Month: March 2020

On the ex-KGB man Vlad Putin.

For Sanders and Trump he’ll be rootin’.

Cause Bernie’s all talk

And Trump is no hawk.

He’ll win either way, you’re darn tootin’.

I ultimately donated to Klobuchar because I thought she was the most electable of the Biden replacement candidates, and I wanted to give her a chance. It didn’t work out, as she apparently has no appeal to minorities, but I have no regrets.

She is getting out at the right time. After tomorrow, it should be Bloomberg’s turn. That is when the race begins in earnest.

It’s always better to leave the party too early than too late. By exiting before Super Tuesday, Mayor Pete creates a legacy of excitement and incomplete success, not failure. He would also make a very plausible running mate for Biden, although I think Harris would make a better choice, for reasons I will describe in the future.

Assuming, for purposes of argument, that he isn’t on the ticket, he could be a serious contender for the nomination for the next two decades if he plays his cards right. That means generating some additional experience in office and convincing minorities that he views them as people to be helped, not problems to be solved. RFK after his brother’s death comes to mind as a precedent. How should he do that? I will leave that up to him.

Biden needed to win a decisive victory in SC or leave the race. He got the former, and thereby extinguished the rationales for the Klobuchar and Mayor Pete candidacies.

Next stop, Super Tuesday. The new question is whether Bloomberg has any kind of a realistic chance. If, as I suspect, he runs well behind Biden, he needs to exit and focus his fire on Trump and Sanders.