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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAbout Liz running or not...
Imagine the electricity if she doesn't run and gets offered the VP spot!
Bugenhagen
(151 posts)but I'd see that as a move by really rotten candidate trying to innoculate themselves against criticism from the left. That is how I imagine it happening anyhow. Its major function is to help the P candidate get elected. Anyhow the VP spot is, as I see it, crap and generally a career dead-end. I would be bummed to see Sen. Warren take a VP slot under any candidate.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)The reason an establishment candidate chooses a running mate who's influential with the base has always been twofold. First, it's to win the votes and enthusiasm of the supporters of the more popular wo/man, and second, to neutralize the voice of the would-be VP, who would be forced to support the policies of the presidential candidate. Not just on the campaign trail but throughout the president's term of office.
Warren would not be an exception.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)obxhead
(8,434 posts)From Hillary? Nope, none from me.
Love Liz, but she would be useless to us in a Hillary admin position.
Proud Public Servant
(2,097 posts)Best case scenario: Takes one of our most effective voices out of the Senate, where it can do the most good, and sticks it in an office famously described (by an occupant) as "not worth a warm bucket of piss."
Worst case scenario: a ticket of two women in their late 60s, both from the Northeast, ends up inviting a Republican landslide.
So no, absolutely not.
brooklynite
(94,666 posts)If she doesn't want to be President, why on earth would she want to be VP?