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In reply to the discussion: Obama ran after only 2 years in the Senate. Why is this a tougher prospect for Warren? Here's why: [View all]graham4anything
(11,464 posts)Didn't know she was a republican. Never felt a need to delve into her past as it was irrelevant to anything. I have a sneaky suspicion 99% of her mega fans did not know this either.
Now, That is not a deal breaker to me,as I am a big Charlie Crist fan, but it is why any candidate UNVETTED is a big no no in these days (especially after Paul Tsongas and John Edwards).
The story about Ed Markey yesterday brought the truth home.
Here is someone one would think everyone in the nation would know.
Yet in his own Mass. he is unknown to a wide section of his own state.
Most people are unknown nationwide. Except for political junkies, and historians, who really knows people hundreds/thousands miles away.
Elizabeth Warren is on the same team as Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
I don't know why a small subsection of the democratic party thinks otherwise.
I fully expect Hillary and Elizabeth working side by side for her 8 year term.
And as said in the OP, I fully expect, that with Hillary running, no other woman, including Elizabeth Warren would even think of running against her.
And to her megafans-(now I like her, but am not a megafan like they are)-I still would love to know why they want her to give up the perfect job she is in to spend 3 years running for president.
She can't do what she is doing as President. It is why President Obama can't do what her mega fans hope she can accomplish as President. It takes a Senator to do that. Not a President.
I am hoping all the other candidates don't even start a campaign, and the party emerges as one very early, very quickly and let the other side have their civil war.
And to remind people, I was avidly against Hillary in 2008.
She EARNED my respect and vote in the 4 years since then.
But I do wish those megafans of any candidate do some homework.
Hillary has 100% of all her dirt out there, the public already knows it, fully vetted.
However, NONE of the other candidates has ever been vetted whatsoever.
(just look at what people did not know about Andrew Cuomo that they only found out
after Mayor Ed Koch died.) That would be used 100 times over were Andrew to run.
(and he won't run against Hillary, none of them will).
I wouldn't mind Joe running just to take the air away from others, and being the 1st term VP for Hillary to set double history.
BTW, Elizabeth Warren's megafans also keep mentioning some other person for her VP.
Now, it took me 3 seconds to find 3 things about him that ironically enough, if they knew that, one would think would instantly disqualify that person from someone they would want on a national ticket.
Vetting. It should be done and those things then weighted to see if those things make a national run impossible.
imho