Will this be the Democratic ticket?
In April I wrote a little diary suggesting that Elizabeth Warren would make a great running mate for Hillary Clinton. Back then I wrote:
I have to admit that I just started watching the second season of Veep, the HBO comedy show that stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and that this has influenced my opinion about the potential clout of a vice president. Aside from comic turns such as getting groped by the husband of the prime minister of Finland, her vice president, Selena Meyer, manages to exercise a lot of power, often because the never-seen POTUS is disengaged and inept. Think a Dick Cheney to George W. Bush. Of course the dynamic would be the complete opposite if she were a President Warren working under a President Clinton.
Aside from the treasure trove of imagined SNL comedy sketches about back-room cat fights between the two, these strong willed women might be able to become the greatest and most change making POTUS/VPOTUS team in history. And, for progressives, they’d be ours.
Cheney was the dark lord, and will go down in history as such. Elizabeth Warren could become the most influential progressive vice president in history.
Of all the names I’ve seen mentioned, Warren is the only one who came up early on as someone many progressives wanted to see run for president. Undoubtably she will want to be involved in major decision making and also have areas of import that she is in charge of. Given the overlap of her interests with Bernie Sanders’ she would be able to run as Hillary’s Bernie, and function as such in the Executive Branch.
What about losing Warren in the Senate? With Warren as veep, there are other influential progressive senators who will have a lot of impact, including Bernie (assuming he’s not president), Sherrod Brown, Amy Klobuchar, and my state’s own Jeff Merkley.
While balancing the ticket with a Hispanic, something pundits have suggested as good strategy, has its merits, I think a good case can be made for running a true power-ticket, and that would be Clinton-Warren.
From The New Republic
Now with Trump about to pick a decidedly lackluster partner in the crime against sanity that his candidacy has become (see “Donald Trump’s VP Predicament is Hilariously Bad” in The New Republic), we are seeing more and more serious speculation and punditry that Elizabeth Warren would be Hillary’s best choice.
The New Republic has a good piece, “Elizabeth Warren is Hillary Clinton’s Most Rational Choice for VP: The case for Warren is stronger than Tim Kaine boosters allow. Stronger than anybody else’s, in fact.” Also there a good rationale for her being in the race in Huffington Post with “Why Elizabeth Warren Would Have More Clout As Hillary Clinton’s VP: Even Warren’s Senate power can’t beat White House Influence.”
Reading these, I am temped to resort to a smug “I told you so” but will wait until after Hillary selects Elizabeth.
I started polling readers. On June 10 the results from 185 voters was 44% yes, and 54% no. Things have changed in only a few weeks. In my last poll, on June 29th, I asked what Kos readers thought. With 209 responding, it was 54% yes for Elizabeth, 33% no, and 13% to soon to decide.
LINK: Democrats wouldn’t necessarily loose a Senate seat if Warren ran for VP
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