{"id":6358,"date":"2011-11-22T00:01:56","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T08:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/22\/elizabeth-warren-next\/"},"modified":"2011-11-22T00:01:56","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T08:01:56","slug":"elizabeth-warren-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/22\/elizabeth-warren-next\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Warren Next?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know it\u2019s a little early to be talking about 2016, but there is nobody I would rather see run for the Democratic nomination than Elizabeth Warren.  As President she would offer all of the many positive attributes of the Obama administration with few, if any, of the shortcomings.  There is no politician that Banksters fear more.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"22ElizabethWarren\"Ever since she formally decided to challenge Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown<\/a><\/strong><\/span> <\/font>(R), Elizabeth Warren<\/span> has been a national Democratic phenomenon.<\/font><\/p>\n

Harvard law professor and consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren shakes hands as she arrives in Lowell, Mass. Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2011 prior to the debate between six Massachusetts Democratic candidates for the U.S. Senate seat held by Republican Scott Brown. (AP Photo\/Elise Amendola)She raised more than $3 million<\/a> <\/font>in just the first few weeks of cash collection, rang up more than 796,000 hits on You Tube for her pronouncement that \u201cthere is nobody in this country who got rich on his own<\/a><\/font>\u201d, and is regularly drawing large number of volunteers to her campaign headquarters<\/a><\/font> almost a year before the 2012 election. <\/font><\/p>\n

Even veteran Democratic strategists have struggled to explain the Warren phenomenon within the liberal base of the party<\/strong>. But over the weekend, Rebecca Traister \u2014 in the New York Times magazine \u2014 offered the best explanation we\u2019ve read about why Warren has taken off so high, so fast<\/a><\/font>.<\/font><\/p>\n

\u201cEven though she\u2019s running for the Senate and not for the presidency, the early devotion to Warren recalls the ardor once felt by many for Obama,\u201d wrote Traister, adding:<\/font><\/p>\n

\u201cEmbracing Warren as the next \u2018one\u2019 is, in part, a way of getting over Obama; she provides an optimistic distraction from the fact that under our current president, too little has changed, for reasons having to do both with the limitations of the political system and the limitations of the man. She makes people forget that estimations of him were too overheated, trust in his powers too fervid.\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n

Warren is to the \u2014 for lack of a better word \u2014 \u201cprofessional left\u201d what they thought (and hoped) Obama would be when he was elected, a true believer not willing to compromise on core principles of the party.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

But there\u2019s more to it. Warren has an edge \u2014 rhetorically if not in her relatively unassuming personality \u2014 that Obama lacks and that some within the party crave.<\/font><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Republicans have been waging class warfare for a generation at the very least and [Warren] is more willing to call them out on it,\u201d said one senior Democratic consultant granted anonymity to compare the two politicians. \u201cObama spoke more to hope. She speaks more to anger<\/strong>.\u201d\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Keith Olbermann interviewed Ari Berman on why Republicans fear her so.<\/font><\/p>\n

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The most important thing for now is to preserve the ability of American voters to choose who will represent us.  That ability is now under dire threat, because Republicans learned from their failure to establish a 1,000 year one party regime under Bush.  We see that in the Republican war on voting rights for groups that traditionally support Democrats.  If they have their way in 2012, I doubt that anything could undo their stranglehold on power, whoever opposes them in 2016.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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