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CalvinballPro

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6. After the way we saw the GOP go against her in MA's Senate race, I cannot believe...
Thu Mar 31, 2016, 12:15 PM
Mar 2016

...that Warren would make a better Presidential candidate.

It seems like wishful thinking because Warren appears to be an amalgam between Clinton and Sanders. People tend to forget (or just don't know) that Elizabeth Warren was a Republican well into her 40s. To this day, she refuses to answer whether or not she voted for Ronald Reagan. (If someone won't vote for a candidate who backed the Iraq bill in 2002, how could someone claim to support a Democratic candidate who helped put Reagan into office?) If Clinton is a "Goldwater Girl" for activities as a teenager, what does that make someone like Warren, who can't claim the excuse of being too young to know better, or being influenced by her father's politics?

Warren is a fine Senator, but that doesn't make her automatically Presidential material. I certainly don't consider her as much as expert in a broad range of policies as Clinton is. Warren may not be as one-note as Bernie Sanders is, but she's not quite a full chord just yet.

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