Caroline Kennedy Says She Will Back Hillary Clinton, Warren camp says NY Post article...

[NanceGreggs]

122. You've replied to the wrong person.

I didn't ask the question.

But allow me to play Devil's Advocate in respect of a Warren presidential run, if I may?

Everything we love about is Warren is everything the Republicans hate. We see her as passionate; the Republicans see her as crazed. We see her as an aggressive advocate; the Republicans see her as an over-bearing nag. We see her as a shining example of the accomplished woman; the Republicans see her as a woman who doesn't know her place.

"Elizabeth Warren's approach to economic issues, her common sense, her feminine form of feminism and her personality will earn the trust and votes of a lot of swing voters as well as Republicans -- especially Republican women."

We see her approach, her common sense, her form of feminism. The Republicans don't. They see something else entirely, and it ain't anything good.

If Republican women were interested in supporting someone who would speak to them and for them, they would have left their own party years ago. While I am sure many GOP women have toyed with the idea of aligning themselves with the Democrats on issues like equal pay and access to BC, etc., in the end they always find things like abortion or same-sex marriage to be the greater evil when choosing between the two parties' platforms. For some women, a dead fetus or a two-daddy kid attending the same daycare as their godly Christian child is enough to keep them in the GOP camp.

Warren was a Republican who became a Democrat. She would be cast as a turncoat, a woman who found it easy to shed her principles and adopt those of her previous adversaries (a) because she is fickle and doesn't know her own mind, (b) because she is willing to abandon her principles for the sake of political expediency, (c) because she has no sense of loyalty - and that endless list goes on and on and on.

When I read posts about how Warren would find broad acceptance and support if she ran for POTUS, I am reminded of an FR thread about Sarah Palin running for prez. Her RW supporters were confident that once the country "really got to know her", even a lot of liberal Democrats would see all of her great qualities and support her.

I am not by any means comparing Warren to Palin. All I'm saying is that all of us, on both sides of the aisle, project all kinds of "obvious" political virtues onto those we admire - and naively believe that our opponents will come to see exactly what we see.

All of that being said, here's my problem with the Warren-for-POTUS promotion: We know her stand on a fair number of domestic issues - but not all. As far as where she would stand on foreign policy, she is a virtual unknown. I suspect that once all of her positions became known, many of her current supporters would begin expressing buyer's remorse rather quickly. In other words, there are too many here who want the Warren they see in the Oval Office, without considering that what they see is not necessarily who she is.