@glitterbag,
glitterbag wrote:
I have to say that some part of me is happy he's thinking about it. God grant you he has a huge ego, but at least he isn't Trump. It scares me that I am now thinking in terms of "how the hell do you stop Trump" so much so that Bloomberg sounds like a great idea.
Last year around this time, my favorite cousin Jim and I were fretting about O'Malley. Jim is so anti-O'Malley, he said he would vote for Hillary if she picked him as a running mate. (Jim and I are native Marylanders and O'Malley was Gov. for 8 years). Now we are discussing these nightmare scenarios of "suppose Trump gets elected". I still can't get excited about our former Governor, but he's now barely hanging on, and Trump stated earlier today that he could shoot a person in Times Square and still wouldn't lose a voter. I started to laugh, but holy crap, he's right. I'm no longer frightened, I've moved into panic mode.
Yeah, no one's laughing about this anymore. My brain hurts when I try to imagine Trump in the white house, our chief of state - the representative of the United States for all the world's leaders. I think any thinking person, right, left or center, should be afraid of the possibility. The media in Europe regularly has someone asking the question 'What in the hell are the Americans thinking' by taking this noxious huckster seriously. I get involuntary cold terrors down my spine when the thought wanders through, of trump (or Cruz, for that matter) as our president. If that happens, what it says about our country ain't anything good.
It's been hard for me to get a fix on O'Malley, even after listening to him carefully for a couple of debates. He just seems to be spouting any boilerplate platitudes that will make his seem distinguishable from the two more viable dem candidates.
I don't know overmuch about Bloomberg. I worry that he thought 'stop and frisk' was a good idea, even after he was confronted with proof that it was basically just profiling and unconstitutional searches that were unfairly burdening blacks and latinos.
