Guest Post by Pat Buchanan
Biden, Buttigieg and Klobuchar are all now headed for the Nevada caucuses on Feb. 22, where Sanders is favored… Sanders, however, is not without his own problems.
From the day he entered the race, Joe Biden was the great hope of the Democratic establishment to spare them from the horrifying prospect of a 2020 race between The Donald and Bernie Sanders.
Today, that same establishment wants Joe out of the race.
Why has Biden suddenly become an albatross?
His feeble debate performances and fifth-place finish in New Hampshire all but ensure Joe will not be the nominee, and if he stays in, he will siphon off votes in Nevada and South Carolina that would go to candidates who might put together a majority and stop Sanders.
The panic of the establishment is traceable to the new political reality.
With popular-vote victories in Iowa and New Hampshire, Sanders has largely united the left-wing of his party and displaced Biden as the front-runner and favorite for the nomination.
Meanwhile, the non-socialist wing of the party has failed to coalesce around a champion to stop Sanders and is becoming ever more splintered.
In Nevada, Sanders now has three moderate challengers.
Biden, “Mayor Pete” Buttigieg, who ran second in New Hampshire, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who ran third and took votes that might have given Buttigieg a win in the Granite State.
Biden, Buttigieg and Klobuchar are all now headed for the Nevada caucuses on Feb. 22, where Sanders is favored. And all three will be going on to South Carolina, a state into which billionaire Tom Steyer has poured millions of dollars.
Sanders, however, is not without his own problems.
Not only is he anathema to the establishment, he cannot wholly unite his party’s left-wing until his senatorial soulmate Elizabeth Warren gets out. Though she ran a poor fourth in New Hampshire, Warren is also going to Nevada to offer herself as a unity candidate.
But as Biden’s hour is up, so is hers. And if she is not out of the race before Super Tuesday on March 3, she risks being beaten in her own home state of Massachusetts.
Where does this leave the Democratic field?
Two candidacies, Warren’s and Biden’s, are in hospice care.
Two candidates, Buttigieg and Klobuchar, competing to be the moderate alternative to Sanders, are in danger of canceling each other out.
Two candidates, Michael Bloomberg and Tom Steyer, are billionaires who will be battling on Super Tuesday to crush the scourge of billionaires, Bernie Sanders.
Bloomberg, the three-term mayor of New York, upon whom the establishment has begun to look like the last best hope of stopping Sanders, has already dumped a third of a billion dollars into his campaign.
His poll numbers have risen accordingly, and he is probably the strongest challenger to Sanders now, because, with his $60 billion fortune, he can sustain himself and his organization through the convention.
But would Sanders lose gracefully to a plutocrat who deployed his billions to deny him a nomination Sanders has sought for half a decade?
Would Bernie Bros, who believe they were cheated out of the nomination in 2016, accept defeat and support a billionaire they believe robbed them of a prize they thought they had won fairly?
Bloomberg is now facing more serious matters as a candidate in a party of minorities. Here is an excerpt from an audiotape of Mayor Mike at a 2015 conference in Aspen, Colorado, addressing the crime-fighting tactic of stop and frisk that he used for years as mayor.
“Ninety-five percent of your murders and murderers and murder victims fit one M.O. You can just take the description, Xerox it and pass it out to all the cops. They are male minorities, 15 to 25,” said Bloomberg.
“One of the unintended consequences is people say, ‘Oh, my God, you are arresting kids for marijuana that are all minorities.’ Yes, that’s true. Why? Because we put all the cops in minority neighborhoods. … Why do we do it? Because that is where all the crime is. … And the way you get the guns out of the kids’ hands is to throw them up against the wall and frisk them.”
Midweek, it was learned that Bloomberg, during the economic crisis in 2008, said that getting rid of “redlining” — a policy by which bankers routinely deny mortgages to low-income largely minority neighborhoods circled in red as risky — was to blame for the collapse.
In remarks at Georgetown University in 2008, Bloomberg said:
“It all started back when there was a lot of pressure on banks to make loans to everyone. … Redlining …was the term where banks took whole neighborhoods and said, ‘People in these neighborhoods are poor, they’re not going to be able to pay off their mortgages, tell your salesmen don’t go into those areas.’”
In presidential elections, Democratic candidates win 90-95% of the black vote. After revelations of his candid discussions of the merits of redlining and the benefits of stop and frisk, Bloomberg may have a tough time climbing that hill.
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Say what you want about Bernie but all of the right people hate him: The MIC, big pharma, the Israel lobby, Wall street and the Banksters. He has replaced Trump as the ‘disruptor’. As a committed and proud non-voter I really don’t give a shit but I’d kind of like to see Bernie win. I think it would be enjoyable to hear all of the pigs at the public trough squeal. Blankfein started just yesterday according to Drudge. As for capitalism vs socialism, don’t make me laugh. We all had a shot at that with Dr. Paul and Mitt and MCShit trounced him.
BTW all those groups who are allied against Bernie-are backing Trump. What does that tell you?
Bernie was on the Right before the right was on the Right … but that was then.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XPJY4f75ls
Oh sure, I knew. He’s a lying, scheming, power mad, bullshit artist. He just not quite as scummy as those opposed to him. It’s what you wind up with when you vote: “At least he’s not Hillary”. GIGO.
What do you get when you don’t vote ?
You get to join the majority (more eligible non-voters in 16 than voted for the Dummos or the Repos) who tell TPTB to shove their voting scam up their asses. It’s as close to a “None of the above” vote as THEY will allow us.
BTW, I think Bloomie will announce Stacy Abrams as his running mate. He’ll buy her black ass with his spare change. A black female to offset his stop and frisk history. Then he’s in the game big time. It’s going to be hilarious to watch.
You presume chaos preferably to compromise. It may be “hilarious to watch”, but for how long ?
Compromise? Are you kidding? It doesn’t matter what I ‘prefer’. THEY don’t give a shit about my preferences-yours either. We’re not in the club. But don’t let me rain on your parade. Go vote your ass off.
The schadenfreude of watching the elite get defenestrated would be short lived…..if you have ever been to an authoritarian regime…..everybody suffers especially those perceived as not wholly dependent on the government…..that makes them a threat to the monopoly on power held by the regime.
Make no mistake Bernie is no kindly grandpa with well intended but overly expensive ideas…….he is the wolf in sheep’s clothing.
Of course we also want to destroy the current system but the argument that letting the commies take over to take out the current elites is a serious mistake……
Did someone mention creeper joe?
“Two candidates, Bootiejig and Snowman Klobuchar, competing to be the moderate alternative…”
There is no such thing as a demorat moderate candidate. They all want to give out ‘free’ everything and open re-education camps.
Tony, if you had attended Old Timer’s class yesterday, you would know the Democrats are the LGBTQ party. Moderate Democrat would be the bi-sexual.
I do not want to have a faggot President.
Go right nicely with your queer Texas ass.
You mean like we had from 2009 to 2017?