VP Joe Biden reportedly believes that our own Elizabeth Warren would make a smart choice for Hillary Clinton. Not only that, but he apparently offered the number two slot to her on his own hypothetical ticket had he decided to run. Senator Warren did not flat out reject the idea. She does seem to be auditioning by the way she goes tweet for tweet with Donald Trump, but laughed it off to me directly at a recent DSC meeting.
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Christopher says
…that influential Clinton campaign staff are pushing for Warren to be on the ticket.
JimC says
He’s by far the most qualified.
Christopher says
…HRC said that history was not finished with Joe Biden yet. I like him for Secretary of State in a Clinton administration.
bob-gardner says
. . . would make Clinton look like Bernie Sanders. He’s about as cozy with big business as it gets.
Mark L. Bail says
couldn’t we find a vice presidential candidate that is under 70?
jnagarya says
When he asked if she’d be running for President, she was direct and absolutely unequivocal:
She has no interest in being President, and absolutely loves her job in the Senate.
It would be stupid to remove the most progressive voice in the Senate in order to essentially silence her as VP.
What she is doing re. Trump needs to be added to by at least one other woman — Trump can’t handle anyone talking back to him, even moreso when it’s a woman. He’s not prepared for it. And she should keep it simple, direct, and factual — asking, as example, for the current status of the Trump University fraud trial. And now and then thereafter ask for updates as to the status.
Go after his abuses of the bankruptcy laws.
Put him back on his heels and keep him there.
Leave the name-calling to Trump: it’s all he has.
bob-gardner says
Not to mention Acting Governor Polito.
And further not to mention that Baker, while he’s waiting to be elected Senator, can pick a temporary Senator, who will be far better at advocating Republican values than either Paul Kirk or Moe Cowan were at advocating for Democrats.
Christopher says
Yes, he would probably appoint a GOP interim, but he seems to like being Governor.
centralmassdad says
Why liberals pretend that the Congress doesn’t exist. That’s the only explanation I can come up with for the Bernie “revolution” that pays absolutely no attention whatsoever to Congress, much less state or local government. And why people seem so invested in removing liberal legislators who actually exercise power in order to place them in symbolic Dear Leader positions.
It does seem as if the new “Bernie” energy comes straight from the Occupy people: amateurish, incoherent, devoid of strategy, goals, or tactics, but lots of social media and chanting.
Trickle up says
going back at least as far as Camelot.
jconway says
And that’s despite having Bostonians in two of the three leadership roles in government 😉
The Texans who proceeded McCormack and succeeded Kennedy were far more effective at holding and wielding raw power for progressive ends. Looking forward to All the Way on HBO. Friends at saw the ART production and raved.
jconway says
Franken since he can make fun of Trump, ran an effective populist campaign and won a purplish state in a lousy cycle, and he would be replaced by a Democrat.
Gates since it will probably being over a lot of middle of the road Republican donors and refute the Benghazi narrative. And it reinforces the “ready to command” and “unity ticket” themes they seem to be advancing. Trump is enough of a fear factor to galvanize Sander’s progressives so the left flank is probably secure. The white working class might be lost forever due to their take on identity politics. Someday the culture/economics divide will be bridges by a savvier politician than either of these two, but it will take a more able messenger than Sander’s or Warren. It’s a generational project.
JimC says
“A prominent GOP woman.”
i can’t even think who that would be. Carly Fiorina?
He might mean Olympia Snowe or someone like that, but if so I think his source is messing with him.
jconway says
She is one of the few protectionists in the GOP and has been praising Trump on trade. The benefit is its someone in a swingy state (ME-2 especially) who also has national security experience and is a cultural moderate.
My other choice is Jon Huntsmen. Offers a bridge to the establishment wing, he has nothing better to do, and it’ll help bring the Mormons back shoring up AZ and possibly helping in NV and NM. Also helps with the “tough on China” narrative and as an Obama official he can say they were incompetent. Rather loathed by the base but Trump already has them in his corner. Trump has to make this a Coke and Pepsi race and the media will fawn over either of these choices.
JimC says
… was talking about HRC.
jconway says
Though Snowe is more likely to say yes and always has a slightly more liberal voting record than Collins.
necturus says
Oh Christ, no. You’ll never unify the Party by putting a Republican on the ticket. If you want to make Sanders voters stay home in November, I can think of no better way.
As for Senator Warren, I’m sure lots of folks on Wall Street would love to see her “kicked upstairs” to a powerless position that one of its holders once compared to a bucket of warm spit.
Whoever the VP pick may be, let it not be a Senator. How about Deval Patrick?
SomervilleTom says
Had Deval Patrick not signed up as a partner with Bain Capital, he might have been an interesting pick.
It seems to me that the optics of nominating a Managing Partner at Bain is not going to help Ms. Clinton, especially among voters concerned about her alleged ties to big money.
I agree with you that it should NOT be a sitting Senator.
jconway says
He doesn’t balance the ticket, he brings more liabilities (DCF, Bain, Olympics) than assets and he wasn’t particularly effective at governing in his last job. She needs someone who can either be a bridge to moderate Republicans and independents or someone who will rally the base.
Warren is making more and more sense as an attack dog who would focus like a laser on middle class swing voters and would shut up all but the most purist Bernie supporters (who lets face it were gonna pull Green if he was running or not). I still think the job itself is beneath her abilities and her potential. Brown or Franken could do the job, but Franken would have a harder time with Sander’s supporters due to the super delegate business.
Gates or someone like a Snowe or Sandoval makes sense as a bridge to moderate Republicans. I see Hillary leaning in either of these directions and unlikely to pick a boring white male like the Virginia Senators or a too green figure like Castro. She wants someone who has presidential timber without having presidential ambitions of his or her own.
jconway says
Didn’t see Biden, Palin or Ryan coming. I did pick Edwards right, though I wish Kerry had picked Graham or Gephardt.
Christopher says
First, that just doesn’t happen, and second Clinton needs more help on her left flank.
jconway says
That was the argument I was making three weeks ago, and Republicans acquiescing themselves to Trump seems to be the culprit behind his recent boost in the polls. That said-I suspect that she could do very well running to his left on economics and running to his center-right on foreign policy and defense. It’s the best way to appeal to Sander’s supporters while reaching out to moderates and even conservatives who doubt Trump’s readiness to command.
If you’re a law and order/security hawk Republican would you really want Putin’s favorite candidate in the White House? This is the first time since 1960 that our nominee will be stronger and more credible on the Soviet threat and unlike 60′, this time the threat is real and Trump truly isn’t prepared for it.
necturus says
OK, then how about Joe Biden? He’s got the perfect résumé.