Gun Control & RKBA

Puha Ekapi

(594 posts) Sat Jan 23, 2016, 01:15 PM Jan 2016

Bloomers considering a Presidential run?

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Michael Bloomberg, the racist republican gun grabber, is toying with a run as an independent.

Michael R. Bloomberg has instructed advisers to draw up plans for a potential independent campaign in this year’s presidential race. His advisers and associates said he was galled by Donald J. Trump’s dominance of the Republican field, and troubled by Hillary Clinton’s stumbles and the rise of Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont on the Democratic side.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/24/nyregion/bloomberg-sensing-an-opening-revisits-a-potential-white-house-run.html?_r=0

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Bloomers considering a Presidential run? (Original Post) Puha Ekapi Jan 2016 OP

And, rather than doing anything that might help Democrats... discntnt_irny_srcsm Jan 2016 #1

Makes you wonder.... Puha Ekapi Jan 2016 #4

I have two sayings that I sometimes find a bit difficult to balance discntnt_irny_srcsm Jan 2016 #5

I wouldn't vote for that little wanna-be dictator. shraby Jan 2016 #2

+1 Puha Ekapi Jan 2016 #3

He'll siphon off some Democrat votes in New York and elsewhere. DonP Jan 2016 #6

Some of the single issue voters sarisataka Jan 2016 #7

Locking krispos42 Jan 2016 #8

discntnt_irny_srcsm

(18,605 posts)

1. And, rather than doing anything that might help Democrats...

Reply to Puha Ekapi (Original post)

Sat Jan 23, 2016, 01:28 PM

Jan 2016

...he finds yet another way to further divide and handicap the party. His position on guns won't help him and any decision by him to enter the race will compromise any support for (should I even use these words?) a real Democrat.

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Puha Ekapi

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4. Makes you wonder....

Reply to discntnt_irny_srcsm (Reply #1)

Sat Jan 23, 2016, 02:24 PM

Jan 2016

...who he really is working for. If he disrupts a bit, siphons a little, he very well could hand the election to one of the wingnuts. Could he have any other reason to run? Surely Bloomers knows he doesn't have a prayer of making it to the Oval Office.

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discntnt_irny_srcsm

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5. I have two sayings that I sometimes find a bit difficult to balance

Reply to Puha Ekapi (Reply #4)

Sat Jan 23, 2016, 02:34 PM

Jan 2016

>> Never attribute to conspiracy that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
>> Never be quick to characterize as a shill, anyone who could just be a megalomaniac.

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shraby

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2. I wouldn't vote for that little wanna-be dictator.

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Sat Jan 23, 2016, 01:39 PM

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Puha Ekapi

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3. +1

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Sat Jan 23, 2016, 02:16 PM

Jan 2016

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DonP

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6. He'll siphon off some Democrat votes in New York and elsewhere.

Reply to Puha Ekapi (Original post)

Sat Jan 23, 2016, 02:44 PM

Jan 2016

Maybe enough to throw the electoral votes to the GOP candidate?

Could create his own version of Florida 2000, a la Nader.

But he's got an ego matching Trump and he's a high profile and strong gun control supporter with billions of his own $$$ to spend, so he'll get some votes from DU, not that they'd admit it in any posts here.