I see that New York City Michael Bloomberg has decided to forego a presidential race.\u00c2\u00a0 This effectively stops any return of the brief five-minute interval of “Bloomberg Mania”, and its attendant TWO GREAT COMPARISONS.\u00c2\u00a0 Bloomberg was either going to be a non-eccentric and non-charismatic Ross Perot — something akin to referring to somebody as a sort of chinless and edge Jay Leno, or referring to something as a sort of sugar-less preservative-less Twinkie.\u00c2\u00a0 OR… Bloomberg was a once in a century, or century-and-a-half, figure — the new Abraham Lincoln.\u00c2\u00a0 And I will pause and allow you to reflect on that one.<\/p>\n
Now the good folks at UNITY ’08 have no obvious figure to plug into their dream campaign — Bloomberg was always their go-to-guy.\u00c2\u00a0 In reflecting on the purpose of “Unity ’08” and surveying the political landscape for the fabled out of step Republican and the fabled out of step Democrat who would need this platform of support because their parties would never nominate them, might I suggest… a ticket of… Ron Paul \/ Mike Gravel!\u00c2\u00a0 That is sure to galvanize somebody in the American electorate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I see that New York City Michael Bloomberg has decided to forego a presidential race.\u00c2\u00a0 This effectively stops any return of the brief five-minute interval of “Bloomberg Mania”, and its attendant TWO GREAT COMPARISONS.\u00c2\u00a0 Bloomberg was either going to be a non-eccentric and non-charismatic Ross Perot — something akin to referring to somebody as a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}