Mike Bloomberg will run for president and win in 2016

[jaysunb]

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Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman has a bold prediction for the 2016 presidential race: Media billionaire Mike Bloomberg is going to run for president and win.

Ackman said Bloomberg would make a great candidate because, like Trump, he is a straight-talking successful businessman. And while Ackman said people shouldn’t be voting based on billions, if they are, Bloomberg is the clear winner. Forbes estimates Bloomberg’s net worth at $38.8 billion, or nearly 4 times what Trump says he’s worth, and nearly 10 times what Forbes says Trump is worth.

What’s more, unlike Trump, Bloomberg has actually held public office before, serving three terms as mayor of New York City

http://fortune.com/2015/10/06/bill-ackman-mike-bloomberg-president/

Things that make you go, hmmmm.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. ...

[Human101948]

2. He'll have to pry the ballot from my dead, cold hands...

The guy is a billionaire putz who made his money off a bunch of Wall Street putzes.

[Lizzie Poppet]

19. And my Big Gulp, too!

Fuck Bloomberg...hard and without lube.

[BootinUp]

3. Seems like a poor bet to me

Trying to think of the last President that wasn't from one of the two major parties....

[MADem]

4. Well, he's got Presidential stature....

If he's standing next to James Madison, I guess. But there's a big problem with that thesis:

There’s one large obstacle with Ackman’s presidential prediction: Bloomberg is not actually running for president. But Ackman isn’t alone among powerful businessman in trying to recruit Bloomberg into the race. Rupert Murdoch tweeted in August that it was time for Bloomberg to enter the race. This summer the New York Post reported that a number of prominent New York Democrats dissatisfied with Clinton have tried to recruit Bloomberg for the race. Bloomberg considered a run for president in 2008, but backed off. He has not shown any interest in running in 2016.

[gratuitous]

5. Oh, Mr. Ackman

Care to put a little money on that proposition?

[PoliticAverse]

6. Nope. n/t

[JRLeft]

7. He'd be another candidate who represents the billionaire class.

[Angry Dragon]

8. yes

[JRLeft]

12. The oligarchs want total control.

[brooklynite]

9. Things that make you go zzzzzzz.....

HE wouldn't want the aggravation.

[KamaAina]

10. Or as a friend of Mom's called him, "the tiny fascist".

[still_one]

11. Yeah let's hear from ackman, a trader who loves to drive companies into the ground

He destroyed Mervyn, and would have done the same thing with Target but fortunately they were able to block it

ackman, Ichan, and the other greedy assholes, have screwed a lot of folks. They are useless parasites who do nothing to improve the human catastrophe

[Warren DeMontague]

13. On whose ticket?

Bloomberg is pro-choice. Do these East Coast wall st. Waterheads know who actually votes in GOP primaries?

[frazzled]

15. He's also strongly anti-gun

Two strikes against him to run on a Republican ticket. Ever. And he can't run as a Democrat. I don't like the idea of him running a third-party race, though.

[Kokonoe]

14. TOO Late.

Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman's prediction is too dismissive that billionaires will split their votes boxes.

[Lurks Often]

16. Not a chance, both parties hate Bloomberg

so he would have to run as an independent and while he may have money to burn on an independent campaign, he also lacks the charisma to do well. He comes across as far too arrogant and condescending as well as far too authoritarian for most of the country to vote for him.

[trumad]

17. Thanks that make you go...

[AndreaCG]

18. This New Yorker hates him almost as much as Giuliani

I'm not alone. And people outside NY hate him for his gun stance and "Nanny Mayor" reputation.