Comments on: Bloomberg Eyes Spoiler Run…With Help From Doug Schoen

By: MarkH

MarkH — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 03:07:57 +0000

Is Bloomberg gonna run as a Democrat or as an Independent?

It doesn’t matter how he registers.

Bloomberg (Money party $$$)
Romney (Money party $$$)

Edwards (People party)

By: MarkH

MarkH — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 03:04:55 +0000

IIRC Kerry’s wife is worth something like $700 million. Do you think he is going to support a populist like Edwards? This is his attempt to appear relevant by choosing the young guy (Obama) over the Establishment pol (Hillary).

Don’t be fooled. Obama may just appear to be ‘the young guy’, but he’s pretty much Establishment too. It just hasn’t become entirely obvious to everybody yet.

He campaigned as a Progressive, stole Edwards speech and will be discovered to be just what we said he was at the start — a Lieberman disciple, Chicago machine pol

By: MarkH

MarkH — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:58:02 +0000

Yes, Hillary heard us and “found her voice.”

It was the John Edwards health care plan which helped her out.

Good thing too. If she’d gone into the White House on her first day she wouldn’t have been ready to go.

John Edwards for President — Health care, even for Hillary

By: Richmond

Richmond — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:02:32 +0000

Yes. Very true. And this piece up at TPM suggests how this is playing out in related terms:
http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/co....._community

By: klynn

klynn — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:10:16 +0000

On Dick Clark’s New Year’s Eve the Mayor was asked point blank, ”Are you running for President?” He said, ”No.”

That one can be played over and over. If he tosses his hat into the ring, he’ll need to answer why he changed his mind so quickly. He’ll appear lacking a genuine call to run for President after stating he was not going to run.

By: Knut

Knut — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:24:47 +0000

I raised the Bloomberg candidacy with a well-known political scientist the other day. He says the same thing. Third Party candidates have no chance. It’s hard imagining Bloomberg wasting money on a cause lost in advance, so I think in the end he won’t run, unless Senator Clinton and Huckabee are the candidates for the two big parties and Clinton’s polls simply graze 50 percent. This election is unlikely to be so close that he can be a spoiler like Nader. No one is taking chances this time.

By: merkwurdiglieber

merkwurdiglieber — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:28:24 +0000

Sorry for the double, but take a look at the archived video of the
OU Norman unity conference at CSPAN, they are not kidding around.

By: merkwurdiglieber

merkwurdiglieber — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:26:12 +0000

Just glad you blogged on this topic, this is a very serious threat to
the fall election, these people are not going away no matter how much
we kid about it… this could be the gameplan we face next fall.

By: kemo

kemo — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:21:32 +0000

True Brandan. My point above: If HRC loses to BO, Bloomberg must run as IND to carry the A|P@C torch. He will *try* to steal enough votes to let McNuts coast.

By: brendanx

brendanx — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:08:15 +0000

Jane Hamsher:

Thank you for driving this point home. A lot of people haven’t yet grasped that, as with everything, it’s about the war. Bloomberg is threatening to run if any Democrat gets too serious about ending it.