President Bloomberg

[Libertarian666]

He's too short to be elected President. 

[Pointedstick]

A three-way race between three New Yorkers--two billionaires and one socialist. Now that would be something!

[clacy]

He's too proud to get humiliated by Trump

[WiseOne]

Look at the chart more carefully.  There are definitely more points to the right of center than to the left.

I would say there is a trend (if not significance) toward the winner being taller.

[clacy]

So this says "don't count Hillary out!"

Damn.

Bloomberg would pull more from Hillary than he would any of the R candidates IMO. His views on guns would be akin to running as a Dem was anti-Union.

[clacy]

So this says "don't count Hillary out!"

Damn.

Bloomberg would pull more from Hillary than he would any of the R candidates IMO. His views on guns would be akin to running as a Dem was anti-Union.

So far he's saying he'll only run if it comes down to Trump vs. Sanders.  He doesn't think he defeat Hillary.

If that's the case, he would still guarantee that Trump wins because he would take more from the disillusioned left that can't vote for a socialist, but hate Trump.  Bloomberg wouldn't take anyone from the right except the guys that write for NRO. 

[dualstow]

It's long been said (known) that the taller candidate is more likely to win.
But, tell that to Kerry & Romney.

[Reub]

Former NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg is considering a self-funded third party presidential run. He is galled by Trump and troubled by Hillary and Bernie. He would be willing to spend "at least $1 billion of his fortune on it, according to people briefed on his deliberations who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss his plans."

I live in NYC and have seen his work as mayor for 12 years. He is fiscally conservative but very liberal socially. Strong anti-crime guy. Believes in the nanny state as was demonstrated by his Big Gulp tax to limit sugary drink consumption. He is anti-gun. He connived and changed the two term limit law so that he could serve a third term here.

Would he have a chance? Who would he help or hurt? Would you vote for him?

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/24/nyreg ... .html?_r=0

(Sorry. I just saw the other thread. Feel free to merge.)

[Libertarian666]

Not a chance. Gun-grabbers can only get my vote if the alternative is truly awful, as in 2008, when I was afraid that McCain was going to blow up the world if he got in.

[Pointedstick]

He'd siphon votes from Sanders, not Trump. It would make Trump's margin of victory truly epic.

[MediumTex]

He'd siphon votes from Sanders, not Trump. It would make Trump's margin of victory truly epic.

Who outside of New York would vote for Bloomberg?

How would he even explain what he believes to anyone between now and November?  He seems to have changed his mind several times in his life about almost every major issue, including which party he wants to belong to.

Maybe he could just do like Trump and say that his only real belief is in his own entitlement to power and leave it at that.  Beliefs aside, IMHO Trump's blustery charisma would flatten Bloomberg.

Overall, a Bloomberg third party bid seems like an astonishingly stupid and arrogant thing to undertake.  Does Bloomberg REALLY think that what America wants is a billionaire to tell them what size cups they can drink out of and that they can no longer own guns?

[Libertarian666]

If it were Hitlary, Christie, and Bloomberg, I'd vote for Bloomberg.

Then I would emigrate.

[clacy]

Who outside of New York would vote for Bloomberg?

How would he even explain what he believes to anyone between now and November?  He seems to have changed his mind several times in his life about almost every major issue, including which party he wants to belong to.

Maybe he could just do like Trump and say that his only real belief is in his own entitlement to power and leave it at that.  Beliefs aside, IMHO Trump's blustery charisma would flatten Bloomberg.

Overall, a Bloomberg third party bid seems like an astonishingly stupid and arrogant thing to undertake. Does Bloomberg REALLY think that what America wants is a billionaire to tell them what size cups they can drink out of and that they can no longer own guns?

Sadly, yes he probably does believe that America wants and more importantly needs the authority that he provides.  I'm sure he's had hundreds of New York elites telling him just that over the last decade.

[Reub]

If it comes down to Bernie, Donald and Michael,  he can claim that he's the only adult in the room.

[MachineGhost]

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Stop giving me an inferiority complex.