Lis is the man as far as I’m concerned. Hillary has too much baggage and by baggage I mean powerful people already entrenched. Time to clean house and Senator Warren has the brains, the balls, the healthy naivete, and the chutzpah to demand answers when she’s given songs and dances.
A draft Liz Warren Kickstarter campaign is needed. Money from the non-one-percenters who are tired of cheap talk and want action. One of you young whippersnappers out there should be al over this and get moving on it.
Unfortunately the one-percenters will rather die than see Liz get the job. That’s why the groundswell is needed and no other way to show it than with money followed by organization followed by votes.
Liz’s Senate resume is the opposite of the one Barack Obama compiled in there. So don’t buy the comparisons of not enough experience.
JimC says
It’s a PAC, I believe.
I think we should stop anointing champions. Ted Kennedy wasn’t born a great liberal leader, he was born a lucky one. But he became a great liberal leader.
jconway says
Liz will make a bad presidential candidate and a great, long tenured, champion of working Americans in the Senate.
ryepower12 says
raises boatloads of money, not beholden to special interests – can say whatever she wants because of it – and has proven popular in swing state areas.
Her populist message is exactly the kind of message the Democratic Party can sell anywhere.
She’s not going to run — she’s made that very clear — but how anyone thinks she’d be a bad candidate is something I can’t wrap my head around.
You’re going to see a lot of Democrats all across the country channeling Liz Warren over the next two years, including in swing districts. Hillary will almost certainly be taking notes and employing the lessons on her stump from Iowa to the Democratic Convention.
jconway says
I meant a bad candidate in the sense that it is clear she doesn’t really want it, and is running out of obligation to supporters and the movement that elected her, sorta like Teddy running in 1980 because he was a Kennedy. But I’ll admit, not the most apt analogy. Liz Warren has been a great Senator from day 1, and it took Teddy a couple of terms to start making the impact he made.
jconway says
*would be running out of obligation, it’s pretty damn clear she isn’t running.
eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iii says
bot a PAC. Has meaning and will attract regular people.
eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iii says
n/t
jconway says
I’d vote for Liz in a heartbeat, I just think she enjoys being a Senator more and can make more of an impact there. I’d rather Russ Feingold, Bernie Sanders, or Brian Schweitzer take Hillary on. I think they have less to lose and more to gain by that kind of run. Even if those guys run and Liz changes her mind and runs, I would still have to vote for her. I just feel her best shot at making a difference is staying put.
ryepower12 says
he’s going to run in all likelihood.
Christopher says
He’d have to become a Dem first. I certainly don’t want him mounting an independent bid in the general. That’s pretty much a guarantee that the Republican gets in.
ryepower12 says
he’s also made that clear.
Christopher says
This is the first I’m hearing any of this.
paulsimmons says
Kickstarter doesn’t do politics.
eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iii says
Need a kickstarter like program to show her there is money pledged from the 99%.
paulsimmons says
n/t
Mark L. Bail says
but senators are also important.
And being a President may be the worst experience you could possibly wish on a person.