Where Have You Been, Michael Bloomberg?

A nation turns its lonely eyes to you -- or not

Candidates come, candidates go. Just when you lose a few, another one shows up. A few weeks ago, as various congressmen, senators and a self-help guru were falling by the wayside, the new guy was Deval Patrick, the former governor of Massachusetts and lately of Bain Capital who (it was said, at Barack Obama’s urging) became the unwanted fifth wheel in t…