BROKEBACK BLOOMBERG AND BUSH? Democratic mayoral candidate Fernando "Freddy" Ferrer's website now features a JibJab-style satirical commercial depicting Mike Bloomberg riding a donkey with George Bush, hugging, kissing, stroking, and passing money along to the Chief Executive Schlub. Sexual innuendo aside, the jist of the ad seems to be that Mayor Moneybags really, truly is a Republican. As the narrator says, "Mike Bloomberg made the largest contribution in the history of the Republican Party: $7,000,000."
I've been wondering why Bigbucks Bloomberg chose to run as a Republican in the first place...and, in vying for re-election, in the second place. How "moderate" is a mayor associated with a prevailing political party that is led — not "influenced" — by elitist, conniving zealots? Why hasn't the wealthy and popular Bloomberg distanced himself more from the power-crazed extremists? If he's really a moderate, couldn't he have bought his way into office without going along with those Republicans?
More than ever, voters concerned about the nation's tilt toward extremism should be reluctant to strengthen the Republican Party by supporting even its "moderate" candidates, especially those who — like Bloomberg — seem to be "along for the ride."
And here's what JibJab is up to nowadays.
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He ran as a Republican because the Democratic machine in this city is hopeless. He knew there was no way he'd get the nomination, because he didn't spend the last 30 years being a party hack. I do wish he'd run as a third-party candidate, but I can't fault him for doing it the way he did. And this is coming from someone who despised him in 2001 and has been really won over. Now that the stadium deal is dead, I am free to like him unreservedly, and he has truly grown on me. It's so refreshing to have a mayor who not only gets things done but is a mellow guy who enjoys minding his own business (which was one of the things that made it impossible for me to like Giuliani, no matter how good his results).
The thing I found most telling about this ad? It had to be animation because there's no other way to get Bush and Bloomberg into the same frame:
"There's not tons of footage of Bush and Bloomberg together, so how else would you dramatize their relationship?" said Jonathan Prince, its creator.
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