Guest Post by Pat Buchanan
Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Vice President Biden are being told that if they do not get out of the race and clear the lane for the mayor, they will get a socialist as their nominee, and the party will deserve the fate November will bring — a second term for Trump.
Wednesday night in Las Vegas, Mayor Mike Bloomberg learned what it is like to be thrown up against a wall and frisked.
At the opening of the Democratic debate, his first, Mayor Mike was greeted by his nearest neighbor on stage, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, with this warm welcome:
“We’re running against … a billionaire who calls women ‘fat broads’ and ‘horse-faced lesbians.’ And, no, I’m not talking about Donald Trump. I’m talking about Mayor Bloomberg.”
Bloomberg was not only charged with misogyny and sexism but racism for his stop-and-frisk policy, which the NYPD pursued during his three terms as mayor. By Bloomberg’s own admission, stop and frisk singled out black men between 16 and 25.
Undiscussed were the positive results of the policy.
Gun homicides in New York fell to levels below those attained by his predecessor, Rudy Giuliani. And if those most often frisked were black and Hispanic men, the lives saved and the woundings prevented were also mostly those of people of color.
Yet, a question that remains after this debate was one that was puzzling even before the debate.
Why did he do it? Why did Bloomberg, who is not on the Nevada or South Carolina ballot, decide to join the debates before these contests?
Today, the mayor’s campaign is probably buying tens of millions of dollars in ads to undo the damage done to him under the remorseless fire on his character, campaign and record from his rivals Wednesday night.
These attacks were predictable and predicted. Why did he submit to this? Who counseled Bloomberg to climb into the ring?
By investing $350 million in ads in primary states since November and crafting scheduled appearances while avoiding adversarial talk shows and candidate debates, Bloomberg had propelled himself from nowhere into the top tier of candidates in every state on Super Tuesday.
Why did he abandon a winning strategy to walk out, unprepared, onto a stage full of enraged and exasperated rivals who think he is buying and stealing a nomination for which they have fought for a year?
Why did he volunteer to enter a forum where he had to know his rivals would become a flash mob before he answered his first question? This was campaign malpractice of historic dimensions.
It is going to take hundreds of millions of dollars in new ads to undo the damage done to Bloomberg’s reputation among the millions of voters who got their first impression of the mayor from the debate.
Where does the race stand before Saturday’s caucuses in Nevada?
Sen. Bernie Sanders, his energy restored after his heart attack a few months back, his lines honed by a year’s repetition, was at the top of his game Wednesday night, fending off attacks and fighting back with a passion and ferocity that Bloomberg never exhibited.
With his popular vote victories in Iowa and New Hampshire, five national polls showing him taking the lead from Joe Biden, and contributions pouring in from his huge army of small donors, Sanders is the favorite to win in Nevada and man to stop.
But after Super Tuesday, March 3, he may be unstoppable.
A new Washington Post poll Wednesday shows Sanders with a huge lead among young voters and in a statistical tie with Joe Biden among African Americans. And he is flush with cash.
March 4 could see Sanders with an almost insurmountable lead that could have him enter the Milwaukee convention with a majority of delegates or a plurality so huge as to make it politically impossible for his adversaries to gang up on him and take the nomination away.
For who would be the beneficiary of such a robbery on the convention floor? The same Bloomberg his rivals described Wednesday night as a misogynist, sexist and racist.
Bloomberg’s campaign is sounding the alarm that Sanders could soon amass an insurmountable delegate lead if the Democratic field stays split, and is urging the other candidates to drop out.
Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Vice President Biden are being told that if they do not get out of the race and clear the lane for the mayor, they will get a socialist as their nominee, and the party will deserve the fate November will bring — a second term for Trump.
Bloomberg’s strategist Kevin Sheekey was pointedly warned by staffers on Thursday:
“If Biden, Buttigieg, and Klobuchar remain in the race despite having no path to appreciably collecting delegates on Super Tuesday (and beyond), they will propel Sanders to a seemingly insurmountable delegate lead by siphoning votes away from (Bloomberg).”
As the other candidates cannot beat Sanders, Bloomberg’s campaign is saying, they should step aside and clear the field for Mayor Mike. This would call for a spirit of self-sacrifice and measure of esteem for the mayor not evident on that stage Wednesday night.
