The reason we need at least a New Deal Democrat in the Presidential race is simple,

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28. You want to talk about Reagan's pre Republican politics? We sure can, it goes a long way to

explaining the so called 'Reagan Democrats'. He was an opportunist, a McCarthyist and always a conservative.
One of the leading political figures in my State's history was a Senator named Wayne Morse. Wayne was elected to the Senate as a Republican, but left that Party in very clear protest of the nomination as VP of Richard Nixon. He became an Independent. Later, as part of his growing opposition to the Vietnam war, he joined the Democratic Party. Wayne served 4 terms, voted against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and is known for his clearly spoken opinions and reasons for action.
I'd like to see more of that out of Warren and less of the mushy bipartisan stuff. If she left that Party for good reasons, why not state those reasons? Morse did. I wish that she would. Morse made gold out of that stuff. She could too.