Speculation is running rampant about whether New York's Mayor Bloomberg will enter the presidential race as an independent, so it makes me wonder which side of the political spectrum will he impact?  When he says things like he is saying here, it makes one muse as to which side he's on???  Maybe that is the point he's trying to make?

"Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg continued to stay mum this morning on his own political aspirations, but continued to assert that the leading candidates for president had failed to be specific enough in their proposed solutions for the nation’s problems. Mr. Bloomberg spoke about a University of Oklahoma conference he plans to attend this weekend, at which participants expect to call for the candidates to renounce what the mayor called “partisan bickering.”

In his weekly radio call-in program on WABC-AM, Mr. Bloomberg was asked by John Gambling, the host, for a response to the results in Iowa.

In his answer, the mayor did not mention by name either Barack Obama, who won the Democratic caucuses, or Mike Huckabee, who won on the Republican side. Mr. Bloomberg said:

It’s the beginning of a long process. I have no idea who’s going to I win. I’m not in the business of handicapping, but I think it shows that democracy is alive and well in America, that you have a diversity of candidates from different backgrounds and different views, and I would just like to get them to address the important issues with more specificity of what they’d actually do to solve the problem of who’s going to pay for health care, and what are we going to do overseas, and how are we going to keep our economy — which seems to be slowing down — how we’re going to get that going again, and how we’re going to make sure that everybody shares and that the tax burden is fairly distributed."

Sounds pretty independent to me, how about you?  There are different versions here, and here, but the question remaining is still: Which side will be impacted the most if Michael decides to enter the fray?

My best guess is that Republicans will gain votes from this for many reasons, first and foremost is gun control;

"Mayor Bloomberg wants to take New York City's gun control regulations nationwide. At his swearing in ceremony earlier this month, Mr. Bloomberg announced his top priority for the next four years: a nationwide fight across America for more gun control, from Washington, D.C., to individual statehouses."

That's just a start; how about his record as a smoking nazi?  All I can say is, "GO Michael"...."Get'em Bloomberg"!  D'yall remember Ross Perot?  Maybe I'm just looking for payback.