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Why Elizabeth Warren Should Stay Where She Is
By Charles P. Pierce
Esquire

12/03/2013

There are a number of reasons why I pray that Senator Professor Elizabeth Warren ignores the importunings of silly pundits and stays right where she is in the United States Senate for, oh, I don't know, seven terms or so. The most important reason is pure selfishness. She's our senator. You bastids go find one of your own. The second reason, and one that is almost as important, is that she is invaluable right where she is because she is making all the right people completely crazy. Former senator McDreamy, for example, whom she beat like a tin drum in 2012, hasn't gotten over it yet, and is still making noises about loading his carpetbag into the bed of his Potemkin pickup truck and going to New Hampshire in order to get beaten like a tin drum by Jeanne Shaheen. (Run, Scotty, run!) It is pretty plain that she's wrongfooted Wall Street poodle Chuck Schumer pretty badly, too.

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And it's not just Schumer, either. We are hearing from the Ghosts Of Fake Centrists Past (the inexcusable Al From as well as steam-grate philosopher Pat Caddell) and Centrists Present (the Third Way grifters), all of whom warn of the dangers of taking up too loudly for anyone who can't afford to buy them all dinner. We have even heard from Richard Cohen, who is making a strong rush in the final straightaway to have the single stupidest year ever produced by a pundit not named Bill Kristol.

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I do not want Elizabeth Warren to run for president because I want her to continue to be my senator. I also don't want her to run for president because she might lose -- and, considering she hasn't done anything you do to start a presidential campaign yet, that's the way to bet right now -- and then her message goes down the memory hole. Leave the Republicans out of it for a second. Among the Democrats, she immediately becomes George McGovern. The Schumers, and Froms, and Caddells, and Cohens get to tut-tut liberal populism into yet another early grave and they get license to start taking bids from whoever they see as the next Evan Bayh. If Warren stays in the Senate, she can keep pushing her issues and keep pissing off all the right people. (My dream is not Warren in the White House. It's Warren as chair of the Senate Banking Committee, subpoena power and all.) She can do the work there that desperately needs to be done.

And, besides, you bastids get your own.

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