Submitted by Bernie Quigley, Mar 29, 2007 08:39

Bill Clinton is far too vain to be Mayor of NY and the Yankee hat has never fit. (What's the matter with Jimmy Breslin, Pete Hamill or Nora Ephron?) Bill sees himself in a much larger container (Leviathan, maybe). But Mayor Bloomberg is clever enough to recognize that comparing Mayor of NY to President as equal management tasks doesn't promote Bill to Mayor so much as it promotes Bloomberg to POTUS. Nevertheless, he might be on the right track. Both parties are moribund; like the Whigs in the mid-1800s, reaching their last days perhaps; sending third-tier movie actors, preacher politicians, absentee Senators and kin of former Executives up to a primary season which promises to match American Idol. With a Trickster like Bill Weld as VP and Arnold Schwarzenegger as Sec. of State, Bloomberg would have a nice package. Giuliani is sent forward today by a deep need in the American psyche to restore New York to its primacy after 9/11 and nothing else. Bloomberg would do that as well but is a more attractive manager.

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