Eh, I’m not sure Liz Cheney has Presidential ambitions.
Don’t be too sure about Gary Locke and Deval Patrick. I’m sure they are aiming to get more women at the top of the ticket. People like Kamala Harris or Kirsten Gillibrand.
Yeah, the Clinton-Warren “dream team,” didn’t work out like Democrats hoped it to. They were just no match for Huntsman and Lingle when it came to debates. Huntsman was able to run on his successes and Democrats’ attempts to block his legislation was used against them. Warren was seen as being too progressive.
It’s also showing how further left they are going. The front runners are talking about packing the Supreme Court, getting rid of the electoral college, all that stuff. All because Obama lost 2012 and they were embarrassed with Clinton in 2016.
I was joking about Bush-Cheney 2020.
Clinton sort of
had to pick Warren after Sanders forced a contested convention. I don't think the country is necessarily against a progressive ticket. It's more that Warren's calls for corporate charters and breaking corporate charters came off as deranged and HRC looked like she was unable to control her more energetic VP. If Clinton had picked a less wild progressive like Sherrod Brown or Amy Klobuchar she'd have done a lot better.
I don't really understand why there's so much support for AG Harris. Yeah, she's AG of California, but she still
lost to Loretta Sanchez following Huntsman's endorsement of her. Likewise, I don't see why people are still excited about Gavin Newsome despite having lost to Villaraigosa. Beto O'Rourke at least won his Senate Race, though he's opted not to run because he's only just gotten to Washington.
Democrats are understandably pissed about the Electoral College after Huntsman won without taking the popular vote the first go-around. And then Huntsman in his reelect won the popular vote and had an electoral college landslide, but he didn't get above 50% due to Steve Stockman-Tom Tancredo constitution party ticket.
The stuff about the Supreme Court is nutty though. Huntsman was pretty gracious when he appointed Wallace Jefferson to replace Ginsburg after appointing John Gorsuch and Clint Bolick to replace Scalia and Kennedy. Odds are Mike Lee is going to replace Clarence Thomas so Huntsman can get Secretary Leavitt appointed to the seat.
It's not so much that the front-runners are talking about packing the court though. Locke, Patrick, and Sanders have opposed the idea. It's just Harris and Gillibrand trying to out-partisan the others and DNC Chair Buttigieg being open about it. The issue is that the media really likes Harris and Gillibrand, whereas they hate Sanders for opposing Clinton and they think that Locke and Patrick are boring.
Although the rumor is that if Sanders wins the nomination, Obama's going to run Indy with O'Rourke.