I'd rather have Warren where she is, in charge of the banking committee and able to act as an attack dog. I think Warren would LOSE a surprising amount of effectiveness as President. I think we're better off having a President whose policies are compatible with Warren's, but allowing Warren to do what she does best.
That said, I wouldn't mind seeing her on the Court.
The thing about the email-server thing -- she didn't do anything wrong. The people who are making that whole stuff up will go ahead and find similar things about any person in the United States they want to. The only reason we haven't heard similar stories of not-particularly-bad-things-dressed-up-to-look-bad about Sanders is because the RNC hit squads haven't been attacking him yet.
The thing is -- the RNC hit squads have been attacking Clinton for a quarter century. She's used to it, and where she sits now is where she sits after the hit squads have given it their all for ever. They can't crank it up any further. Sanders, on the other hand -- if the RNC hit squads start coming after him, they'll be able to peel off, like, fifty percent of his most ardent supporters, I bet. Because his most ardent supporters are idealists, and idealists are very vulnerable to implications of impurity in their idols, and that's exactly what the RNC hit squads will be able to imply, whether or not it's true.
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Date: 2016-05-08 12:11 pm (UTC)That said, I wouldn't mind seeing her on the Court.
The thing about the email-server thing -- she didn't do anything wrong. The people who are making that whole stuff up will go ahead and find similar things about any person in the United States they want to. The only reason we haven't heard similar stories of not-particularly-bad-things-dressed-up-to-look-bad about Sanders is because the RNC hit squads haven't been attacking him yet.
The thing is -- the RNC hit squads have been attacking Clinton for a quarter century. She's used to it, and where she sits now is where she sits after the hit squads have given it their all for ever. They can't crank it up any further. Sanders, on the other hand -- if the RNC hit squads start coming after him, they'll be able to peel off, like, fifty percent of his most ardent supporters, I bet. Because his most ardent supporters are idealists, and idealists are very vulnerable to implications of impurity in their idols, and that's exactly what the RNC hit squads will be able to imply, whether or not it's true.