My wife went to the Bloomberg office opening in

[MineralMan]

St. Paul, MN this afternoon. It was well attended. Guess what the campaign slogan is now for supporters:

I LIKE MIKE!

Sound familiar?

[Wellstone ruled]

1. You got it.

[brokephibroke]

2. Michael Jordan.

Or was that, I want to be like Mike?

[MineralMan]

3. Type I Like Ike into Google...

[brokephibroke]

5. Oh I know....

For some of us old timers, MJ will always be Mike.

[at140]

4. Was Mike a repuglican once?

Sorry, I don't trust Mike!

[Jake Stern]

6. Really?

While you're calling Bloomberg out because he was once a Republican you should get a load of what political party YOUR choice was a member of well into middle age.

[Bradshaw3]

9. REALLY?

Warren voted Democratic for prez since the 70s and changed her registration about a quarter century ago. Bloomberg supported Toomey in 2016 (he voted for acquittal) and for Scott Brown against Warren. And yet Warren's decades ago registration means more than Bloomber's support of numerous repubs in THIS decade? Talk about a load.

[Kaleva]

11. Bloomberg donated millions to Dem House candidates in 2018

And he's been donating millions to down ticket Dems this election.

[Bradshaw3]

13. Yeah he also donated millions to repubs

RECENTLY. Including one who voted to acquit dump. Has Warren donated to repubs in the last 20 years? Or supported ONE? Bloomberg has supported many. See the differences?

[Kaleva]

18. Bloomberg helped win the House

Trump and his minions cannot match Bloomberg dollar to dollar In a matchup this GE. Bloomberg can outstaff and out advertize Trump easiy and still be able to donate millions to down ticket Dem candidates

[Bettie]

27. What you are saying is that this guy

can BUY the election for himself. Literally, you said nothing about what he would do. It is all about him and his money.

I guess that's who we are as a nation now, for sale to the man with the most money.

[Bradshaw3]

28. He helped ELECT REPUBS as recently as three years ago

I don't care about what money he has - I care about how his use of it reflects his politics. Funny that so many on here criticize Bernie who votes to caucus with the Dems or Warren who hasn't voted for a repub in decades but Bloomberg gets a pass for electing repubs who JUST LAST WEEK voted to acquit drumpf. The hypocrisy is stunning.

We dont need an oligarch whose support coems from his wealth and whose politics are sipportive of repubs. We can win without becoming them.

[TwilightZone]

10. Was this post meant ironically?

[at140]

14. Of course because of obvious reason..

his history of running as a repuglican will be brought forward in the campaign if Bloomberg has a decent showing on super Tuesday.

[Kaleva]

19. Which might attract Repubs who don't like Trump

[at140]

21. Possibly, but I am thinking primaries..

Bloomberg has to win primaries before he attracts republicans in general.
I am sure there will be a few zingers during debates by his democratic opponents.

[Kaleva]

22. True but this possible disadvantage in the primary may be an asset in the general

[left-of-center2012]

15. "Was Mike a republican once?" "Sorry, I don't trust Mike!"

The candidate you support, Warren, was a Republican.

Friends and colleagues of Warren's from her high school days to the early part of her academic career in the 1980s have characterized her as a "die-hard conservative" with a belief in laissez-faire economics and "surprisingly anti-consumer views".

Warren was registered as a Republican from 1991 to 1996. She voted Republican for many years. "I was a Republican because I thought that those were the people who best supported markets", she has said.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Warren

[at140]

16. Exactly, so if Bloomberg does well on super Tuesday

do you think his history of running on a repuglican party ticket becomes an issue?

[left-of-center2012]

17. It's already an issue

Have you not seen the DU attacks?

Warren won't be around long.

[at140]

20. Nope I missed those..

I do not get enough time to read every post.
When I login, I usually head on to recent posts, to quickly catch up on recent news.

[Bradshaw3]

29. Your hypocrisy is stunning

So Bloomberg supported repubs as little as three-and-ahlf years ago (inclding one who just LAST WEEK voted to acquit drumpf) but you and many others n here made a hughe deal out of Warren's past - evne though she hasn't been a repub for decades and voted for Dems in presidential elections for the last 40 years.

Bllomberg has supported numerous repubs in the last 10 YEARS, yet gets a pass. Unbelievable hypocrisy.

[mitch96]

30. And tRump was once a Dem.... As long as they do the right thing they can call themselve anything..nt

[at140]

31. Can't argue with that..nt

[redstateblues]

7. Catchy. A little before my time but it rings a bell

[George II]

8. He had his campaign kickoff in CT on Thursday night. We were invited but I had (minor) surgery....

....that morning. I'm sure it was a lavish event.

He's hiring by the hundreds and opening offices everywhere (this one wasn't an office but just a kickoff)

[redqueen]

12. This post expresses my sentiments well.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1287&pid=443411

[left-of-center2012]

23. That must be very new

Bloomberg launches ‘Get it done’ slogan

(I see nothing on Google, or his websites, connecting Bloomberg to "I like Mike" as a slogan)

"Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire campaigning to become the Democrats 2020 Presidential candidate and former Mayor of New York, has released a new slogan: get it done.

The slogan was launched on Saturday 10th January at the same time as Bloomberg opened 150 new field offices around the USA."

https://politicaladvertising.co.uk/2020/01/12/bloomberg-launches-get-it-done-slogan/

[MineralMan]

26. I think it's an added idea and recent.

One of the things the campaign is doing is letting supporters add that slogan to their Facebook and Twitter avatars, using an app. It superimposes a transparent graphic over the image you use for your avatar and plugs it back into the website. You supply your Facebook or Twitter handle, and log into the website ON THE WEBSITE, for security reasons, and the app does the rest.

"I Like Mike" shows up after that on your regular icon, along with a tiny campaign logo.

Bloomberg has hired actual highly-paid professional Internet people for all of his online campaign stuff. There's none of that start-up app design company nonsense that bollixed up the Iowa caucus reporting. He has also hired some of the best advertising people available to create his ads and commercials.

The campaign is 100% professional, well-planned, scheduled, and executed.

It's going to be very effective, I think, and we'll see how effective on March 4.

[UniteFightBack]

24. The misses isn't interested in Biden? nt

[MineralMan]

25. She's mainly interested in beating Trump.

She's OK with Biden, too, and said, "Well, Bloomberg probably won't win the nomination," but he might help Biden get it at the convention. My wife is a smart person. She makes up her own mind about things.

Note: I have never, even once, ever referred to her as "the missus," "the little woman," or "my better half." She has a name. I use it, or refer to her as "my wife," when online. She decides where her name appears on the Internet, not me.