What if we don't want Hillary Clinton as Democratic candidate?

[MADem]

103. Sure she did.

She had her eye on the Senate from early days, right after her temporary appointment didn't become permanent. One door closes, another opens. It may not have been her first idea, but once she wrapped her head around the concept and understood the extraordinary level of support she'd get in the candidacy process, she didn't need any more pushing. She wanted to go after Wall Street, and she knew a lot of senators VERY well before she threw her hat in the ring. She understood the scope of the position probably better than most candidates in history.

Harry Reid flat-out adores her. She knew what her committee assignment would be if she won.

I think, quite honestly, that a lot of people who are claiming to LUUUUUUV Liz would be saying the same nasty things about her six years into any imaginary Warren presidency that they're saying about Obama. Go back in the DU archives, and read some of the 2008 stuff that people said about POTUS--he is the way and the light, he can do no wrong, he's gonna do This/That and The Other! Some of these same people are now trashing him like he's Barack Bush, or something. They're so angry that he's Barack Obama, dealing with a Republican House and a Democratic Senate that has more than a few DINOs in it, and not them...or a king.

People tend to project THEIR views on candidates who have good personalities and are intelligent and share some of our bedrock views. Sometimes, though, politicians have different ideas, or they compromise because of political expediency or flat-out necessity, or what-have-you.

If it were all that easy, anyone could do the job.

This isn't a reluctant candidate--this is someone who's in it to win it!

If she decides to run, we'll know it soon enough--she'll start polishing her "foreign diplomacy" credentials within the next year and a half with a few well-timed and highly publicized trips abroad that are as much a photo op as substantive. That's usually the first signal. To date, though, I think she's sticking to her own To-Do list...