Bloomberg isn’t buying farmers (nor does he particularly care about those brainless parasites...) He’s buying politicians and big city voters. He wants to walk into a contested convention and say ‘more Democrats voted for me than anyone else.’ Second ballot he gets all his superdelegates he’s paid for, done.
As for the general; does it matter? Anyone running against Trump is going WAY uphill to begin with, doubly so with all that lovely baggage Bloomberg is carrying.
Early prediction: Mainstream media says that Bloomberg won each debate, though CNN’s citizen’s poll oddly shows a different result.
It works if that pesky electoral college is out of the way.
IOW, he’s buying delegates.
The question is; for who? He does appear to have too much baggage to be a viable candidate in the GE. But with a hoard of delegates under his control, he can wield king-making power at a brokered convention.
Think we’ve heard the last from Romney? Maybe not.