Posted on 02/17/2020 4:59:46 AM PST by EyesOfTX
As the campaign of Quid Pro Joe Biden collapses under the weight of its own rank dishonesty and a candidate who is clearly impaired, the high muckety-mucks of the Democrat Party and its big money donors are now going all-in on Mini-Mike Bloomberg. They all know that the nomination this July in Milwaukee of The Commie, Bernie Sanders, would spell certain doom for their party in November, as The Commie would not only lose the presidential contest to President Donald Trump, but also ensure massive losses in both houses of congress.
This dynamic is, in part, why you saw Bloomberg launch his “I’m thinking of picking the Pantsuit Princess as my running mate” trial balloon over the weekend. Mr. Excitement and the party leaders want to gauge Democrat voter reaction, hoping against hope that a Bloomberg/Coughing Crook ticket might mollify The Commie’s gang of leftist lunatic supporters and possibly unify the party for the general election.
Hah. Fat chance.
See, these people know they have a gigantic problem on their hands: As things stand today, it is almost inevitable that their convention will produce a nominee who will divide the party’s voter base. The collapse of Biden, the fast fade of Fauxcahontas and the simple non-viability of Preacher Pete for a variety of reasons means that their nominating contest has now boiled down to a contest between a lifelong communist who doesn’t even call himself a Democrat and a former Republican, a billionaire who only bothered to register as a Democrat a few years ago.
It is a contest between a Commie who is raising tens of millions of campaign dollars mainly from small contributions by tens of thousands of leftists nutjobs and an outright oligarch who is attempting to perform a very public leveraged buyout of the entire Democrat Party. Folks, this is not just a contest between liberals and moderates, as your corrupt news media attempts to portray it, it is a contest between two diametrically-opposed world views, all taking place under a single political party’s tent.
How do you unify that? You don’t.
Before we go any further, take a look at this set of projections produced by Nate Silver and 538.com:
Political Polls @PpollingNumbers .@FiveThirtyEight Forecast on early and super Tuesday states ____ has the best chance of winning:
Sanders: Nevada SC California Texas NC Virginia Massachusetts Minnesota Colorado Tennessee Oklahoma Arkansas Utah Maine Vermont
Klobuchar/Sanders: Minnesota
Biden: Alabama
4,641 8:19 PM - Feb 15, 2020 Twitter Ads info and privacy 1,102 people are talking about this Whose name is conspicuously missing from those results? That’s right: No Mini-Mike. The oligarch who has already dumped over $300 million of his own personal fortune into this race is not, according to 538.com, currently the favorite to win a single state on Super Tuesday, the date on which he has supposedly staked his entire effort. Not one. Damn. State.
Making matters even more perilous for those hoping to prevent a full Commie takeover of a Party in which he is not even a member, Mini-Mike is having a hard time getting his polling numbers up to the 15% threshold in those Super Tuesday states that would allow him to start actually being awarded some delegates. He’s getting close in Texas, where his ads have been ubiquitous for three months now, but is mired in the low single digits in California polls taken thus far.
Meanwhile, The Commie continues to surge in the polls, now having moved past Biden even in one South Carolina poll, ending thoughts of Quid Pro Joe’s unassailable firewall in that state.
The reality is that The Commie has all the momentum in this race and that TV and social media advertising can only take you so far, regardless of how many millions you pour into it. At some point, constant TV ads become so annoying that people tune them out and, if the ads continue, become openly hostile to them.
Once Super Tuesday has come and gone, 40% of the delegates in this race will have been awarded, and The Commie will have more of them than anyone else. Biden will end his disastrous campaign, as will Lieawatha. Klobuchar will hang on for awhile longer, but will ultimately run out of money and have to quit the race, probably before the end of March. Buttigieg will take his boutique vanity campaign all the way to the convention, as he will be the only other candidate who will be able to continue to raise enough money to mount a semi-credible effort.
Thus, the nominating contest for the “party of diversity” will boil down to a battle of attrition between three pasty-faced white guys – because of course it will – two of whom aren’t really even Democrats, the third of whom has never held any office higher than mayor of a mid-size college town in Indiana.
The big problem there for the Party is that all three men have very limited ceilings governing their appeal to voters, and the proportional awarding of delegates in these primaries will ensure than none of them will be able to go into the convention having won the majority of delegates needed to prevail on the first ballot. As things stand today, that almost certainly means that Sanders, who will enter the convention having won the most delegates, will see the nomination taken from him on a second ballot in which all the Party’s “Super Delegates” will be able to vote.
And if you think the violence-prone Sanders support base is going to quietly accept that outcome and unify around an oligarch and his Grasping Grifter running mate, boy, do you have another think coming. Milwaukee will become riot central in such a scenario and the Democrat Party will become unalterably divided.
Sanders himself will most likely just end up being bought off again like he was in 2016 – although the price will be higher this time – so no one should count on a third-party effort with him in the lead. But 40% of the Party’s current voter base will be forever disillusioned, and a good portion of them will become permanently disaffected after seeing the nomination once again stolen from their hero.
For Democrat Party leaders and funders, the only currently-viable scenario even worse than that would be for The Commie to get real momentum at his back and win the nomination outright. That would not only result in massive landslide losses in November, but the end of the Party as they have known it. The Democrat Party would, in that scenario. become America’s version of the British Labor Party, a loud collection of preening radical nincompoops who seldom manage to obtain any lever of actual power.
This is where the Democrats are as of today. If you can see any way out for them, let me know.
That is all.
bloomberg hasnt even gotten a single delegate!
