Bloomberg shows the foolishness of arguing over wine caves & purity. Voters just want to beat Trump

[Otto Lidenbrock]

And now Bloomberg who is a billionaire has momentum. He doesn't give a damn what others say because he is only focusing on Trump. He is running a shadow general election campaign while the others were arguing with each other. Voters, the rank and file folks, who are not obsessed with every petty little detail. Most voters are not political obsessives. They will support whoever the democrat is but are seeing Bloomberg take the fight to Trump and like it.

Am I happy that a billionaire ex republican is being seen as some sort of "if in emergency break glass" candidate? No. But it wouldn't have come to this if he didn't sense democrats were tying one arm behind their backs. You can afford to search for the purest candidate when the presidency is an open seat, but when you're running against a sitting president, voters want someone who has a clear path to win. Many voters clearly see him as:

a) someone for whom money is no object so he can match and beat the Trump campaign financially
b) someone who can't be tarred as a socialist
c) someone who has held elected office as Mayor of the biggest city in the nation so he has worthy experience.

[BeyondGeography]

1. Bloomberg shows how Trump has made everything foolish

How absurd is it that many in the Democratic Party are looking to a billionaire with retrograde social views who gave Pat Toomey $15 million in 2016 to defeat Katie McGinty and help Mitch McConnell keep control of the Senate to save them from a President with 40 percent approval ratings? A minimal amount of reflection leads to the inescapable conclusion that we have lost our way.

[redqueen]

5. +1000

[Raven123]

2. d) someone who is wealthier than Trump, and has no problem saying it

Drives Trump nuts

[denem]

3. No. These are different arguments.

One is about the role of money in elections - how much is needed mount a campaign, and run it well.

The other is about purchasing influence - and there is no better example than the principals of the wine cave - which, was being discussed in the news, more than a week before the event

The influence Craig Hall wielded in the late '80s to save his real estate empire forcedHouse Speaker Jim Wright to resign. Then, after a lengthy lobbying and donations, his wife Katherine got the ambassadorship to Austria, where, amongst other things, she could pursue her interest in wine.

Bloomberg isn't taking donation. You can not buy an influence. That is a similar argument to Warren, and Sanders, although from very direction.

[dalton99a]

4. In the age of Trump, only a felony conviction should disqualify a Democrat from consideration

in the general election

[redqueen]

6. He would lose to Trump

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1287498952