Bloomburg rumored to be willing to spend $2 billion on Presidential run

[curtisag]

The mix just got more complex.

http://www.forbes.com/opinions/2007/12/15/bloomberg-mayor-independent-oped-cx_daa_1215bloomberg.html

[matthylland]

Welcome Romney version 2.0 to the race...

[allyinoh]

does he have to start actually getting delegates and what not? and he's running 3rd party?

Good luck.

[JMann]

The Berg could spend 10 billion and still wouldn't get more than a couple percent. The media will love him, he'll get a bounce and then be torn back down to size.

[Falseflagop]

HE is the MEDIA!! Imagine spending 2 bil for a 400k job? He might be the Zionist person to lead the world govt?

Push RP harder as Middle America will not vote for this guy!

[Santana28]

How can it be legal to limit people to a $2300 individual contribution, yet also legal for a BILLIONAIRE to run and fund his own campaign? Shouldn't there be a cap on that too?

Either Gore or Bloomberg... one of them is going to rear their ugly head if Ron wins the primaries... they'd rather split the vote and give it all to Hillary.

[RP-Republican]

Mike Bloomberg:

•A new analysis of spending under Mayor Michael Bloomberg shows he’s been on a stunning spending spree since taking office, with the city budget growing faster than under any other mayor for the past three decades
•Reproductive choice is a fundamental human right
•Backs same-sex marriage
•Wooed Goldman Sachs to NYC with $1.65 billion in tax breaks
•Mandatory minimum sentencing for gun crimes
•Lock them up and throw away key, but no death penalty
•You bet I smoked pot; and I enjoyed it
•NYPD will continue to vigorously enforce drug laws
•Replaced school board with direct mayoral control
•$8 fee to enter NYC by car
•Founder of Mayors Against Illegal Guns
•Sued New York City gun dealers to control guns
•Use DNA and fingerprint technology for worker ID database
•Normalize status of otherwise law-abiding illegal immigrants
•Border controls fight natural forces of supply and demand
•Raised property taxes 18% to pay off budget deficit

[TheNewYorker]

You are all missing the point. Of course he can't win, and will only get a few percent, but he will do exactly what the CFR wants him to do: Help crush Ron Paul's chances at winning.

[JosephTheLibertarian]

He is the neocon insurance

[GoRon2008]

im not worried. he wont make a dent.

Go ahead, split the vote.

99% of RP supporters wont budge. Others will.

[RPinSEAZ]

Mike Bloomberg:

•A new analysis of spending under Mayor Michael Bloomberg shows he’s been on a stunning spending spree since taking office, with the city budget growing faster than under any other mayor for the past three decades
•Reproductive choice is a fundamental human right
•Backs same-sex marriage
•Wooed Goldman Sachs to NYC with $1.65 billion in tax breaks
•Mandatory minimum sentencing for gun crimes
•Lock them up and throw away key, but no death penalty
•You bet I smoked pot; and I enjoyed it
•NYPD will continue to vigorously enforce drug laws
•Replaced school board with direct mayoral control
•$8 fee to enter NYC by car
•Founder of Mayors Against Illegal Guns
•Sued New York City gun dealers to control guns
•Use DNA and fingerprint technology for worker ID database
•Normalize status of otherwise law-abiding illegal immigrants
•Border controls fight natural forces of supply and demand
•Raised property taxes 18% to pay off budget deficit

Sounds a lot like Hillary. Maybe he'll do more damage to the Dems than to the Repubs.

[curtisag]

Yeah, I think he's going to hurt the Democrats. Perot hurt the Republicans in 1992, but he tended to be more of a fiscal conservative, anti-NAFTA type candidate. This may be good news for us, the problem is with $2 billion at his disposal he could win the entire thing.

[improv241]

I would pick berg over any dem though. The guy is sharp economically.

However, Paul is the only right way.

[Visual]

Well, I'd vote for bloomberg if not for RP... but bloomberg has explicitly stated he wouldn't run this time.

Unlike Giuliani, bloomberg was actually good at his job.

[familydog]

How can it be legal to limit people to a $2300 individual contribution, yet also legal for a BILLIONAIRE to run and fund his own campaign? Shouldn't there be a cap on that too?

QFT

[werdd]

•You bet I smoked pot; and I enjoyed it
•NYPD will continue to vigorously enforce drug laws

That is called a hippocrit.

[davidhperry]

Bring it on - Bloomberg eats into the Democrats more than it does us. Plus, it splits the race more.

[mconder]

It's sad that when America finally gets a viable third party, at the end of the day it won't be much different than the two we've put up with for over a century. Now it will be a choice between socialist party A, B, or C. If many of our numbers are seduced by this man and his money, it will do nothing but neutralize the revolution.

[ckhagen]

He doesn't scare me.
He might have a lot of money, but his views just won't do it for most people.

Fact is... WE have the keys to the Oval Office. WE are running for office... hundreds of thousands of us. The key is *truth*. The foundation of our message, coupled with our numbers, will take us further than all the meaningless, uneducated votes that the rest of these schmucks are getting.

[jd603]

Great another way to detract from Ron.



The mix just got more complex.

http://www.forbes.com/opinions/2007/12/15/bloomberg-mayor-independent-oped-cx_daa_1215bloomberg.html

[Cardinal Red]

HE is the MEDIA!! Imagine spending 2 bil for a 400k job? He might be the Zionist person to lead the world govt?

Push RP harder as Middle America will not vote for this guy!

Bloomberg is not a threat. He's also said numerous times he's not running. And frankly his views would not be popular if he did run.

And, as a long-time Jewish supporter of RP, I'd ask you to please leave the overt and (even covert) anti-Semitism out of the post. Now I happen to be a Zionist (though also a supporter of Dr. Paul's principled non-intervention as far as the U.S. is concerned) but tons of people who are Jewish, including Bloomberg don't really give a damn about Zionism (except insofar as he had to being the mayor of the U.S's most Jewish city). In fact, Bloomberg got heat from the Jewish community when he first ran for mayor of NYC because previously he had made some disparaging comments about the Jewish community and his lack of identification with it. Attributing views to someone based on their last name is judgemental and gives all of us a bad name.

[RevolutionSD]

Is Bloomberg officially planning to run?

Sounds like he is the neocon insurance policy. Won't work!

[terryp]

Let me ask, if Dr. Paul doesn't get the repub nomination and Bloomburg ran as an independant. If Dr. Paul were to run as a lib. or ind. wouldn't that help even more, by splitting up the votes. I don't think he would get any RP supporters.

[Paulitician]

He should donate that money to the poor. :eek:

[Matt Collins]

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