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• Monday, December 31, 2007 01:34 PM

  It's quite likely, imho, that Bloomberg is positioning himself for 2012 ... which is when Democrats are likely to be vulnerable ...

  and a third party could do very well ....

  I don't think there's anyone with enough mojo -- this late in the game -- to pull a gen-u-wine spoiler upset -- and Bloomberg is too "regional." Like California, New York is in fact NOT seen as something desirable in the flyover regions.

  However, I think depending on just how bad the next 4 year acturally turn out to be, the country might welcome a multi-billionare, as it welcomed JFK and FDR (wealthy "patricians" of their own time).

  However, if "we" do, I would worry that it would be another giant step towards authoritarianism -- the ultra-wealthy being our "upper class" whose success is merely evidence of divine approval, etc.

  ... but we'll cross that next-electiong "change horses in midstream?" bridge, eek, in a (terrifying) mere 4 years...

  o/t I keep wondering what all we might have been discussing, planning, arguing about for the last year if this @!@#$# suffocating wall-to-wall, every minute of the day, 24/7/365 and then some election coverage had not been allowed to feed the gaping maw of the MSM ... I wonder how many people besides me have far too many moments of hating them all, like guests who have long overstayed their (half-hearted) welcome. I'm sick of the whole thing.

  —susan sunflower Read susan sunflower's other letters
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