[wildcard_redneck]

My bet is that Bloomberg will be less than impressive during the debate. From what I have seen of him talking he is both boring and tone-deaf to his audience. His vast wealth has insulated him from negative feedback for too long and he is now somewhat socially retarded. He is socially inept because no matter what crap vomits from his mouth he is surrounded by sycophants that tell him how wonderful and brilliant he is. This happens to a lot of wealth people.

[cgbg]

Agreed—the debate tonight is important because it will Bloomberg’s first test under fire.

Either the leftist moderators or the leftist candidates will not let him get away with his “stop and frisk”, “farming is easy”, and a variety of other public statements.

In debates if you are not on offense you are on defense. If you are on defense you lose.

(I was a high school and college debater in the good old days....)

[Oatka]

My bet is that Bloomberg will be less than impressive during the debate.

That's my feeling as well. I understand that he is a poor speaker, and I wonder if he can think on his feet when the "gotcha" questions come up (unless he buys the answers ahead of time).