It was an exciting, high-energy debate -- the Bronx Bolshevik versus the elitist billionaire as everyone else dumped on Michael Bloomberg…
Many in the Democrat Party are worrying about keeping a communist or an egotistical narcissistic billionaire from becoming the face of the party? The candidates only care about winning and are certainly willing to say or do anything to win the nomination.
From the opening attack…
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HOLT: Mayor Bloomberg, can Senator Sanders beat President Trump? And how do you want to respond to what else he said?
BLOOMBERG: I don't think there's any chance of the senator beating President Trump. You don't start out by saying I've got 160 million people I'm going to take away the insurance plan that they love. That's just not a way that you go and start building the coalition that the Sanders camp thinks that they can do. I don't think there's any chance whatsoever. And if he goes and is the candidate, we will have Donald Trump for another four years. And we can't stand that.
HOLT: Senator Warren?
WARREN: So I'd like to talk about who we're running against, a billionaire who calls women "fat broads" and "horse-faced lesbians." And, no, I'm not talking about Donald Trump. I'm talking about Mayor Bloomberg.
Democrats are not going to win if we have a nominee who has a history of hiding his tax returns, of harassing women, and of supporting racist polls like redlining and stop and frisk.
Look, I'll support whoever the Democratic nominee is. But understand this: Democrats take a huge risk if we just substitute one arrogant billionaire for another.
HOLT: Mayor Buttigieg, you'd like to weigh in.
BUTTIGIEG: Yes, we've got to wake up as a party. We could wake up two weeks from today, the day after Super Tuesday, and the only candidates left standing will be Bernie Sanders and Mike Bloomberg, the two most polarizing figures on this stage.
And most Americans don't see where they fit if they've got to choose between a socialist who thinks that capitalism is the root of all evil and a billionaire who thinks that money ought to be the root of all power.
Let's put forward somebody who actually lives and works in a middle-class neighborhood, in an industrial Midwestern city. Let's put forward somebody who's actually a Democrat.
We shouldn't have to choose between one candidate who wants to burn this party down and another candidate who wants to buy this party out. We can do better.
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Warren: "I'm sorry, the question is, are the women bound by being muzzled by you? You could release them from that immediately. Because understand, this is not just a question of the mayor's character, This is also a question about electability. We are not going to beat Donald Trump with a man who has who knows how many nondisclosure agreements and the drip, drip, drip of stories of women saying they have been harassed and discriminated against. That's not what we do as Democrats,.
Klobuchar: “Are you trying to say I’m dumb? Are you mocking me here, Pete? I said I made an error. People sometimes forget names.”
Buttigieg: “If you look at the choice between a revolution or the status quo and you don’t see where you fit in that picture, then join us.” [OCS: He is acting – he is not a moderate and every bit a leftist radical as Warren and the others.]
About that communism thing…
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JACKSON: Mayor Bloomberg, you own a large company. Would you support what Senator Sanders is proposing?
BLOOMBERG: Absolutely not. I can't think of a ways that would make it easier for Donald Trump to get re-elected than listening to this conversation.
It's ridiculous. We're not going to throw out capitalism. We tried. Other countries tried that. It was called communism, and it just didn't work.
SANDERS: But here is the point. Let's talk about democratic socialism. Not communism, Mr. Bloomberg. That's a cheap shot. Let's talk about -- let's talk about what goes on in countries like Denmark, where Pete correctly pointed out they have a much higher quality of life in many respects than we do. What are we talking about?
[OCS: Denmark is not a socialist country like Venezuela or Cuba. They have a small, but majorly homogeneous population, and while you will find high taxes and good social services, they have capitalism-based businesses. Not a good analogy.]
We are living in many ways in a socialist society right now. The problem is, as Dr. Martin Luther King reminded us, we have socialism for the very rich, rugged individualism for the poor.
HOLT: The question was about socialism.
BLOOMBERG: What a wonderful country we have. The best known socialist in the country happens to be a millionaire with three houses. What did I miss here?
