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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Bloomberg was a lifelong Dem who changed party affiliations solely to avoid the NYC Democratic machine.
How anyone sees him an R, especially a maverick R, is beyond me.
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He's fiscally moderate. I dislike his smoking ban stuff because it signals a tendency toward interference in social behaviors, but otherwise, he's been a pretty solid cost-cutter. One could quibble with his initial property tax hike when he took office, but that was necessary. And he did pare down NYC's govt operational costs, which were given to him by Rudy. All in all, I think he's a fine candidate. My only concern is his strong support for public schooling. I think vouchers might be the better answer.
A fiscal moderate beats a fucking socialist like Hillary or Edwards, or knuckledraggers like Huckabee, Tancredo and Brownback and Big Govt Conservatives like Romney any day.
It'd be hard for me to choose between Rudy and Bloomberg. I'd like to smash them together into one person and vote for him/it.
