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Mike Bloomberg could buy the White House

Salon (sub)

NEW YORK -- Mike Bloomberg, the mega-billions mayor of America's richest city, proclaimed his above-the-fray neutrality in the presidential race at a recent press conference.

"I'm going to stay out of both the primaries and the general election because I've got to work with everybody as mayor of the city of New York," declared Bloomberg, a Democrat turned nominal Republican who has been elected to two terms as Rudy Giuliani's successor. "And if I pick sides, the public may not feel that I'm representing them."

These seemingly laudable sentiments deserve a Bronx cheer because they collide with reality. As host of the 2004 GOP Convention, Bloomberg praised George W. Bush from the stage at Madison Square Garden for "leading the global war on terrorism." And Bloomberg's top political advisors make scant secret that they are currently plotting ways for him to enter the 2008 White House field as a problem-solving independent, socially liberal and fiscally responsible.

Posted by Editor at June 12, 2007 11:37 AM

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