Elizabeth Warren/Corey Booker 2016?

[warrprayer]

It is most definitely a republican nightmare - a woman and a black man on the same ticket.

I can see Glenn Becks head exploding now...



Warrens appeal to the struggling middle class/working poor plus Bookers being able to first hand expose someone like Chris Christie for what he really is seems an unbeatable combination to me.

[NYC_SKP]

1. Sure. A~B~H.

Like it.

[warrprayer]

2. Just imagining hearing the wingnuts going off

puts a smile on my face

[JustAnotherGen]

3. Oh hell no

Warren yes - Booker no. I voted for Booker ONLY because he had a D after his name - NOT because we shared a common belief in America.

Pallone or Holt (also rans) would be a much better complement to Warren than Booker. He's very corporate and got a lot of his campaign money from Wall Street.

[warrprayer]

4. It appears from a quick search

you are correct. Wish it weren't so.

Was reading about the Christie/Booker "bromance"

Still, the heat of a campaign could change that... maybe???

[JustAnotherGen]

5. I don't think so

I think he's going to be a fine MODERATE Senator - but a leftist? No way. He's never going to be a Sherrod Brown.

[KeepItReal]

7. +1000

Booker happily wasted NJ tax money for his own special election which helped Christie get re-elected in the general election a few weeks later.

Booker should have been in the general election to boost Dem turnout.

[JustAnotherGen]

8. I don't know

Christie had ALL the power on that - and I want to say in 1924 (I can double check) the NJ Legislature laid down explicit rules that Christie did NOT have to hold that special election. Because of when Lautenberg died -and how close it was to the GE - it should have just gone on at the same time as the GE. But Christie had all the power on that one.

[tabbycat31]

10. I didn't vote for Booker in the primary

But he did not waste tax $$ on the special election, he was the candidate. As the mayor of Newark, he had no power to call a statewide special election.

Blame Christie on that one.

[JustAnotherGen]

13. +1000

And Christie didn't even HAVE to. After the Fed Gov voted to allow direct election of Senators - the NJ Legislature put rules in place to specifically NOT cause the outlay of money for an expensive special election.

Not a fan of Booker - but I'm not going to throw him under the bus when a perfectly good opportunity to throw the Guv'nah under the bus presents itself.

[warrprayer]

16. thank you!

When I heard about Christie at the Koch bros meeting I realized what he really stands for. I want that jerk nowhere near the white house.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1895403

[warrprayer]

18. also some might see

Bookers spot on a Warren ticket as balancing it out to appeal to more moderate party members.

[libdem4life]

29. Someone posted the financials here...it was nearly comical. 90% of the funding went to Booker

and in recall, I'd guess by memory, that at least 75% was from corporate sources. There's a reason for that, other than it was well-known who would win from the git-go.

It's a reason we love to hate, the unmentionable, but "it" is spinach to Popeye, that which fuels the 20-21st century cartoon car we currently call Democracy.

An old saying: Get in or get out. If you get in, sit down, be quiet and hang on. My addendum ... if you decide to get out, don't lament over the fact you got left behind. If you're in, at least you may have some say in interpreting the road map.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

6. That's winner in Iowa, fer sure... (nt)

[Myrina]

9. aaaah, no.

n/t

[warrprayer]

11. some say Warren lacks the "electable gravitas"..

.. of Hillary, but they said the same of Obama in 2008.

[NYC_SKP]

12. No way Obama could ever win against a Hillary candidacy.

No way.

[warrprayer]

14. he just...

... came out of nowhere!

good to see you, btw, my friend!

[Capt. Obvious]

15. "Republican nightmare"

Apt description. I bet you didn't even mean to do that.

[warrprayer]

17. sorry...

... but I'm not sure I get your drift...

[Capt. Obvious]

25. My mistake

I read that as Clinton/Booker.

With all of the Warren/Clinton threads lately I guess I'm just juxtaposing them.

[Arkana]

19. These two would be like oil and water.

Warren's made her bones on fighting big banks. Cory Booker's rolodex is FILLED with the phone numbers of the guys whose asses she kicked in all those hearings. It would not work out well.

[warrprayer]

21. It is interesting

to hear this. Thanks for the info... seems a shame.

[libdem4life]

30. Good point. Imagine their glee...Yesssss, she's running for President. Thank the gods.

[NuclearDem]

20. Ugh, no.

Here's the list of people I'd want to see run:

Elizabeth Warren
Sherrod Brown
Mark Udall
Ron Wyden
Howard Dean
Kristen Gillibrand

Plenty of good progressives out there.

[warrprayer]

22. We have a long way to go...

... but it is amazing how fast it rolls around. Certainly will be interesting.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

23. The Warren part sounds good.

[Drunken Irishman]

24. Not Booker.

He seemed way too committed to electing Mitt Romney (probably because he felt he had a better shot at the presidency coming off four years of Republican control than eight years of Democratic...).

[warrprayer]

26. back later....

thanks all!

[Erose999]

27. Isn't Cory Booker a DLC NeoLib? Isn't he in favor of charter schools and union busting?

[winter is coming]

34. Yes. I don't understand these "two great tastes that taste great together" fantasy tickets.

Putting a populist on the ticket doesn't increase the palatability of a corporatist, as far as I'm concerned.

[tridim]

28. Did you manage to compress space-time? Because I swear it's 2013, and not 2015.

[brush]

31. Warren is true Dem . . .

Booker is more corporate/Wall St. dem.

Be careful what you wish for.

Remember during the 2012 campaign he was banished from presidential surrogate ranks for going on the air in favor of private equity firms like Romney's.

Because he got a lot of backing from those type of companies.

[KamaAina]

32. No, thank you

Cory the Tory is a poor fit for progressive Sen. Warren.

[avaistheone1]

33. Defintely not Booker.

No thanks.