Posted on 12/18/2014 7:26:20 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Elizabeth Warren's fans refuse to take no for an answer, but soon enough they'll almost certainly have to.
Pining for a Warren presidential run in 2016, progressive groups have gathered more than 100,000 signatures, recruited Obama campaign alums to back her, and pledged to raise $1 million. And on Wednesday, they're holding a kickoff event in the key early state of Iowa. But despite the infrastructure being built all around her, Warren continues to say noand no, and no againto the prospect of a presidential run.
So unless the Massachusetts Democrat is preparing a massive reversal, progressives will need a Plan B. But thus far, her backers seem unwilling to consider an alternative, and some within the movement believe the singular focus on Warren is jeopardizing their chance to make their mark in 2016.
One Democratic operative who works with progressive groups cautioned that the all-in-on-Warren approach could backfire should she opt not to run, saying an issue-based approach is far more likely to get progressive issues on the map among candidates who do look likely to runnamely Hillary Clinton, who has been the target of progressive ire in the past.
"The way a movement gains power is to focus on leveraging its principles more than uniting around any one individual candidate the questions of minimum wage and income inequality existed before and will exist after Elizabeth Warren," the strategist said. "After so many cycles of not taking the longer view, [progressives] are going to have to start at some point."
Ari Rabin-Havt, a progressive strategist who hosts a show on Sirius XM's Progress station, said that if Warren doesn't run, the "energy" from the "Draft Warren" movement, used the right way, could help her "shape the Democratic Party and shape legislation"
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I think its time we put a stake through Hillary’s heart.
Conservatives need a national billboard and YouTube campaign, hammering Hilary in everything from cattle futures to Vince foster, to her supposed stroke, to Benghazi. Force her to start spending money.
I would openly question her age and health and ability to govern, using Obama as the measuring stick.
Another Communist Rat, just what we need.
If you own a business you didn’t earn it, someone else did.
If Harvard pays you $300k a year to teach ONE course, why of course you earned that.
” If Harvard pays you $300k a year to teach ONE course, why of course you earned that.”
Uh....340,000/yr for one course.
” If Elizabeth Warren Says No, What Is Progressives’ Backup Plan?”
Whoever the GOPe nominates.
She got a raise?
Clearly our new BFFs, one of the Castro brothers, would be ideal to step into that position.
Apparently. Hot property, doncha know : )
Tea Leoni!
Of course liberal elites would have to round off some of his sharp edges with 'pity party' stories... With Jeb's southern accent there's got to have been a few times he was mistaken for a redneck or racist by some well meaning but foolish black person. Can't we all play the pity party 'woe is me' game? It looks like so much fun.
Rangel, Sharptongue, Dippy Wasserman, etc...........there’s still lots of good prospects.
(semi-sarcastically, since I believe he'll be a Dim player down the road, if not now)
She already said yes by saying no.
You mean she should have said ‘Yes’ for people to take it as a ‘No’?
She publicly announced she wasn’t running, which is as good as saying she is. In the world of governing, a public denial is a de facto acknowledgement.
Warren,
She is a liar, so her word means nothing.
Bernie Sanders?
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