Should Elizabeth Warren Run For President?

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Monday, August 1, 2011
Should Elizabeth Warren Run for President?
by Yves Smith

As the manufactured debt ceiling crisis provides an unflattering window into the reckless incompetence of pretty much all of our elected officials in DC, more and more readers have been calling for Elizabeth Warren to run for President.

The idea of punishing Obama by introducing a wild card into his stacked deck is enormously appealing. The assumption that he can abuse his everyman base as badly as he wants to because they won’t vote for someone further to the right (no matter how little further to the right that really is) after the bait and switch of his campaign is still seen as a viable strategy by most political commentators.

But discomfiting Obama isn’t a very good reason for Warren to consider throwing her hat into the ring. And as we’ve observed in past posts, the Harvard professor attracts a tremendous amount of projection. It would be hard for her, or anyone, to live up to the hopes vested in her.

We’ll take a dispassionate look at the notion of having Warren run for President. The bottom line is there is a sound case to be made for the idea, and it trumps having her run for the Senate. And if she is to go this route, she should primary Obama rather than run as a third party candidate.

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and is said to be considering a run opposite Scott Brown R-MA.
Run Elizabeth Run!

Should she decide to run, she may blow Teabagger Brown out of the dirty water.

Besides, it would be a huge waste of her abilities and intelligence.

He's quiet as a mouse

EW could mow him down if she chose to run, and I hope she does.

I've heard from people who know him personally that he is nasty, even to his own dad.

Run Liz,RUN

SHE has more balls

Obama is where he is entirely because of projection.

She could follow that playbook. 1) Place the following verbs into a sack; "aspire" "believe" "change" "trust" and "secure". 2) Pull two of the words from the bag at random, and arrange them into a sentence with the noun "you". 3) avoid any specificity about what the sentence means to you... the only thing that matters is what the sentence means to the prospect.

She won't win challenging Obama. TPTB won't let that happen. She COULD win Massachussets however. We need someone more strident and disposable (but still credible) to primary Obama. Say Jim McDermott.

social catastrophe our elected pols have just concocted for us. :patriot:

She's a terrific advocate for working people, but there is so much more to a president's job than domestic matters, and I'm not sure to what extent she can be effective in those other roles. But I'd vote for her, if she won the primary. Heck, I'd probably vote for her IN the primary.

run for president.

If it wouldn't be so disastrous, I'd wish you all to get exactly what you want. I think I would enjoy the schadenfreud of watching you all turn on your heroes when you find out that there really is no superman or Wonder Woman.

a few years now.I saw it coming with the "fill your hope in the space provided "campaign

A reasonably competent leader would be good enough.

Even a sprig of arugala would have let the Bush tax cuts expire.

be addressed: just how much will the national media listen to a primary candidate who has no chance of winning?

nt

to compete against our corporate lords. Could you imagine the ads running against her?

They never take into account the wishes of the "magic candidate du jour".

It's OK that you like fantasizing, though.

Clearly, you're some kind of wizard.

i'm registered republican, so i can "vote" in those primaries, but mainly collect insane(ly hilarious) campaign ads. since they have coronations, it's really all show.

sadly, it all being a show seems almost empirically provable for both parties at this point...

campaign. Unless one has held a major high-profile office they will not be recognized as a credible candidate. As far as being a great progressive possessing a great mind and great communications skills - that is true. But she would not be able to mount a credible campaign. Speculating on her running a credible challenge to the President is unfortunately a flight of fantasy - a nice fantasy mind you - but still a fantasy.

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