The media must be bored already with their latest creation, former Governor Mike Huckabee. Poor Huckabee: just as he was getting accustomed to his newfound Brad Pitt-like status, he's becoming yesterday's newspaper. The press is dropping him like a hot potato in favor of the next Latest Thing:
Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York.
Today's New York Post reports that Bloomberg's aides are quietly reaching out to old consultants to check their availability for next year, including the media guy who created his influential TV ads.
The media thought they'd have their hands full covering a past mayor of New York, but Rudy Giuliani seems to have stumbled badly, from which he's trying to recover. But for now, Rudy is---can you believe it?!----the dull mayor of New York. Bloomberg is now where it's at.
He's a media dream: fabulously rich (over $10 billion at last estimate), self-made (Horatio Alger!), single (but dating a smart and accomplished woman!), but divorced with two normal, well-adjusted daughters (Jenna and Barbara 2.0!).
He also has done something very few other public officials have been able to pull off: he runs the city the way he ran his business. Most successful businessmen have run for high office, thinking they could just translate business acumen into political savvy. Once there, however, they discovered that business (the profit motive) and politics (the vote-getting motive) were too different to be run the same way.
Bloomberg showed that it could be done. Will that ability translate to the presidency? Maybe. Polls show that most voters are fed up with politics on both sides of the aisle, so Bloomberg's "post-partisan" appeal might be wider than we know. The question is: when push comes to shove, will voters roll the dice on an outside-the-box guy? His support may be wide, but is it deep?
The answer is no. Bloomberg is not going to run for president. Drop it, and stop being a m o r o n.
Posted by: FK | December 18, 2007 at 04:26 PM
BLOOMBERG DOES NOT GET THIS PERSON'S VOTE!
Saw Cavuto's cream puff interview him yesterday on Fox Business Channel. Bloomie passionately argued to granting amnesty to illegal aliens BECAUSE WE NEED SOMEONE TO PAY THE TAXES NEEDED OUR SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS. HE MADE IT out like most of the current illegal aliens are highly skilled scientists who will surely go elsewhere if we do not take advantage of the opportunity to lure them into staying here.
HASN'T ANYONE TOLD HIM THAT over 30% of those currently in jail are ILLEGAL ALIENS CONVICTED OF SOME CRIME? Has anyone told him ..... OH SH*T, I GIVE UP!
The price for that kind of flawed thinking would spell the end of our border security, english as a common language holding us together as a nation, and our common culture. Our standards will surely decline to that of a thrid world nation (as if they have'nt alread declined significantly in that direction due to the illegal alien challenge). We will become increasingly Balkinized and divided against ourselves - the wet dream of the international communist movement and its Islamo Fascist Imperialist buddies.
Cavuto should have challenged Bloomie what percent of the 20 million illegal aliens in this country now have the skills we need in this country, and, what is the source of such percentage, BUT HE DIDN'T.
Cavuto should have asked BLOOMIE why he does not support assuring our country’s needs for workers through the LEGAL IMMIGRATION process, BUT HE DIDN'T.
NO WAY DOES BLOOMIE GET MY VOTE!
Posted by: J. Pierpont Finch | December 18, 2007 at 04:38 PM
The mayor will need a soapbox to greet the media; and ought to be 5'6" at least.
What the stature of the nation?
Posted by: Truther | December 18, 2007 at 04:47 PM
Finch -- Where are you getting your info that 30% of those in prison are illegal aliens?
Posted by: FK | December 18, 2007 at 05:00 PM
He would not be an Abraham Lincoln surely. Only one president shorter : James Madison. Warren Harding had a size 14 shoe. Now there is someone to talk with the Chinese! Thats no bull.
Posted by: Truther | December 18, 2007 at 05:04 PM
Jimmy Carter was the shortest president in recent history, and he did not see eye to eye with anyone.
Posted by: Truther | December 18, 2007 at 05:27 PM
Other notables :
Joan of Arc 4'11"
Queen Victoria 5'
Yuri Gargarin 5' 2"
Voltaire 5' 3"
Kim Jun IL 5' 3"
N. Krushchev 5' 3"
Sarkozy 5' 6"
V. Putin 5' 7"
J. Carter 5' 9"
E. Roosevelt 6' 1"
Posted by: Truther | December 18, 2007 at 08:40 PM
The quintessential businessman riding in on a white horse to save America from the filthy politicians was H. Ross Perot in 1992. The only thing Perot accomplished was electing Slick Willey and his co-President, Ms. Rodham. I don't have a problem with third party candidates but I don't think they accomplish anything but splitting up the vote and making it possible for one of the candidates to win with less than 50 percent of the vote. We live in a very divided country and I don't see anyone who can unite us. We are trending to 1860 where there were about 4 major candidates that split the vote and allowed Lincoln to win.
Posted by: SteveOk | December 18, 2007 at 09:10 PM
I don't trust him. He seems like a LIBERAL and, after Eliot Spitzer, I run from them. The immigration issue alone will lose my vote. In addition, he seems to like to ban things, (i.e, smoking in restaurants, trans fats, aluminum bats) and increase taxes like high tolls entering the city. No thanks.
Posted by: M/M | December 19, 2007 at 04:59 AM
Speaking about THE IMMIGRATION ISSUE, this congress' INCOMPETANCE never ceases to amaze and disgust!
Democrat sponsored Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations bill eliminates requirement passed by Congress in Secure Fence Act of 2006 to build double-layered fence covering 854 miles of U.S.-Mexico border
FEW ELECTED OFFICIALS IN BOTH OF THE MAJOR POLITICAL PARTIES GIVE ONE WHIT FOR THE SAFETY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND THE SOVEREIGNTY OVER OUR BORDERS NO MATTER WHAT IS SAID IN FRONT OF THE TV CAMERAS! Wht we have is the best government the lobbyists can buy.
Posted by: J. Pierpont Finch | December 19, 2007 at 07:31 AM
Bloomberg is great. He makes decisions based on reason, and is not influenced by outside pressure. He's a politician in the tradition of Teddy Roosevelt and FDR -- he's got plenty of his own money so no one can buy him.
Everyone thought his political career was over when he banned smoking in restaurants; instead, it made him stronger. He's a man, while George W. Bush is a boy.
Posted by: FK | December 19, 2007 at 09:35 AM
J Pierpont Finch, excellent post as always. I first heard about the Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations bill on my way to work from Glen Beck. He was going to do a special on it at 7 but I was tied up. Yes, I am giving Glen Beck a plug because he seems to be one of the radio hosts keeping an eye on our elected officials who are constantly disregarding our wishes on the "illegal issue" while the rest of us are busy working or just "living our lives".
I totally agree with you about both parties "selling us out" on the illegal issue. There was one candidate I LOVED earlier in the year, but after studying his track record on immigration, I'm not sure if he will get my vote. I'm watching all the candidates and voting for the one most likely to be tough on immigration.
The American people need to WAKE UP about the illegal issue. We need to continue to be vigilant on this illegal issue and fight our elected officials while we still can, or our country is doomed.
Posted by: M/M | December 20, 2007 at 05:41 AM
Al local levels, politicians like Bloomberg and Corzine have been able to use their cash to secure positions; but has it ever happened at a national level?
The last person to try it was Perot, but he just succeeded in helping to oust Papa Bush.
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