(2007-08-21) — With New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg today definitively rejecting a 2008 White House bid, Republican and Democrat presidential hopefuls alike scrambled to woo the unnamed Bloomberg supporter.
Speculation among political pundits had run rampant in recent days as the trans-party politician made public remarks positioning himself first in the middle of the road and then on the shoulder of the road, in apparent preparation for a presidential announcement.
The unnamed Bloomberg supporter said he has not thrown his weight behind any of the existing or potential presidential hopefuls, preferring instead to remain, like Mr. Bloomberg, uncommitted.
A flash poll by Rasmussen shows that the Bloomberg pre-announcement withdrawal has yet to leave a void in the presidential field.
30 responses so far ↓
1 Maggie // Aug 21, 2007 at 3:27 pm
Where are the comments?
2 onlineanalyst // Aug 21, 2007 at 3:28 pm
I’m sure that this phantom supporter of Bloomberg can be found somewhere on the berm with the rest of the roadkill… or wandering the median strip, trying to figure which side of the highway that he favors.
Could this lone maverick Bloomberg supporter do something positive about leading the Ron Paul groupies to a rest stop while he is at it?
3 Fred Sinclair // Aug 21, 2007 at 3:43 pm
Bloomberg won’t run – more importantly Mark Steyn won’t run for President. I’ve got two of Mark’s books – “The Face of the Tiger” and “America Alone” I recommend them highly – He would make a good president, he’s too much like Scrapplers – Scott Ott, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Duncan Hunter and Mike Huckabee; too conservative to be electable. Looks to me like Fred Thompson has the best chance – besides, we need a President named Fred! (Fred means peace) I’m 100% for peace, just as I’m 100% in favor of being willing to fight like hell to get it!
I’d settle the Iran problem for good in just a few days (peaceably)
I would buy 1 million hogs from Swift, Armour, etc. and have all of our B-2 Stealth bombers fitted with crop duster style nozzles – then I’d overfly Iran and spray a million gallons of red paint in a very fine mist all over the cities then I’d notify them that next week I’ll overfly again and the B-2’s tanks will be filled with the liquified hogs so that everywhere they see red paint today – as they try to wipe the paint off of their faces, arms, clothes, cars, sidewalks, etc., next week it’ll be pig grease. That is – unless they destroy their nuclear everythings. and open up for regular inspections by US inspectors.
I’d also tell the three factions in Iraq to get their ’stuff’ together or face the same. Jordan, Syria, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia etc would be advised that we’re fed up with their ’stuff’ and ANY further terrorist attacks will produce the same reaction by America and further remind them that we’ve got a lot of hogs here – to mess with our allies like Israel is same as hitting us and we will bury their country four feet deep in hog entrails.
Heirborn Ranger
4 boberinyetagain // Aug 21, 2007 at 3:43 pm
God bless East Timor!
5 Possumtrot // Aug 21, 2007 at 4:15 pm
Oh, cool! I made it over here with one click of a button! HAL-9000 Mk. II is working again!
I have to put out a bleg [blog beg] for a ride to the proposed Scrapplefest. I have this sorta new van, and can handle the driving school and insurance fees, but the state’s got me hammered flat with the license reinstatement fee. I had too much fun with the Corvette; they’ve classified me a habitual violator, and the fee for rehabilitating my sinful ways is prohibitive.
My health is not the best, and this might be a last chance for an out-of-sight road trip to meet good folks face-to-face. I can come up with a pocketful of gas money, but the state of Georgia has decreed that I ran too far, too fast, for too long.
Maybe Carl Levin can scrounge me a ride. I’m not sure I’d get into a car with Ted Kennedy, however.
I swear, Ranger Fred gets tougher with each passing day. His namesake, the other Fred, is Da Man. We’re just waiting for him to pick the right moment and announce. Don’t believe all that preliminary gossip that he’s “lazy”, either.
6 Possumtrot // Aug 21, 2007 at 4:18 pm
By the way, we’ve been some busy little beavers over at United Possums International the past week.
Now it’s all about watching the lastest hurricane blow past. Be cool, and keep your hackles up and your goose down.
