Posted on 02/21/2020 5:13:02 AM PST by Kaslin
Bloomberg is just another arrogant, entitled wealthy man, and very similar to Epstein and Weinstein. He truly believes that his money should automatically give him the right to run this country.
I hope the overwhelming majority of people don’t go along with his twisted egomaniacal belief.
Bloomberg is the only one who can beat Sanders at this stage. I think his first debate performance wasn’t as bad as the pundits say. He’s a smart guy with resources and will get better, but the debates are not as important as the money and the constant air time it gets him. When a normal Democrat votes, whether in a primary or the general, they will pull the Mike lever before the Bernie one.
Trouble for Democrats is many will go to Trump if the economy keeps rolling.
Exactly. He’s got so much dough that enough of the powers that be will tolerate anything as long as their palms are greased.
Probably, some of the others may hang on a month or so longer in order to raise campaign cash for personal use. Or parlay for a veep slot.
Bloomberg is a businessman who is used to giving orders and having them obeyed. He never quite understood that politics is very different. However, in NYC, once you’re the nominee with a D after your name, no one dares question you. It is very different in national politics.
Whether it is a fatal blow depends on only one thing, the next couple of debates.
If the other candidates continue to hammer him like they did in the last, he will never recover. He’s not a likeable candidate and lacks basic debate skills.
If this was a one and done and the candidates listen to the media and tone down their attacks, he survives until the convention and will probably be positioned near 2nd place in delegates.
I think Bloomberg should make the other candidates sign non disclosure agreements before the next debate. He can give them 5 million each but they can’t talk about his performance in the Las Vegas debate.
“Oh, I don’t think he will be the nominee.”
He has some $63 billion. If he spends just $2 billion it will set a record. Imagine if each of the delegates gets, say, $100,000. Oh, it will be done discreetly; book deals, franchises, a solarship for the kids, an anonymous person paying of credit card debt, etc. Probably each one would be handled by a separate lawyer with three degrees of separation to keep it “legal.” He might conceivably buy himself either the nomination or a place on somebody’s VP slot.
Can he buy an actual election? Not if the economy stays as good as it has been. The wild card is what a pandemic might do. Literally, China shut down every manufacturer for two weeks. It turns out two weeks is not nearly long enough. If that happened here we would see unparalleled panic which would probably play into the Democrat’s hands.
As I fast forwarded through yet another Bloomberg ad last night it struck me, Bloomie is running a general campaign during a primary, bulldozing everything and everyone in his way.
Great for keeping his primary opponents off the air.
Terrible in the long run because everyone with two functional brain cells will be sick and tired of the ads and the candidate and either tune them out or begin to hate the candidate.
While quantity has a quality of it’s own, often less is more.
Trump needs to stay out of that.
Let others go after Mike on that charge.
No. He’s buying the nomination. Period. Nothing has changed.
Could be.
His only pitch to Democrats as a Wall Street ex-Republican has been that “You all hate Trump. And I’m the guy who can beat him.”
If he can’t handle Warren and Klobuchar in a debate then Trump would absolutely slice him to ribbons.
Democrats have learned the only way they can win is if unopposed.
I see money, regarding elections, like power, regarding reaching the speed of light. Eventually, it takes infinite power or, in the case of the election, all of the money in the world.
I put it this way: If he were alive and free today, how much money would it take for Hitler to be elected leader of Israel?
Bloomberg is a case study in why campaign finance reform is not necessary.
Hillary bought off Bernie with a house. Bloomberg will buy off Bernie with his fourth house. He can and will buy whomever he needs to in order to win the primary.
Seeing him on the debate stage with PDJT will be heavenly.
The debate didn’t hurt Bloomberg at all.
Was Hillary Clinton the nominee in 2016 because she was great in the debates agains Sanders? No, of course not.
Bloomberg is Chosen. End of story.
China interfering in our elections! Hey, it could happen. Coronavirus could mutate into something ferocious, by next flu season. (1918 flu appeared in a mild version in the spring of 1918, then started killing ~20M people in the autumn.)
The media would call it Trump Flu.
“Bloomberg is a case study in why campaign finance reform is not necessary.”
I agree with you. Bloomberg is helping the Trump economy more than he is helping himself. (Imagine, though, if he was Hollywood handsome and as personable as, say, Jonny Carson. Yikes. Fortunately, fabulous good looks and money/intelligence/youth are not often found in the same package.)
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