Why is the DNC selling their nomination to Bloomberg?

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  1. Jimbo11

    Jimbo11 Well-Known Member

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    Let's see...Has Boomberg ever:

    -Had multiple bankruptcies?
    -Stolen from his own charity and ordered by a court to pay 2 Million?
    -Had multiple women claim sexual harassment or rape?
    -Been Impeached?

    The list goes on. Low information FOX viewers are still living in Ya Ya land. Mike will educate them.....
     
  2. LoneStarGal

    LoneStarGal Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    It doesn't matter. Trump has the incumbent's advantage and now a political track record on policy and action to keeping true to his campaign direction.

    Democrats are split between a Socialist the majority don't want and now Bloomberg who is catching grief for buying the nomination.

    Left-wing media is being more critical of Bloomberg than Bernie. That's not a good sign for Bloomberg.

     
  3. Spim

    Spim Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    late entry will only hurt him if he doesn't dominate, or at least leap to #2 on super tuesday. having half a dozen candidates sucking a % away doesn't help.
     
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    Dispondent Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    He lacks the ground crew to keep enthusiasm high and get out the vote. People tune out commercials quickly and that's all Bloomberg has right now. Ground game fills stadiums. Trump and Bernie can do that, Bloomberg can't. That's how you win elections...
     
  5. Spim

    Spim Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought superpacs couldnt donate to a candidate.

    I'm not educated on the intricacies of campaign contributions to be honest.
     
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    Spim Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    i.agree with this.

    does the dnc really want trump lite?
     
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    Spim Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I cant disagree.

    i still think Bernie's base seems strong enough to hold off Bloomberg, but we'll know soon enough
     
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    Dispondent Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Has Bloomberg ever won an election outside NYC? You are putting your eggs in an tested basket. Did you learn nothing from Biden's hilarious fall?
     
  9. LogNDog

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    Perez is lazy, stupid and has a huge ego. That's all it takes. He is not even mediocre at his job, fundraising, so he just sells out to fill the coffers. His 30 pieces of silver.
     
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    Yes, he came in at the last minute..."whataboutism" fail.
     
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    bricklayer Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    What's a "D"?
     
  12. Creasy Tvedt

    Creasy Tvedt Well-Known Member

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    He's a super frisk, a super frisk, Mini Mike is super frisky.

    Thank you, ladies and germs. I'll be here all week.
     
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  13. bricklayer

    bricklayer Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Oh that. Whatever. Look at it this way. Even if absolutely everything you say is 100% correct, we would still rather put up with those imperfections than have your perfections imposed on us by force of law.

    We must make a choice, and that choice is not between Trump and something else; it's between Trump and someone else.
    Trump doesn't need to be better than the other person; he just needs to be better for me than the other person is for me to get my vote.
    No democrat is even trying to persuade anyone that their candidate is better for me than Trump. All they even try to convey is that anyone other than Trump is better than Trump. No wonder you're losing thousands of voters every week.

    Turning Point USA
    #blexit
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    45IN
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    Creasy Tvedt Well-Known Member

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    Has the squad piped up about Bloomers buying the DNC yet?

    I figured he'd be a ripe target for the squad what with their constant screeching about Jewish shekels buying politics.

    When does that particular pack of rats start attacking Mike's bought-and-paid-for rat PACs?
     
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  15. LoneStarGal

    LoneStarGal Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Lite? More like Trump on steroids. Bloomberg purchased the New York media and political influencers to become Mayor. His spending and advertising-saturation strategy silenced any criticism about his being a nasty misogynist/sexist. They put Bloomberg on a pedestal in the city and the New York Times even wrote an opinion that the city should wave term limits to let Mayor Bloomberg serve a third term. Why should citizens be deprived of a great leader due to pesky things like term limits?

    Imagine Trump paying people off to the extent that media defended and Trump serving a third term. :eek:

    Bloomberg paid for glowing endorsements and blanketed New York with positive ads he paid for. He's running the same strategy on a grand nationwide scale, and it seems to be working for now. Everyone can be influenced for a price.

    It's nice to be emperor. The left will provide the robes and crown for the right person.
     
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    Creasy Tvedt Well-Known Member

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    Bloomers is a prefect test for the Dems to put their morality where their mouthes are.

    I have no doubt that they'll abandon all of their pretenses of moral purity, and sell right the frick out.

    And won't that be fun to watch?
     
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    LoneStarGal Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Morality in politics. That's pretty funny. :p
     
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    The DNC couldn't possibly have picked a worse chairman. Good for Trump.
     
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    Maybe. It could be settled differently at the convention.
     
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    The corrupt DNC does, because it is all about the bucks with them. But all those passionate Bernie Bros? If the DNC does sell the nomination to Bloomberg then at least a third of those fanatics will either sit out or toss their vote away on some obscure write in candidate.
     
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    Tonight's debate will be fun. Every single candidate will be hitting Bloomberg for buying the election and on his sexism and racism. Bloomberg won't have his advertising team or his paid-for endorsers on stage to "say nice things" about him. He's not a convincing ad-lib speaker. If he can avoid answering questions and change the subject to disarming America and cancelling the fossil fuel industry, he might survive relatively unscathed.

    I'm looking forward to watching him squirm tonight.
     
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    Yeah, life's good.
     
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    Oh come on, he conned them for the free publicity.
    Just as he's doing today.

    You know the media makes money by selling ads. The more people they get to watch/click/listen/etc, the more they can charge for ads.
    So they will run with stories that gets an audience.
     
  24. LoneStarGal

    LoneStarGal Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Trump did not con the media into covering his every word and movement. They chose to cover him. There were 17 candidates running for Republican nominee in 2016, and all of them except Trump polled to beat Hillary. They blacked-out media coverage of the real Republicans, laughed at Trump and tried to make him look foolish. They gave Trump $2 billion free media time and made him the nominee. Other Republican candidates had to pay for advertisements, like Bloomberg is doing....but no one had $2 billion to compete.

    Covering Trump in the news brought in advertising dollars. Bloomberg, on the other hand, is not going to get big arenas full of people who like him...or at least find him an entertaining curiosity. Bloomberg has to pay out of pocket $2 billion to get attention. If not for his money, he'd be polling around 5% or less.
     
  25. dairyair

    dairyair Well-Known Member

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    Um, exactly.
     

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