Reply #131: I know that, but that's probably no worse than a Kucinich/Paul combination that was considered

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that had a more progressive Democrat matched up with a Libertarian.

I'm no big Bloomberg fan, but perhaps he has the resources to start an independent campaign that others might not, and if he wants to have a realistic chance of not just splitting the Republican vote, he should probably consider a VP selection like Sanders (if they could come to terms to work together) to get more than those votes, and with someone like Hillary running, he might just be able to siphon off that, if he doesn't come across as a "traditional corporatist", but a businessman that's willing to yield power to run the government back to the people rather than to the corporatist lobbyists. As a businessman doing this (if he can bring himself to do this), he might be able to get a broader cross section of support from those who still want capitalism, but REGULATED capitalism as Thom Hartman puts it rather than free market capitalism that corporatists want that has given us the disaster we have now in place in Washington.