Can't buy a election

[bigsly]

Bloomberg's inevitable fate, improper grammar inspired by the GB's most infamously illiterate in-and-out wannabe thug.

 

[Kantarii]

Bloomberg is just showing Democrats how much money he can waste and still be rich as fuck if he loses.

 

[bigsly]

Yet, if it comes down to him and Bernie, the Democratic Deep Staters will nominate Bloomberg as their champion.

 

[bellisarius]

This is getting stranger by the day. The dems don't want Bloomberg but they want his money. Quite a dilemma they have.

 

[Conager]

Post United citizen which leveled the playing field with all the union money exempted from McCain Feingold, Democrats have been decrying money in politics whole suckling at Wall Street and The Trial Lawyer's Association.

They didn't have any problem at all with all of the "dark" Russian money coming into the Clinton Foundation or Clinton herself outspending Trump two-to-one. What are they going to say post Bloomberg?

 

[bellisarius]

They'll have no problem coming up with something.

 

[Saint_Ann]

The dems know Bernie is unelectable and that leaves whom?

 

[PaxNurgle]

I don't think the centrists really want either Bloomberg or Sanders. They both pretty much suck equally. It seems like every one of them running has some kind of baggage.

 

[Conager]

I never put a pass Republicans to be able to snatch defeat from the jaws of Victory but you would think that the Dems best play here is to lose gracefully with a ideologically interesting candidate.

I don't think they're even worried about the fact that Bernie can't win. There doesn't seem to be a candidate that can at the moment. The problem they have with Bernie is that he does not help at all with vulnerable red States that Trump won down-ballot candidates.

 

[bellisarius]

I never put a pass Republicans to be able to snatch defeat from the jaws of Victory but you would think that the Dems best play here is to lose gracefully with a ideologically interesting candidate.

I don't think they're even worried about the fact that Bernie can't win. There doesn't seem to be a candidate that can at the moment. The problem they have with Bernie is that he does not help at all with vulnerable red States that Trump won down-ballot candidates.

First of all the election is a couple of lifetimes away in political reckoning so anything can happen between now and then.

But assuming that Trump does win the dems have already set the table with the notion that the Russians or someone else is going to "cheat" with him to carry the day. They came right out and said so during the impeachment trial.

In other words their excuse is prearranged.

 

[bigsly]

If you're not watching this debate, you really should consider doing so.

The realization that it's already close to being just between Bernie and Bloomberg is palpable, and desperation has spawned every candidate coming out swinging at the others.

Highly entertaining, so far.

 

[bellisarius]

If you're not watching this debate, you really should consider doing so.

The realization that it's already close to being just between Bernie and Bloomberg is palpable, and desperation has spawned every candidate coming out swinging at the others.

Highly entertaining, so far.

Desperate times call for desperate measures.

 

[bigsly]

God, Bloomberg's billions definitely bring the natural communist out in Bernie. And Bloomberg just takes it and almost apologizes for it, instead of asking Bernie about his own millions and why his fortune is so, so much greater than his beloved, socialist class warfare "working class".

Ah, Bloombery finally hits Bernie with his millions and 3 houses...

 

[bigsly]

Started off gangbusters, but settled down and then ended with no candidate showing any practical strength/advantage over any other, instead clearly demonstrating how naturally and politically weak each candidate actually is.

 

[Conager]

If Bloomberg gets it, do the Bernie Bros stay home, or vote for the less wealthy, and presumptively less evil, capitalist billionaire?