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This takes nothing away from the quotes you have reproduced, but Bloomberg is generally assumed to be considering a run with Chuck Hagel, who is pretty old-school on foreign policy despite his vote for the Iraq War.
This NY Sun article from May this year is hardly a ringing endorsement for Bloomberg, especially were he to team up with Hagel.
http://www.nysun.com/article/53802
As a result, I disagree with this characterization:
"Bloomberg is basically just Rudy Giuliani with a billion or two dollars to spend to alter the election."
Bloomberg does not have Rudy's Kerik-style corruption baggage, and at the moment anyway is not a lunatic with respect to Middle East policy.
Where the Bloomberg-Hagel alliance does raise eyebrows is that this is a pairing of a social liberal with a social conservative. However, it's hard to imagine they would diverge on a (traditional GOP) pro-big business agenda, and I'm inclined to believe they see eye-to-eye on foreign policy because otherwise it's hard to understand why they should be drawn to one another.
As you are wont to say, this is not meant to be a post in support of Bloomberg, and whose to know if his political posturing is just that. But to put him in the same whackjob category as Rudy seems a bit of stretch.
