Until now, handicapping for next year's presidential election has focused on how President Obama might fare in a two-candidate race. Could Obama beat Mitt Romney? Rick Perry? Herman Cain? (In all three cases, the answer is probably yes.)Actually, the campaigning hasn't started yet. I'd guess that any one of the three could beat him handily, and that Cain would make him look like Walter Mondale.
It's the Times; standard disclaimer that 'of course Bambi will win'; otherwise both their readers get very, very upset...
But there's likely to also be a wild card in this election.
... since the Dems have to realize they're gonna get trounced...
Americans Elect,
Who they gonna put up? Is John Anderson still around? Or are they gonna have to talk Ross Perot into coming out of retirement?... Oh, surely not Bloomberg?
Sure, why not? He only has to take a bite out of the gullible independents to tip the race back to Bambi...
Americans Elect is a collection of Republicans, Democrats and independents
but mostly Democrats
but almost completely progressive Democrats
who
Yes, we've all seen that movement arising... ummm... no, we haven't, actually.
Some of its backers have previously contributed to Obama, Romney or other candidates. Several are fans of New York Mayor
Michael NannyBloomberg, who has flirted with the idea of running as a third-party centrist.
Bloomberg's not a centrist. He's a laughingstock outside Noo Yawk. I'm not sure he's not a laughingstock inside Noo Yawk.
The group's central figure is Peter Ackerman,
From his Wikipedia entry:
founding chair of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict and the managing director of Rockport Capital Incorporated. He chaired the board of trustees of Freedom House from September 2005 until January 2009. He is a member of the Board of the Council on Foreign RelationsThat's not really a subtle picture, is it?
a wealthy investor and former banker who considers himself an independent and who was active four years ago in a similar effort called Unity08.
But you can bet your bippy that Soros is somewhere behind the curtain...
More likely behind the curtain behind the screen behind the wall behind the curtain...
It could be a Bloomberg vanity campaign, since his name keeps coming up as the "nominee."
In January 2008, Bailey and Rafshoon announced that they were leaving the organization and were planning to launch a national effort to draft New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to run for president. Shortly thereafter, representatives for Unity08 announced that the organization was scaling back operations and suspending activities, citing lack of adequate funding and disputes with the Federal Election Commission. Unity08 was unable to resume operations prior to the 2008 presidential election.One potential pitfall for this well-
That clinches it...Soros HAS to be involved in this thing.
I'm guessing he only has to play backup...
| "Your ACORN volunteers are on my payroll, Mayor Bloomberg. Nice little campaign ya got there -- it'd be a shame if something happened to it..." |
but mostly Democrats
could flood it with money to try to make it one.
... Bloomberg not wanting to finance it out of pocket, which would make it pretty obvious who the driver is...
I don't think the Pub voters will be fooled by this, but independents, particularly low-interest, low-information independents, might get sucked into this. At the very least these astroturf groups try to 'dirty up' the process and depress enthusiasm, and that certainly helps the Dhimmicrats in 2012.
I think Bloomberg has delusions of adequacy and that Soros and the Dems would be perfectly happy massage his oversized ego and kick in a few bucks. They'd like to see him grab off two or three percent of the popular vote so that B.O. could edge back into orifice for another four years of rampant misrule.