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This is not Bruno’s first rodeo, and it shows.

The 46-year-old textbook salesman at Tulane University and part-time comedian may be the most polished of all in front of the camera. Some of his quotes have been more memorable than those uttered by the front-line candidates.

Who can forget this gem from the first televised mayoral debate?

“All the great leaders are gone,” Bruno said. “Gandhi is gone. Kennedy is gone, Martin Luther King is gone. And I’m not feeling really well myself right now.”

Or his plan to put “hostesses” from Bourbon Street in City Hall to make it more customer-friendly? Or his promise to make his first act as mayor the firing of all overweight police officers?

Or this one, from an interview on WWL-TV: “The reason I want to be mayor is I love to travel, and I hear that’s a big thing now with the mayor,” he said, alluding to Mayor Ray Nagin’s well-documented travel itinerary.

Bruno’s run is all about fun. He got some musician friends to cut a CD called “Manny for Mayor.”

Bruno first ran for mayor in 2002, when he called himself “a troubled man for troubled times.” He tried again in 2006 and got exactly 100 votes, fewer than half the number he received four years earlier. But this time, he says he feels his numbers growing.

“The third time’s the charm,” he said.

His platform is ill-defined, but he’s pretty forceful about bringing Amish volunteers to the city in large numbers to help fight blight. He said they’re the only ones who can build houses fast enough.

“The Amish is the only solution,” he said.

He also said he is against ever again having a locally elected board run the public schools.

As he did four years ago, he advocates legalizing drugs, saying it would lessen crime and raise much-needed tax revenues. When asked in a candidate questionnaire if he’s ever bought or sold illegal drugs, he answered, “Who hasn’t?”

Some people just naturally win at life.  “Who hasn’t?” FTW