Live from Scorpion Hill…
7 Ms RightWing, Ink // Aug 21, 2007 at 4:22 pm
“The unnamed Bloomberg supporter said he has not thrown his weight behind any of the existing or potential presidential hopefuls.”
Man he must be a BIG boy, but he really shouldn’t throw his weight around like that.
P.S. I saw the singing Alabama toad, but he didn’t sing The National Anthem like the news promised but instead he sang God Bless America. Stupid reporters got me all physched up for nothing.
8 boberinyetagain // Aug 21, 2007 at 4:24 pm
And your cabins lit and your fires warm (to paraphrase the slogan of Yukon Jackâ„¢)
Good to see ya Possum!
9 onlineanalyst // Aug 21, 2007 at 4:48 pm
Possumtrot:
Get yourself up to boberin’s neck of the woods, and he and his missus will transport you, so to speak. The more, the merrier. (Be sure to reserve a campsite ahead of time.)
10 onlineanalyst // Aug 21, 2007 at 4:50 pm
P-trot: Do the above northward-bound via Amtrack.
11 boberinyetagain // Aug 21, 2007 at 4:54 pm
OLA, we’ll be sleeping in the van in that case but, you know what, if possum makes it to Phila, I’ll bring him the rest of the way, Mrs or not. I wouldn’t miss that ride for anything!
Heck, camo can take us all and we could sleep in his van!
12 camojack // Aug 21, 2007 at 5:52 pm
Looks to me like Fred Thompson has the best chance – besides, we need a President named Fred! (Fred means peace) I’m 100% for peace, just as I’m 100% in favor of being willing to fight like hell to get it!
Comment by Fred Sinclair — August 21, 2007 @ 3:43 pm
Works for me!
OLA, we’ll be sleeping in the van in that case but, you know what, if possum makes it to Phila, I’ll bring him the rest of the way, Mrs or not. I wouldn’t miss that ride for anything!
Heck, camo can take us all and we could sleep in his van!
Comment by boberinyetagain — August 21, 2007 @ 4:54 pm
I could, but then, what about the Harley?
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14 JamesonLewis3rd // Aug 21, 2007 at 6:02 pm
I’ll rent a CH-47 for the weekend, pick everybody up, drop them off–door-to-door, even. For entertainment during the ride, passengers will surely enjoy the opportunity (for a nominal fee, of course) to drop leaflets and stuff and play Steppenwolf real loud as the agitated peasants below randomly charge up, down and around the castle-topped hill with flaming torches and freshly-sharpened pitchforks in their hands and Frankenstein’s Monster waves forlornly from a nearby windmill.
15 The Great Santini // Aug 21, 2007 at 6:18 pm
Other than the $$$, Bloomberg has a supporter? Jockeyâ„¢ or Bikeâ„¢?
The “post-partisan” mayor confessed his non-run in an interview with Dan the Rat (see linked article). A fake-but-accurate symbiosis of kindred spirits, I’d say.
16 camojack // Aug 21, 2007 at 6:51 pm
I’ll rent a CH-47 for the weekend, pick everybody up, drop them off–door-to-door, even. For entertainment during the ride, passengers will surely enjoy the opportunity (for a nominal fee, of course) to drop leaflets and stuff and play Steppenwolf real loud as the agitated peasants below randomly charge up, down and around the castle-topped hill with flaming torches and freshly-sharpened pitchforks in their hands and Frankenstein’s Monster waves forlornly from a nearby windmill.
Comment by JamesonLewis3rd — August 21, 2007 @ 6:02 pm
If you do rent a CH-47, chances are good that I worked on it. As for playing Steppenwolf, it goes well with riding my Harley, and there are a couple of their tunes on my MP3 player…
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18 RedPepper // Aug 21, 2007 at 7:02 pm
This is just tragic.
How will the country manage without Mike Bloomberg there to protect them from the evil Tobbaco Lobby (& worse, evil cigarette smokers) and the heinous Trans Fat Lobby (& the greedy fast-food pushers)?
