Posted on 01/04/2019 9:40:52 AM PST by Zhang Fei
There is considerable skepticism among Democratic leaders, and even some of Mr. Bloomberg’s close allies, that he will actually pursue the presidency, because he has entertained the idea fruitlessly several times before, and shown little appetite for the rough-and-tumble tactics of traditional partisan politics. A campaign would require him to yield his imperial stature as a donor and philanthropist, and enter a tumultuous political and cultural climate that could make him a highly incongruous candidate for the Democratic nomination.
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In the interview Friday — his first extended comments on his thinking about a 2020 presidential run — Mr. Bloomberg expressed stubbornly contrary views on those fronts. He criticized liberal Democrats’ attitude toward big business, endorsing certain financial regulations but singling out a proposal by Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts to break up Wall Street banks as wrongheaded. He also defended his mayoral administration’s policy of stopping people on the street to search them for guns, a police tactic that predominantly affected black and Latino men, as a necessary expedient against crime.
And while Mr. Bloomberg expressed concern about allegations of sexual misconduct that have arisen in the last year, he also voiced doubt about some of them and said only a court could determine their veracity.
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Bloomberg spent $100,000,000 buying support from Dems running in 2018. He expects a return on that money.
Bloomberg is a big supporter of charter schools...Teacher’s unions don’t like charter schools...He gave money to Marshall Tuck, the guy who lost in the CA race for state education secretary job...Unions supported Tuck’s opponent...
Will Bloomberg apologize to teacher’s unions for supporting charter schools?
His Stop and Frisk advocacy will be his Achilles’ Heel.
Exactly. If anyone is going to run as an Ind. just to be a spoiler (bankrolled by open borders globalists) it'll be someone like Ryan or Kasich.
[Let’s go down the first four primary/caucus states. He doesn’t have the Iowa ‘friendly’ nature required. No win there. NH? NO, that’s pretty much guaranteed for Warren. South Carolina? No...southerners won’t be attracted to the guy? Nevada? Maybe. That doesn’t sit well for him to invest big money and only have one single primary from the four.]
[Bloomberg spent $100,000,000 buying support from Dems running in 2018. He expects a return on that money.]
He criticized liberal Democrats’ attitude toward big business, endorsing certain financial regulations but singling out a proposal by Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts to break up Wall Street banks as wrongheaded. He also defended his mayoral administration’s policy of stopping people on the street to search them for guns, a police tactic that predominantly affected black and Latino men, as a necessary expedient against crime. And while Mr. Bloomberg expressed concern about allegations of sexual misconduct that have arisen in the last year, he also voiced doubt about some of them and said only a court could determine their veracity.
Bloomberg would be a perfect choice for the Demwits, because he's a gun grabbing pro-homo pro-abortion Democrat in all but name, but as a while male geriatric billionnaire, he wouldn't fit their ridiculous sexist racist narrative. Of course, that wouldn't stop them. It would be as foregone a conclusion as the me-too Wendell Willkie vs FDR.
Virtue signaling convinces the left of its own unimpeachable morals. When push comes to shove, it rejects guilt for any of its wrongdoing and attributes such allegations to conspiracy theories.
Peter Daou, a Democratic strategist and former advisor to Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, tweeted on Monday that Ford will be "attacked, smeared, and demonized" and that people must "BELIEVE WOMEN."
Once a Rat always a democRat.
Hillary doesn’t want to run against Bernie Sanders:
NYT runs sexism piece on Sanders.
(”Women on his campaign staff were having their curly hair felt, with their permission, by someone Sanders never met!!”)
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Hillary doesn’t want to run against Bloomberg:
NYT runs sexism + racism piece on Bloomberg.
(He asked “What’s #MeToo all about?”!
His policies impacted blacks and Latinos!)
So, who’s next, NYT?
though the choice was either this slug or obammy I’m ashamed i actually voted for this clown I wouldn’t have a beer with in real life.
I sure hope bullies beat this guy up while he was in school
Bloomberg will get about as far with the Democrats as Jeb did with the Republicans.
The ONLY OPTION for Bloomberg, if he’s serious, is to run Third Party, but then who will he pull votes from? My answer is the Democrats, given how whacked out they are...and that is providing that Trump doesn’t double-cross us, such as on immigration.
So then Bloomberg must ask: Does he want to be the SPOILER who sends Trump to the White House for ANOTHER 4 years?
[So then Bloomberg must ask: Does he want to be the SPOILER who sends Trump to the White House for ANOTHER 4 years?]
Bloomberg intends to run a media campaign. Flooding places like IA and NH with advertising instead of competing with other Dem candidates for local activists. Going for ‘independents’.
Agree...but will still be a spoiler against the Dems if Trump simply holds on to his base.
[Flooding places like IA and NH with advertising instead of competing with other Dem candidates for local activists. ]
He has plenty going for him, money and support from media types.
But an EX-RINO who is still more moderate than most democrats on several issues is a hard sell for rat primary voters. Rats allocate delegates proportionally so he’d need 50%+1 to be nominated. I have trouble seeing it.
Strong chance of a brokered convention though we’ve though that before.
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