<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/31/us/politics/31bloomberg.html?ref=politics[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/31/us/politics/31bloomberg.html?ref=politics</a></p>
<p>Would anyone here support this candidacy?</p>
<p>I may examine him more closely. He even might have a good shot at winning as well. If Ayatollah Huck or lusty Rudy wins the nomination, his chances improve.</p>
<p>Yes, I would seriously consider it. However, I’m afraid of him splitting the democratic vote.</p>
<p>I would consider supporting him, depending on who the Democratic nominee is. I’d have to know a lot more about him than I know now. I would be less than thrilled about it, especially if Hagel is his running mate. </p>
<p>My anxiety about the situation in Pakistan is high enough that foreign policy considerations are dominating everything else these days. I’d considered Richardson the most experienced in this area, but his recent recommendations about Pakistan did not make sense to me. Dodd sounds better to me on this issue.</p>
<p>Anyone running for president is unfit to BE president.</p>
<p>Would we even be having this discussion if it wasn’t for his money?</p>
<p>Anyone running for president is unfit to BE president.</p>
<p>go back to the law books you are neverr going to make it in stand up</p>
<p>NYMom- what is your concern with Hagel?</p>
<p>“Would we even be having this discussion if it wasn’t for his money?”</p>
<p>Of course not. I’m not a fan of The Nanny, but I was curious to see anecdotally what his constituency might be.</p>
<p>For the moment, the independents are with the Democrats. Bloomberg coming in as an independent could siphon those votes in the general election.</p>
<p>“For the moment, the independents are with the Democrats. Bloomberg coming in as an independent could siphon those votes in the general election.”</p>
<p>Sounds good to me.</p>
<p>What I think the country needs is a VERY partisan President. I don’t want any of that bi-partisan crap. Bi-partisan crap brought us NAFTA (and with it, global pollution, global warming, mass migration, and Al Gore), a half a million dead Iraqi children under Bill Clinton; the Big Lie of 1998 that led to the war in Iraq four years later; a health care system that has people flocking to India, Thailand, and Argentina for needed surgery; the Patriot Act; the current ethnic cleansing in Iraq; and tax policies that have made corporations sending jobs and capital abroad fabulously wealthy at the expense of everyone else. </p>
<p>None of that bi-partisan crap for me, thank you.</p>
<p>Mini do you have a candidate?</p>
<p>What does that have to do with it? 
(I’m not a Democrat, but I might vote for any Democrat except Hillary; then again, I might not. It doesn’t matter, anyway - I live in Washington State.)</p>
<p>“What does that have to do with it”</p>
<p>Personal curiousity. No offense intended.</p>
<p>There is no candidate that is good enough to earn mini’s vote and endorsement.</p>
<p>mini you forgot, but now even pregnancies are out-sourced to India.</p>
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<p>I’m not kidding. I’m much funnier when I’m kidding.</p>
<p>^ You must have very low bar for being funny.</p>
<p>I don’t see a constituency for Bloomberg. He has no national politics or foreign policy experience, unlike Perot, lacks much in the way of personality. No one really knows what he stands for and once he tells people, any support he might have now would probably go down.</p>
<p>Bloomberg would make an excellent President, but he has no chance to win despite all of his money. He simply lacks charisma and that is a minimum requirement for a President.</p>