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In reply to the discussion: Many Democrats prefer Clinton over Warren for president because the Clinton name is already [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)Because Ted died and Kerry went on to SECSTATE, she has rocketed to the Senior Senator position in our state. Her new junior Senator partner has decades on the Hill in Congress, so they balance one another out.
But she isn't a progressive, Liberal DOER. She is a thoughtful moderate who thinks that the banks have gone nutso and need to be reined back to the point where they are serving their customers, not ripping them off. She is a former Reagan Republican, and she has ZERO foreign policy experience and she's just getting her feet wet in the Senate.
People see a new person who appeals to them, and they paint all their hearts' desires on that person. They always end up disappointed. Look at how some of the most ardent "Hope and Changers" have turned on Obama because he hasn't "done enough" to suit them. I can remember conversations during the Hillary-Barack primary, way back when, where people got positively vicious when it came to their candidate, to the point where harsh words were exchanged and people actually left DU over it. Hillary was a shill, Barack was a saint. Now some of the same people who were Obama's top cheerleaders are saying the President is a shill, because he hasn't fulfilled all their hearts' desires.
It's a bad idea to deify unproven candidates. Just because they're good at one thing doesn't mean they'll be good at other things. And because they are good at one thing, maybe it's a good idea to let them KEEP DOING that one thing that they're good at--someone needs to, certainly.
The article at your link is a very good read. It does provide a good view of the Senator and her relationships with her colleagues..