Michael Bloomberg and the eternally Pearls Clutching Political Left

As I type this Bloomberg is getting ready to appear on the debate stage wherein it is expected that very nervous Dem Party candidates are going to pile on the man worth 60 billion dollars and who is openly in the process of buying the Dem Party's presidential nomination. Meanwhile video after video has revealed that Bloomberg actually IS what the political Left have claimed in regards to Trump, a ruthless oligarch type and an obvious bigot and racist and misogynist.

So much for the political Left having ever really been serious about those issues as a political Party back during the Obama years when they were constantly shrieking about racism; and then later on about misogyny and ALWAYS about the evils of rich people. Most of them never really meant it. For most of them it was only ever really just a cynical political ploy and the proof is that they are not even thinking about donning their cute little kitty hats and protesting Mike Bloomberg in the midst of his overt purchasing of their DNC or kicking Black Lives Matter back into gear and going after Bloomberg from that angle. They NEVER . . . really meant it. It was all just Pearls Clutching political theater.

The thing is that now they cannot credibly point to racial and misogynistic or oligarchy rule as issues as being fundamentally important to them again until they openly reject Bloomberg for those very reasons -- and his many billions of dollars be damned. Tonight the Dem Party leadership -- such as they are -- have a chance to reject Bloomberg in a way that actually matters to whom they PRETEND to be as a Party. Let's see if any of them have enough integrity to go to the wall on that issue.

 

Trump and Bloomberg are just two sides of the same coin. If we’re going to have one of them in office, it might as well be the more successful, wealthier Bloomberg.

 

Trump is much less boorish than Bloomberg.

Trump has a proven record as a successful president and he’s got 100x more charisma than Bloomberg. Trump relates to ordinary people; Bloomberg can’t.

It wouldn’t be a fair fight.

 

Great, now try and sell that to the looney hard-leftist Dems who are about to turn on Bloomers like a pack of rabid dogs.

 

Is this coming from the lefties? A party who condemns the rich and supports redistribution of wealth. Looks out for the middle class and the poor. Never asserts his beliefs on the general public and has a record of being fair to all races.
Face it, Bloomberg is Trump on steroids.
You have Komrad Bernie Freeshit Sanders why yesterday added to his craziness by declaring he will build 10 million low income homes AND enforce rent controls on all existing landlords.
Your party is ****ed in the head.

 

So we have one agreement that the political Left never really meant what they HOWLED for all those years. Next?

 

Exactly that.

"All that stuff we said that was bad and evil about Trump, yeah, it's all totally cool if it's our guy doing it."

 

That's just it; that's what they should do. But also by now there SHOULD be kitty-hat leftist protesters and Madonna shrieking -- FU! -- and BLM and anti-wealthy leftists rioting in the streets over Bloomberg and yet . . . nothing.

 

For that statement to be true, the left would have to embrace Bloomberg as the candidate. And all I'm seeing is the rest of the candidates lining up to spit on him.

 

What you are blatantly NOT seeing are leftists protesting Bloomberg's bigotry, racism, misogyny, or oligarchical ambitions. There are zero kitty hat protesters, no Madonna shrieking at Bloomberg -- FU! -- no BLM protesters . . . nothing. Thus the political Left never really meant any of it. All of that was just political theater. Busted!

 

They tend to do that to anyone that is gaining in the polls. Kinda like King on the Mountain.

 

He has more problems than his lack of social grace and prejudices. His love of China would be first on my list.

 

Oh that too, but the fun part for me is the over-the-top and open and awesome level of overt hypocrisy on the part of the political Left in regards to Bloomberg. It is as if they are helping him drag their reputation as a party through the mud. You can't purchase entertainment value like that.

 

I am currently sitting and listening to leftie radio and all the pinheads in the DNC stuttering as they try to wrap their hands around the upcoming debate that I might actually tune in to watch. These freakin idiots tearing into Freeshit Sanders and I'll Mikey, all sandwiched between a programed robot gay guy who looks like Howdy Doody and a woman who brags about her hotdish recipes and eats her salad with a comb will be comedy TV like never before seen.

Half of me wants Mikey Bloomberg to win, so he can stand on the stage, suitcoat pockets with stuffed with $$$, openly passing out c-notes to anyone who will sign a document promising they will vote for him, and the other half wants Komrad Bernie, hair combed with a balloon, standing on the debate stage, shouting and wandering around jabbing his finger at the audience promising them, in his administration, everything will be free for everyone forever.
I will say it again, the democrat party is ****ed in the head.

 

If you haven't seen a difference in the level and content of the attacks from the other candidates then I can't help you.

 

So you expect the same level of protestation against a candidate that hasn't even been on the debate stage or on any primary ballots as the man who sits in the WH? You don't see a difference?

 

It's the end result of the Left's philosophy of promising everything to everybody with a cracked pot in hand. The Daily Kos just finished producing an article that essentially said what I just said in this OP of mine; that if the Left does not rise up in protest over even considering a Bloomberg nomination then they have officially become a Party of ZERO political standards. Actually I think they crossed that line back in 2008; but so it goes.

Yes this is going to be a very entertaining debate tonight and the entertainment factor is only going to continue elevating as this farce of a leftist primary continues before the increasingly disbelieving eyes of the nation.

 

The political Left didn't hesitate to do just that to candidate Trump and yet here is Bloomberg -- the political antithesis of what the Left CLAIMS to believe in -- openly trying to purchase their Party's nomination and yet . . . nothing? Hahahahaha!

 

Dude. I’m only a “lefty” on this board. I’m a lifelong gun owner, hunter and fiscal conservative. I consider myself more in the model of Eisenhower than any other. I don’t even come close to “representing” people in the Democratic Party

 

All I posted was that there was an agreement.

 

can someone help me out and explain the "buying the nomination" point that keeps being brought up?

I honestly haven't been glued to the dnc side of things because I haven't felt the need to care about so many candidates, waiting till it gets whittled down, I'm thinking its a 2 person race after super Tuesday, at the most 3.

The only thing I've noticed about Mike B is the massive # of TV ads he's pushing locally, thank god for DVR's, but the ones I've watched haven't been inspiring to be honest.

 

Help me out here, because I really haven't (seen a difference), Its simple, once he started gathering steam in the polls the attack dogs came out and it turns out he has several serious warts.

Warts that his opponents would be foolish to not go after, assuming they are serious about trying to win the nomination. If I was bernie's team I'd be going hard and heavy after him, especially with what appears to be some egregious stuff.

 

I don't need help but thanks. I can see the Democrat **** storm just fine from here. I am totally amused.

 

There is only one question I want answered by each candidate. "Will you support whoever's the Democratic nominee?"

Of course that won't be asked because if they all answered yes we'd know them for the sellout frauds they'd be...

 

The only reason we are even talking about Bloomberg is because of his ad spending. He has done nothing else to further his bid for candidacy at this point. By contrast, Trump had fully declared and been on the debate stage at this point in the race. And he had been belittling his fellow candidates and caught on tape making sexual references. Should Bloomberg

My point, simply, was that the left has not embraced Bloomberg. I haven't seen people supporting his run on any of the left wing media. So to be accused of not getting my panties in a bunch over someone who will not win the nomination is just bluster.

What I am happy to see is all the money he has spent on ads shining a spotlight on Trump. He is laying the foundation for the successful nominee. And he has vowed to continue to do so, even if he doesn't get the nod. (which he won't).