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Let the Bloomberg VP speculation begin again

James Forsyth

Thursday, 10th April 2008

The other week, Mike Bloomberg’s warm introduction of Barack Obama sparked all sorts of chatter about whether or not Obama might ask the Democrat turned Republican turned Independent mayor of New York to be his VP. Today, Bloomberg is the warm-up act for John McCain at an event in Brooklyn and we can expect everyone to start chattering again.

It is even more unlikely that McCain would pick Bloomberg than Obama. The right would have an absolute fit if McCain picked the socially liberal Bloomberg. But McCain must be at least a little bit tempted by the fact that the billionaire Bloomberg could finance the ticket, making up for Obama’s huge fundraising advantage.

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Manfredo Felice

April 10th, 2008 9:23pm

Bloomberg's social "liberalism" (read: leftism) is only a part of the reason he is unacceptable to the GOP. More significant is that he is a pathological regulator, both economically and socially. In fact he is hardly "liberal" in the broad sense--he has no problem at all calling for strict government controls on behavior he dislikes, such as smoking or gun ownership. His tolerance extends only to those activities he himself does not find objectionable, such as homosexuality and abortion.