Draft Bloomberg Campaign Goes Official

Updated Jan. 16, 2008, 9:16 am -- Despite his investment, Michael Bloomberg's anti-gun survey is being ignored by the presidential candidates.

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Two veteran political consultants from different political parties have joined forces and formed an independent committee to nudge New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg into running for president in 2008.

Wall Street's original bad boy turned mayor, whose single-minded anti-gun agenda resulted in a number of BATFE being compromised (not that I'm defending that group), would seem to make the perfect presidential candidate . . . right?

"Bloomberg had no immediate reaction to the formation of the draft committee. Once a Republican (and before that a Democrat) who has recently become an independent, Bloomberg last week attended a forum in Oklahoma that centered in part on the need for a bipartisan-minded candidate. At that forum, as he has before, he told participants that he was "not a candidate." At the same time, however, he has commissioned a nationwide polling and voter analysis, news reports said, presumably to explore what it would take to mount a successful third party candidacy."

He's not running. Right. Like I predicted before -- either Bloomberg or Ron Paul (or both) will enter as independent candidates.