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I hate politics with a fervor. I dislike the people involved in it and the deep, pervasive dishonesty of everyone involved.
What fascinates me is how imperceptible reality is to those invested in politics.
Like last time you would have to be either stupid or on someone’s payroll not to see where this is headed.
The Democrats cannot win this election no matter what they do and I’m taking into account the vote rigging they are able to command in their urban strongholds. Even with all their cheating, they are doomed to be crushed in November. If tomorrow every one of the current candidates all got together behind whoever they imagined was the best candidate and all pledged their loyal support they would be lucky to get a McGovern style loss on election day.
And they did it to themselves.
I won’t lay out the crowd psychology element of having gone after Trump for three and half years and not deliver a single blow- that effect is almost impossible to quantify among the rabble that is our electorate, but it plays a part in the coming denoument.
It’s the faces.
This is a pure physiognomy contest.
They are a party committed to the ugly, the misshapen, the deformed and the perverted and everyone with two eyeballs can see it even if they can’t articulate it. All they had to do was find one telegenic nobody without too much baggage and they could have had a chance, but they believe their own lies.
Bloomberg? Seriously? He radiates antipathy and white hot hatred of anything and anybody not at his disposal. His teeny, tiny little Honey I Shrunk the Mayor body looks at home when he’s visiting a grammar school.but in grown up land he looks like one of those annoying midgets from Lollipop Guild. And while I found the horse faced lesbian line pretty funny, it describes two of his opponents to a T, so he’s eating his own. Urban Jews will vote for him in a block, but that’s about all he’s got. Bloomberg is not a serious contender for the Presidency, but it looks to me like he’s buying the party for future use.
Your very last line explained true politics.
Future candidates will be fawning over him for the money.
Democrat Party Politics = Whores and Midnight Bribes
Whether it’s today or the age of telegraph and heliograph. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliograph
Having a 30 or 40 year lookback window for kiss and tell accusations makes any man a target for destruction, politician or otherwise.
https://www.wmur.com/article/nh-lawmakers-consider-eliminating-statute-of-limitations-for-civil-sexual-assault-allegations/31027699
ha ha ha … the more things change…
HF: Wonderful and incisive comments. Tip of the cap to you. The stage reminded me of a high school election more than one for a candidate for the Presidency of the United States. Sorry to say but it’s true.
Politician is synonymous with lying POS. They say and promise whatever appeals to the voting bloc they’re attempting to attract at the time.
e.g… Mini-Mike will tell the truth when useful for capturing the sane world vote. He’s done it before. Now he’s remade himself into just another lying, rat-faced politico serving up sugar-coated shit sandwiches to the clown world crazies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxdcPQcm-I4
I’m not buying the “Trump is going to win in a landslide” theory. There is some real enthusiasm behind Sanders and you can’t underestimate the willingness of people to vote against something they have illogically decided to hate (ie., Trump). This is a mirror image of the Republicans and Trump in 2016. In February 2016, everyone thought the Repubs and Trump were destined for the dustbin of history. Sadly the country is changing state by state. This election will be a close one, even if Sanders is the Dem nominee.
“Why did he volunteer to enter a forum where he had to know his rivals would become a flash mob before he answered his first question?”
Hubris. Masters of the Universe are usually taken down by their ego and lack of humanity.
I care enough about politics only to watch and enjoy the demoralisation of ignorant echo chamber parroting brain dead millennials, democrats are dead in the water, more and more are leaving the party and becoming independants, good for them.
My fear is how bad will it get when the two parties understand the loss of power and start losing it in their effort to retain power. Maybe it won’t be bad at all, maybe they’ll just shut up and go away…….. HaHaHaHaHaHaHa!!!!!
“Fat broads” and “horse-faced lesbians”. I have a newfound affinity for that little Jew. Not much, just a little bit.
…lazy niggers as well. He is not all wrong.
Nevermind
Michael Bloomberg, for all of his psychotic-sized fucking fortune, has the warmth and charm and of an undertaker and all the the charisma of a rutabaga.
So let him, a mega-billionaire with unlimited resources, have his fun. And also let his fuktard Lib-Prog associates on the stump have their fun too; with him.
A pie-in-the-face contest can be a joy to watch (and even Pete Buttgag would love this):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-vBAGKSAT4