Looking AT Billionaire former New York City Mayor (1)>>Mike Bloomberg’s performance in his first Democratic presidential debate was so bad that it may be the “beginning of the end”I was pulling for Warren but I'll take Bernie. In fact I'll probably even vote for him in the primary in hopes that it swings him an extra delegate. If warren drops out after Super Tuesday, she can essentially give her delegates to Sanders. If she drops out before then, she can't.Edit: The other issue is that one candidate may falter for one reason or another and having the other candidate having already dropped out will result in absolute disaster. We need both to run until the convention IMO. BUT MY LAUGHTER . (2)>>The Nevada Debate helped expose the Democratic Candidates . The infighting shows that they have no political unity .The multiple exchanges — Sen. Amy Klobuchar against former Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Elizabeth Warren against former Vice President Joe Biden, Biden against Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sanders against Buttigieg, and so on — created a free-for-all that actually looked like a debate. Or maybe a prize fight, as Klobuchar said at one point.The cacophony had one clear result, however. Like most of what has happened in the last two months, it bolstered the prospects of Sanders, the Vermont senator who is the current front-runner. The debate was a two-hour crystallization of the inability of any of his rivals to emerge as a single, clear alternative. The harshest attacks came from Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who said Bloomberg was a “billionaire who calls women ‘fat broads’ and ‘horse-faced lesbians.’”Later, Warren called on Bloomberg to release female employees from nondisclosure agreements.In response, Bloomberg said, “None of them accused me of doing anything other than — maybe they didn’t like a joke I told.”Do you think Elizabeth Warren took her leftovers out this morning and heated them up in the microwave, or did she just eat the rest of Bloomberg's heart cold? Bloomberg, who has bet his entire campaign on those March 3 primaries, rode into Wednesday’s debate on an unprecedented wave of advertising funded by his vast personal wealth. He hoped to portray the race as already a two-man fight between himself and Sanders.Meanwhile, Bloomberg had a devastating night, and post-debate polls will show whether his support is as soft as his rivals believe it is. Many voters likely learned for the first time tonight that he endorsed former President George W. Bush for reelection, made offensive comments about women, used nondisclosure agreements to keep allegations of sexual harassment at his company quiet, and on and on & I think that Bloomberg was burnt . I see that his first debate may be his last , but Bernie too was exposed for being a socialist he is. (3)>>Bernie though is a "rich socialist", no way better than the billions of Bloomberg .A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll showed that two-thirds of voters are uncomfortable with a socialist candidate for president, which could be a problem for Sanders. But when asked about it, Sanders pointed out that he was leading in that very poll.“Let's talk about democratic socialism," Sanders said, adding: "We are living in many ways in a socialist society right now. The problem is, as Dr. Martin Luther King reminded us, 'We have socialism for the very rich, rugged individualism for the poor.”In the footrace between Biden and Sanders, then, Bloomberg has effectively screamed “I’m here to help!” before leaping onto Biden’s back, slowing the front-runner’s already feeble momentum, even as Sanders continues to race forward without impediment. If the senator from Vermont ekes out a primary victory over a divided and disjointed moderate coalition, the establishment could well fault Bloomberg for helping to nominate a socialist.
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(1)>>Mike Bloomberg’s performance. Bloomberg is so catastrophic for this nation I just can't much forewarn that he would be much worse than Trump . Bloomberg learned that running for president is harder than it looks. YOU CAN'T BUY IT $$$. The other candidates have been campaigning for the better part of a year and had participated in eight other debates before. Bloomberg hadn’t — and it showed. He did seem to get more comfortable after the first hour, so perhaps the next debate will be better. Bloomberg’s plan isn’t just based on his certainty that Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are too left-wing to win a general election. It’s also is predicated on a certain Biden Hypothesis. Biden is Nominated That hypothesis goes something like this: Despite his standing in national polls, Biden is a weak and possibly doomed front-runner. But that could be, Not? Bloomberg on the other hand could fall under the out of touch Trumpian Billionaire Syndrome . If Biden sweeps most of the early states on his way to a delegate majority, he will pretty much explode this theory. (2)>>The Nevada Debate helped expose the Democratic Candidates . If you are a presidential candidate at this stage of the campaign and you aren’t helping yourself then you’re hurting yourself and losing ground. The other candidates on stage didn’t help themselves – and that means they hurt their prospects. (3)>>Bernie though is a "rich socialist". Bernie Raised $2.7 Million after the Nevada Debate. Wall Street Democrats’ worst nightmare seems to be coming true: The momentum of a self-declared socialist who threatens to make health care accessible to every American and pledges to combat climate change while creating green, union jobs is looking increasingly unstoppable. Scroll through the Twitter feed of “centrist think tank” Third Way these days and you’ll get the sense that doomsday is fast approaching. He’s “the definition of unelectable.” Covering everyone’s health care costs through Medicare for All is a “toxic” idea. We have to “beware the ‘pixie dust’” that the way to win is by increasing turnout among people of color and youth. There is “nothing more scary” than nominating a socialist for president.
