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In reply to the discussion: Digby: "Clinton and Warren: It might be exactly the right ticket at the right time." [View all]longship
(40,416 posts)20. And the last time that happened, Scott Brown took Ted Kennedy's seat.
And MA currently has a GOP governor. So much for statewide elections in the putative most liberal state.
Only an utterly mad person would take Elizabeth Warren out of her US Senate seat. She is a rising senatorial star. Leave her where she can continue to do some good. Where she can still vote, hold the floor, become a committee chairman, have some fucking influence beyond the executive branch, which when Hillary Clinton is inevitably elected she will need!
Think strategically, not tactically. Long term, not short term.
Keep Warren in the US Senate. It's where she wants to be anyway. And she is incredible there.
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Digby: "Clinton and Warren: It might be exactly the right ticket at the right time." [View all]
kpete
Jun 2016
OP
Come on. We only lose her seat for a few months. Massachusetts doesn't allow Scott Brown
Lyric
Jun 2016
#5
The right ticket for the right time - for a weakened Republican Party, maybe, but not for the
BlueCaliDem
Jun 2016
#2
Agreed. Now that MA has a Republican governor, I'm not willing to trust MA to produce and elect a
BlueCaliDem
Jun 2016
#33
Warren is the only smart choice now. The men in contention are pretty milquetoast. nt
Zen Democrat
Jun 2016
#19