It would be easier for me to get excited about Elizabeth Warren

[Ken Burch]

46. One, she won't be running against Nixon's campaign team

Two these days, most people don't think it was a good thing that Nixon won that election.

Three, McGovern wasn't nominated because he was popular in Massachusetts...he was nominated because he won most of the primaries and put together a brilliant campaign(until it was submarined by the regular Dems at and after the convention, who decided that it would be better to make sure their own nominee was destroyed than to let someone they didn't impose and totally control be elected president).

Four, there was no indication in any polling in the primaries in '72 that any OTHER Democratic nominee would have done better against Nixon. Nixon's "dirty tricks squad" was going to make sure that whoever the Dems nominated that year lost 49 states. Humphrey would have lost that many, Scoop Jackson would have lost that many, even Teddy, probably(a Nixon v. Teddy campaign would have been about nothing BUT Chappaquiddick...and I say that as a person who supported Teddy when he did run in 1980).

An Elizabeth Warren campaign would have none of the flaws the McGovern campaign had in the fall of '72...and HRC wouldn't do any better than Warren, especially since HRC has no core values and would run on a foreign policy platform of being MORE psychotic than any 'pug(which is not what the voters want...especially on the Middle East, where the American people are now overwhelmingly anti-intervention).