SANDERS: Well, you'll miss that I work in Washington, house one.
BLOOMBERG: That's the first problem.
SANDERS: Live in Burlington, house two.
BLOOMBERG: That's good.
SANDERS: And like thousands of other Vermonters, I do have a summer camp. Forgive me for that. Where is your home? Which tax haven do you have your home?
BLOOMBERG: New York City, thank you very much, and I pay all my taxes. And I'm happy to do it because I get something for it. And let me say, I thought the senator next to me was half right.
[OCS: Truth-be-told, both are authoritarians who want to tell you how to live and join the communists in Europe when it comes to using global climate change to accrete political power.]
SANDERS: We have a grotesque and immoral distribution of wealth and income. Mike Bloomberg owns more wealth than the bottom 125 million Americans. That's wrong. That's immoral. That should not be the case when we got a half a million people sleeping out on the street, where we have kids who cannot afford to go to college, when we have 45 million people dealing with student debt.
We have enormous problems facing this country, and we cannot continue seeing a situation where, in the last three years, billionaires in this country saw an $850 billion increase in their wealth -- congratulations, Mr. Bloomberg -- but the average American last year saw less than a 1 percent increase in his or her income. That's wrong.
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Funny to see Joe Biden claim to be poor while his family made millions off selling Biden's access and influence…
HOLT: All right, Vice President Biden, weigh in on this question of Americans' feeling about socialist candidates.
BIDEN: Well, look, let me weigh in on -- you know, for 36 years and as vice president, I was listed as the poorest man in Congress. I made money when I wrote a book about my son and it surprised me how much it sold. First time I've ever made any money.
While apologizing for supporting “stop and frisk” …
BLOOMBERG: Well, if I go back and look at my time in office, the one thing that I'm really worried about, embarrassed about, was how it turned out with stop and frisk.
When I got into office, there were 650 murders a year in New York City. And I thought that my first responsibility was to give people the right to live. That's the basic right of everything. And we started -- we adopted a policy, which had been in place, the policy that all big police departments use, of stop and frisk.
Funny, this is the putz who would disarm law-abiding citizens, create larger victim pools, and letting more criminals roam the streets. He has been surrounded by armed security 24/7 for decades – a great example of don’t do as I do, do as I say.
HISPandering…
KLOBUCHAR: You know what, Pete? If you could let me finish, since I've been in the arena. Ted Kennedy asked me to work on the first immigration bill. We were able with President Bush to at least get that bill to a vote. I'm sorry that Senator Sanders actually opposed that bill, and I worked on it. And if we had gotten that bill done, there would have been a path to citizenship for so many people.
Then I worked on the 2013 bill. I'm actually so proud of the work I have done on immigration reform. And you know what? You have not been in the arena doing that work. You've memorized a bunch of talking points and a bunch of things, but I can tell you one thing.
What the people of this country want, they want a leader that has the heart for the immigrants of this country, and that is me.
The open-borders political circus continues and I am glad this is not our circus and not our monkey.
Bottom line…
Thanks for the entertainment, the sound bites, and the general excitement of a party at war with itself to see who can fundamentally transform America into a socialist hell-hole like Cuba and Venezuela and screw the American citizen.
Like previous debates, President Donald Trump was the winner. Bloomberg appears to be the little wizard behind the screen and not the person portrayed in his political ads. Sanders took the top position. Biden was ho-hum.
It appears that nobody challenged why anti-Semitism is rampant in the Democrat Party and Bernie Sanders is endorsed by so many prominent virulent anti-Israel, anti-Jew, anti-Semites?
And, if money could buy an election, what happened to billionaire Tom Steyer who couldn’t even buy his way on to the Las Vegas debate stage?
In the final analysis, it is not so much what happened in the past, but what these radical progressive socialist democrats want to do to our country in the future.
Vote Trump 2020.
We are so screwed.
-- steve
