NYC Mayor Bloomberg Making Progress in Connecting With the Big Apple

[dazzleman]

I hope he wins, not because I love him, but because the Democrats in New York city are a particularly noxious and deadly strain of a bad disease.

A Democrat would never have the 'nads to keep up the fight against crime, because they have to rely on a constituency that prefers high crime over aggressive policing.

If a Democrat wins, you will start to see crime steadily climb.  That is one thing Bloomberg has done to continue the Giuliani legacy - he has kept the crime rate going down.  For that reason alone, he deserves re-election.

He has also taken on the hopeless job of trying to improve public education in the city.  The best that can be hoped for is minor improvements on the margins, but at least he is willing to try.

[dazzleman]

I hope he wins, not because I love him, but because the Democrats in New York city are a particularly noxious and deadly strain of a bad disease.

A Democrat would never have the 'nads to keep up the fight against crime, because they have to rely on a constituency that prefers high crime over aggressive policing.

If a Democrat wins, you will start to see crime steadily climb.  That is one thing Bloomberg has done to continue the Giuliani legacy - he has kept the crime rate going down.  For that reason alone, he deserves re-election.

He has also taken on the hopeless job of trying to improve public education in the city.  The best that can be hoped for is minor improvements on the margins, but at least he is willing to try.

Bloomberg annoys me so much that I have seriously said that I hope the Democrat beats him. I just really can't stand the guy. However, I remember you telling me in the past that he needs to win because NY Dems are worse (which is probably true). I just hope you're right. I guess I'll favor seeing him re-elected over what the opposition offers but I will, in no way, be happy for Bloomberg.

You have no idea how bad the opposition is.  I don't love Bloomberg either, but I still want him to win.  The alternative is so much worse.  You should hear and see some of the people who want to run against Bloomberg.  They would probably be somewhat equivalent to Street in Philadelphia.

[dazzleman]

Kind of a rock and a hard place situation.

Given the quality of the New York City voters, and their limited reasoning ability, Bloomberg is the absolute best you can hope for, unfortunately.

Giuliani was elected because things were so bad under the Democrats that enough people finally saw that things couldn't continue that way.  Now that Giuliani cleaned things up quite a bit, and Bloomberg has basically maintained that, many people tend to want to slip back to the hare-brained liberal policies that brought them to grief earlier.  They have forgotten how bad the results of those programs were.

People get the government they deserve, and if NYC voters elect somebody like Ferrer or Gifford, then they'll deserve the terrible results they get.  Then you'll see renewed support for secession from the city by Staten Island, which only cooled down when Giuliani was elected.  It was Staten Island that provided Giuliani with his margin of victory in 1993.

[dazzleman]

Given the quality of the New York City voters, and their limited reasoning ability, Bloomberg is the absolute best you can hope for, unfortunately.

Their limited reasoning? WTF? They voted strongly against Bush, which shows that they have a lot more reasoning than most of the country.

You obviously don't know much about New York....