How can anyone say M. Bloomberg is a viable VP for McCain, when MB is Pro-Choice, Pro Gay Rights?

[patrice]

Does the money REALLY cancel out the RW Fundie objections to Choice and LGBTs?

[BklynChick]

1. there's no way he will be picked, McCain needs someone more conservative than him

[newmajority]

2. I think the idea is being floated because Gramps desperately needs economic help.

Bloomberg would probably be OK with the money Repukes, but not with the Religious Reich. And while Bloomberg may change parties as often as the rest of us change socks, I doubt he would seriously align himself with Grandpa Simpson.

[patrice]

4. What do you think MB's attitude is toward the Corporatist State?

and Disaster Capitalism?

[Smarmie Doofus]

3. Bloomberg is all things to all people.

He shifts, he turns, he says one thing, he does another.

If McClain tells him to "clarify" ( that is, *change*) his stated positions ( and they are no more than that: *positions*) on GLBT rights and abortion rights , clarification is what Bloomberg will do.

Thats *IF* Bloomberg wants the job.

[Kahuna]

10. Because he stands for nothing. That's why Mika B. is so crazy about him..

She doesn't stand for anything either.

[Warren Stupidity]

5. It is a bullshit balloon intended to moderate McCaint

It is marketing to LIV-independents who recall something vague from the past that McCaint is some sort of moderate. As always, the refuglican party can only win elections by confusion and division. They cannot win on actual issues or their real positions, so they have to invent bullshit positions and fake issues.

[CK_John]

6. I think Bloomberg is more likely to be Obama's VP pick than McCain's. n/t

[Captain Angry]

7. If you wait long enough, McCain will be that as well. n/t

[AllentownJake]

8. Does Bloomberg really want to tie himself

to a sinking Presidential Campaign?

When he could have run one of his own?

[newmajority]

13. The thinking here apparently is this.....

Bloomberg joins the ticket, buys the election with a billion dollars of his own money, Gramps either dies in office or declines to run again in 2012. Bloomberg coasts to victory as either incumbent Prez or sitting VP.

Not saying Bloomberg is actually thinking this, but it seems to be the spin coming from Air America. And while I generally think Mark Green is full of shit most of the time, he does have actual experience running against Bloomberg.

[AllentownJake]

14. He'd have a hard time

Getting the GOP nomination in 2012 even as VP unless he pulls a Mittens and goes against everything he believes in to run and even than he still would probably lose.

Plus he's a smart man and knows what the McCain economics team would do to an already struggling economy.

[samdogmom]

9. Maybe--it's because he'll appeal to some Barack voters?

Bloomberg is closer to the Democratic side of things than the Republican...maybe McLame's thinking is that he'll gather up a few of these fence sitters if he goes with Bloomberg. Who knows?

McLame needs some big trick up his sleeve to win things right now!

(Keep in mind the machines are all set to steal things again...but the margin has to be close or people will FINALLY get a clue about stolen elections! So McLame will pick a centrist VP and all will be well when he wins (actually STEALS for the third time in a row) the election. GRRRRR! I truly despise these republican crooks!

[Smarmie Doofus]

11. Good god. Here we go again. Bloomberg is *NOT* any kind of...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=169x8029

Democrat. Not "secret"; not "crypto", not "neo", not "quasi".

He's republican and conservative to the core. Philosophically and behaviorally.

His public pronouncements in favor of "gay rights' and "freedom of choice" are *positions* that one has to take in order to have a shot at being elected in NYC.

Remember: NOT a Democrat.

Don't make me say it again.

[patrice]

12. Okay, I get it now . . .

Re :puke: s would accept him as a VP candidate for Crash, because they KNOW that he's a phony on Pro-Choice and Gay Rights. The idea is to sucker "moderate" Republicans.

So a Crash : Bloomberg ticket IS possible.

[Mz Pip]

15. Bloomberg

likes to win. No way will he be on a losing ticket.

[Paula Sims]

16. If Gramm is still "economic adviser" it won't happen

The two (Gramm & Bloomberg) are too egotistical to let the other "lead" economically. Also, if Bloomberg wants to be President then he'll have the McCain & goons stench on him. I think it's a trial/hope balloon but I don't think it'll happen. Romney is more likely.

I COULD see an Obama/Bloomberg ticket but even that's going too far to the right and has the stench of supporting big business.

Personally I'd like to see a McCain/Giuliani ticket and then have a Cindy McCain vs Judith Giuliani be forced to make nice with each other -- I'd pay good money to see that one!

[saltpoint]

17. David Bender seems to think it's a possibility, and yes, owing to the cash.

Bender thought that Bloomberg wants to be president, and having spent 75 million on the mayoral race in NYC, he'd be able to single-handedly finance the Republican ticket and campaign several times over.

Then, Bender went on, if McCain did only one term Michael Bloomberg would be the next-in-line obvious contender for the job 2012, or if McCain resigned a chalf-year early for health reasons in the third year of his term -- real health reasons, I mean -- Bloomberg would be able to run as an incumbent with almost unlimited funds -- his own.

This assumes that Bloomberg's cash can make this election competitive. If you think it will, then he's a serious contender. If you think it won't, he's a marginal option.

[Sensitivity]

18. That's EXACTLY why it would a strategic choice

[Yavin4]

19. You Left Out One Other Position...He's Pro-Gun Control

Strike 3.