Democrat voters decided on Super Tuesday, much like the Randy Newman song, that they didn’t want no short people ‘round here. And with that, Mini Mike Bloomberg has picked up his little make-me-look-big standing box and gone home.
Bloomberg spent something like $700 million out of his own pocket (not his literal pocket… because his literal pockets are so tiny!) to run for president. All he got from the experience was a territorial delegate (American Samoa) and a fierce public whipping from a fake Indian in a debate. Sad! Low energy!
Look at that number again: Mini Mike spent $700,000,000 in a nation with 330,000,000 citizens to run for president. And he’s so terrible that he only received a delegate from an island who is not included in that 330,000,000 number. Bloomberg must have had really awful consultants. Didn’t any of them realize that you can spend $10,000 on Russian Facebook ads and that’s all it takes to win an election?
I had previously thought that Bloomberg was in the race to snag enough delegates that it would lead to a brokered convention (and the coronation of Hillary). But in order for that plan to have worked, Bloomberg would have needed to actually snag delegates. At any rate, we bid Mini Mike adieu.
Next observation: There was an historic moment on Super Tuesday that everyone has missed so far. And this just goes to show you how topsy-turvy American elections are these days.
There’s a reclusive Wall Street hedge fund gazillionaire named Orin Kramer who is heavily involved in Democrat politics, to put it mildly. Even though you may have never heard of Orin Kramer, listen to this: Since 1976, Orin Kramer has always picked the Democrat nominee for president. During every presidential race, Kramer announces his preferred candidate early and begins pouring resources into that person’s campaign war chest. All of Kramer’s billionaire liberal friends then follow suit.
Kramer’s candidates obviously don’t always become president (he chose Mondale and Dukakis in the 1980s, for example), but they have always won the nomination. And he endorses his candidate very early, before most Democrat voters have made up their minds. He picked Bill Clinton in 1992 to beat George HW Bush, he picked John Kerry to win the nomination in 2004, Obama in 2008 and Hillary Clinton in 2016.
It’s worth repeating: In every election since 1976, Orin Kramer has picked the Democrat Party’s presidential nominee. Until now.
In April of 2019, Kramer announced that he was supporting Pete Buttigieg. All of Kramer’s billionaire friends who are used to playing kingmaker in Democrat politics followed suit. This is why Elizabeth Warren threw a snit fit at Buttigieg during the debates, saying his campaign was funded by a handful of billionaires. That was entirely true. Warren was furious about this, because she had asked Kramer to give her 1/1024th of his wealth to support her campaign, but he chose Buttigieg instead.
The biggest news during Super Tuesday was that for the first time in my lifetime, the billionaires behind the curtain failed to choose the Democrat Party’s nominee. Buttigieg is out.
Final observation: How’s that rigged primary working out for you, Bernie? Having fun yet?
For anyone who doubts that the process was rigged, take a look at the situation using some hindsight 20/20 vision. When the DNC started to panic about Bernie Sanders, it sent out its marching orders to the media first: Get Bernie – he’s a Russian agent, after all.
They thought that Bloomberg’s billions could possibly buy the nomination out from under Bernie, so the DNC changed the rules to let Bloomberg onto the debate stage (with the assistance of a tiny stepladder). The only thing Bloomberg accomplished, aside from embarrassing himself, was attacking Bernie Sanders. How effective this ultimately was, we don’t know; but it surely didn’t help Bernie.
Next, before Super Tuesday had even arrived, Buttigieg and Klobuchar were gently nudged out of the race by the DNC. Klobuchar was on life support, but her campaign wasn’t completely dead. She could have stayed in and probably would have won some delegates from Democrat voters who are into that sort of thing. Buttigieg had the financial resources (from Kramer & friends) to stay in the race until the end.
Instead, both dropped out and endorsed Biden, at the behest of the DNC. Why didn’t Elizabeth Warren drop out? Because she could chip away at Bernie’s numbers, obviously, whereas Buttigieg and Klobuchar would only chip away at Biden’s.
That’s how Joe Biden “won” Super Tuesday with the help of some creative rigging by the DNC.
Meanwhile, Hillary realizes that Bernie and Biden are both in the high-risk group for Coronavirus, so she’s sitting quietly in the background, watching and waiting…
