Mayor Bloomberg says an independent president has more chance at succeeding than a Republican or Democrat.

He has said unequivocally he won’t run in 2012, but during a forum at Harvard University on Monday he endorsed the idea of an independent in the White House.

The Democrat-turned-Republican-turned-independent mayor says an independent would be better at bringing the two parties together on Capitol Hill.

The billionaire mayor toyed with a third-party run in 2008.