New Republic: Elizabeth Warren, Hillary's Nightmare?

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3. I'm prone to disagree...

I have every expectation that by this time next year, Clinton's far enough behind the 8-ball that she's announcing that she's not running.

Also, you seem to fail to note that Ms. Warren is also a woman...and if anything, her candidacy negates Clinton's "historic" motivating factor more than vice-versa. (Clinton's historic value is she's a woman. Warren's is that she's a woman and she represents a return to liberal economic values which guided America through its greatest period of economic prosperity.) If Warren jumps in or is drafted in and this primary becomes a referendum on economic policy and a choice between two directions for the economic philosophy of the future of the Democratic Party...Clinton can't win. She has no path to victory unless she's willing to break from her own previous economic positions, aggressively oppose those of the (Bill) Clinton-era White House and represent a change of course towards the ideological base away from those of this Presidency and the center. To put it another way, she'd have to repudiate the very issues, women's issues notwithstanding, that are motivating her to run. She'd have to adopt Warren's economic positions and run as a old-fashioned economic populist...but with foreign policy experience.

If Warren ends up in, even if she does not secure the nomination herself, she ends Hillary's career. There's a hunger for that kind of candidate in this party...if anything is inevitable in 2016, it's probably that.