What Cory Booker gains by defending Vulture Capitalists.

[Dawson Leery]

http://www.salon.com/2012/05/20/cory_booker_surrogate_from_hell/singleton/

[brentspeak]

1. "Financial support from Wall Street and...the investor class has been key to Booker’s rise"

It wouldn’t be surprising if Booker has already heard from the White House, and surely he’s now in for a world of abuse from Obama supporters. But that hardly means he made a mistake, at least in terms of his own ambition. Financial support from Wall Street and, more broadly speaking, the investor class has been key to Booker’s rise, and remains key to his future dreams.

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This is why it’s not at all surprising to see Booker going to bat for private equity. The allies he’s cultivated on Wall Street and in the financial industry (think, for instance, of his chummy relationship with Michael Bloomberg) have made Booker a prolific fundraiser, and when he ventured into the ultra-expensive statewide game, he’ll need them more than ever. Many of them have turned fiercely against Obama over the past few years, convinced that he’s unfairly targeted them. Booker’s words on “Meet the Press” may have enraged the average Obama supporter, but to the Wall Street class they were probably close to heroic – finally, a big-name Democrat with the cojones to call out Obama on his class warfare!

The Booker calculation, in other words, is probably that the average Democratic voter’s memory of his outburst will fade long before 2014 – but that the average Wall Street donor’s won’t.

Booker really is a self-serving, useless waste.

[Dawson Leery]

3. It is important to build a grass roots effort to stop him.

[Angry Dragon]

2. he gains an 'R' behind his name

[southernyankeebelle]

4. We are kidding of course. He gains maybe $50,000 - $100,000 contribution. Like I said

before dems are no better.

[BlueCaliDem]

5. Booker: the quintessential Manchurian Candidate to infiltrate the Democratic Party.

He needs to be exposed for the fake he is.