Good news: Bloomberg will not run and may endorse and independent thinking candidate.

[CK_John]

Editorial will run in tomorrows paper(probably Bloomberg news).

[Thrill]

1. He was only going to run if Hillary got the nomination anyway

[CK_John]

4. I have been posting that he has a deal with Obama for VP, or at least a big piece of the pie. n/t

[Drunken Irishman]

2. I don't get your headline.

Did you mean endorse an independent thinking candidate?

I'm sleepy and I guess my mind can't put this together...haha

[CK_John]

3. Yes, just edited. n/t

[Drunken Irishman]

5. I wonder if he'll endorse Obama?

[DLnyc]

6. When Bloomberg says "independent thinking candidate", my guess is Obama.

Bloomy is really a (very) rich dem who switched to rep to get the mayoralty, as I see it.

Doesn't seem to me he likes the bushies very much at all. So calling McCain, who has cravenly pandered to them neocon nutjobs, independent doesn't seem to fit. I think it will lean much more towards Barack.

[Drunken Irishman]

7. The only other option would be Nader...

[DLnyc]

10. Yeah, I don't think Nader is really Bloomberg's cup of tea.

A pragmatic-minded businessman worth several billion dollars probablyt won't endorse a ideologically fixated faux-populist grandstander, IMHO. (Sorry, just had to get a dig in at Ralphie.)

[speedoo]

8. It's in Thursday's NYT.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3201607

No endorsement now, but if a candidate has ideas that mesh with Bloomberg's thinking, he could endorse and support later.

[Sensitivity]

9. Is there a way for Bloomberg to finance someone elses independent run?

[FrenchieCat]

11. Does that sound like he might go for Hill?

:sarcasm: