Will: Hillary Clinton has lead, but Dems eye new kid Liz Warren

The Boston Herald ^ | November 17, 2013 | George F. Will

[2ndDivisionVet]

The New Republic magazine was, appropriately, the stimulant that last week gave the Democratic base a frisson of anticipation about a possible Elizabeth Warren presidential candidacy in 2016. Now in her 11th month as a Massachusetts senator, she is suited to carry the progressive torch that was fueled 99 years ago this month by The New Republic’s founding.

Its first editor was Herbert Croly, whose 1909 book “The Promise of American Life” — Theodore Roosevelt read it, rapturously, during his post-presidential travels — is progressivism’s primer: “The average American individual is morally and intellectually inadequate to a serious and consistent conception of his responsibilities as a democrat,” so national life should be a “school.” “The exigencies of such schooling frequently demand severe coercive measures, but what schooling does not?” And “a people are saved many costly perversions” if “the official schoolmasters are wise, and the pupils neither truant nor insubordinate.”

Today the magazine, whose birth was partly financed by a progressive heiress, Dorothy Payne Whitney, is owned by Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes. Warren, a scourge of (other) economic royalists, and especially of large financial institutions, is a William Jennings Bryan for our time: She has risen from among Harvard’s downtrodden to proclaim: “You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of derivatives.”(continued)

[Caipirabob]

Easy call to make if you observe active communists. They want Warren for president. As for the communists, best to know where they are.

[CharlesWayneCT]

I’m afraid to hope for Elizabeth, because the country could be stupid enough to vote for her; and if we are going to get stuck with another democrat, I’d prefer Hillary to another incompetent like Obama.

[mneville]

Here’s Elizabeth Warren’s credentials to be President of the United States -
- She’s a loony liberal (”you did not build that…”)
- She’s a minority (American Indian - sort of)
- She has no experience running a business
- She has no experience with foreign affairs
- She’s a Junior Senator
- She’s from Academia (what more do you need to govern?!?)

She is the perfect Democrat candidate for President