The Patriot Post® · Wednesday Short Cuts

Political futures: “Soon, Democrats may end up choosing between [Michael] Bloomberg, a 78-year-old Jewish billionaire who lives in New York City and is running as a benevolent billionaire, and Vermont’s Sen. Bernie Sanders, a 78-year-old Jewish millionaire from New York City who built his career on bashing the excesses of millionaires and billionaires.” —USA Today columnist Jason Sattler

Belly laugh: “Bloomberg seems to have acquired his knowledge of farming by watching Hee-Haw.” —Fox News’s Brit Hume

Owning up: “I do make [William Barr’s] job harder. I do agree with that. I think that’s true. Everybody has the right to speak their mind. I use social media. I guess I use it well because here I am. I probably would not have gotten here without social media, because I certainly don’t get fair press.” —Donald Trump

Upright: “He’s a very straight shooter. We have a great attorney general, and he is working very hard. And he’s working against a lot of people that don’t want to see good things happen, in my opinion. That’s my opinion, not his opinion. You will have to ask what his opinion is.” —Donald Trump

Epic lack of self-awareness: “I’m not gonna tell other Christians how to be Christians, but I will say I cannot find any compatibility between the way this president conducts himself and anything I find in Scripture.” —Pete Buttigieg, who is “married” to another man and, among a plethora of other evils, supports abortion up to the moment of birth

Straight from the horse’s mouth: “The question of whether it leaves private insurance intact, that’s actually up to the insurance companies. Either they’ll come up with something better that’ll compete with the plan I’m putting out there, or they’ll fail. And to be honest, I don’t care.” —Pete Buttigieg

Non compos mentis: “I love Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She has done more in her first year in Congress to transform politics, to get young people involved, than any freshman member of Congress that I can remember. But, my view is that Medicare for All, the bill that we wrote, is already a compromise. It is a four-year transition period.” —Sen. Bernie Sanders

Communism ≠ a higher path: “It is my very strong belief that the United States must reject [the] path of hatred and divisiveness and instead find the moral conviction to choose a different path, a higher path, a path of compassion, justice, and love. And that is the path that I call democratic socialism.” —Bernie Sanders

Dezinformatsiya: “They’ll figure out a way to use the Justice Department to disadvantage a particular Democratic candidate in the primary. Or maybe to disadvantage a few of the Democratic candidates in the primary so that the president can have more of his favorite choice as to who he wants to run against in the general [election]. I mean, I realize that scenario is crazy. … But it kind of feels like that’s pretty much what it’s come to, just in terms of what we’ve learned and how they’ve behaved just since the end of the president’s impeachment trial.” —MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow

And last… “At this point in 2016, the Republican primary field still featured black and Latino candidates. But the 2020 Dems have already kicked all of their racial minority candidates to the curb. We need to have a national conversation about racism in the Democrat Party. Very troubling!” —Matt Walsh