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Posted on 02/24/2020 8:31:42 AM PST by jazusamo
At the writing of this column, it is a well-known fact that a billionaire from New York is trying to buy the presidency. His well-financed strategy is such that he is able to circumvent the heavy lifting of the smaller primaries while the other candidates are slugging it out visiting small town gatherings, shaking hands in diners, and walking the streets letting the folks get to know them.
Instead, Michael Bloomberg has chosen to stand above the sweaty fray, buy expensive ads on the Super Bowl and the Daytona 500, and flood the length and width of the nation with television commercials that sing his praises and promises of what he could do for America.
And despite the fact that he condescended to appear in a Nevada debate, he is, for all practical purposes, putting all his huevos in one basket, depending on his great wealth to garner enough delegates on Super Tuesday when a third of all delegates are awarded in a single day, to at least make him relevant at the Democratic National Convention.
He has made the statement that he is willing to spend a billion dollars if it is necessary in his quest to be the Democrat nominee.
While there is not a candidate in the Democrats’ stable that I feel is up to the task of being president and not one I feel, if given the chance and the funds, would not do the same thing as Bloomberg, I ask you, is it fair for one of the richest men in America to - for all intents and purposes - buy the nomination for the most powerful position in the free world?
And another issue comes into play. The Democratic Party knows that everybody in their present slate of candidates is much too far to the left to garner enough votes in the general election to move into 1600 Pennsylvania Ave and Michael Bloomberg may be as close to a moderate candidate as they can come this year. In my humble opinion, the Democrats, being the loyal bunch they are, will turn their backs on the candidates who have slogged it out on the front lines and turn to the interloper who they will view as their savior.
If I had to bet the ranch on the outcome of the Democrat nomination, I would have laid all my chips on Bloomberg, before the debate, anyway.
If it’s not Bloomberg, I will rejoice because I’m pulling for Bernie Sanders to run as he is the one who will show the world just how much of a Bolshevik he really is and how far to the extreme left the Democrats have drifted and get this question of socialism settled, at least for the foreseeable future.
Now, to the real subject of this column, the unfairness of campaign financing and the rabid reluctance of politicians of both parties to address it.
When a man like Michael Bloomberg, just because he is super-rich and won’t miss a meal or even have to sell a G5 to spend a billion dollars on running for president, there is something wrong with the system.
Also, the big donors who contribute to the campaigns of congressmen, senators, governors and all stripes of politicians have unfettered access to their offices and ask and receive favors throughout their tenures, while John Q can do nothing but suffer the consequences.
If you think it doesn’t happen, you are totally naive. In fact, crony indebtedness follows some politicians from local office into the State House of Capitol Hill.
There has to be a better way, a fairer way, a more equitable way, a simpler and honest way that would level the playing field and eliminate the mile-wide loopholes whereby individuals and corporations deliver cash to a candidate.
I am not good at mathematics or savvy to the procedures necessary to eliminate the excessive giving and undue influence it buys, but a group of patriotic and nonpartisan scholars and lawyers could sit down in a room, identify the problems, and recommend solutions in short order, because the problem areas are glaring.
How about a cap on how much a candidate can spend of their personal fortune in a campaign?
How about a cap on how much an individual or business could contribute by any means, PACs and other backroom entities notwithstanding?
And as the system was inspected bit by bit, I’m sure other devious methods of buying influence could be identified.
I really don’t know how to go about it, but there are plenty of people out there who could overhaul the campaign contribution system, resulting in a much leveler playing field, or at least prevent the buying of the highest office in our nation.
Personally, even if he should buy the nomination, I don’t believe Bloomberg has the charisma, stamina, or vision to beat Donald Trump, but the fact that this man, who through nothing but the power of money, could even show up in the polls, should be enough to scare the hell out of America.
What do you think?
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— Charlie Daniels
Soros has his back
He has yet to get a single delegate - he’ll probably end up like John Connally in 1980:
“After spending $11 million during the campaign, Connally secured the support of only a single delegate, Ada Mills of Clarksville, Arkansas, who became nationally known for a brief time as the “$11 million delegate”
Sanders is going to have something to say about that. This time he probably won’t quietly go away.
He’s 10 times richer than Soros.
My moonbat neighbor who went knocking on doors for BJ’s wife four years ago put a big Bloomy 2020 sign in his yard this weekend.
Can you say oligarchy? I knew you could!
What difference is there between Bloomberg buying the election and Super Pacs buying the election by supporting a candidate through unlimited spending. Money talks in politics.
The DNC and Bloomberg need to stop this primary BS and buy the candidacy on EBay .
The DNC can just have an open bid for who wants to be their candidate by having a bidding war on EBay.
They can start out with 50 Billion $’s as the minimum EBay bid!
I follow Charlie on twitter. Nice to see some common sense tweeting.
Agreed...I saw a couple days ago Bloomy has spent well over $400M already so him spending $1B or more is likely, the sad thing is he won’t even miss it.
It’s not new-except that now there isn’t even a pretense of hiding it
Bloomie is a one man jobs program for the advertising and media industries.
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Bloomturd is finished. He can put a billion ads out there on every TV station playing them 24 hours a day, he will never overcome the damage he did in the debate. Fauxcahontas half-sleeves destroyed him. Either Bernie will be the nominee or Hillary will join with Fauxcahontas half-sleeves and be the nominee.
——What does it say?-——
Reflecting back it can be speculated that we can assume that in the convention smoke filled rooms, almost all nominations were in fact bought. The currency was $$$, and influence and power, and jobs and promises.
Bernie was defeated by hillary who certainly bought the super delegates and thus the nomination
Bloomberg is using $$$ in perhaps a more visible fashion
We don’t know that Mike Bloomberg is “10 times richer” than George Soros. The Soros octopus has a LOT of reach outside the US, you know, and almost all of it was gained through currency manipulation schemes against central banks of a number of nations across the world. The US citizenship he bought (and I am sure he never took any kind of “citizenship” test) is his protective coloration to stay beyond the reach of any number of these foreign governments.
George Soros is committed to endless mischief wherever he goes. Thus far, Mike Bloomberg is only committed to mischief mainly in the US, and possibly to some degree in China as well.
As a country boy myself, Charlie Daniels, one of my favorite commentators. He’s good on the fiddle, too. On this subject, instead of his fiddle tune, “The Devil went down to Georgia,” we might call it “Bloomberg went down to Nevada.”
Well since he’s losing it says absolutely nothing. Ad $ don’t equate to votes in any formula that anybody has managed to calculate. Really doesn’t help that he takes no positions in his ads. They all boil down to “I’m rich and successful, vote for me”. Not much to hang a vote on.
Amen! I’ve been a music fan of his for years and your comparison of “Bloomberg went down to Nevada” is clever. :^)
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