Bloomberg to run for President on the Dem ticket?

[fidelity]

Do you really think Hildebeast would be less anti-gun than Bloomturd? Seems to me thats like being given a choice between an anal probe with 49,999.9 volts and one with 50,000 volts.

Seriously? It's his cause celebre. Hillary will be wherever the political winds take her. I don't trust her on gun control, but I think she's not as singularly focused on it as he is, nor can she reach across the aisle as easily as Bloomberg to moderate Republicans to cobble majority votes in Congress.

 

[juan_galto]

I still say Shrillary is out there as a stalking whore... I mean horse... taking the arrows while the 'real' field gets put together.

You mean that she's taking shots as a willing shield? Or do you think she's been put up to it all the while thinking she has Dem leadership support where she really does not?

I've heard analysts speculate that the trade issue may be enough to bring Warren into the ring. That would be a seismic blow to Clinton and may be the jolt the Dems have been desperately seeking since the holidays.

I'm pretty nervous about the GOP candidates. Only a couple of genuinely electable people--we really need a lights out candidate.

 

[fidelity]

It would be amusing to see him pillory the "rich" and Wall Street during his campaign.

Maybe he's hinting to run to keep Warren at bay. If Bloomberg and Warren were in the Democratic primary with Hillary, Hillary could run in between them, and position herself as the moderate in the party. It might be an easier win. I think Warren is the only true threat to Hillary if she runs. She fires up the Democratic base like no current candidate.

 

[Mr H]

You mean that she's taking shots as a willing shield? Or do you think she's been put up to it all the while thinking she has Dem leadership support where she really does not?

I think it's a hybrid.

She will run if the 'right' candidate can't be solidified, but for the time being she's taking the shots from the media and public with house money.

There are reasons she's only doing small groups, and not answering questions. Her baggage and lack of good ideas are things they don't want to expose, so they play rope-a-dope and let the frenzy play out while the D house is put in order.

JMO...

 

[juan_galto]

I think it's a hybrid.

She will run if the 'right' candidate can't be solidified, but for the time being she's taking the shots from the media and public with house money.

There are reasons she's only doing small groups, and not answering questions. Her baggage and lack of good ideas are things they don't want to expose, so they play rope-a-dope and let the frenzy play out while the D house is put in order.

JMO...

You know, there've been quiet ruminations about her health. Curiously none about her age, which is a legitimate consideration. I wondered about that, too, for Kerry when WaPo published something about him running a month or two ago.

She is the plan b candidate for Dems IMO. She's genuinely unlikeable, and she'd burn the house down with scandal after scandal. However, her ego is just too big to willingly be a punching bag for the party. I also have a hard time seeing the party convincing her to run unless they were willing to add to her legacy in some capacity.

I've wondered if she's running, damn the torpedoes in her own party, and the Dems are torn between her war chest and the lack of another viable candidate.

Sorry if I'm splitting hairs there...

 

[fidelity]

I think it's a hybrid.

She will run if the 'right' candidate can't be solidified, but for the time being she's taking the shots from the media and public with house money.

There are reasons she's only doing small groups, and not answering questions. Her baggage and lack of good ideas are things they don't want to expose, so they play rope-a-dope and let the frenzy play out while the D house is put in order.

JMO...

She's running. She's not going to sacrifice herself for some back bencher in the Democratic party to get their sh1t together, especially fund raising at the clip that she has been, and signing up the best of the Obama campaign operatives still in the game. No way that she would put the time, effort, and years of planning to do something semi-heroic for her party. It's not her MO. Private email servers are her MO.

She's avoiding the media out of necessity. The more money she raises, the more that she is going to say that she wants to take this vote directly to the people without the media filter. Because this time, as her campaign slogan implies, it's not about her.

 

[danb]

Occams Razor: She is avoiding the media for the same reason Brown did. Shes a lousy candidate.

 

[BeoBill]

Occams Razor: She is avoiding the media for the same reason Brown did. Shes a lousy candidate.

Seems both possible and probable. The Dems' bench isn't too deep right now.

 

[FFMike]

Maybe he will be OWEMALLY's running mate and we can watch both go down in flames!

