Posted on 02/17/2020 12:46:56 PM PST by OddLane
I have been on the record as saying that Michael Bloomberg will never become the president of the United States. The line I wrote in 2016 holds up: “An anti-teachers’-union, anti-gun, pro-nanny state, pro-Wall Street, pro-stop-and- frisk, pro-inequality, pro-immigration, pro-surveillance, pro-Iraq War neoconservative is almost surgically designed to repel practically every American voter on some level.” For that reason alone, the flirtation with making this guy the Democratic nominee should cause serious alarm to anyone who wants to defeat Donald Trump. Plus, Bloomberg has vowed to spend his money until November no matter who is the nominee, instantly undercutting the only real value of his candidacy.
But in the few months since Bloomberg announced, we have all gotten hard lessons in the power of money and advertising, the lack of principle within the professional political class, and the way in which the Trump ascendancy has broken the brains of so many Americans. There’s now a path for a general election campaign between dueling plutocrats, which would make a mockery of our politics and obliterate the Democratic Party as a tribune of the people...
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this is the exact thinking that got us mittens.
If your argument is simply our side regardless you have lost.. that won’t motivate anyone outside the core base
Pass the word: Bloomberg is a Trump plant to keep Bernie from winning. Those billionaires stick together!
Michael Bloomberg, the oaf with a wallet.
This guy has Hillary’s disease.
He’s his own worst enemy.
David Dayen: There’s now a path for a general election campaign between dueling plutocrats, which would make a mockery of our politics and obliterate the Democratic Party as a tribune of the people.
Partisan Media Shills update.
“Michael Bloomberg, the oaf with a wallet.
really,i think that should be “tiny oaf with a wallet”! :-)
Mike is a wallet with a mouth - a big one. He compared the teachers union UFT to the NRA. Teachers will love that one.
The ghosts of Christmas past are coming for him.
No, I don’t buy that one for a minute... I think He just wants to play king maker for the Dems... He can’t win, but he can definitely screw the apple cart, and they will all grovel to have his endorsement and money.
Bloomberg has a personal vendetta against Trump.... I don’t think for one minute he’s a Trump operative.
Anyone but Trump will not sell.
height challenged
I’m sure a lot of teachers these days aren’t exactly gun enthusiasts.
He compared their union to the NRA. You think they will like that?
No, and that was why.
The Dems are really struggling to raise money compared to Trump......
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Sanders isn’t a full member Dem, officially an Independent party Senator, doesn’t play well with the Dems, hated by the Dem ruling class........
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Will get accurately painted as a communist if he gets nominated.
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The Dems know that Sanders, with heart troubles, will get destroyed by Trump, and the landslide will likely cost the Dems the House majority.
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Mayor Pete......too young.......not even any statewide experience.........and the Dems know that our country ain’t ready for him and his spouse to start kissing at the Dem Convention.........
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Can you picture that?
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Hey I know! Let’s get behind the Dem version of Trump! Let’s get Mikey! With Hilary at the VP. Announce that Joe will be Secretary of State.
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That brings the Obamas, the Clintons........ We’re in the money, we’re in the money.......
Trump’s going to be President for the next 5 years...
The only question on the table is will the democrat party survive in it’s present form? And/or should it survive in it’s present form?
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