If Bloomberg is what you consider to be fairly centrist then this country's political center has moved far to the left. Being a corporatist does not make him a centrist. His record is very much left wing.
Really? So balancing a budget and being pro-business is "very left wing"? You haven't said anything that isn't subjective to your own bias. Another person could just as easily claim that Bloomberg is right wing and say "being pro-choice doesn't make him a centrist."
Bloomberg was a lifelong Democrat before he ran for mayor and he only switched to the Republican Party to avoid an eight person primary on the Dem side.
Yeah, and Strom Thurmond was a Democrat until they decided to support the Civil Rights Act, which made him decide that red was his favorite color.
Are you trying to say a person cannot be a centrist if they are, or once were, a Democrat? Because that's pretty ridiculous. There are centrists on both sides. If
you can't realize that, then
your perspective has migrated your own concept of the center far too much to the right.
If there is not a majority then it means the electorate was not decisive on anybody. It makes no sense in that scenario for a Republican or Democratic Congressman to vote to select someone outside of their party.
That's nice. But it has nothing to do with this. Individual Congresspersons will not be voting.
The grassroots would obliterate them at their next election with primary challengers.
Now you're contradicting yourself. How/why would the "grassroots" obliterate bipartisan state delegations over a selection on something where, according to your own words, the people at large were not decisive about?
I'm not sure where you are getting the idea that 80% of the population would be keen on an independent candidate who has a far left record on social issues, a very authoritarian record on personal issues, and is also a major gun grabber (that issue alone will destroy him).
Because the truth of the matter is that that describes the average American at the moment. And even where many people, such as myself, disagree with him on certain things, these are at best minor and low priority matters on the federal level. If my choice is otherwise between Sanders and Trump, you're damn right I'd take Bloomberg. He might have been a "gun grabber" in New York, but it's simply not possible for him to do that as President. And despite all the saber rattling on both sides of the aisle by morons, a reasonable person like myself knows that petty bickering over the extent of gun control laws, or the particulars about how to do it is small potatoes in comparison to Donald "ban the Muslims" Trump and Bernie "free shit for everyone and no idea how to pay for it" Sanders.
Trump and Sanders are extremists. Ex-*******-stremists! Truth is that even if Bloomberg is a leftists, he's still centrist as **** when slapped between those two morons.
Trump and Sanders are lining up huge crowds of people. Yes, people will defect to Bloomberg from both sides. Your limousine liberals in both parties with the big money will get behind Bloomberg, but the grassroots of each party will stick with their guy.
The "grassroots" of a party is next to nothing in a general election. General elections are won by rational people in the middle, with most of them holding their noses most of the time when they vote.
Bloomberg might win a couple of states, but for the most part I don't see him winning enough electoral votes to deprive either Sanders or Trump of the 270 votes needed to win. I think he'll get a lot of second place finishes and likely pull more from Sanders than Trump throwing some traditional blue states in Trump's direction, much like Perot did with Clinton, only throwing some red ones to blue.
You really, actually, think that Trump would win any but the hardest of masturbatory deep red states? Trump would drive alot of otherwise committed Republicans away. One thing I know for certain is that there's absolutely no way in Hell I vote for Trump. Never. Ever. Period. I'd vote for Clinton before I vote for Trump, and I hate that *****. And I'd hate voting for her, but I'd be all to happy to take her over Trump. And that is exactly why Bloomberg would be a welcomed independent candidate. Because Bloomberg isn't the kind of person most reasonably minded Americans, regardless of political affiliation, will hate. I may disagree with him on alot of things, but I also know that he has the ability to do a decent job. Better than Trump, better than Cruz, better than Clinton, and better than Sanders.