Sorry, liberals. Elizabeth Warren isn’t going to be Hillary Clinton’s running mate.

[cali]

File under no shit.


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My dear liberal friends, I can feel your excitement already. But while Warren will be a great anti-Trump surrogate for Clinton — maybe the best Clinton will have — she’s not going to be on the ticket. Sorry to deliver the bad news.

There are a few reasons for this. The first is that Clinton and Warren aren’t close or even particularly friendly, and personal rapport is a key part of an effective working relationship between the president and vice president, as Clinton surely understands. Warren would come to the office with her own agenda on economic affairs — an agenda more aggressively liberal than Clinton’s, particularly when it comes to how the government should deal with Wall Street. Warren would also bring her own constituency, which could make her an unwanted headache for Clinton, who like all presidents would want a vice president who has no goal other than advancing the president’s goals.

Second, picking Warren would make for a historic all-female ticket, and that could be a risk. To be clear, it’s ludicrous that there should be something troubling to anyone about having two women running together. After all, we’ve had over a hundred all-male tickets in our history, and only two with one man and one woman. But there could well be some number of voters — how many is difficult to tell — who would vote for Clinton with a male running mate, but would find Clinton with a female running mate just too much to handle. It’s sexist, but Clinton is going to need the votes of people who have some sexism somewhere in their hearts, just like Barack Obama needed the votes of people with some racism somewhere in their hearts.

And Hillary Clinton is nothing if not a risk-averse politician. She’s been blessed with Donald Trump as an opponent, and she isn’t going to take any big chances between now and November that might complicate things.


Third, and probably most important, right now the governor of Massachusetts is a Republican, Charlie Baker. That means that if Warren stepped down to become vice president, Baker would appoint a temporary successor for her Senate seat. In other years this might have been a relatively minor consideration, but in 2016 it’s absolutely central to the fate of Clinton’s presidency.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/05/13/sorry-liberals-elizabeth-warren-isnt-going-to-be-hillary-clintons-running-mate/

[joshcryer]

1. I bet Clinton puts her as czar to break up the banks.

Because Wall Street benefits when the banks are broken up. From Elizabeth Warren's own mouth.

[cali]

5. She won't do that either. MA governor is a republican

[joshcryer]

8. Republicans are against making banks more profitable?

[cali]

13. No. He gets to appoint a republican if Warren is her VP pick and they win

[jack_krass]

36. Clinton taking action to break up the banks?, hahahahahahah

[global1]

2. And Probably The Most Valid Reason Is....

Hillary wouldn't share her presidency with another woman - particulary one that is even more popular and liked than Hillary herself.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

16. Besides, Elizabeth doesn't share Hillary's warped Third Way values. I'd therefore be shocked if Hillary even considered Elizabeth for VP...

I'd be even more shocked - and disappointed! - if Elizabeth accepted.

Not that it matters, since Bernie is going to take this thing.

Bernie & Elizabeth 2016!!!

[MFM008]

3. Kennedy and Johnson hated each other

but I seem to remember their presidential ticket.

NEVER SAY NEVER.

[cali]

6. Hillary desperately needs and wants a democratic Senate

[joshcryer]

9. Which is the only thing that impresses me about her rhetoric.

Everything else she says is uncontroversial, boring, and tepid to me. But when she talks about not being able to do anything without congress my eyebrow raises. Obama promised the world but never said "hey, I need the downticket." Clinton does the opposite, she'll say in an interview, "well I can't do much without congress."

[Exilednight]

12. Clinton has a little problem with that; she has no coattails.

[TCJ70]

18. That's actually something that bothers me about her rhetoric...

...she bludgeoned Sanders over the head constantly saying his agenda will never come about without congress (which is true) but that made it seem like hers would and no one challenged her on it. Meanwhile, in every singe appearance and speech he gave he mentioned needing to change congress to get anything passed. A complicit media let her get away with it.

Sanders is the only candidate this primary season who was asked "How?"

