"No Hillary? No Fauxcahontas? Then its two thumbs up for me, Joe Biden!"
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 no—and no, and no again—to 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 run—namely 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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Bernie Sanders
Jeb Bush maybe?He’s about primed to switch parties.
So, outside of MSM liberals (this means all of MSM), DC politicos seeking diversions from Hillary/Obama, and the idiots in MA that voted for her, just WHO EXACTLY is this author referring to when speaking of “Progressives’ plans?”
There are ‘progressives’ outside this group actually seriously pondering this absurdity?
The Dims don’t need a backup plan, just a weak GOP candidate. They have nothing to worry about.
CUOMO.....
All the GOP has is weak candidates,there must be 20 of them.
Al Sharpton or Louis Farrakhan at the top of the ticket and either Hillary or Michelle Obama as Vice President.
There is the one and only, Alan Grayson.
What makes you think that Obama will give up his position as dictator? If Jarrett tells him to stay, he will stay and the Kongress will endorse it.
She's shameless, ambitious, and believes herself to be the Democrap messiah. And so do her followers.
Raul Castro.
Well if we invalidate the 22nd amendment then Obama can stay in office.
You are assuming of course that we still have a Constitution by November of 2016. You know what happens when you ASSUME.
Who will be more difficult to drive from the throne?
The token Black King, Barack Obama?
Or the brain behind the curtain, Valerie Jarrett?
Andrew “boy” cuomo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3238208/posts
She’s not saying “No”. She wants to come off as the outsider who doesn’t want the job. She saw it in a Doonesbury cartoon.
"No Hillary? No Fauxcahontas? Then its two thumbs up for me, Joe Biden!"
The role of Warren or any other progressive is to help hide how progressive Billary is - the already anointed, by the reigning duopoly, Demorat candidate.
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