Reply #10: K & R. This next election is going to be a barn-burner of corporate excess. [View All]

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It is very possible, no... probable, at this point, that Bloomberg and Hagel are planning a joint run on an independent ticket, and I believe LIEberman's early "endorsement" of an "independent" candidate is an attempt to pierce the two-party thinking. My guess? They'll wait to see if Gore goes in with guns blazing at the end of the summer, and shuts down some of the already-heated-up primary candidate's inflated numbers.

At that point, the media (with bloomberg's money, and the neocon's shadow support) would go into "slam Gore" mode, and start talking about how people want "new faces", and "an alternative to the two-party bickering that gets nothing done". Gore is basically a populist candidate, and there are WAY too many corporations that will go into all out war mode to defeat him. Not so with most of the other "mainstream" candidates, who are in a cozy bed with corporatists. (Edwards is an exception of sorts here, but during his tenure, he was a FAR more conservative senator than he lets on now. )

If Gore immediately chose Clark as a running mate, I think bloomberg/hagel would have their hands REALLY full.

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