Michael Bloomberg's liabilities as a political candidate are so glaringly obvious that it's easy to dismiss his presidential bid as a vanity project. He is utterly devoid of charisma, has no real organic base in the Democratic Party, and is a viable candidate only because he's filthy rich and is willing to inundate the race by opening up his nearly limitless money pit.
This unprepossessing profile hasn't stopped big name pundits like Tom Friedman and Bret Stephens, both appearing in the pages of in The New York Times, from extolling Bloomberg as a potential savior. Writing even before Bloomberg entered the race, Stephens argued that all the existing Democratic candidates were weak against Trump except for Bloomberg.
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