BLOOMBERG FOR PRESIDENT?

BLOOMBERG AN INDEPENDENT?

New York mayor Mike Bloomberg has been a Democrat and a Republican, and now he announces he is an Independent. Can’t the guy make up his mind? He went to California to make his announcement. Why couldn’t he have declared his change of party back in old New York? People naturally began to speculate that the mayor is planning to run for the presidency. With only 47 people running for that office now, there seems to be plenty of room for another candidate. When reporters asked him if he was going to for that high office, he said he plans to serve out his term as mayor of New York City. What about Bloomberg and California governor Arnold Schwartzenegger running together at the head of an Independent Party? Bloomberg answered that he “had no plans” to run. Yeah, right.

As expected, pundits around the country began to talk about a Perrin/Bloomberg ticket. Reporters went to Perrin for President headquarters to ask the candidate if he would consider running as a vice presidential candidate in an Independent Party. Perrin was having his afternoon nap, so he could not be interrupted to talk to the press. However, a spokesperson said that Perrin is a life-long Democrat. Unlike Bloomberg, who changes parties as often as some people change their socks, Perrin is not going to shift parties for some kind of political opportunity. Further, he is a candidate for the presidency, and he will not consider running as vice president. Anyway, why should he even think about running as an Independent? He is sure to win the Democratic nomination.

IS PERRIN TOO MUCH OF A GOOD-TIME GUY TO BE PRESIDENT?

Although Dr. Carl Perrin obviously is highly qualified to be President of the United States, questions about his personal life keep popping up. In the picture above he is shown whooping it up in a restaurant with a bunch of friends. Perrin insists that it was a business meeting, but his story about what kind of business keeps changing, and we can’t help but wonder if he was up to monkey business.

Recently a picture of Perrin with his arm around an unidentified woman came to light. (See May 24 blog.) Perrin insists that she was just a friend who used to get him a baked chicken from Costco every few weeks. You can believe that if you want to. Then another picture came out of the past. This one shows Perrin in his reserve officer’s uniform back in the ‘70s. In this picture a person named
“Natasha” has an arm around a smiling Perrin. (See May 25 blog.) “Nastasha” is wearing a dress. Perrin contends that he never noticed that Natasha also had a mustache.

Now this latest picture shows the candidate at a wild party. We can’t help wonder who the dark-haired beauty sitting opposite him is. And where was Perrin’s wife Janet when the picture was taken?

We admire Dr. Perrin for his many accomplishments, but we can’t help wonder if he has the moral character for the job to which he aspires. We don’t need another Monica Lewinski scandal in the Democratic Party.