Agreed. There is a lot to like about his many long term principled positions. Unfortunately, there are many positions that aren’t good. That said, he’s the best of the bunch and most capable of beating Donnie.
Bloomberg screwed up.... He's the smartest the most capable person on that stage. He should have treated the rest of them like the children that they are in comparison to him.
He could have walked away with a hands-down victory last night if only had not taken very poor advice to be politically correct.
That was such a beating last night I'm not sure he can even recover from it. Either that or he'll have to spend the the extra billion.
Jo
Bloomie is an elitist asshole totally out of touch. This column tells you all you need to know about little Mike.
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
Bloomberg is the Equal Evil
by
NICHOLAS LEVIS
An oligarch is trying to buy the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination with cash payments from his own personal fortune. If his takeover attempt succeeds, it will smash the party and assure the reelection of Donald Trump. Given their shared interests, we might wonder whether that is Michael Bloomberg’s true intent. His cynical campaign is based on deceiving people into believing the opposite, that he would be a strong candidate against Trump. Many also believe, falsely, that Bloomberg presents a lesser evil than Trump. The following is presented in refutation of these false premises.
Bloomberg’s 12-year record as mayor of New York, his billions in personal spending as a political and “philanthropic” donor, and his many recorded public statements all suggest strongly that a Bloomberg regime would be at least as extreme, dangerous to democracy, lawless, and warlike as a second Trump term. I would never vote for either of these men, who are similar in all the ways that matter most, including a shared record as serial purveyors of misogynistic harrassment of women. Even were it possible to persuade me to “vote blue no matter who” in Bloomberg’s case, there is little point in trying. Tens of millions of others who might vote for a Democrat against Trump will never vote for Bloomberg, the Republican oligarch, if he seizes control of the party.
Republican Oligarch
Bloomberg is a long-standing Republican billionaire from New York City, rated as one of the ten richest men in the United States. He supported George W. Bush for president in 2000 and endorsed Bush’s reelection in 2004. As a speaker at the Republican nominating convention in New York that year, then Mayor Bloomberg heaped praise on the criminal invasion of Iraq and the “war on terror.” In 2008, Bloomberg endorsed John McCain against Barack Obama.
Bloomberg is the Equal Evil - CounterPunch.org
