Bloombergs Democratic Upset .
The Democratic field is enormous and unprecedentedly diverse. It features several women, multiple candidates of African and Asian descent, one Latino and a gay man, Buttigieg, who at age 37 is less than half as old as the front-runner, Biden. But majorities of Democrats say those characteristics make no difference to their level of enthusiasm about a presidential candidate. Four in 10 Democratic voters said they would be more excited about voting for a woman for president, and 36% said the same of a younger candidate. Only about a quarter were more excited at the idea of supporting a candidate who is black or Latino, while roughly 2 in 10 said they’d be more excited to support an Asian candidate or lesbian, gay or bisexual candidate . The Democrats have a huge field of verity Oh, and here is a former Republican. And he’s a terrible campaigner whose signature move is awkwardly asking kids to give him high fives. The late entry into the race would force (5)>>Bloomberg to play a quick game of catch-up to build the sort of campaign infrastructure his rivals have spent months constructing. And he says he’s not sure how true all the accusations against Charlie Rose are. But … he does have close to $50 billion. And he did spend Saturday night in New Hampshire.So Mike Bloomberg can maybe run for president as a Democrat?With Bloomberg is now flirting with a bid for the presidency and filed paperwork to qualify for the presidential primary in Alabama. Bloomberg still has not formally announced that he’s a candidate. He has previously contemplated runs for the White House, as an Independent candidate, in both the 2008 and 2016 election cycles. Bloomberg is just another Trumpian billionaire. As news of Bloomberg’s plans broke on Thursday, their presidential campaigns pounced, declaring that the former mayor’s potential candidacy was a form of backlash to their progressive proposals. There’s the real possibility that a Bloomberg 2020 primary run would go down much like Meg Whitman’s 2010 campaign for California governor, when she dumped $144 million into losing by 13 points to an old liberal who had already held the job for eight years 30 years before. Oddly Bloomberg could be competitive in the general election as a sort of anti-Trump. Super bland and boring so the suburban soccer moms cam vote for him. But there is no way the whacked out TDS afflicted democrats base would choose him in the primary.Why are Michael Bloomberg and Deval Patrick flirting with jumping into the 2020 presidential primary this late in the game? But these late entrants and their supporters might be underestimating the challenges ahead. Most primary candidates spend the better part of the year (or in John Delaney’s case, years) building up a campaign infrastructure, gathering donors, carving out a base, finding a unique message and rebooting when necessary. Late entrants usually fail — they try to scale up too much in just a couple months, make mistakes and don’t have time to recalibrate. (6)>>If Democrats really wanted to introduce a new variable — someone who could either win or knock a couple people out of the top four — they need to look outside the box. And beyond the fact that most of those wild card candidates absolutely, positively aren’t running, many of their potential candidacies have real pitfalls. The thought of Hillary Clinton 2020 isn’t nearly as fun for Democratic voters — most don’t want to relive the 2016 election — but her entry into the race could shake things up. Clinton could (correctly) point out that she won the popular vote.Analysts say a Bloomberg candidacy could do the most damage to the prospects of Democratic front runner Joe Biden, but the former vice-president put on a brave face on Friday and said he was not worried that Bloomberg would draw away centrist voters.With less than 100 days to go before the Iowa caucuses, Democrats do not express dissatisfaction with their available candidates. Some 85% of the party’s primary voters said they were satisfied with the candidates, a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll found late last month. Just 13% said they were unsatisfied.
ADDENDUM: The Strange Case of Ukraine .
