Deep cracks emerge in Biden's firewall

[thesquanderer]

9. re: "If they were so confident in their candidate they would let Bloomberg be"

I'm not sure who (or how many) in the "Bernie gang" are trying to "disqualify" him, or exactly what you think they're trying to do, but regardless of whether they think Bloomberg's presence is good or bad for Joe, it makes sense--if they are going to be true to their convictions as opposed to merely playing a political game--that, on principle, they would object to the perception that someone is trying to buy themselves into the presidency. Same with Warren.

Sometimes it can really be about what someone believes, and not just politics. Sanders and Warren both basically talk about how the political system is bought and paid for. It makes no sense for them to support someone like Bloomberg buying their way into power, even if it does indeed hurt Biden more than it hurts them. Because it is an example pf exactly the kind of thing they rail against, the power of the wealthy to game the system. Sanders talks about it more in strictly economic terms, Warren speaks about it more in the language of corruption, but they are both fundamentally focussed on the same thing... who has all the money, and what that amount of money lets people do.