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In reply to the discussion: Is this the Kerry 2016 thread? [View all]graham4anything
(11,464 posts)and if it had, it reminds me, and they needed a deciding vote yesterday, who would have voted in for John Kerry?
Answer, he would have been unavailable to vote. We could have lost a major issue had a vote been scheduled and he couldn't vote. Why hasn't he quit his seat and let Deval put an interim senator in (like Barney Frank?What is John Kerry waiting for? Talk about having your cake and eating it).
I would vote for Elizabeth if Hillary45 weren't the next President.
But she and Hillary are the same age. Just a new name the majority of America never heard of before as most people don't focus on Profs from Mass.
But Warren was elected to do something no other senator can do. I would not want her leaving that post to campaign, and this campaign already is on, covertly, and time is needed to actually do work.
I would personally like Warren to be senior senator of Mass. for at least 18 years, if not 24 or 30. We haven't had a fiery liberal democratic senator since Teddy died, and we need another LBJ, and I equate Warren with LBJ(whom I think was the single best senator of all time, closely followed by Teddy).
We need someone like Warren to ram things through from the senate.
if she left, there is no replacement for her. Sure, someone else will become Senator, but as we have seen, none would do what she can do. And she could not replicate that as President, as it has to be done from the Senate. After all, the person who might replace her might be quite inferior to her. Actually, good chance that person would be on her singular issue.