January 1, 2008 (LPAC)--New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg's featured participation next Sunday at a University of Oklahoma meeting of active and retired politicians "against partisanship" and "for national unity," has given a big boost to his rumored forthcoming third-party Presidential campaign. That Oklahoma meeting will be hosted by former Oklahoma Democratic Senator Dave Boren, and will also feature former Democratic Senators Dixon (IL), Graham (FL), Hart (AZ), Nunn (GA), and Robb (VA), and as well as former Republican Senators Brock (TN), Cohen (ME), and Danforth (MO), and current Republican Senator Hagel of Nebraska. Also weighing in will be former Iowa GOP Congressman Leach, Susan Eisenhower (the late President's granddaughter), David Abshire, president of the Center for the Study of the Presidency, and others.

Already, the prospective Oklahoma meeting has called forth an endorsement of a Bloomberg candidacy by Rupert Murdoch's New York Post, and a New York Times webpage with a collection of its Bloomberg coverage going back to 1995.

Boren's letter calling the meeting says, "today, we are a house divided. We believe that the next President must be able to call for a unity of effort by choosing the best talent available -- without regard for political party -- to help lead our nation.... Electing a president based solely on the platform or promises of one party is not adequate for this time. Until you end the polarization and have bipartisanship, nothing else matters, because one party will simply block the other from acting." He said the nation needs a "government of national unity."

Lyndon LaRouche said, "These people are just absolute moral failures! This is idiocy! But idiots get into this; they get into one of these smarmy-mommy kinds of things. They're all going to rub bellies together, all good and happy; we're all good people; we're all coming to the help of our country; we're just trying to get out from under all this crazy dissent here, come to a movement of national reconciliation, like the Nazi Party. It's disgusting! It's like Hermann Goering holding a reconciliation party."

On a New York Post report from an unnamed "insider," that Bloomberg will run if Hillary is not a nominee, LaRouche responded, "I predict she will run. No, she will run! No question about it. There are other factors beyond this so-called polls dynamic, which will be decisive here. Some of us are out to save the country, not this bullshit. This is like the new Alf Landon campaign. The Bloomberg campaign will probably turn out to be a heavily-financed Alf Landon campaign,-- an entertaining, popular flop! You're going to have two candidates, Flip and Flop!"

Landon challenged Roosevelt in 1936, but carried only two states.