Last week, there was “breaking news” that former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin was endorsing Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination. She has been campaigning with him this week in her own inscrutable style.
I thought things were about as complicated as they could be with Clinton and Sanders close in the polls in Iowa and New Hampshire and Trump still leading the giant Republican field with Cruz in second place.
And then billionaire and former mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg, upset that it might turn into either Trump or Cruz versus Sanders in the general election, announced that he was considering running as an independent candidate, which he would finance on his own up to one-billion dollars. He will decide by early March after he sees the outcome of the first few state contests.
Bloomberg has been a Democrat, a Republican, and an independent. I am uneasy at the prospect of him running in the general election totally on the basis of having enough money to fund a campaign, without any participation of the voters.
If Trump gets the Republican nomination, Bloomberg enters as an independent, and either Sanders or Clinton get the Democratic nomination, we would have all the major candidates with ties to New York, which is a little strange. (Although Bernie Sanders has spent most of his adult life in Vermont, you can still here the accent of his native Brooklyn when he speaks.)
I had already felt that this political cycle was chaotic.
I can’t come up with a word to adequately describe it now.
*****
This post is part of Linda’s Just Jot It January. Join us! Start here: http://lindaghill.com/2016/01/24/just-jot-it-january-24th-compelled/
To find the rules for Just Jot It January, click here and join in today.
Share this:
Top of JC's Mind 
They have ties to us(NYC) but each in their own way, I can say Bloomberg Trump and the Clintons have plundered us. Bloomberg perhaps worst of all in his three terms as mayor…
LikeLike
I live upstate, but Trump and Bloomberg both scare me in relation to the City. Bloomberg’s flouting of term limits for NYC mayor was especially egregious.
LikeLike
I could come up with a word, but it wouldn’t be polite. 😉
LikeLiked by 1 person
If I were willing to go with impolite, I could have come up with another word for Sarah Palin’s style than “inscrutable,” too. Alas, I am unfailingly genteel when I write. 😉
LikeLike
As we must be. 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
I will plead guilty to being more formal in my style than most bloggers. I was brought up not to use any profanity and have stuck with it.
LikeLike
Good for you. 🙂 I slip once in a while. Case in point, my most recent post … 😛
LikeLike
LOL – You are tame compared to some I’ve read, although I am put off by bloggers, authors, and musicians who use a lot of profanity in their work.
LikeLike
There’s definitely such a thing as too much, I agree.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Your political system appears to have reached the self-parody event horizon now, I don’t think it’s possible for it to get more bizarre without it imploding in on itself.
LikeLiked by 1 person
I had thought it had gotten to the self-parody stage years ago when Sarah Palin was running for vice-president and Tina Fey appeared on Saturday Night Live and got laughs using Sarah Palin’s exact words. There is talk among serious commentators that the Republican party may cease to exist as a result of this election cycle. It’s frightening to be living with the consequences of a major party that is too dysfunctional to participate in governance in an effective way.
Every time I think we have reached the height of bizarre-ness, something else happens….
LikeLiked by 1 person
I have a word for this political cycle – insane.
LikeLike
I’m trying to hold out hope that the voters will inject some amount of reason…
LikeLike