Mayor Bloomberg For President?

The Washington Post today runs a page one story on Michael Bloomberg's contemplation of a run for the Presidency in '08.

The Post quotes people around the Mayor as saying that he would run neither as a Republican (he's too liberal) or Democrat (the field's too crowded) but as a Ross Perot-like independent.

Not a bad idea. I'm not a New Yorker but the view in these parts (Washington, DC) is that Bloomberg comes just after LaGuardia as the most competent mayor New York has ever had. He could fund his own campaign (no special interest money required). He's good on the issues.

Right now, with exciting figures like Obama and (longshot) Chuck Hagel in the picture, there does not seem to be much need for a Bloomberg candidacy. But what if two quasi pro-war types win the two nominations?

It's just possible voters would cry out for another choice? Why not Bloomberg under that old slogan, "Competency, For a Change."

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MJ Rosenberg

M.J. Rosenberg is the Director of Policy Analysis for Israel Policy Forum (IPF), a position he has held since the spring of 1998.

MJ heads IPF's Washington, D.C. office and writes IPF Friday, a MJ spent eighteen years within the United States government, fourteen on Capitol Hill as an aide to Representatives Jonathan Bingham (D-New York), Edward Feighan (D-Ohio) and Nita Lowey (D-New York) and Senator Carl Levin (D-Michigan). Immediately prior to coming to IPF, he was a political appointee to USAID, where he served as Chief of Staff for Thomas Dine, the head of the Eastern Europe/NIS Bureau of USAID.

From 1982 to 1986, MJ was editor of Near East Report, the American Israel Public Affair Committee's (AIPAC's) biweekly publication on Middle East Policy.

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