Memo To Michael Bloomberg
June 21st, 2007
Dear Mike,
In the wake of your highly publicized leave-taking from the G.O.P., the media has had a field day speculating if this is step one in an eventual Bloomberg independent presidential campaign. You have said you don’t intend to run for president, however, we all recall that Senator Obama once made a similar pledge. In case you do feel the temptation, allow me to present a better alternative.
In the first place, despite your immese wealth, as a stand-alone candidate absent a grass-roots political party, you stand no chance at winning. Being a numbers man, you can do the math. Mr. Ross Perot discovered this to his cost, despite enormous allocations of his own personal wealth. I also don’t think you would be serving democracy or providing better answers to the nation’s problems by spending hundreds of millions of dollars just to be a spoiler. Despite the media suggestions that you would be more likely to hurt Hillary Clinton than a Republican challenger if you ran, I believe the opposite is true. The Perot campaign of 1992 clearly swung the election in favor of Bill Clinton. Being a spoiler that aids in electing a second Clinton administration would make you a curious footnote in American history, and I think you are too serious a man for such marginality.
I have a better suggestion. Use your resources and stature to help create an Internet-based third party that would function as a non-ideological executive search committee, seeking the most qualified non-politician candidate for president. After all, if your company wants to fill a senior executive position, you look for the most capable person, and ignore someone who just spends a lot of money on advertising to convince you to hire them, as will be the case with Hillary Clinton and her peers in 2008. Read my book, “Hillary Clinton Nude,” which offers details on what I see as the only hope of preventing the election of either another Clinton or a Republican equivalent. I think you may find the ideas proposed in the final chapter of “Hillary Clinton Nude” of compelling interest.
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2 Comments Add your own
1. Joey | June 21st, 2007 at 10:22 pm
Sounds like an interesting concept. I hope Bloomberg considers it.
2. Toni | June 23rd, 2007 at 2:26 pm
Mike, don’t do it!
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