Wednesday, March 04, 2020

A Biden Bloomberg Ticket Would Be Best

I don't see Bernie making a comeback. He had his warm month. Now it is Biden as far as the eyes can see. The guy reminds people of Barack Obama, and I wonder why, I wonder how. Not all that is white is white.

Bernie is inflexible: when Medicare For All is not catching fire you tack and offer the public option for now. He lacks nuance: enough said. He has blind spots: you don't praise Castro in Florida. That is not to say Castro can not be praised, but context is important. I think Cuba has had great education and health for a poor country. That Cuba beats the mighty US on infant mortality is an objective fact, even in the Trump fact-free era.

Trump wants to hop onto the time machine and go back to the 1950s. Looks like the Dems just want to go back to the 2010s. It is the Obama stimulus that has created the jobs of the past four years. Biden can take credit while he is at it. He was Vice.

Now the race is on for the number two spot, and I make a case for Mike Bloomberg. "Money talks." That is a Mike Bloomberg quote.

There is the Bloomberg infrastructure, unprecedented, and the best in the business. Biden will have it no matter if he puts Bloomberg on the ticket or not. But don't tell me that makes no difference to Team Bloomberg. For a campaign that started so late, a second place is the first place. It will be victory.

A Biden-Bloomberg ticket will 100% win in November. I will bet you 10 dollars. Who will you rather have, a real billionaire or a fake one? Some people will have the fake one, and that's okay. This is a democracy.

If Biden has been VP of the nation, Bloomberg has been a three term Mayor of NYC. NYC represents all the Dem hubs in the country. Dems are primarily urban. Respect that.

Bernie and Warren can still rage in the US Senate for the public option, why not! Mayor Pete can still be Secretary of Urban Affairs. Klobuchar can keep representing the great state of Minnesota, now more visibly. Kamala Devi Harris can be Attorney General.

But Mike is the only number two who can guarantee victory come November. Every other way it is a 50-50 chance. And don't put your bet on the Coronavirus. It will be gone by summer. You need Mike.








































After Tuesday’s vote Mike Bloomberg followed them. The hope is that he will put his formidable electoral machine and even more formidable wallet behind Mr Biden.


Why Biden Is the Change Candidate




if nothing else the Democratic impeachment effort results in the end of Collins’ Senate career and gives Democrats the 50 seats they need for control of the Senate with a Democrat in the White House next year- perhaps another indication that Nancy Pelosi is playing three dimensional chess.
Parscale: In October, 2019, Thomas B. Edsall wrote a long Times column called “Trump Is Winning the Online War,” listing several of the “technological advances that have allowed Trump and the Republican Party to leave Democrats in the dust.” If money were no object, some of these deficits could be overcome quickly; others might not be surmountable by November........ “In comparison to Trump’s operation, Mike Bloomberg is the only Democrat positioned to compete with him on every single digital platform.”
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Biden's Momentum Now


Joe Biden is in the lead now, and the favored to win the nomination. He wants to strengthen Obamacare, add the public option to it, a tall task in itself, and keep the private insurers in the game. Medicare For All makes too many people jittery. That is a slogan, that is no plan, they think. They hear Bernie say, we will blow up the building first before we build a new one. And a lot of people go, but where do I live in the meantime?

I have noticed since the beginning, Bernie is doing worse this time than he did in 2016 on all sorts of metrics. And as AOC went away, so did the young voters.

Coronavirus will beat Trump. Biden might benefit. He will also benefit from the Bloomberg infrastructure, which is formidable.

Does the number two spot go to Warren or Bloomberg? Or could it be Bernie?

Joe Biden was another one who sat out in 2016 because he thought it was Hillary's year.

Bloomberg considering dropping out after Biden rout
What Went Down On Super Tuesday
Bloomberg on Warren: 'I didn't realize she's still in'
Democrats Decide That Joe Biden, as Risky as He Ever Was, Is the Safest Bet The former vice president had the Super Tuesday of his dreams, winning in places he hasn’t even set foot in recently. ....... But a week ago, the result would have been something close to unthinkable. ...... Lifted by a hasty unity among center-left Democrats disinclined toward political revolution, Mr. Biden has propelled himself in the span of three days from electoral failure to would-be juggernaut..... tactical voters who think little of Senator Bernie Sanders and fear that his nomination would mean four more years of President Trump. ..... Bloomberg’s first brush with national voters yielded meager returns on a colossal financial investment...... When it mattered most, though, the judgment came swiftly from Sanders-averse Democrats. ...... All right, we’ll take him. ...... “John Kerry, Al Gore and Hillary Clinton,” said Rebecca Kirszner Katz, a veteran progressive strategist. “All safe choices.” ....... Certainly Mr. Trump would appear to have his preferences: Last year, he was impeached after trying to enlist a foreign power’s help to damage Mr. Biden. ...... That Mr. Biden’s fortunes have changed says more about the context of this primary than the content of his campaign......... Mr. Bloomberg flailed on the debate stage as he stepped out from behind the reputational curtain of his ubiquitous advertisements. And many in the party have remained uncomfortable with the kind of unswerving progressivism that Mr. Sanders demands. ...... a Biden-Sanders matchup is the logical venue for the party’s foremost ideological debate about the proper scope and ambition of government

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