I stopped reading Slate, as well as the NYT and listening to NPR, in the past few months, because it's bad for my blood pressure.

 

But here's a great article in Slate about how Bloomberg is completely shooting the gun control movement in the foot with his nationwide power play. It seems he misjudged the mood outside of Manhattan. Not everyone wants to have his choices dictated by a megalomaniacal tyrant. I predict that soon, a Bloomberg endorsement will be a mark of death.

 

Michael Bloomberg?s gun control campaign: The New York City mayor?s fight against gun rights advocates is making it hard for his allies to broker bipartisan legislation. - Slate Magazine

 

I didn't see the Bloomberg ad featuring the pro-gun control fudd, but I'm going to look for it, as it sounds like it might be good for a laugh:

 

"The ads financed by the Bloomberg group neatly encapsulate the problem of whether the message can survive the messenger. In one ad, a man holding a shotgun is wearing plaid flannel and a camouflage cap. He sits on the tailgate of a pickup truck while children play behind him. He says, “I support comprehensive background checks so criminals and the dangerously mentally ill can’t buy guns.”

 

The message reflects coordination: frame background checks as a way to protect the public from criminals and the mentally ill, not an attempt to infringe on the rights of innocent law-abiding citizens. But the “hunter” in the ad is a little too stylized, and the spot has rightly been lampooned by conservative commentators for breaking a few basic gun safety rules. (The man points his gun while children play nearby and he has his finger on the actual trigger). “It’s like what a person from Manhattan thinks a hunter looks like,” said one Democratic strategist."

I really hope all dems push hard on gun control.

just the title makes me all warm a fuzzy inside

He'd be better served by fighting for his own cause -- stupidity.

Bloomberg is already threatening dems who don't want to back gun control.

 

So given an incumbent moderate dem, you split the dem vote with a Bloomberg shill, who do you think wins? Probably the republican candidate.

 

You have a bunch of pols in their mid seventies and a lame duck president burning lots of democrat capital, there is the distinct possibility that the core democrat power structure could be shaken up from this. Either they will have to eject certain influences, sell the party to them, or say they agree to hold onto party influence at the cost of their current successful strategy.

 

Colorado swapping red to blue was due to DMV strategizing that worked. Bloomberg may have pissed that away.