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In reply to the discussion: Dear supporters of Hillary Clinton 2016.... [View all]PennsylvaniaMatt
(966 posts)Though I prefer Hillary over Elizabeth Warren because Hillary would have a much easier path to the White House than Warren, especially if the GOP nominates someone like Chris Christie or Jeb Bush.
I don't want to be seen as putting down Warren, I think she is a great senator, but while people constantly put down Hillary as a "third way" Democrat who "isn't progressive enough" or seriously criticize aspects of her past, it is worth noting that Elizabeth Warren, for many years in the 1980s and 90s, was a Republican who voted for Reagan and Bush and who only began to lean towards the Democrats when she was 46 years old in 1995, at the same time Bill and Hillary Clinton were fighting against those policies. Even though the party has changed somewhat, much of the Republican economic philosophy has been the same since then. Warren rails against the GOP for their economic policies now, but she voted for the people that enacted them. In my opinion, that is worse than any policy position that Hillary Clinton ever took on economics.
I just want to be fair as we bash Hillary, yet put Elizabeth Warren on a pedestal.