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Bloomberg Candidacy Could Provide History Lesson

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Michael Bloomberg has announced that he is not a Republican. I could have told him that a long time ago. The billionaire mayor of New York City was a lifelong Democrat before switching parties in 2001 and spending fifty million of his own dollars to be elected mayor in the days following 9/11. He was handily re-elected to a second term in 2005, but is term-limited from seeking a third, which has fueled speculation that he wants to be the first third party candidate elected president of the United States since Abraham Lincoln defeated the Democrats and the Whigs. It also could provide Americans with a real history lesson.

Bloomberg’s main claim to fame these last six years is that he banned smoking in public places and the use of trans-fats in New York City restaurants. He is a supporter of abortion on demand and favors special rights for homosexuals. He also is about as hostile to the Second Amendment as any politician in America, having once threatened to use his own money to sue firearms manufacturers he claimed were “flooding the city with guns.” In every way one can think of, hizzoner is an unabashed liberal.

Posted by Editor at June 27, 2007 01:39 PM

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