Comments on: What If New York Threw A Party And Nobody Came? http://larison.org/2007/06/20/what-if-new-york-threw-a-party-and-nobody-came/ n. the principle of good order "Observe the strange inversion of all order and sense! Dignity debased; how vilely is the function of a consul prostituted!" ~The Craftsman Wed, 23 May 2012 11:30:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Roach http://larison.org/2007/06/20/what-if-new-york-threw-a-party-and-nobody-came/#comment-7035 Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:38:06 +0000 http://larison.org/2007/06/20/what-if-new-york-threw-a-party-and-nobody-came/#comment-7035 Let's have a reality check here. Bloomberg is Jewish and his foreign policy will be, if nothing else, very pro-Israel. This means continuing to remain involved in and to antagonize people who are basically harmless and useless so long as we're not in their face. This is the heart of our Mideast dilemma . . . that and over-idealistic attempts to democratize the place, that is. In addition, this guy's personality sucks and no one will vote for him outside of NY. Pushy New Yorkers don't realize how annoying they are to the rest of humanity. Let’s have a reality check here. Bloomberg is Jewish and his foreign policy will be, if nothing else, very pro-Israel. This means continuing to remain involved in and to antagonize people who are basically harmless and useless so long as we’re not in their face. This is the heart of our Mideast dilemma . . . that and over-idealistic attempts to democratize the place, that is.

In addition, this guy’s personality sucks and no one will vote for him outside of NY. Pushy New Yorkers don’t realize how annoying they are to the rest of humanity.

]]> by: A.K.B. Cusack http://larison.org/2007/06/20/what-if-new-york-threw-a-party-and-nobody-came/#comment-7032 Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:26:52 +0000 http://larison.org/2007/06/20/what-if-new-york-threw-a-party-and-nobody-came/#comment-7032 It has always somewhat boggled my mind that Mr. Bloomberg thinks he can be president, but then it does seem vaguely possible. He has not been a great mayor, but is nonetheless fairly competent and much better than the alternative of the radical left (don't forget, this place is so nuts we have major politicians who consider Robert Mugabe a hero). And Mr. Bloomberg has, up to this point, not shown any inclination of trying to invade or annex other far-off municipalities citing our obvious obligation to intervene. The ideal presidential candidate who has no foreign policy, or rather whose foreign policy is the lack of a foreign policy and Bloomberg doesn't seem to have one. Nonetheless, it would be exceptionally naive of me to assume he wouldn't develop one. But if Americans are faced with two run-of-the-mill war-mongering candidates, one in cahoots with the radical left and the other desperately hoping to arouse an increasingly unconvinced conservative base, it just might be possible for a somewhat uncontroversial non-party candidate to slip in and make it a proper three-way race. And a serious three-way race could be anyone's guess, since the percentage of votes needed to win a state's electoral votes is much lower. In the Empire State alone, witness James Buckley's successful Conservative Party defeat of both the GOP and Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate way back when, or more recently NYU professor Herb London nearly defeating the GOP gubernatorial candidate for second place in the 1990s (Under New York's bizarre electoral laws, if the Cons had beaten the GOP for second place, they would have made the official opposition of the State, despite not having a single seat in the state legislature). It has always somewhat boggled my mind that Mr. Bloomberg thinks he can be president, but then it does seem vaguely possible. He has not been a great mayor, but is nonetheless fairly competent and much better than the alternative of the radical left (don’t forget, this place is so nuts we have major politicians who consider Robert Mugabe a hero).

And Mr. Bloomberg has, up to this point, not shown any inclination of trying to invade or annex other far-off municipalities citing our obvious obligation to intervene. The ideal presidential candidate who has no foreign policy, or rather whose foreign policy is the lack of a foreign policy and Bloomberg doesn’t seem to have one. Nonetheless, it would be exceptionally naive of me to assume he wouldn’t develop one.

But if Americans are faced with two run-of-the-mill war-mongering candidates, one in cahoots with the radical left and the other desperately hoping to arouse an increasingly unconvinced conservative base, it just might be possible for a somewhat uncontroversial non-party candidate to slip in and make it a proper three-way race. And a serious three-way race could be anyone’s guess, since the percentage of votes needed to win a state’s electoral votes is much lower.

In the Empire State alone, witness James Buckley’s successful Conservative Party defeat of both the GOP and Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate way back when, or more recently NYU professor Herb London nearly defeating the GOP gubernatorial candidate for second place in the 1990s (Under New York’s bizarre electoral laws, if the Cons had beaten the GOP for second place, they would have made the official opposition of the State, despite not having a single seat in the state legislature).

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