"They're not after me, they're after you. I'm just in the way." Donald J. Trump
February 19, 2020
By: Linda Case Gibbons, Esq.
Don't cry for Bernie, Argentina.
Everybody is feeling sorry for him. Even the president is indignant.
It's all because the Democrat National Committee, and the powers that be, are snatching the presidential nomination away from Bernie.
Again.
"It just isn't fair!" Everyone is saying it.
And it's not fair. But if you think Bernie is disappointed, he's not.
Bernie loves being a Socialist. And he loves saying Socialist things. But running for president is just another way for him to earn extra money.
Look back to 2016. Not receiving the Democrat nomination wasn't all bad for him. In fact, it bumped him into a millionaire income bracket.
And timing is everything.
When DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Hillary manipulated him out of the Democrat nomination in 2016, Bernie bowed out. Three weeks later he endorsed Hillary. That was on July 12.
Wasserman Schultz was forced to resign on July 28, for exercising bias against Bernie in favor of Hillary Clinton. (This made it look like the Democrat Party had ethics.)
Then, in August 2016, Bernie and wife Jane purchased a $575,000 dollar, four-bedroom, lakeside summer house in Vermont.
For cash.
Now Bernie isn't a wealthy man. His salary as a senator is $174,000 dollars. He's sold a couple of books. But now he is worth $2 million dollars, and owns three houses.
Naturally some looked askance at this. Especially since Socialist Bernie hates millionaires.
Jane did try to explain.
"My family had a lake home in Maine since 1900," she said. "But we hadn't had the time to go there in recent years...We finally let go of it."
And that enabled them to buy the house on Lake Champlain.
Now it's deja vu all over again. This time Bernie's getting replaced by Michael Bloomberg as the Democrat nominee.
Bernie's ouster began at the Iowa Caucus, with the "Shadow" voting app debacle.
It continued when the DNC changed the Democrat Campaign Rules of Engagement, rule changes which enabled Mini Mike Bloomberg to cut through all the red tape and appear on the debate stage in Las Vegas tonight.
"I do think it's a bit obscene that we have somebody who chose not to contest in Iowa, in Nevada, in South Carolina, in New Hampshire, where all the candidates did town meetings," Sanders said.
"I don't have to do that," Sanders said Bloomberg thought. "I'm worth $60 billion...I'll buy the presidency.' That offends me very much."
Bernie may be offended, but, once again, he says he'll play ball.
"If Mr. Bloomberg wins, and I certainly hope he does not, I will support the Democratic nominee," he said.
As he did with Hillary. And it all worked out. For Bernie.
Nobody, least of all the Democrats, want a Socialist in the White House. And Bernie knows that. And what better way to get Bloomberg into the race than by threatening the Democrat Party with a Socialist?
Getting the heave-ho may be the best thing that happens to Bernie, a man who will be 79 on Sept. 8, and who had a heart attack in October.
Plus, it may result in another windfall. Michael Bloomberg is handing out money like it's candy.
He "tipped" D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser $4 million for DC schools, and earned her endorsement.
He gave $6 million dollars to New York University to create an Energy Impact Center, which provided environmental activist attorneys to state attorneys general, who worked for state AGs, but were paid by Bloomberg's Impact Center.
And he gave failed gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams $5 million dollars for her voting rights protection initiative. She, in turn, defended his $400 million dollar campaign ads on The View.
Just recently Bloomberg offered financial backing to other Democrat presidential candidates.
When former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich did it, the Obama administration called it bribery, and sent him away for 14 years.
When Michael Bloomberg does it, they call it "politics."
At an earlier CNN Town Hall, Bernie declined to answer when asked if he would accept money from Bloomberg if Bernie became the Party's nominee, but Mayor Peter said, "Sure."
But neither man said whether they would take money to withdraw from the playing field.
As James Covell said, "If you drag a hundred-dollar bill through a trailer park, you never know what you'll find."
Hold the line, America.
Where We Go One, We Go All
Stay strong, Patriots.