How do you feel about former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's announcement today that he would not mount an independent bid for the U.S. presidency?

Money well saved. Maybe he can be Trump’s Vp.

I think he was right. There was too great a chance he would get Trump elected.

I liked Bloomie but I’m not enough to carry him through.

I think New York is fun to visit, but I doubt I would want to live there.

I am completely unsurprised. Bloomberg is basically the new Mario Cuomo of presidential politics: a New Yorker who is all exploratory committees and no formal announcements. It’s great for media attention, though.

Both Bloomberg and now Romney all rattling their sabers is further proof how out of touch the powers that be are from what really matters to the voters on both sides of the isle. People who support Trump and Sanders don’t want establishment leaders leading our country anymore. It could not be more obvious. The establishment does have the upper hand in that come fall things will heat up in a vicious spend fest of attack ads and us the voters will have to choose between the best of the worst….yeah for us. What a joke.

I’m not surprised, but I’m a bit disappointed.
I would have voted for Bloomberg.

I think he’s right that he might have led the field without emerging as a clear winner, allowing Congress to make the call.
Although…..that might have been amusing. A Republican Congress having to govern with Trump or Cruz at the helm.
Not amusing enough to trash the country for.

I think his fears were valid.

He would probably have gotten my vote.
Now, all I will do is vote against someone.

Usually you only have economically illiterate, American exceptionalism believing, sociopathic, millionaire neoliberals run for President.

It would have been quite a revolutionary change to have an economically illiterate, sociopathic, billionaire, American exceptionalism believing, neoliberal try his luck at the Presidency.

Since I’m a Brit, I look at US politics with a little anxiety. I hold my breath and hope you don’t pick some lunatic who might start a nuclear conflict somewhere. It’s bad enough that you’ve elected mass-murdering sociopaths for most of the last 100 years.

I thought we were toast with G W Bush, but he only destabilised most of the middle-east, resulting in the eventual extra death of over a million people, 5 million refugees, and dozens of factions of psychotic warlords rampaging in the power vacuum left behind after the interventions to spread “freedom” and “democracy”, and fight the “war on terror”. I guess we should be thankful that it only got so bad.

Bloomberg not running? I don’t give a monkey’s uncle about him. He’d be as bad as Obama or Clinton was. However; he’s right to not run. He has no chance and would only help Trump. And though I thought a President Trump would be amusing and entertaining in a way—really, it wouldn’t be. I’m as anxious about a President Trump as I was about President G W Bush.

So, dear America. Please stop electing psychotic, mass-murdering, ignorant lunatics. They affect the rest of the world more than they affect you.

I feel like I told you so.

Smart move! A real American hero type!

I am both unsurprised and uncaring.