While Donald Trump gets the the "bad rap" for his Quid Pro Quo , trying to buy some dirt on his political opponent . Our nations government officials , if they be Democrat or Republican have been conducting themselves selling weapons to Ukraine in its proxy war with Russia , at the same time conducting a similar Quid Pro Quo fashion , by conducting a lucrative deal with exploiting oil in that country. There is something off beat how the United States has conducted its business relations in Ukraine for the last decade . The extent of the Obama administration’s meddling in Ukraine’s politics was breathtaking. Russian intelligence intercepted and leaked to the international media a Nuland telephone call in which she and U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Geoffey Pyatt discussed in detail their preferences for specific personnel in a post-Yanukovych government. The U.S-favored candidates included Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the man who became prime minister once Yanukovych was ousted from power. During the telephone call, Nuland stated enthusiastically that “Yats is the guy” who would do the best job. The Biden's are an example of American foreign policy gone amok. If Trump pointed the finger at the Bid ens for corruption , he may have tipped the domino's down . This is going to blow your minds . Recently U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry proposed political backer Michael Bleyzer as an adviser to Ukraine’s president, the Houston man and a former University of Texas System regent “secured a potentially lucrative” energy deal from the Ukrainian government, the Associated Press reported Monday.Perry, the former Texas governor, attended Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s inauguration this year and gave him a list of people who could serve as energy advisers, which included Bleyzer, according to the AP. More than a month later, Ukraine awarded an oil and gas exploration contract to Bleyzer and his partner Alex Cranberg, the news agency reported. Perry appointed Cranberg to the UT Board of Regents shortly after the man registered to vote in Texas following a move from Colorado. Cranberg served from 2011 to 2017 and was a controversial figure on the system's governing board. Did you all read this ? It appears our government has been trying to export Ukrainian oil to the United States . The resignation of U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry is connected vary much to our own Nation meddling in the Russian spheres of control. The US support, both overt and covert, for Ukrainian politicians is grounded in an anti-Soviet (now anti-Russian) ideology. We have convinced ourselves that Russia is hell bent on world domination. Therefore we must do whatever is necessary to stop Russia, which includes uncritical, blind support for elements in Ukraine that also detest the Russians. But in doing so we have closed our eyes to the filthy underbelly of the virulent anti-Semitism that lurks in western Ukraine. US meddling in the Ukraine is astonishing in its breadth. It ranges from the fact that the wife of former President Viktor Yuschenko was an American citizen and former senior official in the US State Department. Do you think there would be no complaints if Melania Trump was born in Russia and had served in the Russian Foreign Ministry? Yet, most Americans are happily ignorant of such facts.? US meddling in Ukraine is at the center of Trump's problems , but not just a Republican issue , its a Democrat's issue in regards to what we call "meddling" .
NOTES AND COMMENTS:
(1)>>American public the importance of an impeachment. On the day of House Democrats’ first public impeachment hearing into President Trump this week, as leaders of some of the conservative movement’s most prominent organizations dialed into a briefing call hosted by the White House to coordinate their message, their activists were hard at work. Some of the nation’s leading conservative groups — the Club For Growth, FreedomWorks, Citizens United, and Tea Party Patriots — have locked arms to serve as an unofficial war room for the president during the impeachment inquiry, the third such proceeding in modern history, but the first of the social media age. The coalition of more than 100 organizations, including traditional conservative fund-raisers and public relations firms, is banking on a coordinated divide-and-conquer strategy that seeks to harness its grass-roots networks’ outrage — and raise money crucial to its own survival. Many of the conservative groups that have joined the “Trump Defense Team” effort have a history of using politically charged debates as fund-raising tools, and several of them are doing so now. Activists are invited to sign a petition to declare their “full support” for Mr. Trump and “reject Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats’ efforts to overturn the free and fair presidential election.” Signers are then prompted to donate to the group, “so we can continue to push back against the Deranged Democrats.” (2)>>president to obtain political dirt that could influence the 2020 election. Let's address two diversions from Schiff and Biden's .1) Biden was suffering from the death of his son Beau so that is why he knew nothing about Hunter's business. Fact: Beau did in May of 2015. Hunter closed the 1.4 billion deal in China days after he and his father visited that country in 2013.Fact: Hunter joined the board of Burisma in mid 2014.So we are supposed to believe that Joe knew nothing about his son's business dealings that both began immediately after he visited China and Ukraine as Obama's economic point man with Hunter. He demanded the firing of the prosecutor who had been investigating Burisma but that apparently we are to believe was just a coincidence. Hunter, by the way, said he did tell Joe about his Burisma business and his father just said " I hope you know what you are doing." and then apparently Joe contracted amnesia.The bottom line is that Joe is either lying or he is too stupid to know what is going around immediately around him.2) Trump says he didn't know about Donald Jr.s meeting with the Russians Who cares? It was perfectly legal and investigated by the Mueller team. Curiously enough, the Russian lawyer at the meeting met twice in a 72 hour period immediately before and after the Trump Tower meeting with Glenn Simpson, the founder of Fusion GPS which had been hired by the Hillary campaign to get dirt on Trump .