defense Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York City is seriously considering running for President as an Independent and is committed to spending a Billion dollars of his own money.
Fuck you Mayor Bloomberg. I hope you don’t get more than two votes. But sadly he will get votes. A lot of urban bicycle riding anti-self-defense types will see Mayor Bloomberg as a welcome alternative to Rudy Giuliani or John McCain. Will an Independent Bloomberg candidacy pull votes away from Hillary Clinton or Barry Obama? Possible but not probable.
“Bloomberg is H. Ross Perot on steroids,” said former Federal Election Commission Chairman Michael Toner. “He could turn the political landscape of this election upside down, spend as much money as he wanted and proceed directly to the general election. He would have resources to hire an army of petition-gatherers in those states where thousands of petitions are required to qualify a third-party presidential candidate to be on the ballot.”
We sure could use Fred Thompson about now.
May 15th, 2007 at 10:56 am
Did somebody with a bike beat you up a lot as a kid? Did Lance Armstrong steal your girlfriend in college?
You really need to get over your phobia of bicyclists.
May 15th, 2007 at 10:57 am
I thought insty’s comment was pretty funny:
May 15th, 2007 at 11:00 am
Heh. he does seemed focused on bikes lately.
May 15th, 2007 at 11:04 am
Sebastian-PGP, I am a long time bicyclist and motorcyclist. I am not anti-bike, I am anti-idiot. I stopped riding a bike on the streets long ago. I stick to trails these days.
It’s just a rhetorical description. Lighten up, I don’t want to take away your bike. You want to ride your bike on the street, have a good time.
But watch out for Bloomberg, he may have different ideas. Super nanny may disapprove.
May 15th, 2007 at 11:12 am
Do you really see bloomberg as that much of a draw? He is going to be popular in all the same areas that hillary and obama are likely to draw big.
May 15th, 2007 at 11:18 am
No argument about Bloomie…between him and Rudy, I’m not sure who’s worse. It’s the folks who cloak themselves in rhetoric about respecting freedom while simultaneously pushing their authortarian agenda that scare me the most.
Listening to Bloomie reminds me of Orwell, WAR IS PEACE, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH, etc….
May 15th, 2007 at 11:19 am
Do you really see Bloomberg as that much of a draw?
I don’t see him as enough of a draw that he can win. But he sure could take down Rudy Giuliani and put Hillary in the Oval Office. I don’t see Bloomberg hurting Fred Thompson.
From the Washington Times:
May 15th, 2007 at 11:30 am
Like Rudy’s any better…at least with Bloomie, Hillary, Obama, you know what you’re getting.
Rudy’s snakeoiling us into thinking he’s anything but an authortarian.
May 15th, 2007 at 11:34 am
Bloomberg would be more of the same; especially left-wing anti gun which typically votes for Democratic leftists. Perot was much more conservative who aggressively pushed the balanced budget; a populist conservative who opposed the so-called “free trade” NAFTA which internationalized our trade decisions was supported by BOTH G.H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
If anything, Bloomberg would appeal much more to leftists or “liberals” rather than conservatives as did Perot. His candidacy would help IF, IF the Republicans nominate a true conservative like Tom Tancredo or Duncan Hunter…and somewaht less so, Fred Thompson, who supported the leftist Campaign Finance Reform attack on the First Amendment and had a weak voting record on immigration issues.
May 15th, 2007 at 11:40 am
I cannot see the average right wing-er going for Bloomers over Giuliani. Old Rudy can at least play off his 911 bit and the transformation of NYC from a decadent, decaying crap hole into just a decadent one. I do not see the angry white male factor with Bloomers like we saw with Perot.
But if Bloomer is seriously going to run, his God complex is going to get hit with a dose of reality. But I really would like to know what libs. think of Bloomers. He could be the new Nader.
However, what makes Bloomberg a “moderate?” Exactly what of his various positions is conservative?
***The bicycler thing is pretty humourous, though. Michael Savage had a funny row about it a few weeks back. But some of them are real jerks, especially around large University settings.
May 15th, 2007 at 11:43 am
Don Surber has a funny post called H. Ross Bloomberg Part II.
May 15th, 2007 at 12:18 pm
The Anchoress picks the org chart for President Hillary. Not a pleasant thought.
May 15th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
I don’t see a dime’s worth of difference between any of the following four, Obama, Clinton, Bloomberg, or Giuliani.
May 15th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
I don’t see a dime’s worth of difference between any of the following four, Obama, Clinton, Bloomberg, or Giuliani.
So true. In fact it wouldn’t surprise me in the least in any of those four gave Bill Clinton a high level appointment.
Two Rino’s and two Dino’s, four globalists.
They all have the same motto, “Say Anything”.
May 16th, 2007 at 9:26 am
Re: Obama, Clinton, Bloomberg and Guiliani, #9 says,
“Two Rino’s and two Dino’s, four globalists.”
You’ve nailed it, #9!
And the controlled political-media elite establishment will assure that our two major party candidates will be qualified accordingly:
On May 4, 1993, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) president Leslie Gelb said on The Charlie Rose Show that:
“…you [Charlie Rose] had me on [before] to talk about the New World Order! I talk about it all the time. It’s one world now. The Council [CFR] can FIND, NURTURE, and begin to PUT PEOPLE in the kinds of jobs this country needs. And that’s going to be one of the major enterprises of the Council under me.”