Bloomberg Pushes Moderates in National Races

[proud2BlibKansan]

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — In an election year when anger and mistrust have upended races across the country, toppling moderates and elevating white-hot partisans, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is trying to pull politics back to the middle, injecting himself into marquee contests and helping candidates fend off the Tea Party.

New York’s billionaire mayor, whose flurry of activity is stirring a new round of speculation about his presidential ambitions, is supporting Republicans, Democrats and independents who he says are not bound by rigid ideology and are capable of compromise, qualities he says he fears have become alarmingly rare in American politics.

Next month, Mr. Bloomberg will travel to California to campaign for Meg Whitman, the eBay entrepreneur and Republican running for governor on a platform of corporate-style accountability and fiscal prudence. He visited Rhode Island on Thursday to champion Lincoln D. Chafee, a Republican turned independent who is locked in a three-way battle for the governor’s office.

And, in perhaps the mayor’s most direct confrontation with a Tea Party candidacy, he will host a fund-raiser at his Manhattan town house for Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader facing an unexpectedly forceful challenge from Sharron E. Angle, a political neophyte backed by Sarah Palin.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/19/nyregion/19bloomberg.html?_r=1&hp

Surely I am not the only one who thinks it's nuts to support BOTH Meg Whitman and Harry Reid. But this is evidence that this is not about party or a platform or even what is best for the people. It's about the powerful taking care of their own, regardless of what letter is behind their name on the ballot.

Wake up, people!

[Zambero]

1. If he's travelling x-country to support Meg Whitman...

then his claims of not being bound by partisan ideology would tend to ring hollow.

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. But he is also supporting Harry Reid

What partisan ideology would you be referring to?

[Zambero]

4. Inconsistacrat perhaps?

As far as default position goes, it looks like he'll generally go with garden variety "sane" establishgment Republicans, but if a Republican happens to be an extremist nutcase as in Angle, he'll consider switching sides to support the Democrat.

[still_one]

2. It is obvious he is supporting whitman, after all it is costing her more to buy the election than it

did him