“If Old McBloomberg ran a farm e, i, e, i oh.”  All of us would be starving.  The recent ascedency of Michael Bloomberg as a Democratic candidate for president is puzzling.  The fact that he has risen to second place in national polling without yet having faced the voters is startling.  But maybe that’s the key.  So far, Bloomberg has avoided having to soil his hands by actually answering questions.  There are many questions that require answers, and from what I’ve seen of Michael Bloomberg, he doesn’t like to be pressed to answer tough questions.  Bloomberg has a lot of splaining to do because his past comments on a range of topics run afoul of just about every loony, liberal, left-wing, PC position held dear by today’s Democrat Party.  Bloomberg has been able to hide behind a phalanx of paid spokespersons, but that’s about to change.  He is scheduled to participate in a Democrat debate this week, the Democrat Party having changed its rules to accommodate Bloomberg, who already has spent more than $400 million on TV ads, more than all the other candidates combined.  One good question he should be asked is, “Are you now or have you ever been a Democrat?”  Reportedly, Bloomberg was a Democrat until 2001, when he ran for Mayor of New York as a Republican.  In 2007, he was an Independent.  In 2018, he was a Democrat once more.  This record proves Bloomberg isn’t Republican, Democrat or Independent, he’s just an opportunist, who assumes any political identity that helps him at the time.  Michael Bloomberg has just one virtue.  He is fabulously wealthy, and he is willing to spend billions to defeat Donald Trump.  And because of that, the Dems in the media at least, are willing to overlook some problematic facts.  Michael Bloomberg has a record of making comments that offend nearly all Democrat constituencies.  Bloomberg has claimed, “I could teach anybody in this room” to be a farmer.  It’s a process, you dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on it, add water, up comes the corn.” He also said working at a blue collar manufacturing job was a simple task, but that working in the modern information economy is “fundamentally different, because, “you have to have a lot more gray matter.”  Democrats claim to support “working Americans.”  This won’t help.  Many farmers are historically Democrats.  In the now-swing State of Minnesota, the Democrat Farm Labor Party is important to the Dems.  These comments won’t help.  Maybe Bloomberg can claim he was once a farmer too.

The Democrat Party depends on female voters.   Bloomberg’s company has repeatedly faced and fought allegations that he directed crude and sexist comments to women in his office, including a claim in the 1990’s that he told an employee who had just announced she was pregnant to “kill it.” (This actually might help him with Democrats).  At least two women were fired after reporting they were sexually assaulted by Bloomberg executives.  One of the many Bloomberg spokespersons explained, “Mike has come to see that some of what he has said is disrespectful and wrong.”  “He believes his words have not always aligned with his values and the way he has led his life.”  Good thing he’s now a Democrat.  That story doesn’t fly for Republicans.  It won’t help him with female voters.  Then there’s stop and frisk.  Bloomberg was all for it as Mayor, but now he’s apologized for it.  In a word, Bloomberg is a fraud.  The problem isn’t stop and frisk.  It’s Bloomberg’s conception of the program.  In 1968, the Supreme Court authorized what is now called stop and frisk.  It permits police to stop and question someone when there is a reasonable suspicion that the person is armed or is involved in some criminal activity.  Done right, the race or age of the individual is irrelevant, and stop and frisk is perfectly legal.  Bloomberg’s comments illustrate the wrong way to stop and frisk.  He talked of putting “all the cops” in minority neighborhoods “because that’s where all the crime is.”  He said you could take a description of murderers and their victims “Xerox it and pass it out to all the cops” because they all “fit one M.O.” (their race), and the way to stop young people from bringing guns out onto the street is to “throw them up against a wall and frisk ’em.”  This won’t help with minority voters.  He may have to send a check to Al Sharpton for an endorsement.  But how about the elderly.  Bloomberg has said, “If you show up with prostate cancer, you’re 95-years-old, we should say, ‘Go and enjoy.  Have a nice long life.’  There’s no cure and there’s nothing we can do.  If you’re a young person, we should do something about it.”  Can you say, “death panels?” Bloomberg’s only strength is also his greatest weakness in Democrat World.  He has a nasty habit of telling the truth. “You can have Medicare for all for people who are uncovered, but … to replace the entire private system where companies provide health care for their employees would bankrupt us for a very long time.”  That is indisputably true, but you can’t get elected by telling Democrats that free stuff isn’t free.  So far Bloomberg has escaped Democrats’ wrath, but that will change.  He’s capitalizing on the blind hatred of Donald Trump among Democrats.  They want someone to beat Trump, and don’t care who it is.  The other day, 64% of Democrats in Massachusetts said they would choose a meteor wiping out all life on Earth to a second Trump term.  They claim Trump favors dictators, but are willing to overlook Bloomberg’s claim that “Xi Jinping is not a dictator,” and the Bloomberg company’s refusal to report stories unfavorable to the Chinese Communist Party.  There’s just one problem.  Bernie Sanders’ wild-eyed supporters make up 20-25% of the Democrat electorate.  These are the people who marched in the Occupy Wall Street protests.  They hate people like billionaire Michael Bloomberg.  If they screw Crazy Bernie out of the nomination again, these nuts will not willingly vote for Farmer Mike.  Take away 10% of the Left-wing Whacko vote, 5% of the black vote, 5% of the Hispanic vote, and a bunch of Farm Labor voters, and the Dems are cooked in 2020.  Maybe Bloomberg will simply send all of them a nice check.  He may have to.