Does Mayor Michael Bloomberg have a point?

Question

He has broken with the Republican Party.

I'm a lifelong Republican who went independent for a while after the 1964 elections. I agree with most of the stated principles of the GOP. But I am totally disappointed in many of the elected officials in the party. (I am okay with the President, however, even though I don't agree with him on everything.)

Seems about all the Republican Party can do these days is hit me up for donations. I would like to see them deliver on such key issues as national security, immigration, Social Security reform, and a long-overdue overhaul of the income tax system.

Bloomberg may be serving himself above the public, but I just might agree that the GOP just hit the iceberg and is going down fast.

What do you all think?

(I would not align with the Democrats on a bet.)

Answer 1

Dont look at Bloomberg to look for points about the Republicans

Hes been a Democrat, a Republican and now an Independent all in about the same time it took me to write this sentence

Answer 2

Bloomberg switched from Democrat tor Republican only to get elected Mayor of NY because he could not get the Democratic ticket.

You might want to take this into account when making a decision.

He was voted in on Rudy coat-tails, under false pretenses.

Answer 3

I agree with Bloomberg. But I also think that all of our government is corrupt and self serving. I just can't understand why they are aloud to get away with there crimes. I am no lover of the Democrats, But these days it's one crook or the other. We now vote for the lesser of two evils!!!
That to me is very sad!!!

Answer 4

I would only leave the republican party if a more conservative party came along. I'd die before ever voting democrat

Answer 5

The party you remember is the party of Lincoln. These days conservatism has taken on a whole other personna. The Republican party of today has been taken over by hyper-religious zealots and new world order autocrats, bent on imposing their beliefs on the rest of society and, as evidenced in our current foreign policy, the rest of the world as well.

The United States no longer leads the world in so many areas of errosive decline that it would be near impossible to enumerate all of them. As a nation we are failing in: education, agriculture, energy policy, health care, worker's rights, border enforcement, protection of the elderly and infirm, preservation of civil liberties (it's hard to believe a Republican freed the slaves--today they'd be called "secure strategic workforce), state's rights as federalism has become the panacea for our country's ills; we fail at foreign policy, diplomacy, trade agreements, and infrastructural expansion and improvements; we fail to compete in manufacture of durable goods and are told it is good policy to send jobs oversees--and the let the disenfranchised either find new work or be damned; we fail in moral leadership and in setting a civilized tone in our dealings with other nations, resorting to bullying tactics when our self-serving arguments fall on deaf ears; we fail to inspire; we fail to encourage; we fail to appeal to the better nature of mankind and, instead, both create and prey upon an atmosphere of fear, bigotry and hatred that is threatening to bring the entire world to the brink of all-out nuclear war.

We excel in driving the Dow Jones average to higher and higher levels. That's it . . . .

Early critics of Republicanism (including Mr Lincoln himself) predicted that "corporations would be enthroned." Today the Republican party crucifies the American people on Bryan's "Cross of Gold" while privately praying before the glittering alter of Oligarchy and publically sermonizing about Christian and/or Family values. Since when is it Christian to put the interests of giant corporations before those of the American people?

Michael Blumberg is nothing but a big-mouth hyprocrit with a Napolean complex who serves the rich while hoping to appease the rest of us with empty platitudes and hollow principles while he lines his own pockets.

Answer 6

can't argue with that, but instead of packing their things and go i wish people would stay and fight for what they think it's right and try to change the party