Mayor Bloomberg has left the GOP:
After some six years as a Republican, the 65-year-old former CEO announced Tuesday that he has left the Republican Party and become unaffiliated in what many believe could be a step toward entering the 2008 race for president.
Bloomberg has fueled those notions with increasing out-of-state travel, greater focus on national issues and repeated criticism of partisan politics, all the while vowing to leave public office at the end of his term in 2009.
This is in no way an indictment of the Republican Party. Bloomberg was a Democrat, but switched to Republican because the Democratic field was too crowded for him. He has been spending a lot of time outside of NYC and has reportedly said he would spend $1,000,000,000 in a third party race to become president. Given his liberal positions, I wager he would pull votes from the Democratic side more than the Republican.
Update:
RightWingNews.com backs me up on this call.
Update:
Bloomberg says he isn’t running:
Tacked onto an announcement about the city’s nuisance hotline, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg told political reporters Wednesday the only way he would run for president is if everyone else dropped dead.
“If everybody in the world was dead and I was the only one alive, yeah, sure,” Bloomberg joked about a 2008 run.
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