Is There Any Rationale For a Bloomberg Candidacy?

Jeff Greenfield: “If Biden does not falter in the early going, what’s the rationale for turning to Bloomberg as the Great Moderate Hope?”

“If Bloomberg were to somehow prevail at a multi-ballot convention, Sanders and Warren supporters might well take a walk. If his strategy of bypassing the early states were to work, would Democrats in Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada really work hard to the candidate who rendered their privileged positions null and void? (Disclosure: I find the possibility of ending the Iowa-New Hampshire dominance an argument for the Bloomberg campaign.)”

“And would voters be repelled by the sheer immensity of his spending, as New York City voters were in 2009 when their discontent with his ‘purchase’ of an exemption to term limits almost cost him a third term?”

“So instead consider this not a prediction, but a modest notion: Mike Bloomberg’s campaign is a ludicrous exercise. But maybe not quite as ludicrous as we think.”