A Candid Look At Candidate Bloomberg.

In and article entitled Does Bloomberg spell doom for Hillary?

Pat Bucanahan analyses Bloomberg's campaign:

The presidential candidacy of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is already a smashing success.

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The mayor has replaced Fred Thompson as the most talked-about non-candidate since Mario Cuomo in 1992 and Colin Powell in 1996. Gov. Cuomo and Gen. Powell, after scouting the terrain, declined to engage.
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While impossible to see how Mayor Bloomberg can win, even if he spent $2 billion, it is easy to see how he sinks Hillary Rodham Clinton. .........

How so? First, the mayor is Jewish and is best-known and most loved among Jewish voters and denizens of the Big Apple, where he is more popular than Rudy. Both constituencies are Democratic.

.....I can't really see many Jewish voters going independent for Bloomberg- and from what I understand they don't vote so monolithically anymore, but in the same way Zuckerman Bloomberg ect have all flocked behind Bruce Ratner, I can see the New York elite (many of whom are Jewish) flocking behind Bloomberg. Are they so clueless to realize that a pro-war/open borders gun grabbing liberal like Bloomberg is the worst of both sides of the asile? Probably not they probably do think money and PR can trump reality. After all it created a war where none was needed.

Second, though the mayor is being painted as a "post-partisan" problem-solver, he is a textbook nanny-state liberal who has outlawed smoking in neighborhood bars, wages war on trans-fats, and is anti-gun, pro-gay rights and pro-abortion.
.....Indeed. He is not problem sovler - he has a slick pr campaign that makes him look like one. He has done nothing that will create long term good for New York. 

Had Bloomberg run in the Republicans primaries, his billions would not have bought him the nomination, which is why he left the party. Indeed, if he could buy the GOP nomination, the party would leave him.

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There is none. Lacking charisma and a capacity to move people with words, lacking an issue other than "post-partisanship," Bloomberg has one card to play – a fortune estimated at $5 billion or more.

If he runs, Mike Bloomberg will be testing the theory that, in the 21st century, you can buy the presidency of the United States.

Well, his friend Bruce Ratner has already tested the theory that, in the 21st century you can buy the ESDC., MTA and New York State Legislature....so can the rest of the country be far behind? While you can buy the ESDC and make them say that subways won't be over capacity, traffic won't be a problem, that doesn't change the reality that they will be. 

And that's the crux of Bloomberg's surreal run and poor stewardship -its created an illusion of success while letting the foundations of good government and the physical structure of the city to deteriorate.