What the Democrats need on the 2016 ticket is: appeal to woman voters…sturdy Heartland values…ethnic pedigree…appeal to the Catholic vote…proven executive governance…

There is only one person: Kathleen Gilligan Sebelius!!

Putting aside my oafish “humor”, I’m guessing that the Democrat farm system is grooming multiple candidates and Betty is the one who a) appeals to the left wing of the Leftist Party, and b) hasn’t imploded (as yet).

I remember a Republican interviewed back in 2008. Virginia has open primaries so he had voted “against Hillary.” I have to admit, the schadenfreude makes me chuckle to this day.

IMO Wendy Davis intended to run for President. She would have been in the mix for 2016 if it looked like Governor Wendy might deliver Texas, and thereby the election, to the Democratic ticket.

The loud media silence wrt Davis indicates that the D’s have written her off.

Elizabeth Warren is already far better vetted* in 2014 than Obama was in 2006. She cannot be the blank slate Obama was. She has a record to defend. She can’t move to the center without losing her base, plus nobody’d believe it anyway, and the center-right country will find no reason to move to her.

How to screw this up if you’re the GOP? Panic when Jeb decides not to run and put Romney up again.

*And we all know who’s responsible for that, lol.

2) Voting for fat cat bankers: “What is surprising, however, is that Elizabeth Warren voted for Lew’s nomination, despite staunch opposition from another prominent left wing colleague, Bernie Sanders (the only left-of-center Senator to vote no). Lew seems to be the sort of revolving door passenger that Warren was sent to Washington to oppose.”
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2013_02/why_elizabeth_warren_voted_for043264.php

The vote was 71-26 so voting ‘no’ to stick with the progressives wouldn’t have mattered. Yet she did the master’s bidding.

This could be written off as the usual pandering that politicians do but if you want to go by what she does rather than what she says then she looks like tool for the oligarchy in Washington. She is simply telling the progressives what they wanted to hear, much like the current occupant had done.

And we all know how badly that turned out.

Where the heck did that come from?!?

Actually I like corny capitalism better, except you should probably write it c0rny like porn becomes pr0n on the interwebs.

1. I can see Brown in a lesser Cabinet post, but no higher. I’ll reassess if he upsets Shaheen.

2. I make a distinction between people of faith and religious kooks; between peace-through-strenght-ers and bellicose draft dodgers; between ethical businesspeople & entrepreneurs and kleptocrats; etc. Unfortunately the latter types are dangerously influential, possibly to a nation-killing degree. I no longer tiptoe around their delicate sensibilities. That may offend some people whom I don’t mean to offend…but where are those people when the latter types run amok? Senators Akin and Mourdock might explain it to me if only I could get a moment of their time…

3. I have become fatalistic about this country’s future. If something unforeseen takes us off the path we are on…great! Thank heaven! But afaic that unlikely something, if it happens, is more likely to appear out of the blue rather than from politics as usual.

I would’ve said the same thing about a certain Dem candidate, in 2008.

Look where he is now.

But, that allure isn’t going to go much further than the MA border. She is an older lady, older than I am, in an era where the youth vote has helped decide the last two Presidential elections. And she is a political novice, with a single election under her belt. Before that she was an Affirmative Action hired law professor, and .1% by her consulting. I suspect that she wouldn’t lose as badly as another MA politician, Gov. Dukakis, but only because she would likely pick up a couple of deep blue states like CA.

I’d certainly welcome an opportunity to Keep Cool with Cal.

When the Dems pick a political lightweight for office, they assign him a commissar or handler. Obama has Jarrett; Hillary had Huma. When Huma was reassigned to another up & coming nobody, I figured that at least one of the major puppetmasters behind the Democratic party had decided that Hillary was going nowhere.

So, who is Warren’s handler? If she doesn’t have an official Party alter ego yet, I wouldn’t expect that they’re planning for her to be their next big figurehead.

True, but it might have been spent to end presidential ambitions of Scott Brown. The Dems feared him more than they liked Liz. In fact, that’s why I didn’t vote for Brown in the first race to replace Teddy. Brown has high potential to be groomed as an GOP-E “centrist” candidate for VP and eventually president.

(Oh, and your “religious kooks” comment will certainly warm the hearts of voters we’ll need — voters like myself.)