Franken has been a voice for women, what Gillebran did was wrong and it showed poor judgement on her part, one wants a president who can sit down and rationalize his/her decisions and not fly to a decision because that is what their gut tells them. We now have two bad experiences with people who make decisions from their guts, GW and the orange buffoon.

By the way, I am not comparing Gillibran to those two, she is definitely a smart woman, but looking at her history she seems to be someone who looks for opportunities and may not adhere, by convenience, to her principles much.

This is my take on her, and I could be wrong, and I don't know if she ever was part of the republican party, but her ideologies seem to have been more to the right than to the left, according to her she has changed her views and last night she gave a performance at Rachel Maddow, who by the way let her off the hook never asking about Franken, and explained what made her change. I say a performance because I feel she over did it, she put drama in her huge speech (voice changes, facial drama, etc.) and maybe I am not being fair to her, but it looked very fake to me.

Anyway, I feel she did a lot of damage to the Democratic party by going after Franken. Did she see Franken as a threat for a presidential run? I don't know, but I do know that I want a president who will take his/her time making decisions and not go so readily into panic mode.