Opinion: The Democratic field needs to whittle away Sanders, Bloomberg and Buttigieg
Watching Tuesday night’s Democratic presidential debate in Charleston, S.C., was tantamount to undergoing a root canal without anesthesia. That excruciatingly painful experience revealed how inflamed the Democratic field has become.
The bedlam onstage — the hand-flapping, ankle-biting, shouting and cross talk — epitomized the wear and decay of a Democratic National Committee-concocted process that was crowded with ill-suited, out-of-place candidates from its inception. How on earth did New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, long since out of the race, come to see a president when he looked in his mirror? Why is billionaire Tom Steyer still around? What are the chances of former South Bend, Ind.
Just as root canals are necessary to treat and save a natural tooth, Democratic voters, starting with the South Carolina primary and Super Tuesday contests, must perform the necessary procedure of selecting a candidate who can get Democrats back to smiling and chewing with ease — and with enough ballot-box strength to extract President Trump, the truly diseased tooth in America’s body politic, from the White House.
Former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg, conversely, is in a world unto himself. A gazillionaire and lifelong Democrat who turned Republican in 2001, switched to independent in 2007, only to again register as a Democrat in 2018, Bloomberg has spent millions supporting Democratic congressional candidates, and Republicans, too, including $250,000 for Sen. Lindsey O. Graham in 2014. He seems to think money can buy anything, including the Democratic Party’s nomination for president.
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