NYT: The Case for Michael Bloomberg

[brooklynite]

The best case for Mike Bloomberg is that he’s a brilliant debater who has a witty riposte for every line of attack.

OK. Let me start over. The best case for Mike Bloomberg is that he is not a brilliant debater. He can’t whip a rally crowd into an ideological frenzy. The best case for Bloomberg is that we’ve already elected a reality TV star to the White House. We need somebody who can actually run things.

We need somebody who can actually lead a government, staff an administration with talented professionals and do the mundane but essential tasks of pushing legislation and executing laws. We need somebody who will turn down the ideological temperature, so we don’t rip ourselves apart as a nation. We have enough politicians who cater to people who treat politics as the place they go to get self-indulgent moral affirmation baths. We need someone who can improve the lives of actual Americans.

Bloomberg was one of the most successful mayors of this century. He was a Republican who left office with two-thirds of New Yorkers saying he made their city a better place.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/opinion/mike-bloomberg-2020.html

[PoliticAverse]

1. The "if you can't defeat a Republican elect a better one" argument. n/t

[totodeinhere]

2. Couldn't we make that same case for Joe Biden? n/t

[uponit7771]

3. His money isn't buying him higher setting state polling against Trump

[Dem2]

4. It's actually a valid argument

He may not be the ideal vehicle to deliver such a promise, but I'd like to see the temperature in politics turned down from infinity to something we can at least have a reasonable discussion about.

[BusyBeingBest]

5. I really do think he would make the best President out of the current Dem slate.

He's an extremely sharp man with a lot of good proposals. So far I don't regret my vote. If I end up doing so, I'll let y'all know.

[redqueen]

6. "somebody who will turn down the ideological temperature,"

So - we should nominate a billionaire Jewish media mogul gun grabber?

We can write off Texas going blue.

[melman]

8. David Brooks

lol

[Hortensis]

9. There IS a case for Bloomberg, but the NYT is working to elect Repubs.

Not every author who works for the paper is corrupt, of course, but the paper overall definitely is. The executive editor, Dean Baquet, who worked with our and Russia's RW to turn over the WH and congress to the Republicans in 2016 is still at it.