President Bloomberg?

And will he spend up to $1 billion to get there as an independent?

As this is coming from both Tony Blankley and Mark Green, we can assume that it has some basis in fact.

My New Yorker friends say city residents of all political stripes like the guy a lot. But Blankley gets the last word here:

If it is Rudy and Hillary, and now Bloomberg, we could be looking at a three-way race between three moderately liberal to leftist New Yorkers running for president in a right-of-center country with no even moderately conservative candidate. And should Sen. Obama surprisingly get the Democratic nomination, then we would substitute for the secret leftist publicly centrist Hillary Milhous, a completely inexperienced African-American possibly former Muslim, partially Indonesian-raised, Harvard-trained Kennedyesque candidate.

Thanks to Metaphysically Fit!