Mike Bloomberg surges in national polls and seems, for the moment, to be the only Democratic presidential candidate who can dislodge Bernie Sanders from his plurality lead. But as he muscles his way to the top of the heap, he’s dragging his baggage behind, a legacy of alleged racist and sexist attitudes, not to mention his prickly and pallid personality. What’s become of the DNC when its choice may be a socialist or a billionaire former Republican? Can anyone in that field overcome Bloomberg’s business and organizational savvy, his massive field operation, and ad buys?
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21 replies on “Bloomberg Muscles His Way to the Top of the Heap Dragging His Baggage Behind”
What is MOST interesting about this Gaggle of wannabe seekers to The NEW Democratic Socialist (OXYMORON) with ever GREATER emphasis on MORON is now most definitely ventured into the IDIOT category and completely jumped over Neurotic into a deep state of Psychosis Party. The Party has finally lost their handle on SANITY. It MUST be in the DNA of a Democratic Socialist (OXYMORON) is that MADNESS has been found to to be a large part of their DNA make-up. These Democratic Socialists (OXYMORON) cannot understand Reality when it stares them directly in the face.
The Gaggle has brought new meaning to Albert Einstein’s definition of INSANITY. The individual and or group engages in the EXACT same behavior over and over again and then continues the same behavior regardless of consequences expecting to get a very different Result result BUT ends up ALWAYS with the EXACT same result.. THAT IS INSANE.
“Buyer Beware” for the “fundamental transformation of America is REAL and ALIVE.
What of the rumors of Bloomberg taking all of that ‘talent’ and going independent himself?
Also, In going scorched Earth against the Bernie bros how could he subsequently get their votes?
My grandfather was a Mennonite farmer in Ohio (born 1878). Raised 3 daughters, sent them all to Oberlin College (because it was nearby and accepted women) and they became professionals (nurse, teacher, college librarian). He was active at the local church, and painted as a hobby. There was a first edition of Uncle Tom’s Cabin in his library. A kind, thoughtful, smart, and successful farmer. I adored him and his daughter – my mother. Steven is right, Bloomberg punches down, and is a bully. He has zero ability to connect with anyone other than fellow elites and his policies about salt, Big Gulps, etc., sets my hair on fire.
I see it this way: Bloomberg says his poop doesn’t stink. Trump admits it.
Punching Down, I like that analogy Steve!!!
Anybody else like me and really hoping for a fully brokered convention? No single nominee has more than 35% of the delegates. Wouldn’t that be great?
And Scott or Bill – whoever does the headlines – Bloomberg Muscles?? Really, you’ve seen him, right?
Buys his way, bribes his way, bullies his way, but MUSCLES?
I was predicting a brokered convention back in December. We’ll see if I’m right.
If they do, who comes out with the nod? Someone who has run or do they get together in a back room and run. . . Michelle?
I sincerely hope they don’t draft her, but I don’t think that even she could beat Trump. She’s just not likable to most Americans. The people who love her are all the same people who like Bernie, i.e., maybe 20% of the total voting population.
Not sure who wins the brokered convention, but it comes down to two outcomes:
1)Bernie wins, leading to electoral bloodbath. Suddenly Dems realize they don’t like the idea of individual states having to give their electoral votes to the popular vote winner.
2) Dems screw Bernie again. Riots, possible 3rd party run, and media suddenly discovers that Antifa are violent scumbags when their rage isn’t turned on someone who the media hates.
Invest heavily in popcorn producers, as there will be a surge in demand!
Michelle is living the life she believes she deserves. Why would she give that up to actually have to work?
They wield enough power behind the scenes – why give up their freedom for not too much more power?
That is a really good point.
If I were 20 yrs younger I’d rent an RV and drive to Milwaukee just to witness the mayhem.
If I was 20 years younger I’d still be working a s*** job & wouldn’t be able to go anyway =8^P
Yesterday Scott Adams made a pretty good defense of Bloomberg. Both his farmer comment and his one about euthanizing the elderly were taken out of context. Still not good, but not as bad as they appear.
You know what else? I don’t care. These are the same bastards who gave us Romney’s “Binders full of women”, Paul Ryan pushing grandma in her wheelchair off a cliff, and I can’t even count how many times I’ve heard leftists lie about President Trump’s “fine people on both sides” remark.
Terrorists don’t deserve Geneva Convention protections, and Democrats deserve to have their own captured artillery firing on them. They got their first real taste with Hilary’s “Fake news” (Lefties love being reminded where that originated!), and until they learn to behave like adults I’m going to enjoy every minute of it.
I agree on both counts: taken out of context and I don’t care.
These sound bites will still make great commercials if he is the nominee.
Yes, I saw the full comment Bloomberg made re: farmers. Yes, the full context makes his case a better one. But his political calculus is so POOR that you really don’t want him to be speaking on behalf of the American people. His rhetoric is tone deaf. He’s speaking inside an elite bubble.
Loved the line about captured artillery.
Steve – read you drunk blog after the debate was over (I did not watch it) and enjoyed it very much.
Thank you for watching so that I did not need to do so. I read it with a tumbler of Jim Beam Pre-Prohibition Rye over ice with a twist of lime. They went together well.
I agree on both counts too. I think the argument he was trying to make was about the evolution of the economy over centuries from agrarian to industrial to informational. But I reject his premise, so I don’t care that it was taken out of context. It doesn’t take more “gray matter” to program computers than it did to be a “farmer” in the 18th century. Those “farmers” were some of the most well-educated, thoughtful, and prescient men the world has ever seen. And even subsistence farmers, then or now, need considerable “gray matter” and analytical skills to raise enough food to feed a family, much less to make a profit and contribute to the economy.
They also need much ‘practical intelligence’ and wisdom.