New York Mayor couldn't make it here

For those who may be savoring the failure of Mayor Bloomberg's inaptly named IndependenceUSA and the "dark money" Greater Wisconsin Committee to take down David Clarke, Charles C.W. Cooke has a great piece up at National Review Online. Cooke sees Bloomberg as a Captain Ahab. His white whales are many - big sodas, transfats, smoking, elevators, cars in the "wrong" places, unapproved headphones and .. guns. But he won't rest until everyone is just like Mike:

Michael Bloomberg, meanwhile, will remain, like Ahab before him, “tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote,” and resolved to “smite the sun” should it have the temerity to defy him. “For all men tragically great,” Herman Melville wrote, “are made so through a certain morbidness . . . all mortal greatness is but disease.” As of today, Bloomberg’s disease is not yet cured, and it will probably never be cured, for his affliction is to have been granted more money than sense; to have bought into the conceit that the average American hews to the same prejudices and privileges as do the chattering classes of the Upper East Side and of fashionable Brooklyn; and to have considered earnestly that his checkbook and his admonitions could ever have held more appeal to the electorate than the honest Midwestern sheriff in the cowboy hat.

Read the whole thing.

Cross posted at Purple Wisconsin.