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No need to file in Iowa. And Bloomberg will likely get a scattering of caucus votes but the only poll that has included Bloomberg there, shows him with the most unfavorable-- by far-- reputation of any Democrat (15% favorable and 48% unfavorable among Democrats for a disastrous net favorability of minus 31). In Monmouth's own words, "Among the 361 likely caucus-goers contacted after he was added to the poll, just one voter selected him as their top candidate choice and only 1% named him as a second pick."
There has been consistent rumor-- also widely thought to be spread by Wolfson-- that Obama recruited Bloomberg to run with one purpose: to muddy up Warren (and Bernie and their progressive agenda). It seems far-fetched to me. Bloomberg has always wanted to be president, doesn't follow anyone's lead-- and that includes Obama-- and as much as he wants to dirty up Warren, Bernie and their agendas, he doesn't need Obama to encourage that. Besides, Obama already has Deval Patrick-- who was in New Hampshire yesterday filing for the primary-- for that.
The former low-key, moderate Massachusetts governor jumped into the conservative lane of the primary yesterday, another Wall Street-friendly Democrat opposing Medicare-for-All and fundamental change. Although never charged with a crime, he was once on the board of ACC Capital Holdings (the parent company of Ameriquest and Argent Mortgage, predatory lenders and big players in the subprime mortgage game). He currently serves as a managing director of Bain Capital. Recall chastising Mitt Romney for working there?
There is always a whiff of corruption around DeVille, as he was affectionately-- and not so affectionately-- known in Massachusetts but he was talking normal political bologna yesterday when he announced. "You can't know if you can break through if you don't get out there and try. I've been waiting for a moment like this my whole life. And by that I don't mean a moment to run for president, but a moment when the appetite for big ideas is big enough for the size of the challenges we face in America."
He slammed the Democrats who have been doing all the heavy lifting so far: "[W]e seem to be migrating to, on the one camp, sort of nostalgia, let's just get rid, if you will, of the incumbent president and we can go back to doing what we used to do. Or, you know, it's our way, our big idea, or no way. And neither of those, it seems to me, seizes the moment to pull the nation together and bring some humility that-- frankly-- we have a lot of ideas, but no one candidate, no one party has a corner on all the best ideas." On the other hand, his shady ties to health-care and drug companies, as the Wall Street Journal noted this morning, "could make him a punching bag for Democratic candidates who support single-payer health care and criticize the pharmaceutical industry."
He's out of sync with Democratic primary voters in several fronts-- another multimillionaire who opposes Medicare-for-All and a wealth tax, he super-serves special corporate interest and expects working families to be happy with the crumbs that fall off the tables of the super-rich like himself and his cronies.
The Party will continue to push people like Deval until we get the message that this is the only kind of candidate we are going to be allowed.
ReplyDeleteBut for me, this isn't a choice, and I don't follow orders well. I will vote for the person who supports my agenda.
If obamanation likes him, he can't be any good.
ReplyDeleteinteresting how many (more) corrupt neoliberal fascists keep crawling out of their holes to run for president as a democrap, ain't it?
lemme see... Bernie seems legit as a progressive... Elizabeth seemed progressive-ish, until recent waffling on several issues... that's it. And both of those must fight a steeply uphill battle with the DNC.
The rest? All corrupt neoliberal fascists. Some much more obvious than others. Some trying as of late to remake themselves as progressive-ish, and utterly failing.
And then there was Inslee who tried to get traction on climate change and nobody listened.
yep. the democrap party is just exactly what I've been describing for decades now. Will the voters also validate my description... again... still?
He's Obama 2.0 Hard Pass.
ReplyDeleteBut, but, but, Patrick checks all the identity-politics related issues, and that is all that matters to the establishment. And, he will give progressive speeches when campaigning, only to do the right thing for the establishment behind closed doors. You all should vote for him - if Patrick becomes the nominee, DWT will be the one to tell you why you should vote for him anyway.
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ReplyDeleteThey'd run as Republicans but the party no longer has room for moderate neoliberal/corporate fascists. You expect them to run as Independents? In the short-term, that'd be stupid. The Democratic Party has room for them - they're not knuckle-dragging neanderthals who want to actively oppress women, gays and people of color. They advocate a corporatist agenda and throw a crumb or two to the proles - they're not NAZIS.
Despite the awfulness of Trump, 80-90 million (at least) will sit out the next presidential election. Why is it you're too dense to recognize that your side (the "don't vote, it only encourages them" side) has essentially been "winning" elections for some 40 odd years now? Are you angry that regardless of mass non-participation various politicians still wind up getting elected? Or just that DEMOCRATS specifically get elected every now and then?
Fuck, you're stupid. And as intellectually dishonest as you are tiresome. 5 months ago Bernie was wholly illegitimate according to your fuckheaded posts because he supported Hillary in 2016 - you're suggesting you'll vote for Sanders now because you know he won't get the nomination and then you can jump up and down yelling about the awfulness of the DNC etc (which anyone else would be completely right for doing). On the outside chance Sanders does become the nominee, you'll figure out some reason or other not to vote for him in the general. That's who you are. Everyone who reads your crap knows this.
As ever, GFY.
Poster at 8:07 am: I have tried several times to read your posts even the other ones besides this one. And, I just can never understand what the message of your posts is. I am not trying to be facetious. I just wanted to keep you posted that like me, perhaps, other readers too might be finding it difficult to understand your message. Are you upset at the DNC? Are you upset at Sanders, or Warren, or at GOP? It's not really clear.....
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ReplyDeleteI don't like the guy I'm talking to in the above exchange. If you're not him, then it's not important. As for other readers - on a few occasions, other posters here have chimed in that they agree with me as regarding that guy being full of shit. His mission (and he really does write about what he does here as if it's serious and important work) is to tamp down folks who might vote for the Democrats as the "lesser of two evils". I don't have a mission. Just some free time at work and a genuine dislike of bullshit artists.
His point is that he needs to try to demean someone else to make himself seem less irrelevant.
ReplyDeleteI've told the dipshit more times than he could possibly count why I do what I do. He just needs me to be a foil so he ignores everything. literally everything.
he's trump except he's passed his 5th-grade spelling and grammer classes.
FTR again, pinhead, as you point out, a third or so of the eligible electorate shall abdicate. Many are because the Nazis are evil but the democraps are shit. you have difficulty with this?
DWT keeps purveying the myth that the democraps can somehow be fixed from the bottom up; and that electing many more of them may somehow result in MFA, GND, regulating/breaking up wall street and a long laundry list of other necessary reforms. nothing could be further from reality.
I take it upon myself to remind those who read here but are not automatons like you the truth of the sitchie in this shithole -- the truth that a lot of that dormant third of voters know too well.
The reason that democraps can still win a big anti-red wave election from time to time is not that they are any good. It's that they are not the Nazis and whatever the Nazis are doing at the time that seems really awful (to whit: cheney and wars and torture; bush and the crash; trump and everything he's ever done...). Absent the big anti-red, the democraps can't win except in devoted blue areas because they offer little, deliver nothing and lie constantly (to whit: Clinton, obamanation, $hillbillary, Pelosi, harry reid, scummer, hoyer, the DxCCs and the DNC).
And, yes, even though Bernie consistently SAYS the right things, I won't be voting for him. And, yeah, it's partly because of his endorsement of the anti-Bernie, as if I really needed more to DQ him.
I'm among the 80 million. But I still vote. The only gripe I have with the rest of us is that they do not vote for the Green or Socialist candidate. After all, americans are dumber than shit, but they do tend to follow the occasional pied piper. Let someone halfway decent get 20 million votes and pretty soon you might have a viable movement.