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Elizabeth Warren

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

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3. It's just too soon.

Reply to Demeter (Reply #2)

Sat Mar 28, 2015, 11:17 AM

Mar 2015

While she certainly embodies everything I'd want to see in a majority or minority leader, she just doesn't have the 'cred' built up inside the Senate to win a leadership fight, so she's avoiding damaging her brand by fighting a losing battle here. I don't think that counts as 'false humility', so much as a strategic choice.

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Atkins: Scrappy Warren passes on compromising position [View all] PoliticAverse Mar 2015 OP

National Journal: Elizabeth Warren Is Not Interested in Running for Democratic Leader PoliticAverse Mar 2015 #1

At some point, Elizabeth is going to have to stop hiding her candle under a bushel Demeter Mar 2015 #2

It's just too soon. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Mar 2015 #3

I think so too, whomever the dem nominee for prez is, they'd be stupid beyond belief to not go mother earth Mar 2015 #4

I'm sorry, your post isn't making sense to me. Maybe I need more coffee! RiverLover Mar 2015 #5

I was responding to (Demeter's) EW perhaps holding out for VP position, which may be why she is not mother earth Mar 2015 #8

Warren is much more effective in the Senate than she would be as VP. n/t PoliticAverse Mar 2015 #9

I think wherever she chooses to work she will be far more effective than those who have gone before mother earth Mar 2015 #10

It would interfere with her Presidential run. nt MannyGoldstein Mar 2015 #6

She is the only poltiician on the scene today who honestly gives me hope.. whathehell Mar 2015 #7