Bloomberg has had 360 positions on every issue.

[DURHAM D]

Link to tweet

If 2015 or '16 Bloomberg said he would run 3rd party if Bernie got the nomination.

[dem4decades]

1. 360 positions? So he's well rounded.

[DURHAM D]

2. Indeed.

He can roll in any direction.

[BusyBeingBest]

3. I believe Bernie would have beaten Donald Trump.

Is there a problem with believing that?

[DURHAM D]

4. BS would have joined Mondale and McGovern in

the number of states lost/won.

[thesquanderer]

11. I think if our side had run an anti-establishment candidate with good blue collar appeal...

...yeah, we probably would have won. We could have gotten a lot more people who ended up going for Trump, and I think we still would have gotten all the Dems and anti-Trumpers who we got anyway.

[Mz Pip]

6. No ads ran against Bernie in 2016

from Trump.

Now there will be ads 24/7 of him praising Castro (can kiss Florida good bye with that), his support for the Iran hostage takers in 1980 won’t do him any good either. There are at least 40 years of his speeches that the GOP will comb through. It won’t be pretty.

[BusyBeingBest]

7. I think the national mood was such in 2016 that an anti-establishment

candidate on our side (Bernie) may have done better. That's why Trump appealed to so many--a non-politician TV personality who was the hero for the "I don't care" dumbshits who unfortunately still vote in this country. Now, I'm not so sure that's the national mood anymore, unfortunately for Bernie. More uphill for him this time around.

[hedda_foil]

10. I completely agree with you, BBB.

And yes, I voted for Hillary. But his appeal to working class voters because of his positions on labor and trade was self-evident. And Trump appealed to the same group. Think of it this way: Who ya gonna vote for? The bragging bully who had never put his money where his big mouth was or a Senator who has taken the positions you want on crucial issues to you for the past 40 years? It's pretty obvious who meant it and who might or might not.

Does that mean that the trade policies Bernie advocates were all that great? Of course not. But unlike Trump, he would not have ignored Congress or destroyed the Justice system, and he knows how to compromise when necessary.

[BusyBeingBest]

12. Yes--you put it better than I did, especially about the working class appeal.

[hedda_foil]

13. Thanks!

[TwilightZone]

5. Yeah, I'd have to disagree with him there.

Without exposure to GOP vetting, we really don't know if Sanders would have won, the claims to the contrary notwithstanding. Personally, I think the stack of stuff they are no doubt sitting on would be a formidable problem in the GE.

[wisteria]

8. Confused? and opportunist? or a liar?

None are good qualities to be President

[DanTex]

9. Hmm, so even Bloomberg understands the need to nominate a progressive who will excite the base.