 

[Doctor_M]

Didn't there used to be such a thing as a conservative democrat? I'm looking at the list of potential dems and thinking "wow... there's diversity of thought".

Clinton... Leftist/Socialist
Sanders.... Pure Socialist
Bloomberg... Leftist/Socialist
Warren... Serious Leftist/Socialist/nut-job
O'Malley... Leftist/Socialist
Cuomo... Leftist/Socialist
Biden... Leftist/Idiot
Webb... Moderate Leftist (arguably)

I guess there will be no "triangulation towards the center" in the dem. party this cycle. OK by me.... I'd rather have them show their true colors and fight on the battlefield of ideas.

 

[danb]

Didn't there used to be such a thing as a conservative democrat? I'm looking at the list of potential dems and thinking "wow... there's diversity of thought".

Clinton... Leftist/Socialist
Sanders.... Pure Socialist
Bloomberg... Leftist/Socialist
Warren... Serious Leftist/Socialist/nut-job
O'Malley... Leftist/Socialist
Cuomo... Leftist/Socialist
Biden... Leftist/Idiot
Webb... Moderate Leftist (arguably)

I guess there will be no "triangulation towards the center" in the dem. party this cycle. OK by me.... I'd rather have them show their true colors and fight on the battlefield of ideas.

Bloomberg is strongly pro-business, fiscally conservative, and anti-union. He also revamped school choice in NYC and got a lot of charter schools approved. He is most definitely not a socialist. He is progressive on social issues, and a downright nanny on some social issues. But he is very right of center on fiscal /economic issues (and school choice) - more so than some of the Republicans running like Christie, and definitely Webb. This is what makes him dangerous on the Dem ticket.

 

[Doctor_M]

I'll give you that he is a capitalist (so I stand corrected on that point, he is not in fact a socialist... but he does a pretty good imitation of one from time to time), but his leftist policies and nanny tendencies lead me to believe that if he ever got into a position where he could seriously influence taxation schemes on anything beyond a city-level.... well, we would be looking at a very confiscatory system designed at re-distribution. I believe that he has stated many times that all income should be taxed at the ordinary income level and that he would favor a much higher progressive rate.

He is bad mojo in my book either way.

 

[danb]

There are plenty of progressive pod people with nanny tendencies on the GOP side as well. Just depends on what your pet issue is.

 

[Doctor_M]

There are plenty of progressive pod people with nanny tendencies on the GOP side as well. Just depends on what your pet issue is.

No argument on that. There are probably 50% of the current crop of GOP candidates who will force me to vote libertarian (again) or write-in if they win the nomination.

 

[abean4187]

Do you really think Hildebeast would be less anti-gun than Bloomturd? Seems to me thats like being given a choice between an anal probe with 49,999.9 volts and one with 50,000 volts.

I would take Bloomberg over Hillary. They are both incredibly anti gun but Bloomberg is visibly anti gun. His presidency would at least inspire another arms race and get more guns in more people's hands. He'd be an even better gun sales man than Obama ever was.

 

[Mr H]

Maybe he will be OWEMALLY's running mate and we can watch both go down in flames!

Like either of them would want to be VP......

 

[Docster]

It's laughable to waste any time on the concept of it or the New York Post.....

 

[BeoBill]

Didn't there used to be such a thing as a conservative democrat? I'm looking at the list of potential dems and thinking "wow... there's diversity of thought".

Clinton... Leftist/Socialist
Sanders.... Pure Socialist
Bloomberg... Leftist/Socialist
Warren... Serious Leftist/Socialist/nut-job
O'Malley... Leftist/Socialist
Cuomo... Leftist/Socialist
Biden... Leftist/Idiot
Webb... Moderate Leftist (arguably)

I guess there will be no "triangulation towards the center" in the dem. party this cycle. OK by me.... I'd rather have them show their true colors and fight on the battlefield of ideas.

Just look at the Communists running the party. No surprises there. To them these people are Conservative.

 

[SW6906user]

Maybe he will be OWEMALLY's running mate and we can watch both go down in flames!

Now that would be an fugly ticket!!!