It Seems No One Wants A Mike Bloomberg Candidacy

Hotair ^ | 11/24/2019 | Taylor Millard

[qaz123]

It doesn’t matter what anyone wants. Bloomberg is a hypocritical, liberal billionaire, he knows what’s better for all of us. I think a debate between him and the President would be comical. When I hear him talk I wonder...I thought rich people are smart.

[SaxxonWoods]

I find it hysterical that the Democrats have another old rich white guy running.

[caww]

Oh I think he’s Bidens replacement and the Dems will support him. Everyone can see Bidens having trouble holding his own. His mind isn’t where it needs to be and the Ukraine involvement isn’t helping...and he’s loosing donors.

We all discussed there would be late-commers for obvious reasons. So Bloomsberg jumping in wasn’t surprising.....just a matter of who it would be.

At any rate whoever wins will get the Hillary voters....and they will definately vote Bloomberg over Trump.

[caww]

Oh I think he’s Bidens replacement and the Dems will support him. Everyone can see Bidens having trouble holding his own. His mind isn’t where it needs to be and the Ukraine involvement isn’t helping...and he’s loosing donors.

We all discussed there would be late-commers for obvious reasons. So Bloomsberg jumping in wasn’t surprising.....just a matter of who it would be.

At any rate whoever wins will get the Hillary voters....and they will definately vote Bloomberg over Trump.

[Nifster]

He may have filed papers with the FEC and in Alabama but that ain’t gonna get him on the ballot in individual states. Some of those deadlines are near or have passed

As is not surprising he’s a fraud

[genghis]

Circular firing squad can not be too big for my tastes

[pepsionice]

There’s a Saturday Night Live piece....opening skit...from 2013 on Bloomberg. Focused on Occupy Wall Street.

It was a perfect imitation. Bloomberg is stiff (wooden) and never gets animated. He has zero on the sense of humor scale. Personable and friendly? No.

If you had to pick someone who has zero chance in a primary to win....he’s it.

[Zhang Fei]

[How’s he going to get the support of the Democrats who keep harping about income inequality? ]

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The primary’s gonna be tough sledding. But if he gets past that, it’s not like Trump is gonna do a wealth tax. In the general, the Democrats will vote for the Democrat, and Republicans will vote for the Republican. And a good chunk of libertarians and libertines will vote for Bloomberg. Because abortion. Of course, that’s assuming he wins the primary. That’s a big assumption. I hope he gets crushed. Because he’ll be a dangerous opponent in the general.

[kearnyirish2]

He will go nowhere because 1) he thinks he’ll tell people how large their sodas can be - which was actually an environmentalist’s nightmare (you’d use two smaller cups instead of one big one), 2) “Stop & frisk” - He has preemptively apologized for this, but nobody cares about the fake apology, 3) he has set a precedent for removing term limits ON HIMSELF, and 4) he has nothing in common with normal people. Trump is wealthy but people believe he feels their pain; he certainly understood their sentiments with his attacks on illegal immigration, jobs, and taxes.

[BobL]

" 'Whereas Trump’s rise in the Republican Party was due to his cult of personality and braggadocious attitude.' Yeah, keep telling yourself that was the reason Trump won." No kidding, and from someone supposedly on our side. That hit me right out too. I'll guess that I'll read the rest later. Some history, for those who may not know. Before Trump announced, the already-announced Republican candidates were rounded told in no uncertain terms that Immigration was a 'divisive' issue by RNC and any Republican who sounds serious about the issue will NOT get any RNC support...NONE. Since none of the announced candidates could finance their own campaigns, that meant they all had to fall in line with the RNC, which they did. And don't get me wrong, most of them weren't about get serious about immigration, but for those who may have considered it, that idea was locked out. So, it set the stage for the 2016 election. Sure, the candidates would say that we need secure borders, and they promised to 'secure the border'. But they knew to not talk about walls, deportation, or even fences, so they did not. The MOST IMPORTANT issue to Republican voters was simply taken off the table - despite the trains heading north in Mexico that we saw in 2014 and 2015, it was like we simply imagined it all. ...leaving a HUGE OPENING for Trump. Most of us, I suspect, didn't think much of Trump until that first speech (I was one of them), and many of us were still suspicious of him through the campaign (I was not of them, since I knew what Skunk Cabbage was going to do to the country), but at least he SPOKE to us. And people may forget that it was more than Trump that we were reacting to, it virtually the ENTIRE GOP field that attacked Trump for wanting to be serious about securing the border and deporting, at the least the bad ones. We saw that too. All someone needed to say, to be competitive against Trump was something like: "Sure, Trump talks in exaggerated ways, but we do have a very serious problem on the border, and it will require doing some work down there to secure it as it is porous, and we do need to at least deal with deporting criminal aliens". That's all, just state the OBVIOUS. But we NEVER heard that from any of the others - they simply attacked Trump and went on talking about farm subsidies or some crap like that. It really isn't hard to figure out, if you simply speak to a Deplorable or two.

