Bloomberg leaves Republican Party

[Thetagirl218]

Originally Posted by Tom Earp

Actually I truely wonders who cares waht he does.

He has a lot of $$$$ but I have not been impressed with him as mayor.

If people living outside of NY, NY have to start paying $$ to work there well, that ought to be interesting.

They did not want to live in NY, that is why they left!

Rudey, well I see Fred above all of them!

Hillary, well, she moved to NY so she could run for the Senate. I think that was called carpetbagging in the olden days!

I couldn't agree with you more, Earp! lol!

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by Kevin

Here's a guy who could potentially split the Democrat vote and put another Republican in the White House.

I wouldn't complain.

Well, whether I'd complain would depend on who the Dem and GOP candidates were.

The conventional wisdom I'm hearing is that he he could split the Dem vote if he runs (little credence is being given to his statement that he will not run, since there's so much time left to change his mind), but he could also make things hard for Giuliani.

[shinerbock]

I've heard some people saying he could take moderate GOP votes. However, I don't think this is credited. If it were Tancredo v. Hillary, sure, he might. However, the discussion I heard revolved around Guiliani v. Hillary, in which case you'd have a slightly moderate liberal matching up against a significantly moderate conservative, and I don't think Bloomberg would really catch the middle-right.

Thats the biggest problem I foresee for the Democrats in 2008. When there is middle ground to be won, you don't throw up 2 very liberal candidates. Adding Gore isn't the answer either. Ideology and hope can be blinding sometimes, and for the left it seems to sometimes come at the expense of smart politics.