(3)>>WHISTLE BLOWER IS REAL ? My PERSONAL THEORY is that the whistleblower was a "agent" set up by the Schiff- Comey CIA basically to "spy" on Trump, because of his supposed Russian connection . The New York Times to be a male CIA employee, filed a complaint expressing urgent concern that “the president of the United States is using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 U.S. election.” Trump may have been monitored , this call with Ukriane may have been the trap the Democrats needed , anyway Schiff doesn't know the identity of the whistleblower but anyone with access to a network device does. Also, Joe Biden didn't know anything about his son's Hunter's business activities although everyone in the Obama State Dept did. As for the committee’s contact with the whistleblower, we don’t know if the complainant had “spoken” to any committee staffers or contacted the committee through email or letter. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said he does not believe House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff’s claim that he does not know the identity of an anonymous whistleblower, whose complaint against President Trump launched the impeachment investigation. “Yes,” the California Republican said when a reporter asked if he believes Schiff is lying. “And I don’t think it’s the first time he lied to us, either. Given the information that has come to light in the past several weeks, it is quite likely that Schiff is lying. Indeed, MSNBC contributor Sam Stein: First off, have you heard from the whistleblower? Are you — do you want to hear from the whistleblower? What protections could you provide to the whistleblower? And then, you also said that the DNI is refusing to turn over the stuff, citing a request from a higher authority — the insinuation left, at least for me and others, was that the President himself had intervened. Is that the insinuation you sought to provide and, if so, what basis do you have for making that insinuation? Schiff: We have not spoken directly with the whistleblower. We would like to, but I’m sure the whistleblower has concerns that he has not been advised, as the law requires, by the inspector general or the director of national intelligence, just as to how he is to communicate with Congress. And so the risk for the whistleblower is retaliation. Will the whistleblower be protected under the statute if the offices that are supposed to come to his assistance and provide the mechanism are unwilling to do so? But yes, we would love to talk directly with the whistleblower.(4)>>the whistleblower’s complaint — It got almost no attention, but in May, CNN reported that Sens. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) and Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) wrote a letter to Ukraine’s prosecutor general, Yuriy Lutsenko, expressing concern at the closing of four investigations they said were critical to the Mueller probe. In the letter, they implied that their support for U.S. assistance to Ukraine was at stake. Describing themselves as “strong advocates for a robust and close relationship with Ukraine,” the Democratic senators declared, “We have supported [the] capacity-building process and are disappointed that some in Kyiv appear to have cast aside these [democratic] principles to avoid the ire of President Trump,” before demanding Lutsenko “reverse course and halt any efforts to impede cooperation with this important investigation.” So, it’s okay for Democratic senators to encourage Ukraine to investigate Trump, but it’s not okay for the president to allegedly encourage Ukraine to investigate Hunter Biden.(5)>>Bloomberg to play a quick game of catch-up. Don't laugh. If Bloomie can get the Democratic nomination, he would be a formidable candidate. He would also probably attract Independent opposition - probably Bernie Sanders. But can he get the nomination? Not by winning the primaries. But he doesn't have to. If the Democrats are going to have a Brokered Convention (very likely), Bloomie just needs a few hundred delegates and truckloads full of money to convince the Superdelegates the he is their man. Then when he gets the nod, Bernie storms out in a huff and runs Indie. Ranked by Forbes as the eighth-richest American with an estimated worth of $53.4 billion, his potential bid drew immediate criticism that he was just another wealthy businessman trying to buy an election. (6)>>If Democrats really wanted to introduce a new variable — too many — candidates are still in the race. In total, there are 20 0r so Democrats still running, several of whom look like the exact same white guy copied and pasted over and over. There are also two Republicans who have made the bold decision to seek their party’s nomination over Donald Trump.If you can remember more than 15 candidates off the top of your head, that’s impressive. If you can’t, here’s a guide to who’s still in the running.You can see it in the policy positions being discussed and embraced by Democrats, many of which go well beyond the positions taken by previous Democratic presidents and nominees — from banning private insurance to free college to a wealth tax to the Green New Deal. You can see it in the left-populist worldviews and solid poll numbers of two of the three leading candidates, Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. And you can see it in the substantial popularity among the Democratic rank-and-file of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her allies in Congress. The current politics of the Democratic Party make it less likely than usual that the nominee will be a centrist in the traditional mold. During the Democrats’ long losing streaks in the late 20th century, the party ritualistically engaged in postmortems that propelled it toward the center. That was the natural cycle of politics: Getting repeatedly clubbed by conservatives suggested trekking in a more conservative direction. But as a candidate, Trump placed little priority on traditional conservative positions, and often flouted them. His victory suggests a very different set of lessons, lessons in tune with the mood of the Democratic Party’s base.
