Michael Bloomberg is a very rich man who managed to become the mayor of one of the country's biggest cities, despite slightly less personal warmth than an ice cube, because all the other options were worse. That said a lot more about New York City's Democrats than it did about Bloomberg. (The Bill de Blasio era shows that as bad as Bloomberg was, it can and does get much worse.)
Since then he's harbored bizarre ambitions to run for president. This is a burning wish shared by no one except his highly paid political consultants. And yet about the only possible way for Michael Bloomberg to field a successful presidential candidacy is for the alternative to be Osama bin Laden's fresh corpse or a rabid syphilitic skunk.
But apparently he decided that Clinton or Trump might be close enough.
Billionaire Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York, commissioned a poll in December "testing how he would fare against Mr. Trump and Mrs. Clinton, according to two sources close to Mr. Bloomberg," the New York Times reports.
Bloomberg also needed to test how he would fare against Bernie Sanders and a weasel on fire. And if that doesn't work, there's a matchup between Frankenstein and Dracula. Maybe voters would actually choose Bloomberg over two monsters.
Maybe. They are charismatic monsters after all.
