Bipartisan Group Eyes Independent Bid (Bloomberg, Nunn, Boren, Graham, Hagel, Danforth, Whitman)

[Perky]

Bipartisan Group Eyes Independent Bid
First, Main Candidates Urged To Plan 'Unity' Government

By David S. Broder
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, December 30, 2007; A04



New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, a potential independent candidate for president, has scheduled a meeting next week with a dozen leading Democrats and Republicans, who will join him in challenging the major-party contenders to spell out their plans for forming a "government of national unity" to end the gridlock in Washington.

Those who will be at the Jan. 7 session at the University of Oklahoma say that if the likely nominees of the two parties do not pledge to "go beyond tokenism" in building an administration that seeks national consensus, they will be prepared to back Bloomberg or someone else in a third-party campaign for president.

Conveners of the meeting include such prominent Democrats as former senators Sam Nunn (Ga.), Charles S. Robb (Va.) and David L. Boren (Okla.), and former presidential candidate Gary Hart. Republican organizers include Sen. Chuck Hagel (Neb.), former party chairman Bill Brock, former senator John Danforth (Mo.) and former New Jersey governor Christine Todd Whitman.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/29/AR2007122901476_pf.html

[gateley]

1. My sense of this is that such a party/ticket might garner votes from the Reps

who aren't happy with any of their candidates. Maybe even from some Dems, too.

What do you guys think?

[catnhatnh]

2. I think every Bi-partisan group should contain....

at least one ex-bush shill who delibrately lied (in this case about air quality) and caused the needless deaths of American citizens, because after all, if not, who will represent that constituencies interests???

[Kucinich4America]

3. Sam Nunn? Who the Hell is that old DINO fossil going to run with?

He and Fred Phelps would be a likely pair.