[BobL]

“At any rate whoever wins will get the Hillary voters....and they will definately vote Bloomberg over Trump.”

Don’t be so sure regarding black voters - they HATED Bloomberg because he was so effective at lowering crime in NYC (go figure). They probably hate him even more than Buttplug. And, in both cases, you have Trump (not someone like Cruz or Romney) running on our side.

I’m not writing off blacks yet, although I agree we’ve been disappointed virtually every election - this time it’s Trump and may be different, or at least different enough.

[BobL]

Ouch, blew the formatting on Post 30. I’ll try again!

[BobL]

” ‘Whereas Trump’s rise in the Republican Party was due to his cult of personality and braggadocious attitude.’
(face palm)
Yeah, keep telling yourself that was the reason Trump won.”

No kidding, and from someone supposedly on our side. That hit me right out too. I’ll guess that I’ll read the rest later.

Some history, for those who may not know. Before Trump announced, the already-announced Republican candidates were rounded told in no uncertain terms that Immigration was a ‘divisive’ issue by RNC and any Republican who sounds serious about the issue will NOT get any RNC support...NONE.

Since none of the announced candidates could finance their own campaigns, that meant they all had to fall in line with the RNC, which they did. And don’t get me wrong, most of them weren’t about get serious about immigration, but for those who may have considered it, that idea was locked out.

So, it set the stage for the 2016 election. Sure, the candidates would say that we need secure borders, and they promised to ‘secure the border’. But they knew to not talk about walls, deportation, or even fences, so they did not. The MOST IMPORTANT issue to Republican voters was simply taken off the table - despite the trains heading north in Mexico that we saw in 2014 and 2015, it was like we simply imagined it all.

...leaving a HUGE OPENING for Trump. Most of us, I suspect, didn’t think much of Trump until that first speech (I was one of them), and many of us were still suspicious of him through the campaign (I was not of them, since I knew what Skunk Cabbage was going to do to the country), but at least he SPOKE to us.

And people may forget that it was more than Trump that we were reacting to, it virtually the ENTIRE GOP field that attacked Trump for wanting to be serious about securing the border and deporting, at the least the bad ones. We saw that too. All someone needed to say, to be competitive against Trump was something like: “Sure, Trump talks in exaggerated ways, but we do have a very serious problem on the border, and it will require doing some work down there to secure it as it is porous, and we do need to at least deal with deporting criminal aliens”. That’s all, just state the OBVIOUS.

But we NEVER heard that from any of the others - they simply attacked Trump and went on talking about farm subsidies or some crap like that.

It really isn’t hard to figure out, if you simply speak to a Deplorable or two.

(it was your ‘face palm’ that crashed the formatting for me in Post 30)

[ProudVet97]

I’ll vote for him only if DeBlasio is his VP! /sarc

[Mr. Jeeves]

I think if a white(ish) billionaire had any chance to win the Democrat nomination, Steyer would already be getting traction. Bloomberg will just appear to the Democrat base as exactly what he is - a cynical opportunist.

[bert]

Bloomberg being for and against is evidence he cannot handle his staff pushing agendas

[minnesota_bound]

Finally someone whom will tackle the Big Gulp epidemic!

[1Old Pro]

He has as much charisma and excitement as Jeb!

[caww]

I think blacks will largly vote Trump by the time of the election....

[miserare]

So do I.