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Mayor Bloomberg's presidential campaign continues its early strategy of Mike swearing up and down that he's not running while his aides and associates provide the press anonymous confirmations that he sure as heck is. The latest gambit: "Personal friends" of the mayor told the Washington Times that he's "prepared to spend an unprecedented $1 billion of his own $5.5 billion personal fortune for a third-party presidential campaign." That's a significant chunk of change and raises the prospect of a three-way race between a cousin-fucking associate of known criminals with an authoritarian streak, a tiny Jew with a Boston accent and a penchant for telling you what you're not allowed to put in your mouth, and a cold, controlling Senator from a liberal Northeastern state (or a semi-liberal Midwestern state, or a semi-conservative Southern state, depending on the day) who, in spite of everything, would be the only candidate still in her first marriage. Oh or maybe the black guy who smokes. He's fun, but we're starting to regret saying all those bad things about Canada.

Bloomberg poised for third-party campaign [Washington Times]
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