Don't Run, Elizabeth Warren, Don't Run!

[Cryptoad]

Michael Tomasky 3-25-2015

Elizabeth Warren is a bold progressive in a party that needs them. But she just might actually have more leverage as a non-candidate.

And so the ratcheting up continues: Now The Boston Globe has weighed in with not one or two or three but four pieces, one of them an in-house editorial, urging Elizabeth Warren to run for president. All right; this is the kind of thing hometown newspapers do, and it gets them attention. And it means that more people will press Warren to take The Globe’s advice when they run into her at the Star Market. But does it really raise the pressure on her in any serious way?

The arguments, by the paper’s editorial board and by contributors Bob Kuttner, Josh Green, and Anna Galland, are reasonable and sound. Warren has a huge following (true). Warren is the Democratic Party’s most articulate and high-profile crusader for the middle and working classes (true). Warren uniquely can pressure Clinton to adopt more populist positions on these issues than she has been associated with in the past (true).

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/25/don-t-run-elizabeth-warren-don-t-run.html

[RobertEarl]

1. Don't run. Just walk

It would be a cakewalk if she decides to take the presidency.

Millions of Lib-prog-lefties will work their butts off for her. We will crush the big money politics as usual and reform politics as it was known pre 2016.

[RiverLover]

5. +Millions!!

*President Elizabeth Warren*

[Cryptoad]

7. I still have my little toad toes crossed,,,

hoping she would run,,,, but it aint looking like good for that.......

[MannyGoldstein]

10. She'll run, she'll win.

That's my guess.

[1StrongBlackMan]

11. No ...

I don't think it would be a cakewalk.

[RobertEarl]

14. Piece of cake

Imagine: The first woman President!! And one that is outside more than any other. I'd bet even you'd work hard for Warren?

[1StrongBlackMan]

18. I will work for whomever the Democratic nominee is. n/t

[Logical]

15. I get it, only Hillary can win the nomination, blah blah blah. Nt

[1StrongBlackMan]

19. If you got that out of what I wrote ...

that's on you.

FWIW, NO presidential campaign is a cakewalk.

[Fumesucker]

2. Warren is sure scaring the crap out of the right people...

[hrmjustin]

3. If she ran should would be a formidable candidate in the primary.

I don't think she wants to run nor do I think she wants to be president.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. I believe you're absolutely right, my dear hrmjustin!

Now that I know what your username stands for, I smile every time I see it...

[hrmjustin]

13. Lol when I first signed up in 2001 I was hrhjustin.

When I staryed this account I wanted some continuity.

[glowing]

6. The reality is, congress legislates. Without good people

to legislates, you end up with crap bills. We need about 60 more Warrens and Sanders in the Senate and the house back. A lesson of the last 7 yrs should tell anyone that the Republicans only want to destroy the whole thing. And many Dems are just bought corporate stooges.

[MannyGoldstein]

8. Claptrap.

Warren loses nothing by running for President, even if Hillary does actually run and she wins. The Clintons will always do anything they can to undermine FDR Democrats, helping them does nothing to help Warren.

But if Warren runs, either she wins and has a giant bully pulpit and tons of leverage to help the 99%, or she loses but at least gets to stand on the national stage and call out Republican/Third-Way bull@#$&, and talk to Americans about policies that work.

[1StrongBlackMan]

16. Fortunately ...

indications suggest Elizabeth Warren doesn't agree with you.

[Fumesucker]

20. Fortunately for the one percent...

The Democrats as a group are terrified of getting a convincing majority, they absolutely need the Republicans there to give them ideological cover to continue with the pro-one percent policies their financial backers are paying for.

I can remember after the 2008 drubbing the Republicans took how people here on DU were talking about a permanent Democratic majority, it took an enormous effort to rehabilitate the Republican party after Dubya but it was critical to the Third Way to do so.

[arcane1]

9. I love her, but I am inclined to agree. ESPECIALLY if she doesn't want the damn job.

Hopefully someone just as good will come along.

[Old and In the Way]

12. I am OK with everyone who wants to run....just run.

I also know rich RW benefacters will be supporting Hillariy's opposition. Bcause they want to stop the most likely Democrat at all costs. Bernie or Elizabeth would be their preference against whatever moron wins the Republican nomination. Bernie and Elizabeth both know this....that is why neither will use the primaries to push Hillary leftward. Neither want to split Democrats and see a Republican win.

[blkmusclmachine]

17. Hillary runs to Obama's right, and loses. Apparently, it's time for another ReThug in the WH!

(It's the "bi-partisan" thing to do, after all!)

[davidpdx]

21. Wow, and you guys are crybabies about anything negative that is said about Clinton

Welcome to hypocrisy at it's finest.