WTF
he isnt even ON the ballot in most places
He is a joke.
two non-democrats, tearing apart the democrat party....awesome
Wall Street libs are lining up behind Bloomberg, and when he fails, they will sit this one out methinks
DB is right. Either of them loses huge, but for almost opposite reasons.
Dinobernie will win the delegates to get the nomination. That’s different from him winning the nomination. Remains to be seen if they can steal it from him twice.
He will cause “some” so-called “moderates” (Not sure if that’s five or ten) to vote for Trump or not vote; but he will also cause Wall Street to sit out and blacks to stay home to the tune of 8-10% (on top of the 12-15% of blacks Trump will win outright).
Mini-Mike will cause blacks to stay home, but will also deeply damage the rural vote in MN, IL, PA, MI, VA, NV, CO, and NM. The combo of rural and blacks in VA, NV, NM, and CO may be enough to flip them (250k needed to flip in VA).
Either way, the DemoKKKrat Party will virtually cease to exist after this election at the presidential level. They will still have House and Senate power via CA, NY, MA, etc. But the are going the way of the Whigs.
I have little doubt he will “win” the delegates.
The question is, can they cheat him a second time. Stay tuned. I’m not sure.
How many delegates’ votes does Bloomberg have now?
:D
I’m 66 and can’t remember the last time during a primary season a “front runner” not even being on the primary ballot.
If Bloomberg did a Ross Perot, which party would he damage the most in the general?
Gays seems to hate mini mike with a passion.
Guess they resent him and his money trying to do in Mayor Chete.
As others have said, the 'rats need mini-mike in the race simply for his $$$. They can use him and his political ads to go after President Trump and his supporters.
The 'rats are desperately driving towards a brokered convention. As several articles and blogs have pointed out they really are in a pickle of their own making. What's the expression? Hoist with his own petard?
That would seem to apply here. The 'rats have spent the last several decades perfecting identity politics and generally pitting one demographic against another for their own gain. Those various angry groups have coalesced into a few very vocal mini-bases that have taken their victim status and identity to the extreme and can no-longer countenance even working with each other. In short, the 'rats own strategy has broken their own party.
I believe there is some truth or likelihood to what another poster said here the other day. That is, mini-mike is being used for his money, and as a foil against the commie. Once the DNC power elite achieve their brokered convention they will pick a ticket (note, they will, not the 'rat voters - sorry guys, you didn't realize your elites know what's best for you?).
The DNC's dilemma is finding that ticket. Several of the current 'rat candidates have already started saying a few nice things about other 'rat candidates in obvious try-outs for a VP slot. I think the 'rats will have to come out of the brokered convention with mini-mike at the top of the ticket, screwing over the commie once more. To balance that old-white-money stain they'll pick a more diversity-acceptable VP for him. (you don't really think he gets a say in this, the DNC is trying to hand him the keys to the kingdom, he'll be told to do as he's told).
The 'rats may trot out the current CEO of Clinton Crime Inc. for one more hacking/coughing/stumbling/ludicrous-expression-filled run. However, I think the DNC will calculate that won't work. Sure, CCI has lots of power and a scary tendency to arkancide those that cross it, and she is, as far as anyone knows or cares to inquire not a guy but... There's just too much baggage and the stench of failure (among others no-doubt) about her.
I have no idea who will fill the VP slot on their ticket, but it'll be someone who checks enough diversity boxes and is radical enough to placate the more extreme elements of the party. Perhaps right about now we'll see the decision made and the marching orders go out. It'll be interesting to see what other candidates step up and start seriously auditioning for the VP slot during the remainder of the campaign.
Bloomberg can buy all the votes he needs. Won’t help him against Trump’s tweets, though...unless he can manage to buy Twitter, too. :)
Bloomberg has spent $300,000,000 to get 4,700 votes.
About $64,000 per vote.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries
Completely delusion to think he’s in this race.
It’s Bernie vs. mayor Pete with the Hillary cronies at the DNC plotting a brokered convention.
Will be interesting to see how far the Dems are willing to go to stop Bernie - they have to be feeling a lot of angst these days.
Cheers me up.....bigly.
My tagline says that only slightly differently.
Yes, he is.IOW, Bernie is running a third party campaign within the RAT party. - NonValueAdded
After all, Trump did the same to the Republicans.“Liberals” used to describe themselves as “the Democrat wing of the Democratic Party.” Trump revived the Republican wing of the Republican Party.
If you opened this up as a debate topic...I would suggest three things on Bloomberg as an independent:
1. It’s then assuming that Bernie wins the first ballot at the convention, which will be more clear after Super-Tuesday.
2. In a state by state episode...I can only count three states where Bloomberg could get first place (NJ, NY, and maybe Maryland). The rest would be either Trump or Bernie wins.
3. Bloomberg can’t talk over positions that Warren, Mayor Pete, Bernie, or Joe Biden have taken. He might take an occasional Hillary-like position on things, but he’s mostly pro-regulation, and desiring to not hurt the economy (you can’t have one without the other).
right. Well they pulled it off in California during the midterms. I think this November will be a very different animal.
I know he's dropped about a half billion dollars in campaign commercials already but that seems to be working against him as more and more people see him for the insufferable, pompous, city-slicker stiff that he is.
With Breadline Bernie poised to sweep up delegates through Super Tuesday, building an insurmountable lead for himself, the DNC is going to be forced to pull the "Hillary to the rescue" gambit at the convention.
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I think the historic VP candidate will be "Geraldine" Buttigieg.
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