Ventura / Bloomberg 2012?

[IrishCanadian25]

A few months ago, New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg thres some of his fortune behind a marketing research project to discover the national viability if a third party candidacy for President. Take a look at this excerpt from Wikipedia about Mike Bloomberg and 2008:

Unity08
There had been talk of drafting Bloomberg to run as a presidential candidate on the Unity08 ticket. On January 10, 2008, the organization released a statement announcing that two of its co-founders, Doug Bailey and Gerald Rafshoon, were leaving Unity08 and launching a national draft movement to entice Bloomberg to run as an independent candidate.[70]


Possible Vice Presidential campaign
While Bloomberg has stated that he will not run for president of the United States, there is some speculation that he would be a candidate for the vice presidency. In a blog posting of June 21, 2007, The Politico's Ben Smith asks the question of whether a VP candidate can self-finance an entire presidential ticket.[71] Many believe that Bloomberg would in fact be legally permitted to self-finance a campaign as the VP candidate.

Adding more fuel to the speculation that Bloomberg might consider a VP slot are a series of meetings he had in mid-August 2007 with former Georgia Senator Sam Nunn, a Democrat who had considered running as an Independent, and later with Barack Obama on 30 November 2007.

While it remains to be seen if this happens or not, it also begs the question - Jesse Ventura recently had a falling out with the Republican Party, and has been approached about a presidential run. So, would a ticket of Jesse Ventura and Mike Bloomberg entice you in 2012?

 

[klunderbunker]

I could be enticed by it but would more than likely be one of the very few. Whoever wins this year, they will be very difficult to defeat in a re-election year. If McCain wins, Hilary will be waiting to try to get into the White House in 2012. Ventura is a proven politician as is Bloomberg, but never on a large stage like a national election. I'd definitely listen to what they had to say though.