CAN BIG MIKE RID US OF DAMAGED DONALD?--Mike Bloomberg is a self made billionaire, said to be the 8th richest person in the country at $54 billion. He is very committed to getting the current embarrassment out of office & recently announced his candidacy for president. He seems to feel the current Democratic field is not up to snuff to do the job.

Some discount his chances. The progressives say he is a billionaire trying to buy the presidency, a dangerous precedent. Some say his support of stop & frisk,as Mayor of New York City, a policing policy some consider racist, will hurt him with blacks, an important voter block in the Democratic primary.

Some say he has been too cozy with Republicans & real estate developers in the past. Although he has supported Democratic causes , many suspect he is not a true Democrat.

He is also a short, Jewish billionaire from New York. Many wonder how that will fly in the rest of the country.

He is entering the contest very late & skipping the early primaries. He is concentrating his efforts on Super Tuesday & the states after. A candidate who has done that has never won the nomination.

But this may be a deliberate strategy. Trump has accumulated a one billion dollar war chest, a formidable obstacle for the other candidates, who are scrambling to raise funds. Bloomberg has 54 billion & is willing to spend as much as he needs to to defeat Trump. He also has the support of his powerful media empire.

He may have deliberately avoided the scrum of the early primaries & may be shooting for a contested convention, where his money will have a lot of clout with the super delegates after the first ballot.

He has strongly supported gun control, combating climate change, sensible immigration policy, & other issues of great interest to Democratic voters. He can talk meaningfully about creating jobs, as he has created 10's of thousands of them. The other Democratic candidates have been relatively silent on this point.

Many other business leaders have been very concerned by the irrationality of Trump's business policies, such as his trade war. Business hates uncertainty. They will be inclined to support Bloomberg with additional billions.

With proper marketing, this short, Jewish, NYC billionaire can be changed into a working class hero. There could be pictures of him chopping wood on his farm, bare chested with photo shopped muscles, or perhaps riding a horse like Vladimir Putin.