[thesquanderer]

34. Yup. Without congress, we choose between a bold agenda that won't happen, or a timid one.

Bernie has made a much bigger point of "I can't do it alone" from the start, though.... and based on exhibited voter enthusiasm and an obvious desire to keep his base motivated, may have more luck turning his people out in a midterm, if he's in office.

[Cal33]

46. She will probably get a Dem. Senate, and she will also probably waste the opportunity.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

17. NEVER!

[azurnoir]

24. Kennedy chose Johnson to appeal to the South where he was weak

[B Calm]

4. I look for her to select Debbie Wasserman Shultz, they are two of a kind.

[Katashi_itto]

7. Agree!

[shanti]

45. omg

that would be horrendous!

[Punkingal]

10. Of course she isn't.

The hope of that is ludicrous for any number of reasons.

[reformist2]

11. I wouldn't *want* her to run with Hillary! It would be too corrupting.

Lizzie needs to keep Hillary at arm's length. And I hope she has very, very long arms.

[Armstead]

14. That last point is important.... We don't need another Scott Brown

[Dawgs]

15. Don't blame her.

Why would anyone want to be on a losing ticket?

[LuvLoogie]

19. Hillary's veep is going to have to be a heavy hitter in the Democratic party.

Someone on Joe Biden's level. Jerry Brown would be my choice, if they could overcome their past differences--and if Jerry were 20 years younger. I could see a lot of creative tension between them.

Not a Castro, though. Neither has been elected to state-wide office, which I think is an important prerequisite.

[cali]

21. Brown is simply too old.

[LuvLoogie]

23. True. I still think he's a great executive, though.

[cali]

27. Agreed

[leveymg]

20. Someone has to replace HRC after the FBI report comes out. Warren could reunite the Party

I can't think of anyone else who might be able to do that.

[kstewart33]

22. I think you're probably right, but Waldman's column does not make it so.

No one knows if Hillary will make the offer or if Warren will accept. Let's see what happens.

[timmymoff]

25. Stop calling hillary supporters liberals

voting for her takes away that title. She is not a liberal and if you vote for her you vote for her policies which are not liberal. At least be honest .

[cali]

28. Baloney. Codswallop. Nonsense.

[timmymoff]

29. Yes I agree those are great descriptive terms for her candidacy and

her supporters that call themselves as liberals.

[cali]

31. Look, I am no supporter of Hillary's. But trump is unhinged batshit crazy.

[timmymoff]

33. That in itself

does not make Hillary liberal. I agree he's crazy but his craziness does not elevate her to liberal status.

[cali]

35. No shit. Have you ever actually read any of my posts?

[timmymoff]

38. I read them and responded

More often than not we are in agreement.

[cali]

39. Then you damn well know I think she is far from liberal.

[timmymoff]

40. I believe we are saying the same thing.

I do not understand what you are riled about regarding me.

[redstateblues]

30. Bullshit. She was one of the most liberal Senators in Congress.

Sorry -you and your Purity Partiers and Trump enablers don't get to decide who is liberal.

[timmymoff]

32. actually we do

and when you factor in fracking, free trade, etc, I'd say we are more correct than you.. sorry friend. regime change has always been a liberal policy.

[cali]

37. Utter disgusting bullshit

[Ferd Berfel]

41. Clinton is a neoCon

Liberal/Progressive and neoCon/Conservative are mutually exclusive ideologies.

You can't be both.

[corkhead]

26. I wish the author was a member of DU so I could put him on ignore.

I couldn't get past the condescension of the first 4 words. Since I doubt he is a member, I can tell him to kiss my ass.

[lunamagica]

42. I don't want EW as Hillary's running mate. We can't afford to lose Senators

[Eric J in MN]

43. Having a Republican in her Senate seat for 6 months

....(until the voters of MA elect a Democrat) would be worth it to have Elizabeth Warren in the White House.

I want Warren as VP.

[NCTraveler]

44. Most I've talked to, including here,...

Don't want her in the VP slot for Sanders of Clinton.