Former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg considering independent presidential bid
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The consensus seems to be that if it comes down to a Clinton/Trump/Bloomberg race, Trump wins. Not by the landslide that Hillary most likely would come away with if Trump were not the GOP nominee and ran as an Independent. If that were to happen, there wouldn't even be any sense in having a vote. They could just crown her now.

......He would represent evangelical Christian conservatives. Trump has many social conservative voters in Iowa drinking his cool-aid, he might be a fiscal conservative, I have my doubts even on that, but he's most certainly not a social conservative.

Look at it this way. Trump would proly take NY state!

he's only considering it if it becomes a Trump vs. Sanders race. If so Trump wins, IMHO.

The social conservatives are well represented by Cruz, Huckabee and Santorum. The bottom line, for them, is to vote for anyone with the best prospect of beating the Democrat. If that's Trump, they will hold their noses, rationalized all over the place, struggle with the cognitive /dissonance, and vote for him.

...up to his neck in the Jack Abramoff scandal and still had the balls to try and run for Lt. Gov. in Georgia.  He got his ass handed to him in the Republlcan primary and laid low for a few years.  Now he's back to scamming the thumpers.

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Ralph Reed would be unlikely to move the needle enough to matter and even if he could, he would know he was helping the Dems, so he would have no motivation to do so.

I actually think Cruz wins Iowa and Trump comes in a close second. The next question is how Trump reacts to his loss in Iowa, will he decide to call it quits or carry on to fight another day in New Hampshire. Much depends on how well Trump is polling in New Hampshire a few days after the Iowa caucus. If his poll numbers drop precipitously after Iowa, Trump will drop out of the race immediately, this scenario fits his modus operandi perfectly, he hates to be seen as a loser. At that point the real nomination contest begins. The Republican establishment will try to force the low polling "establishment candidates" to depart the race, but I doubt any will listen. They all probably feel they have an equal shot at winning the nomination. Stay tuned folks

No way in hell does Trump drop out as the front runner. THAT would make him look like a loser.  

SCARY thought! Perhaps all this attention is getting to him. I'm now beginning to have serious doubts, this does not look like an individual mentally fit to be POTUS. I could probably say the same for Carson, Cruz, Huckabee, Rand Paul and Bernie Sander's. There has to be better way to pick our Presidents don't you think?

Recent news with Iowa gov and Palin helps Trump in that caucus and I think he is very likely now to win Iowa.

......I'm not so sure all Trump's Iowa supporters are motivated enough to leave home and caucus for 2+ hours in bad weather. Cruz supporters are highly motivated crazies and will go out and caucus come hell or high water. It will be close, but I think Cruz wins Iowa.

Something along the lines of "The only way I could lose is to be caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy"  

Bloomberg with all his billions and name recognition, plus actually having been elected to something, could have an actual impact on the election. This douchebag wouldn't have any more effect than if nuguy decided to throw his hat in the ring too.

Don't count out the mega popular Democratic Socialist. Hills ain't been coronated yet!

and fortunately there are only so many people quite that stupid as to be voting for him for anything, even down there with the inbreds.

Assuming for the moment they both win the nomination, I believe the Republican establishment will bite the bullet and support him even though they know they have no real control over him, Trump is first and foremost a businessman and they will bet that he won't do anything to fuck up "business as usual" too badly.  

He's talking about what others say about him.