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About Liz running or not... (Original Post) Omaha Steve Apr 2015 OP
maybe I'm too cynical Bugenhagen Apr 2015 #1
I'd be happy to vote for a Sanders/Warren ticket. Hillary/Liz...not. Tierra_y_Libertad Apr 2015 #2
I love and respect you, Steve, but... hedda_foil Apr 2015 #3
That will be the day when you can put pro wall street and anti wall street together. L0oniX Apr 2015 #4
From Bernie? obxhead Apr 2015 #5
Worst idea ever Proud Public Servant Apr 2015 #6
She'd be dumped by the DU crowd immediately...for selling out to Hillary. brooklynite Apr 2015 #7
They already have a logo out... lame54 Apr 2015 #8
LOL. This deserves it's own thread crazylikafox Apr 2015 #9
I would love her to run with Bernie, Hillary no. Autumn Apr 2015 #10

Bugenhagen

(151 posts)
1. maybe I'm too cynical
Thu Apr 9, 2015, 03:36 PM
Apr 2015

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.

hedda_foil

(16,375 posts)
3. I love and respect you, Steve, but...
Thu Apr 9, 2015, 03:46 PM
Apr 2015

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.

 

obxhead

(8,434 posts)
5. From Bernie?
Thu Apr 9, 2015, 04:06 PM
Apr 2015

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)
6. Worst idea ever
Thu Apr 9, 2015, 04:11 PM
Apr 2015

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)
7. She'd be dumped by the DU crowd immediately...for selling out to Hillary.
Thu Apr 9, 2015, 04:36 PM
Apr 2015

If she doesn't want to be President, why on earth would she want to be VP?

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