Guess this means our uber-Nanny’s gonna be sHrillary …
19 JamesonLewis3rd // Aug 21, 2007 at 7:28 pm
To the “unnamed Bloomberg supporter”: Your therapist is waiting.
20 SGT USMC 1ea // Aug 21, 2007 at 8:06 pm
I wish I could make Scrapplefest 07. It would be such an honor to meet each of you (even you boberin) I am currently stuck in place until further notice.
21 onlineanalyst // Aug 21, 2007 at 8:26 pm
SGT USMC 1ea: There are many Scrapplefriends, whose fellowship we will not be able to share this go-round. We will miss their presence dearly. BUT we are pioneering the event to begin a tradition so that our camaraderie can be shared on a yearly basis.
The last we had heard (if my memory serves), your wife was facing a health challenge. Are things better now? (We do keep each other in thoughts and prayers, so know that both are wending their way to you.)
22 Darthmeister // Aug 21, 2007 at 9:47 pm
Arctic August: NYC Sets Record For Coldest Day
More evidence of Global Warming
PUBLISHING PRESIDENT: ‘Liberals read more books than conservatives’…
Yeah, more fantasy, Harlequin novels and 9/11 conspiracy books.
Congress Approval Rating Matches Historical Low : 18%…
Democrats are doing a fine job of running the Congress, don’t ya know.
23 da Bunny // Aug 21, 2007 at 10:36 pm
“trans party politician”
Hmmm, sounds kinky.
24 mig // Aug 22, 2007 at 7:25 am
Happy Birthday Maggie!!!
Watch the unnamed source will be Soros, the source of American dissolution, is that even a word?
Where is Miss Spelling?
American dis-Soulution? Now that is a pondering-ism.
I want to come to Scrapplefest! But the hubby is due home for the long weekend. He might get mad if I wasn’t here to meet the plane… I want details! and photos! and a tee shirt!
25 gafisher // Aug 22, 2007 at 7:31 am
Re #22: “PUBLISHING PRESIDENT: ‘Liberals read more books than conservatives’…”
… and they still don’t get it. Reading for Comprehension must’ve died about the time New Math came in.
But — perusing the Bargain Books bins of unsold tomes, one finds about 100 “liberal” books for every solid “conservative” one; maybe Publishing Presidents don’t know their market as well as they think they do …
26 MargeinMI // Aug 22, 2007 at 8:05 am
Rethinking a trek to the Scrapplefest. Apparantly, August has another week I was unaware of until actually looking at my calendar! Is anyone else bringing offspring, of is this looking like an adult weekend?
27 diamond jim // Aug 22, 2007 at 9:30 am
Good. Only 2 more New Yorkers to get out of the race.
28 Darthmeister // Aug 22, 2007 at 12:56 pm
Did you guys know Cheeta the chimp of Tarzan fame is still alive?
I don’t think it was the original Cheeta since the Weismuller Tarzan films were generally lensed in the 1930s so it must be one from the 1940s or 50s. But then Weismuller was in a few of the 1940s Tarzan movies.
29 gafisher // Aug 22, 2007 at 5:49 pm
The Cheeta in question is indeed The Cheeta, now a ripe old 75 years of age but undoubtedly glad to tell all his Chimp buddies about the good old days of his youth.
Cheeta’s newfound career as an ape-stract artist is one of Hollywood’s most touching tales. After the demise of the African Adventure genre (only recently resurrected by one of Cheeta’s great-grandkids, lovable Little Leo), Cheeta worked a string of B-movies, such as “Murders in the Rue Morgue,” after a brief resurgence in a supporting role working with an up-and-coming actor who called him “a role model for my Party.” The actor in question eventually saw the error of his ways and reformed, but Cheeta had been too near the “seat of power” and soon fell into a life of alcohol, drugs and public welfare.
Thankfully, the economic boom of the 1980s awakened the entrepreneurial spirit in Cheeta, and, after spending time in a recovery center, he rediscovered his talents with both voice and brush and has since had a successful career, combining art with public speaking.
He had all but permanently ruined his good name, but slowly, slowly, it is becoming ever more obvious that one can no longer say “Cheetas never prosper.”
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