I guess Bloomberg is convinced his “good friend” Hillary will get the nomination. And all he had to do to put his thumb on the scale for Clinton was issue a press release. Everybody should have good friends on Wall Street, but of course not everybody is in a position to return “favors”.
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Beyond obvious. I believe he explicitly said so with his first trial balloon. Second trial balloon might not have been clear, but it didn’t contradict what he said with the first one.
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Well we could always start a rumor that the Green Party has a secret plan and is amassing millions in Republican dark money and will attempt to win over disaffected Bernie voters for a third party run in the general. What the hell, let’s throw Nader in there as the Green Party nominee!
(Ducks, runs for cover)
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Yes, because there were legions of voters who were all set to vote for Sanders until they found out the former mayor of NYC might get in the race if Sanders won the nomination. Legions of voters, probably tens of them.
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How the electorate is so awash with hate that Hillary will be defeated. Yes, I’ll feel a little silly for worrying about it when that doesn’t happen.
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Or like some of us who understand Wall Street and banks and don’t buy into Bernie Sanders fear mongering he was concerned that Sanders could cause as much damage to the economy as Trump.
I think a lot of Sanders supporters have a hard time understanding that no matter how much one agrees with his philosophical positions and his push for economic equality his BS about Wall Street being cause of all issues can be a disqualifier. It’s his version of blaming a group for societies problems. Trump has immigrants and Muslims, Sanders has “evil Wall Street bankers.”
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And a bunch of supposedly savvy political observers would idiotically fall for it and immediately reach for the fainting couch before ever bothering to hear from Sanders, the Green Party, or even Nader.
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I always remember one number: 35%. It’s the % of the Latino vote any candidate will need in order to get elected. I have too much faith in my brown brothers and sisters to think they’d do that to themselves.
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TPM:
Aides also went so far as to draft campaign themes for his campaign, including slogans that included "“All Work and No Party,” and “Fix It,” according to The Times.
I’m thinking Bloomberg decided against running when he realized it was a lost cause if those were the best slogans his aides could come up with. They’re just cringeworthy.
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But Jeb Can Fix It! worked out so well, so why not Mike Can Fix It!
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‘Little Guy But Hands Bigger Than Trump’ was a great slogan idea…
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Bloomberg would probably be a terrible treasury secretary. Treasury Sec. and Fed Chair are all about macroeconomics, which wealthy business people typically fail to grok.
Though I suppose there’s a good chance Hillary would pick someone from the investment banking world, which would be no better.
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J. Bradford Delong for Treasury. Except that he’d never clear the Senate.
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We’re already into post-mortems?!
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Another way of putting that is to say Trump targets the powerless - while Sanders aims for the people with actual power, who are clearly abusing it for personal gain at the expense of the rest of America.
Are conservative billionaires Americas’s only problem? Of course not. But we pretty much have to deal with them before we can fix anything else, or they’ll just pour all their money into blocking any attempt to improve the lives of non-wealthy Americans.
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Bloomberg Rules Out Run For President
Well, the electorate was way ahead of you.
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I think he’s just afraid to stand up to a fascist. Didn’t all the rich industrialists cave to the Nazis without feeling the least bit ashamed of how they let a bigoted madman take over their country?
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To say they caved is too generous. Most of them were too busy profiting from, and willfully allying themselves with, the Nazis.
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Targeting people with “power” in itself is no different than when Trump supporters “rally” around “establishment”. Its amorphous targeting of the other. Just because the left is doing it doesn’t make it right.
Sanders is essentially pretending targeting Wall Street is the root of problems. That is not even close to the truth. Its just an easy target and a simple solution. Unfortunately everyone has devolved to just looking for easy answers. No one wants to hear how much hard and complex work it will take to restore middle class, to reduce concentration of wealth.
And if the voters ACTUALLY learned about topic such as Wall Street, economy, trade, and jobs then no matter how much money the “rich” pour in it wouldn’t matter. It only matters because everyone is listening to overly simplistic one sentence answers.
Noun, verb, Wall Street. The left mocked it when it was Giuliani, now some of the left is eating it up from Sanders. How ironic.
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Bears repeating.
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