Michael Bloomberg has an anti-gun agenda that rivals next to none.

Mr. Bloomberg has long supported every gun regulation possible, even banning off-duty or retired police officers carrying guns near city hall. He is already pushing for tougher gun control in New York state, claiming that otherwise law-abiding New York gun-owners - who already pass all the local, state, and federal gun control regulations - are an important way his city’s criminals obtain guns. Those same motivations are behind the program that he now wants to take nationwide.

In another running kick to the groin, John McCain lavished praise on the one time Democrat, one time Republican, now Independent Mayor of New York:

When asked about the possibility of Bloomberg, an Independent, running as the GOP’s vice presidential candidate, McCain refused to rule it out, saying: “We don’t talk about our vice-presidential possibilities. But he added: “I appreciate Mayor Bloomberg enormously and the great job he’s done as mayor.”

As Newsmax’s Insider Report disclosed last week, a source close to the mayor told an interviewer that after a recent breakfast meeting between McCain and Bloomberg, the mayor was on McCain’s “short list” for the vice presidential slot.

Makes me wonder who else is on the short list. Lincoln Chafee? Olympia Snowe? Robert Byrd?