Foreign Policy Whiz KidBiden
...Failed seeker of the Democratic presidential nomination on multiple occasions, vice president under Barack Obama, giving it a last try in his dotage for 2020...beat Bernie Sanders
...The
by nearly 39 points in the Democratic primary in Florida. That’s bad if you’re Bernie.
What’s even worse is this: Michael
Nanny MikeBloomberg
...former
Republicanmayor of New York. He tried to take the credit for Rudy Giuliani's actions in the wake of the 9-11 attacks. He was known as
Nanny Bloombergfor his war on 32-ounce Slurpees. Nanny was a candidate for the Dem presidential nomination in 2020. He was born on Valentine's day, 1942, which makes him 78.01364 years old, which is pretty ripe. Mike has lots of money, some of which he spends on
grass rootsorganizations pushing for
common sensegun laws along the same lines as his
common senseSlurpee regulations....
, who’s been out of the race for two weeks, got more votes in Florida than Sanders received in aggregate in New Hampshire, Iowa and Nevada ‐ the first three states on the Democratic primary calendar and the places that suggested Sanders might be romping his way to his party’s nomination.
But wait, there’s more, if you would like to take a moment to dance either a merengue or a hora on Bernie Sanders’ chances.
And I would.
Olé!
And l’chaim!
Everybody knew Bernie was going to lose Florida, since he seemed determined to speak in positive terms about Fidel Castro, the totalitarian monster who drove a million Cubans into the sea and toward the Sunshine State.
Then there was his insistence on trash-talking Israel and its democratic leadership while surrounding himself with openly anti-Semitic surrogates and staffers, which would tend to be a turnoff for Florida’s 600,000 Jews.
But the advent of the coronavirus
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
raised questions about whether Bernie might overperform his expectations in Florida because it might radically decrease turnout among Joe Biden’s most dedicated voters. In demographic terms, it’s the older the better when it comes to Biden, and of course it’s the older the worse when it comes to the virus.