Posted on 02/15/2020 4:24:47 AM PST by karpov
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Mr. Bloomberg’s giant spending isn’t just buying ads, it’s driving up ad rates to make it harder for other Democratic candidates to get their messages out, it’s buying up campaign talent so they can’t, it’s corralling Democratic Party influentials to endorse his candidacy or at least mute any noisy criticism of his effort.
When a recording leaked of Mr. Bloomberg defending stop-and-frisk in New York, Andre Fields of the liberal voting-rights group Fair Fight Action rushed out a tweet hitting him as a “true terrorist” but promptly deleted it. Fair Fight Action had received $5 million in funding from Mr. Bloomberg. Three members of the Congressional Black Caucus helped out with timely endorsements of a man who spent at least $90 million on House Democratic races in the last 19 months.
New York Times columnist Tom Friedman on Wednesday joined in with 1,500 words implying that other Democratic candidates should make way for Mr. Bloomberg. He ended his piece with a disclosure that his wife’s charity was supported with Bloomberg donations.
Mr. Bloomberg has said he will spend $1 billion through Election Day. If so, he will have to curb his outlays to meet his target. At $344 million, he’s already spent more on advertising than the Clinton and Trump campaigns did in all of 2016.
I wouldn’t put it the way his left-wing critics do—that he’s trying to buy the nomination or the presidency. He’s trying to buy the Democratic Party elite. He’s distorting the incentives of activists, officials and campaign fixers who suddenly are thinking less about a presidential victory and more about the Bloomberg gravy train.
He entered the race, remember, because Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren were too left-wing to beat Donald Trump, but he only strengthens Mr. Sanders by giving him a foil
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In the liberal arena, the definition of “money talks and BS walks” is something practiced everyday.
Bull Bloomberg,the Big Boss Man.
Bloomberg’s ads are like cockroaches all over YouTube. I was watching a bunch of short videos last night; I bet he showed up two dozen times. Which is a growing annoyance with YT, they’re trying to force everyone into subscribing to get rid of the ads, but I digress.
Few things in life are as gratifying as clicking ‘skip ad’ when that little hypocrite shows up.
Caught a Bloomberg ad about establishing a NATIONAL forrest fire and tree replanting service. I was actually expecting to see a ‘sarcasm’ disclaimer somewhere in it! Establishing new FEDERAL obligations is not my idea of logic here and this is an area that I think is already adequate except for the drought seasons.
UNREAL!
Illary bought the super delegates. He’ll probably dump a bunch of cash on congress hoping for a second ballot at the convention.
Like he's saying,"Live with it. I'm a billionaire and you're not."
“But the Republicans are the party of the rich.” I’m sure Bloomberg and soros would agree.
There was one on my local channel this morning that said that since black people aren’t smart enough or good enough to compete with white people he established a minority set aside for NY contractors. That was what the entire commercial was about. This guy has nothing but money.
I want Bloomberg to pay me.
Where do I sign up to be bribed?
The thought of Nanny Bloomberg getting his hands on the “stroke of the pen, law of the land” kind of power that presidents have accumulated over the decades is frightening.
He’s a little late to that, pretty much EVERY municipality at all levels of government had minority set aside contracts. It’s a small piece of the overall puzzle and hardly a big deal anymore. Even private companies will try to accomplish the same thing.
Bloomberg will buy the Senate and House for the democrats and maybe the President....he could pay a lot of democrats to go vote...
50 billion goes a long way....
Even if he can buy the Democrat nomination, that will only split the party. He would then get trounced by Trump as Bernie Bros and Blacks desert the Democrats in droves.
I saw him trying to hit Trump with the jibe that all the other NYC billionaires had always laughed at him. The idiot doesn’t realize that to the rest of America that’s as ringing an endorsement of Trump he could have given.
Bloomberg is inundating Hulu with political ads. We watched 3 hours of Hulu programming last night and there was a Bloomberg ad every other commercial.
What will you get done Mike?
Gun consfiscation?
Health care for illegals?
The green new deal?
Bloomberg is the second coming of Obama without Obama. His ‘interpretable however you like’ campaign slogan only appeals to the brain dead ‘gibs me dat’ socialist culture of the left.
He can buy his way into the elite but he doesn’t have the ‘charisma’ to win over the middle like Obama had.
If there was any Doubt that the Dem party is corrupt, the fact that Bloomberg is able to buy his way past the Caucus rules for a seat as a Presidential candidate shows that the Democrats are the party of bribes and back door deals.
It is all about power and wealth for the jackass party. America exists for them as prey not people.
Bloomberg presents an interesting test of American politics as did the unlikely victory of Trump.
All of us have always said and believed that money was the most powerful force in politics, i.e. the candidate who spent the most would win more often than not.
It is another conventional wisdom that Trump destroyed, but Trump is the consummate showman well practiced in the art of self-promotion and using the media. His campaign was brilliant.
Along comes Bloomberg.... by all accounts a man lacking charisma or any kind of genuine connection with voters, but he has unimaginable wealth and has hired the best of the consultant and campaign class to run for the nomination of a party that appears not to like the uber-wealthy.
Conventional wisdom has no reliable prediction for either of them. The President has a strong connection with his supporters, but almost all of the media appears to be against him and Bloomberg can outspend him.
Bloomberg has the strongest ad buys in history, but does he have any real connection with his targeted supporters? The media is coming around to him, but is there anything beyond their “hate Trump” attitude that justifies his newfound media support? Will voters essentially be bought?
It will be interesting.
Bloomberg Buys the Democratic Elite.
I never met a democrat who wasn’t for sale they are pure meme people.
Actually, what he’s buying are media and related sites. One of the major consequences of the huge amount of money spent on election campaigns in this country is that every 4 years, (and to a lesser extent, every 2 years), a massive amount of revenue is funneled through and into the established mainstream media, which is essentially what is keeping many of them afloat.
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