So Mike Bloomberg might be positioning for a run. That could give us an all-New-York slate of major presidential candidates in ‘08: Hillary, Rudy, and Mike (sounds like a folk-song group). I explored this very possibility last September in an NRO column (reproduced here from my personal archives to include the correction header). Bottom line:

Speaking personally, if I’m going to be made to eat my greens, I’d prefer it was by a tax-averse, social-libertarian, law’n’order Reaganite with a mild gun-control fetish, than by a socialist-feminist nag with a shady past, or a limousine virtucrat who equates reality, as in ‘Let’s get real,’ with his own opinions. Abortion and gay rights don’t weigh enough to swing my vote. On gun control, I’ll trust the NRA to take care of our Second Amendment rights as capably as they have always done in the past, under administrations of every color. On immigration, I believe that by 2008 the tide will be running so strong for enforcement and restriction that no politician, or Congress, who tries to resist it will be credible with the public. On pretty much everything else, I agree with Rudy. Three New Yorkers? I’ll take the one who was born there.