re: #144 Lidane

Pretty much, yeah.

I like Elizabeth Warren, but she wouldn’t make a good nominee for POTUS. She’d be a decent choice for VP, or over at Labor.

Look into her background. Until she was elected Senator from MA, she had held no elective office. I’ll give her credit for intelligence and work she did on TARP and CFPB, but she’s a relative newby to elective office.

Meanwhile, she voted Republican well into her 40s, and is probably as moderate as any academic might be. People often change, but they always retain some of their former selves.

thedailybeast.com

“For all those quaking on the right at the sight of an ascendant Warren, rest easy. Warren’s no lefty. In fact, Warren was a registered Republican into her 40s. When it comes to ideology, Warren makes for a rotten heir to Kennedy.

“I was a Republican because I thought that those were the people who best supported markets. I think that is not true anymore,” Warren says. “I was a Republican at a time when I felt like there was a problem that the markets were under a lot more strain. It worried me whether or not the government played too activist a role.”

“Did she vote for Ronald Reagan, who ushered in much of the financial deregulation which Warren has devoted her life to stopping? “I’m not going to talk about who I voted for,” she says.”

The left has swung so far to the right to compensate for the reactionary elements in our country that this is not particularly an unusual move, but Warren is just not as “left” as the dudebros figure her to be, even though she claims to be the intellectual wisdom behind the Occupy movement. That’s a pretty tall claim, IMHO.

“I created much of the intellectual foundation for what they do,” she says. “I support what they do.”