Quite literally the most prized work she has done as a senator, 'the consumer financial protection bureau' has been dismantaled and defunded piece by piece by Trump and Mick Mulvaney. Trump has signed a tax bill that drastically decreases tax revenue by giving apparently much needed tax releif to billionaires. He's appointed pro-corporate, pro-Citizens United judges to federal courts. He's trying deregulate the bankimg industry to a period rigint before the housing bubble burst . His administration is rife with pay to play and straight up nepotism.
Day 1 of the campaign trail and already sounds more worn out than Hilary. All she needs is a chronic illness to make her hack in the middle of speaking.
She was the first "woman of color" to teach at Harvard Law. Though I'll be damned -- she sure looks whiter than my white grandmother who still believes "Nixon was railroaded by the Democrats".
I honestly wish I could find actually sincere debates here but I guess that is asking for too much on the internet . Keep on loving politicians who love the status quo of legislating based on who donated to them rather than benefiting ordinary Americans.
I saw someone say today that Elizabeth Warren wasn't really unlikable until she decided to run for president. Then all of a sudden people on both sides of the aisle decided she was unlikable. She was 15 points down in her bid to become a Senator and she ended up winning by 7. I think when people target her with the unlikeable label, folks that it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. If we actually talked about her policies and accomplishments she would be extremely likable. She created a whole agency designed to help consumers which is pretty much all Americans. She has gone after powerful financial interests and won. She is incredibly capable and sticks to her principles. Of all the people that like her policies but are worried about her electability actually just supported and voted for her, I bet that would be worth 5 points right there. In addition to giving her that boost, they would actually get a candidate they could support.
I love Warren's positions on a host of issues, and look forward to the new Democratic president who will be taking office after the next election depending on her to take a key role in pushing through the electoral reforms she ardently supports. Reforms desperately needed. That and a lot of other issues she could play an important role in crafting and getting passed. I just don't see her as a "top of the ticket" caliber candidate. Possibly someone's VP choice, and she'd be a good one, but I would hate to see her wisdom taken from the Senate. I'm very serious. We need people like Warren in positions of power when Democrats take back the Senate in 2020. I expect her to have a prominent leadership role. What I don't expect is seeing her elected president. I'm convinced that it will be another Democrat. Perhaps Joe Biden, perhaps Beto O'Rourke, and perhaps Senator Harris of California. Time will tell. It might be someone completely unexpected. Whoever it is has to be able to unite the party and attract broad support from not only Democrats, but from independent voters thirsting for change. Running as "anyone but trump" is not enough. Not even close. There has to be substance, some charisma, and a gift for leadership, for uniting disparate elements of American society.
I'm going to be honest with you. This whole "likability" thing is the corporate media telling us citizens whom to like rather than taking the time to discuss actual policy. Don't be dupped into it . It's fake. It's the chicken or the egg dilemma. What came first? Warren not being likeable or the media telling us that Warren isn't likable? Obviously her ideological opponents on the right run away with this narrative because they can point to the corporate media stating that Warren isn't "likeable". What she fights for is something that rural, conservative, urban, leftists etc all agree on and out of all the politicians that are contemplating running, she actually can point to legislative work to say "I put my money where my mouth is".
Warren should get an extra 10,000,000 free votes before the election even starts due to her minority status.
I'll be honest to you. While I do support her work in the Senate and her stand on a host of reform issues, I've just never liked her personality. The "Native American" thing has nothing to do with it, although it was a lousy political move, as she has discovered. I simply don't see her as a presidential candidate. Perhaps the VP for someone else at the head of the ticket, but I was serious that she could be much more useful in the Senate. Lord knows, some major reforms are needed in the areas of her expertise. The media has nothing to do with my opinion, and I look at a broad variety of news and opinion sources.
I think as President, she would have a stronger bully pulpit to do actual reform and also have veto power. That's more powerful than being 1 out of 100 senators. You have to explain with nuance why she wouldn't make a decent president relative to the field. Vague "likeability" claims isn't an actual reason.
That comment would make sense if she ever claimed or applied for minority status. Since she never has, then it is just pointless and pushes a narrative of dishonesty.
I'll be more direct. She doesn't have a quality crucial to a presidential candidate. Don't like "likability?" You'll like this one even less. Electability. I usually know it when I see it, and Warren doesn't have it. Not in my opinion. Sure, she's popular in Massachusetts, but that isn't a state Democrats are worrying about carrying. I'm taking nothing for granted. That's what far too many did in 2016. Yes, trump has proven himself to be a pathological liar, corrupt, quite possibly a traitor, and mentally ill, but that does not mean he is sure to lose in 2020. That's all the "nuance" I have riding in a car to Houston.
Ehh... You really didn't say much here. You repeated your claim and essentially said "it's from the gut".
I don't think anyone really takes Elizabeth Warren's candidacy for president seriously, I would expect her to be among the first to drop out assuming some more serious candidates join the race. Candidates like Fauxcahontas, Spartacus, and creepy uncle Joe are merely there to take the heat off of the real candidates who will likely join a bit later than these side show freaks.
So, Deckard, can the Dems take back the senate in 2020? I have not seen any talk that this is possible with all the small rural states that like to blame immigrants, who they would have to go to the big cities to actually encounter, for their poor economic prospects.
Klobuchar? Is she a corporate gal or something? Aside from being a white woman, is there anything else about this relatively unknown?
Wait what? You really think there are politicians who don't prioritize their donors? You are in the deep end son. The kiddie pool is over there. You want to talk serious though, I would consider Elizabeth for president. She is far cleaner than Hilary Clinton and may actually have some good ideas. I haven't studied her entire platform yet and seen who else is running. She reminds me of a grandma who can't use an iPhone, which is a negative, but hey maybe she has some positive upside that is redeemable. Apart from her embarassing claims to Cherokee.
