Posted on 02/16/2020 10:39:42 AM PST by Kaslin
By mid-morning on Saturday my phone was blowing up with the text messages and voicemails, some claiming credit for predicting it, others incredulous at the news.
Some just forwarded the screengrab of the DRUDGE REPORT: “Exclusive: Bloomberg Considers Hillary Running Mate.”
Drudge went so far as to claim sources placed so close to the former NYC mayor he stated Bloomberg was admitting he was willing to move his residence to Florida or Colorado to escape the electoral college dilemma of the president and veep being from the same state.
The New York Post reporting breathlessly on the same story literally broke the internet with the amount of celebrity retweet/reactions it garnered. Actor James Woods parroting a well-timed (if not grossly overused) meme of “Death Wish...” (A not so subtle reminder that people die mysteriously around the Clintons—especially when standing between them and the ascension to power).
Curiously by mid-evening—after literally being the viral story of the weekend—stories appeared in Politico, the Associated Press, and elsewhere claiming the days’ events had “overblown” the case. Note: none of the stories outright disputed the basic facts.
My theory holds the entire sequence was a trial balloon to garner reaction before the Nevada debate and caucus to insert Bloomberg’s campaign into the equation. He is still not on the ballot for two more contests. Odds are also shaping up for increasing momentum to be garnered by Sanders ahead of Super Tuesday, where his lead in California and now Texas have expanded big time.
Reminder: Bernie has won the most votes (by close to 10,000 votes) but somehow still finds himself being robbed of delegates. In fact, he trails Pete Buttigieg who has yet to corner an outright win to date. That trend will be demolished with big Sanders’ wins in the next three primary contests.
If the bad punch lines Bloomberg continues to ham-handedly deliver (like the ones in Texas this week parroting “Texan” expressions that no one‘s heard of) it's pretty obvious he’ll need more than his own (lack of) personality to assist his rise.
And while he has the resources to literally spend billions of dollars, if he emerges on Super Tuesday winless, and Sanders has big nights in California and Texas (along with a long list of states he easily won in 2016), Bloomberg’s finished.
As the news “broke” on Saturday the narrative seemed to indicate the Bloomberg campaign intimated that the ticket had scored extremely high in the internal polling they had taken on the suggestion.
None of the stories that I saw indicated results of such polling and I question the idea to begin with.
But I dare Bloomberg to follow through with this fatalistic and elitist idea. For a few reasons:
To date, Bloomberg has spent more money just trying to get into the presidential race than Trump did for the entire cycle and the eventual win in 2020.
Rightfully Sanders has jetted (in first-class no less) to the top of the polling of not only the next three important primary dates but to a “beyond the margin of error” lead in the national polling amongst Democratic voters.
The Hillary trial balloon is a dumb idea that traditional party leaders are desperately yearning for because of the steadiness of Sanders’ support, and the now no-longer-able-to-hide-it factor that the Democratic base is fully behind socialism.
And while the Democratic Party may be on such a misguided pursuit, America is not.
Democrats are just unable to lie about it to their own voters any longer.
Which means...
Trump wins. He wins Big!
Hillary veep is the exact opposite of a Creepy Joe veep.
Nah. Bloomberg, if he won, would resign after being sworn in, which would make Hillary the first female POTUS. Bloomberg would be seen as a hero by the left and most women in this country.
A dwarf and a donkey’s butt. What could go wrong?
Everyone should know that the she-devil will take over the presidency one way or another. So that should prevent the “team” from winning.
Bwaaahahaha - these articles just write themselves but it’s so much better when an expert does it... LMAO!
MiniMike requires someone shorter than he is.
That put quite a crimp in his shortlist.
And, everyone (meaning everyone, perhaps excluding the delusional Hillary) knows he's lying.
A hundred excellent reasons, but the best one is if Hillary is asked to form a sentence using the following ten words:
"Jeffrey, Epstein, sex, trafficking, underage, girls, Bill, Clinton, Hillary, enabling."
Ergo...
Bloomberg is lying when he says that he's considering Hillary as a running mate.
Arkancide....
Mike might not make it to his next birthday once elected. There is precedent, but there never were any formal charges brought, all the evidence was declared either hearsay or circumstantial, and there are no living witnesses.
Besides, the sterling character of Herself has been vouched for by some very high-ranking members of the law enforcement establishment, all of whom have retired.
“Bloomberg ... would resign...”
I said the exact same thing on another thread and I think that is the plan. By the way — it won’t work.
It might work, seeing how she is desperate to be president. I would advise minimike to hire 4 times more food tasters, a dozen bodyguards, and to screen the secret service for plants by hillary.
Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown, when hillary is VP and is desperate to be president. Vince Foster. Ron Brown.
Arrogant egotistical maniac with no core values, plus the most corrupt politician that ever existed. You go, democrats! what a ticket!
See post #12
And if Republicans take Congress, Hillary can be impeached and we can wind up with President McCarthy. Think about the witnesses the Republicans can call.
This can get interesting.
Bloomberg and Trump are opposite. Both are billionaires. Both were democrats and republicans. But the big difference between them is how they campaign. Trump campaigned by spending less than half the money Hillary spent. Bloomberg is spending more than double the money of all candidates put together. So Trump tapped into an existing message. He gave voice to a group of people who were disenfranchised and lied to. Bloomberg, on the other hand, is trying to speak louder than all other voices. He is trying to buy the vote.
Also, its pretty clear that Bloomberg has more money than he can spend in his lifetime. And he is very old, 78. So he is just going for legacy here. He is going to fight everyone and put his VP in office. Expect that Bloomberg himself will not fill his whole term. While Trump has every intention of cleaning up the swamp and fulfilling on all his promises.
That pic of Hillary’s gotta be at least 150 lbs. ago.
If Bloomberg were to win, the GOP would not re-take the House and likely would lose the Senate, so no impeachment hearings for Hillary.
He will get Arkancided soon after taking office.
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