Just like well ya know

All attacking Trump.

None attacking Dems.

FWIW, Sanders' alleged "lack of Democratic loyalty" isn't what concerns me about Sanders. It's not even a blip on my Concern Radar.

And I doubt anyone's really going to attempt the absurd "if Bloomberg does it, does that mean it's not bad?" defense... except for the occasional editorial pretending to be serious and introspective.

Soccer formations don't work too well in football games.

through third-party surrogates he's hired to manage his campaign?

Is Bloomberg attacking the Democratic Party more than he attacks the GOP?

... peter King and a bunch more republicans. Oh and helped repigs keep the New York house.

But he was never a meanie! So he has that going for him...

I am concerned about Bloomberg. I certainly won't be voting for him.

is utterly mesmerizing. Bloomberg:
- Endorsed George W. Bush and spoke on his behalf in front of millions on people at the RNC
- Endorsed Susan Collins
- Endorsed Scott Brown over Elizabeth Warren
- Endorsed Pat Toomey giving him credibility with enough suburban moms in 2016 to cost Katie McGinty the election
- By doing these actions has completely prevented meaningful gun reform and any of the things he claims to care about

Oh and Biden folks, Bloomberg is the reason your candidate is in trouble not Bernie.

bloomberg has 0% on DU

Bloomberg is helping Sanders glide past Biden. What can we do? He has a $50 billion fortune.

His long history speaks for itself.

Nope. Biden's average is higher than it was when Bloomberg entered the race. I'm not sure why people keep making this claim - it's demonstrably false.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html

Bloomberg has been clear he'll focus his time and money on defeating Trump, regardless of who the nominee is. Sanders has a clouded record of performance on that score.

all the amazing gun reform we've had with Mitch McConnell in charge. Oh wait!

...don't see anyone questioning whether he's a "real" Democrat.

As a matter of fact he's been out every day these last few weeks helping Democrat Eliz Markowitz attempt to begin the process of taking back Texas from the GOP in HD-28.

Oh and Beto endorsed Gina Ortiz Jones by the way in an election, nowhere as consequential as the ones for George W. Bush, Scott Brown, Susan Collins or Pat Toomey.

for Mitch McConnell and a dagger to the prospects of any meaningful gun reform for the foreseeable future.

And it looks like he'll spend perhaps a billion more in 2020 on Democrats and Dem causes, even if he's not the nominee. At present, it's pretty hard to argue that he isn't a positive for Democrats.

Bloomberg also seems a lot less selective in whom he chooses to support than Sanders does. Sanders seems to be interested primarily in assisting Democrats or other politicians with whom he shares an ideological bent.

That's not what we need in 2020. We need to support and elect every Democrat we can, regardless of where they are on the spectrum, and we need to understand that different regions require different approaches. We can't get to 51 in the Senate without progressives, liberals, and some moderates. The math just isn't there.

Nor does he have a cult following that would rather Тяцмр win if he doesn’t get the nomination.

Bloomberg is also willing to spend big to ensure Тяцмр’s loss. Not so sure Mr. Sanders would even if he could.

there are any cults out there that worship money. Bloomberg has plenty of friends who received his strong financial backing and campaigned for Republicans running for President against a Democrat. I have no doubt however that both Sanders and Bloomberg want Trump defeated in 2020 by whoever gets the Democratic nomination.

At all. He doesn’t command massive rallies and he doesn’t have worshippers who demand that only he has the right ideas. It’s kind of ridiculous to suggest Bloomberg has any kind of following on that level.

I remember when that was the GOP term for Obama supporters.

It's cool for you to decide on and want to support your candidate but please don't apply baseless insults to the candidate and the supporters of the one's you don't.

It’s not everyone who supports him but there is definitely a cult base that supports him and only him. They aren’t blue no matter who and they can be as nasty and fanatical as Тяцмрегs. You saw the way they behaved at the convention last time and you can see the way they behave online. I’m sorry you feel insulted by this but many of us are also insulted by that behavior.

Here is what I can tell you. I am undecided in the primary process. I am more inclined to vote for someone than against someone; this is especially true in the primaries.

I would much rather see people support their candidates than tear down any of the others. If I based my choice on how supporters act online, I'd probably stay home.

Like Sanders, if I am wrong about that, of course he is far better than Trump, and I will suck it up.

If I'm right, I see Bloomberg as strategically helpful to our ultimate nominee. In the current situation - which we are in BECAUSE of NON-VOTERS AND THIRD PARTY VOTERS IN 2016 - there is nothing Bloomberg brings that is substantively damaging to our recovery. Sanders, on the other hand, has a record of lukewarm, ineffectual support of the Democratic nominee. Unlike Bloomberg, Sanders will NOT bring his supporters in to support the eventual nominee if it is not himself.

Therefore, Sanders annoys me FAR more than Bloomberg. Bloomberg has been an ass in many ways in the past. But he will serve the current purpose in a positive way.

However he has shown himself to date to be lukewarm at best about the policies advocated by our more progressive candidates, namely Warren and Sanders, and many of his high profile supporters and surrogates have been much more openly hostile toward those candidacies than Bloomberg has publicly been himself. So in a possible scenario, such as I sketched out above, in which Biden fades and the seeming front runner becomes Sanders (or for the purpose of this discussion Warren also) the question remains. Bloomberg gives zero indication that he would not battle either Sanders or Warren for the nomination tooth and nail, with his unlimited financial resources, on Super Tuesday and beyond.

You wrote "Unlike Bloomberg, Sanders will NOT bring his supporters in to support the eventual nominee if it is not himself.". If the nominee ends up being Biden, or Klobuchar, or perhaps Buttigieg, I think you are right about Bloomberg. If it is Sanders or Warren, however, I am not so confident he will do a better job at it than Sanders did in 2016 when he did endorse and campaign for nominee (which I hope Bloomberg would do also for Sanders or Warren).

And they will NOT vote for Trump or 3rd party. (unless they were trolling the Dem party to begin with)

Bloomberg voters will be more reliable voters for even a Sanders or Warren candidacy, because they are consistent voters at a much higher rate than the younger voters who tend to support BS.

I think Bloomberg would be somewhat annoyed but would still do everything he could to replace Trump, even if the nominee is Sanders.

I'm not saying that you are wrong, I'm just not as confident about that as you are.

He wants Trump out. His run for the nomination seems more like a platform to hammer Trump incessantly than anything.

I also agree that Bloomberg's supporters are much more likely to be solid voters in November whether or not he's the nominee. As you noted, it's simple math - his voters are largely in groups that vote pretty consistently.

Bloomberg has every right to do what he's doing, and it's a good thing he's doing it

on attack ads against russiapublicans in every single race.

Don't know who his surrogates are. But as of right now, the only surrogates working against the Democratic party are Bernie's.

Joe Lieberman comes to mind who backed McCain against Obama. There are Republicans sitting in the Senate today, prepared to acquit Trump of all charges against him, that Bloomberg personally helped get elected.

Aside from elected Republicans who have been aligned with Bloomberg in the recent past, I am confident Bloomberg surrogates would fall in behind a Biden or a Klobuchar, but not necessarily behind our eventual nominee if it isn't one of them or Bloomberg himself. Bloomberg at one point seriously considered running as an Independent himself for President.

I am not a fan of Bloomberg