re: After watching this debate, the DNC is going to have to turn to Bloomberg.

name recognition is the most important factor and Bloomberg doesn't have name recognition.

Gott! I’m not particularly fond of big gulps of sugar, but I cannot imagine living in a country run by a man who with a misfire in his axons and dendrites decides that it shall be forbidden for us, the sheep, to have a soft drink greater than 12 ounces in scope.

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Romney will be their nominee

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My Darkhorse pick. They sure were sucking his arse tonight.
I would LOVE to see Trump get his bitch arse in debate. Then expose his Ukrainian connections and other shady dealings.

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What's Bloomberg's position on the big topics?

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The only big topics that I know he is pushing is "fixing" obamacare (he's not for medicare for all), and gun control. He's still a leftist, but he's probably "more moderate" than what we saw tonight outside of Biden.

The DNC has to know that they can't win with anything out there tonight. And Bloomberg may be seen as a more electable, less crazy Biden.

ETA: Don't get me wrong, I don't think he'd stand a chance against Trump. I'm just saying the DNC may not have any other choice but to turn to him based off what I just witnessed.

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And he’s got what it takes to pull moderates

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Tyranny? Totalitarianism? I mean, New Yorkers bought that, but are moderates (which I define as white folks in Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania who voted for Obama and then voted for Trump) going to vote for a guy who wants to control how big a soda they can buy, gun prohibition, and all that nanny state bullshite?

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There is no way that the DNC believes that any of the people in this debate stand a snowball's chance in the general election.

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If they would think this through, they would realize the best course of action would be to back Bernie. That way, they can say they gave him his chance, knowing full well this election is not winnable for them.

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AND,,,,, avoid his Antifa supporters starting riots at the convention. They are already threatening this shite, and we've only had the 1st primary.

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don’t be pulling funny shite like the DNC has done on the regular... they’ve lost trust and you can never get that back

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What's Bloomberg's position on the big topics?

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Bloomberg on the Issues: LINK

Supported by women's groups for strong defense of abortion. (Sep 2010)

2008: Wall Street executives deserve bonuses. (Sep 2010)

Co-chaired "Mayors for the Freedom to Marry" effort. (Jan 2012)
Backs same-sex marriage. (Mar 2007)

Wooed Goldman Sachs to NYC with $1.65 billion in tax breaks. (Oct 2005)
Given $10M upon being fired from Salomon Brothers in 1981. (Aug 2001)

No legalization; pot lowers IQ by 5 to 10 points. (Feb 2015)
You bet I smoked pot, and I enjoyed it; but. (Nov 2011)
Stopped smoking at 30; then became anti-smoking proselytizer. (Sep 2010)

Pushed for mayoral control of city school system. (Feb 2011)
All social problems are ameliorated by better education. (Sep 2010)
Increased school budget from $12B to $20B. (Sep 2010)
Replaced school board with direct mayoral control. (May 2007)

$218M effort led to closure of 282 coal-fired power plants. (Feb 2019)
America should be big part of climate solution. (Apr 2018)
Direct charge over cap-and-trade, to raise cost of carbon. (Nov 2007)

Congestion pricing: fee for driving into Manhattan. (Sep 2010)
$8 fee to enter NYC by car, to encourage mass transit. (Apr 2007)

Get cities to hike taxes on sugary drinks. (Nov 2019)

Trade with China is good for consumers & the US economy. (Dec 2019)
Supports TPP and opposes trade war with China. (Dec 2019)
Vocal defender of global trade and multinational trade deals. (Dec 2019)

Pay-for-prevention towards goal of universal coverage. (Jun 2007)

Supported building mosque near Ground Zero. (Nov 2010)

America's greatness begins with immigrants, not with a wall. (Feb 2019)
Normalize status of otherwise law-abiding illegal immigrants. (May 2007)

I'd like every company to be 50% male and 50% female. (Aug 2001)

Raised property taxes to 18.5%, highest in history. (Sep 2010)

In other words, he's the worst sort of Democrat...an atheist 1% of Jewish descent, a cultural marxist, someone who supports the Chinese State Capitalist model as the future for America. If you're a middle class or upper middle class American, you're his pinata.

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An old white billionaire from New York with a stop and frisk policy under his belt and has made many elitists statements. Yeah that is not going to happen.

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The unity photo shoot they always do of all the candidates at the convention would be hilariously phony.

Sure, all these asshats running for years would step right up and get behind a billionaire buying the nomination out from under them.