As Michael Bloomberg considers stroking his ego and spending his billions on a possible third-party presidential run, a writer for the Washington Post writes that there is plenty to hate about this idea no matter which side of the fence you stand on. Jannell Ross, a WaPo writer, pointed to Bloomberg's pro-abortion stance, his support of amnesty, and his funding of anti-gun groups and initiatives as reasons for conservatives to stay away from a Bloomberg candidacy.

"But there's also plenty to hate if you're more on the liberal side of things," writes Ross:

Bloomberg has also long favored of charter schools and efforts to privatize and contract out all manner of city services. Bloomberg supported measures that required welfare recipients in New York to undergo fingerprinting and drug testing. And during the Bloomberg years in New York, he was also a vocal advocate of Stop and Frisk, the aggressive program of stopping and as the name suggests searching and frisking pedestrians in New York. In 2013, a court ruled the program as it then existed was unconstitutional. And then, after a round of appeals, it forced reforms.

Bloomberg was a long-time Democrat before switching parties to run for the mayor's job in New York City in 2001. Ross points out that while Bloomberg is well known in places like NYC and Washington, DC, he is hardly a well known figure in most of America.

Ross Perot was the last major third-party candidate back in 1992. Perot took 19% of the popular vote to George H.W. Bush's 37% and Bill Clinton's 43%.

Whether Bloomberg runs this time, something he has considered before, may depend on how badly that ego needs stroking and how many billions he really has to lose.