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11/20/2014
At the risk of seeming ridiculous, I think Sherrod Brown should run for president. I know that, barring a debilitating health problem or a horrible scandal, Hillary Clinton is likely to capture the Democratic nomination. I realize too that Brown, the senior senator from Ohio, has never hinted that he may be tempted to challenge her. Im really happy where I am, he told Chris Matthews last winter, when the MSNBCs paragon of impatience urged him to run.
Yet, for progressive Democrats, Brown would be a nearly perfect nominee. During his two decades in the House and Senate, he has taken strong and articulate stands on every issue which matters to the partys broad, if currently dispirited, liberal base. When George W. Bush was in office and riding high, Brown opposed both his invasion of Iraq and the Patriot Act. He has long been a staunch supporter of abortion rights and gay marriage, and is married to Connie Schultz, a feminist author who writes a nationally syndicated column.
Browns true mission, however, is economic: He wants to boost the well-being of working Americans by any means necessary. Brown has been talking and legislating about how to accomplish it for years before Elizabeth Warren left Harvard for the Capitol. During Obamas first term, he advocated a larger stimulus package, called for re-enacting the Glass-Steagall Act to rein in big banks, and stumped for comprehensive immigration reform. He champions the rights of unions and the power of the National Labor Relations Board and criticizes unregulated free trade for destroying manufacturing jobs at home. He also led the charge among Senate Democrats that pressured Obama to drop his plan to appoint Larry Summers to head the Federal Reserve and appoint Janet Yellen instead.
On his lapel, Brown wears a canary pin to honor the workers movement that gave us all food safety laws, civil rights, rights for the disabled, pensions and the minimum wage. Like the canaries which miners once took with them into the pits to warn them of toxic gas, the pin symbolizes the need to stay on guard against any employers and politicians who threaten those gains....
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120351/sherrod-brown-president-2016-he-should-challenge-hillary-clinton
I wish we had a draft Sherrod Brown movement too. I know he's one of the only good things going in Ohio these days, but man, he would be an AWESOME president.
on point
(2,506 posts)belzabubba333
(1,237 posts)CK_John
(10,005 posts)daleanime
(17,796 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,642 posts)She threatened to divorce him.
Oh, but I agree. He is a true progressive.
Here's a picture of the famous lapel pin:
RiverLover
(7,830 posts)I know he won't run, but it's nice to dream. If he hadn't said he doesn't want to run for president, I'd be all over getting him nominated.
But it'd be national tragedy to have him wasted in the position of "VP", so I'm glad in that regard that he's happy where he is.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)RiverLover
(7,830 posts)truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)riqster
(13,986 posts)Don't wanna share him. Nope.
RiverLover
(7,830 posts)But if he wasn't against running for prez, he could be ALL of ours.
Sharing is GOOD.
Love Sherrod. Sharing IS good; a girl can dream, can't she?!
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)What little I've observed of him from a distance, he doesn't seem to have presidential ambitions.
craigmatic
(4,510 posts)jwirr
(39,215 posts)is a progressive. I would vote for him before Hillary.
RiverLover
(7,830 posts)But he doesn't.
WillTwain
(1,489 posts)And he will cruise in Ohio. He would win the presidency hands down.
world wide wally
(21,745 posts)At least make him the new Senate majority leader (when we regain it) and let Harry Reid just play checkers with Mitch McConnell
RiverLover
(7,830 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)brooklynite
(94,609 posts)Seriously.
I know members of the family. I asked. He doesn't want to run.
Just like Elizabeth Warren.
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Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)nt
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)RiverLover
(7,830 posts)JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)IF. . . . . .
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)Or vice-versa...I'd be okay with either way.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)TheKentuckian
(25,026 posts)more popular potential candidates. Doing it as a straight up liberal might be something no one else right now can claim at all.
I think it super strange that he is seldom mentioned and when he is it seems only as some afterthought or the response is largely silence.
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)RiverLover
(7,830 posts)VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)Desperation.... .hahahahaha
Yeah Hillary is quaking over this "threat"!
pampango
(24,692 posts)corporations lose a good deal of their power over campaigns and politicians.
If nothing else, Sherrod Brown could help push the plight of the struggling middle classwhich is really composed of men and women who work for wages or a mediocre salaryto the forefront of the Democratic primary campaign, where it deserves to be. And no journalist could accuse him of altering his views to do so."
He would be a great Democratic candidate.
RiverLover
(7,830 posts)We lost organized labor & gained organized wealth.
He'd be a great Democratic President. Maybe next time.