Why Warren?

[winter is coming]

37. My complaint is that I think it's way too early to limit ourselves to the names we can think of.

If you searched GD back in November of 2005, I'm sure you'd find DUers who thought Obama was an up-and-comer who'd given a great speech at the convention, but I doubt there were many who thought of him as a serious candidate for 2008. Instead, DU was probably talking about well-known names, as we're doing now. And when you do that, it's like casting a movie before the first draft of the script has even been written.

If you cast a celebrity before you've really nailed down your script, you'll likely end up with a vehicle for that person, which may or may not end up being a good story. I don't think we should be focusing on who right now so much as what. I think we're losing sight of 2014 in all the 2016 chatter, and focusing on what we want the Party to be rather than one particular race that's years away would be a better use of our time, as "what" applies to all candidates/races. Focus on what a Presidential candidate should be, and then start looking around for who best represents that as time goes by. But 2014 needs to come first.