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I was at Netroots. Those ready for Warren people were total assholes. All they did was piss everybody off.
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Clearly she’s not running.
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Which will only make the acolytes more fervent. Because once you embrace a dream, that dream CANNOT die!
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Why do Democrats always insist on playing the circular firing squad game? If Hillary is the candidate, I hope every Democrat will work like hell to elect her, even if their delicate sensibilities are somehow offended by her. Because even the least nutty GOP candidate would still be a disaster. He will also have every Republican, from the Fox News/Evangelical/teabagger asshat crowd to the country club, pinky in the air Republicans in Greenwich voting for him.
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Ready for Hillary will gladly allow them to work independently under their existing structure as a subsidiary of Ready for Hillary.
Providing one condition, the group pledges not to splinter into the camps of Ralph Nader, Bernie Sanders or Brian Schweitzer.
Sen. Warren has said repeatedly that she’s not running for president. You think they will finally get the hint?
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I saw this same syndrome with ted kennedy in the 70’s. And when he finally did run, it was an absolute train wreck.
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I have to say, while I don’t want Warren will run, I can see why people would gravitate to her – if not as an alternative to Hillary, but as an alternative to the “Ready For Hillary” group’s total arrogance and sense of entitlement.
Hey, I’m sorry, PUMAs, but “It’s MY Turn Now” wasn’t an acceptable campaign slogan for BobDole or Grampy Insane, and it’s not acceptable for Hillary, regardless of how historic a win it would be, or how much it would drive the RWNJs (even more) insane.
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You left off how good it would be for politics as a continuum given Reagan, HW and W. The risk of Romney, like Reagan breaking out on a third attempt is real in this ignorant period of our political history. Now add that with the historic aspect you mentioned and we may approach the Populist period in the early 1900s, in the chance to change government.
I would settle for four years and then we could allow the wet hens down the sliding board. 1980 and 2000 require corrections and holding the WH is more important than purity in that candidate.
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You don’t really think this is about Warren running for President, do you? No, it is about the organisers of Ready for Warren getting their hands on a nice big bucket of contributions…and charging off everything to “expenses”. We all know how this works…
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So, if she’s not running and has disavowed any relationship with this group’s purpose, what, then, is its purpose.?
If they keep collecting funds despite Warren’s disavowal, are they engaging in fraud?
Unlike the charming folks at Hillaryis44 ?
Work for Hillary? Screw that.
She’s deliberately making NeoCon noises to alert the MIC and Wall Street that she’s ready to bomb the world and make some new NAFTA “trade acts” to give Wall Street a woodie.
Let the donor base do the work - they are the ones who will own her Corporate Presidency.
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Daniel,
Allow me to edit that first sentence for you so you don’t have party affiliation following a possessive: The lawyer for Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has sent a “formal disavowal” to the Federal Elections Commission on Ready for Warren—the group that aims to nudge Warren to run for president in 2016.
See how easy that is? I won’t bother pointing out the typos in this very short article.
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I’m convinced that Warren is not running in 2016. That said, I don’t understand this article (if it’s accurate) because I thought a PAC was supposed to be independent of the candidate it is supporting. The statement that the candidate is totally independent of the PAC is meaningless in terms of announcing anything, because all candidates must be independent of their PACs.
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Good. I want Senator Warren to remain my senator and do the job she ran for. I’m happy to see she’s not just using my vote as a stepping stone to the presidency, which at this point, I don’t think she stands a snowball’s chance in hell of winning anyway. She makes me proud.
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You better hurry up and declare your stalwart promise to move to Canada when HRC is elected…because it’s always more fun to be on the front of the losers bandwagon than chasing it and begging to be let on.
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The honorable lady has said she does not want to be president (at this time, at least).
Leave her alone already.
I’ll vote for Madam if she’s the candidate, but that’s as far as I’ll go… I devoutly hope that somebody else wins the nomination because I think Hillary Clinton is absolutely contemptible. But, as I said, I’ll vote for her if i have to.
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