A Billionaire in Headlights

Well, that cleared things up a bit.

All that was missing was the Rat Pack. After all, it was Vegas.

Michael Bloomberg looked like a deer in headlights on I-75 between Bay City and the Mackinac Bridge. Yes, it was that bad.

He had to know this was coming. Yet, as someone quipped earlier, Bloomberg brought a wallet to a knife fight.

He attacked the perceived front-runner, Bernie Sanders, telling everyone ‘he can’t win.’ Yeah, OK, sure.

Bloomberg wasn’t even on the ballot in Nevada, nor will he be next Saturday in South Carolina, yet he’s banking on the Super Tuesday states and the six states on March 10.

Pete Buttigieg attacked Amy Kolbuchar and mocked her winning three state-wide elections in Minnesota, saying in condescending terms, “If winning a state-wide election in Minnesota meant something, I would have grown up with a President Walter Mondale.”

Yes, a President Mondale, who would have tackled the AIDS crisis, who would have not signed the 1986 Tax Law that still makes Grover Norquist (and every billionaire sports owner in the US and Canada) happy. There would have been no Clarence Thomas, no Willie Horton ad, Kitty Dukakis wouldn’t have drank herself into alcoholism and Oliver North would have been in prison.

But the best fight was between Elizabeth Warren and Mayor Bloomberg. The Senator Professor laid it out in her opening remarks: