Bloomberg vs. Thompson – What a choice!
Next Tuesday (the 3rd of November) many New Yorkers will be going to the polls to cast their vote in the NYC mayoral race. I will not be one of them! Instead, I will be home doing something much more important – like cleaning my cat’s litter box.
The race between Liberal Democrat Bill Thompson and phony Independent Michael Bloomberg is like comparing an orange to a tangerine; when it comes down to it, they’re pretty much the same. Thompson, who is currently the New York City Comptroller, is a life-long government employee who has held a slew of positions as a bureaucrat and an elected official. Michael Bloomberg is the incumbent two term mayor who believes that he’s so important to New York that he worked to overturn the city’s term-limit laws so that he could run for a third term. Bloomberg, the billionaire founder of Bloomberg L.P., is a true limousine liberal elitist who is obsessed with sticking his snozola into every aspect of the lives of New York residents.
If people cast their ballots based solely on persona, they would probably vote for Thompson, who actually seems like a pretty decent guy. Bloomberg, on the other hand, has a personality that can best be described as Edward Scissorhands running his fingers down a chalkboard. Ideologically they’re both very liberal albeit in a slightly different manner. Thompson is your typical big city tax and spend Democrat who’s in bed with every major union and municipal special-interest group. Bloomberg is slightly better on economic issues, but he’s an irrational environmental wacko and a true enemy of the second amendment. He’s also a Statist who believes that elites like himself need to save dummies like us from ourselves.
In the latest Quinnipiac Poll, Bloomberg leads Thompson by 18 points so it looks like Tuesday, November 3rd will be just a formality as far as electing the next mayor of NYC. Either way, Liberals will continue to run our once-great city into the ground. More and more “wealthy” people will be leaving the city (and state) along with hundreds and perhaps thousands of businesses. At this rate, I don’t know who will be around to pay the taxes to fund all of the outrageous social spending that most of the citizens of this city have grown accustomed to.
But then again; Obama is in office, so there’s always the possibility of a federal bail-out where the rest of you suckers will wind up paying for our welfare state. After all, like GM and Chrysler, New York is too big to fail!
As a New Yorker, I’ve grown accustomed to not having much of a choice on Election Day. Like the rest of the sane people in this great country, I’ll have to set my sights on 2010 and hope the pathetic Republican Party of New York can field a credible candidate to run against our hapless Governor, David Paterson. As for next Tuesday’s election – you can count me out!
