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Loading ...If We Build It He Will Run; Super Tuesday Here We Come
The Draft Bloomberg movement has made the NY Times again, but this time the press isn’t so nice. The last article Ray wrote said that Obama would make a Bloomberg run impossible; this article says that McCain will. Well, we’ve heard this talk for the last several months and this hasn’t stopped our numbers from growing.
As for where we go from here, it is very clear to me that there is still value in promoting the Mike Bloomberg presidential candidacy. The mere possibility of his run has drastically altered the trajectory of the 2008 presidential race. Every time that the current candidates have started bickering, our numbers have grown. Every time that the current candidates have pandered and promised to increase in unfunded government hand-outs, our numbers have grown.
The point is, we here at Unite For Mike are continuing to support the kind of bi-partisan, result oriented management that Mike Bloomberg delivers for New York. We have joined this effort because we want that sort of leadership in Washington, but enough talk it’s time for action.
Super Tuesday represents a tremendous opportunity for us to spread our message. In Washington DC, we will be flyering for Mike at the Farragut West and North Metro stops. In New York, Minnesota and across the country we will be doing the same. If you’d like to help organize and get out the message, we encourage you to download the flyer, print 50 or 100 or 1000, and distribute them. Be sure to tell us about your actions. We cannot afford to let another election to go by without supporting a candidate who can deliver the results this nation needs.
February 3rd, 2008 at 12:37 pm
I can’t help but think back to Ben’s “Black Swan” post a few weeks back as the current Prez political race evolves. The “Black Swan that all could not predict a month ago and tht has actually ocurred is actually the sudden emergence and potential dominance of both McCain and Obama. Both’s emergence mitigates a tad (but does not eliminate) the need for a bloomberg candidacy.
The one thing that pushes the other two candidates to not revert back to the Old ideas of their base activists is still tyhe possibility of a Bloomberg effort in the Rational center. We should all be now focusing esp on McCain to make sure that he knows the consequences of his efforts to repanderize to that disaffected Repub yahoo activist Limbaughesque base. That consequence is Bloomberg in the center.
And on the Demo side the same goes for whoever emergses wheter it be Clinton or Obama - that the rational center si out there and not going to take it from the activist bases like in elections past and that elections (and governing and Change) are now decided above all in the doable rational center where most American voters reside. Bloomberg and the idea of a bipartisan rational competent center in American politics is still relevant despite the unanticipated “Black Swans” that may come our way.
February 3rd, 2008 at 2:49 pm
I hear ya about that pandering. McCain is really hitting his stride. Now he will keep the tax cuts. What do ya know about that? Even during a war? Come on John.
I am also tired of hearing about how wise his support was for the successful surge. The lessening of violence has a great deal to do with the Sunnis turning against Al Queda and the actions of Al Sadr. McCain’s bravado about the surge threatens to reinforce and prolong the Bush, Cheney and Rove politics of fear.
February 4th, 2008 at 11:14 am
John, I hear everything you’re saying, but I am weary of this so-called “dominance” of McCain and Obama. I believe it’s completely media created and driven. If we are to believe the polls, which I don’t, Clinton and McCain are dominating. If we are to believe the media, which I don’t, Obama and McCain are dominating. If McCain was so dominating, how did Romney win the Maine caucus? (whatever its value) I really don’t see us knowing anything for sure (or at least 90% sure) until tomorrow.
February 4th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
I do not believe polls or the media Sean. Both are equal opportunity distorters of the first order for sure - much up their with the Medieval Soothsayers of yore. The experts may say they know but they really do not. All I am saying it does not matter who emerges. If there is some sort of decent legit centrist alternative in the middle that will be a force to give the candidates who do emerge tomorrow or next month pause that they better not scatter to the fringe special interest pandering activist base shoring-up deals or else it might just be Bloomie Time in the OK Corral!!
February 4th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
I hear ya about that pandering. McCain is really hitting his stride. Now he will keep the tax cuts. What do ya know about that? Even during a war? Come on John.
I am also tired of hearing about how wise his support was for the successful surge. The lessening of violence has so great deal to do with the Sunnis turning against Al Queda and the actions of Al Sadr that McCain’s bravado about the success of the surge threatens to reinforce and prolong the Bush, Cheney and Rove politics of fear. It does so by encouraging the wrong action at the wrong time.
February 5th, 2008 at 11:42 am
I agree Phil. The surge verdict is still out/tenuous as is everything in the MidEast and McCain’s tax cut two-step is pandering. You’ll probably be hearing the word “repositioning” a lot in the next few months on Iraq and the MidEast.
But MCain still subscribes fully to PAYGO and is still not in the total pander-mode like the others - yet. And the same can be said of Hillary and Obama. Still we can do MUCH better to tie usp all’s vast ends-means discoonect pretty talk. That is why I’m still cranking away here - to keep the other 2 honest and to explore all legit possibilities/alternatives (i.e. Bloomie)! Nothing is inevitable til it happens!