Opinion: Clinton’s expert advisers are no match for Warren’s passion

[RiverLover]

Opinion: Clinton’s expert advisers are no match for Warren’s passion
2/11/2015


Elizabeth Warren has passion, not talking points cooked up by 200 experts..
By
DarrellDelamaide
Politics columnist

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Elizabeth Warren may have some shortcomings as a politician but she doesn’t need 200 experts to tell her what to think about inequality and the plight of the middle class.

The Massachusetts senator, who continues to appeal to Democratic progressives despite her repeated rejection of any interest in running for president, has grappled with these issues her whole career and has very clear and passionate convictions about what this country needs.

In the meantime, Hillary Clinton, now widely treated in the mainstream press as the presumptive Democratic nominee as though she were an incumbent, has reached out to “200 policy experts,” the New York Times reports, to tell her “how to address the anger about income inequality without overly vilifying the wealthy.”

With due respect to all those experts, there is no way to do that. The wealthy in this country, and particularly the Wall Street bankers, have a certain amount of vilification coming to them and let’s not quibble about what may be too much.

This weekend, the Worker Families Party in New York, a progressive party that has its own ballot line in the state, voted to urge Warren to run for president, becoming the latest liberal group to call for an alternative to Hillary Clinton. The party, which played a role in building the momentum for Bill de Blasio’s successful run for New York mayor, had backed Clinton in her two campaigns for the senate in New York.

Now, however, the party considers a Warren run would be the “single best shot at making sure working families’ issues are front and center in the national political debate,” state director Bill Lipton told the New York Post.

While Clinton and her experts try to figure out a way to please everybody, the former secretary of state is assembling a juggernaut staff to further discourage Warren or any other potential challenger from even thinking about entering the race....

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/clintons-expert-advisers-are-no-match-for-warrens-passion-2015-02-11

[NYC_SKP]

1. Look at her, she's the picture of passion and integrity. eom

[RiverLover]

4. Shines through, it does.

[on point]

2. Clinton still trying to figure marketing con to hide her DLC

[RiverLover]

3. Yep, maybe Barack can give her some pointers. nt

[djean111]

5. Yes. On the mark. No one is perfect - and it is hilarious how the same people who tell liberals

that they are letting the perfect get in the way of the good - cannot accept that liberals already know that, and all the little slams at Warren or any other Not Hillary don't work, precisely because we are not letting the perfect get in the way of the good. I guess when you are fed a talking point or meme, you are not fed the logic that says hey, liberals know that, they just don't think Hillary is The Good.

200 advisers trying to come up with Hillary's message. For fuck's sake - don't they see that this means that she is just going to spout whatever rhetoric they think will work on people, and then just continue down the Third Way path?
No matter how she sounds, no GOP voter will vote for her. And, as a woman, I am not swayed by gender. That's another lack of logic - if I don't like Hilary, I am just afraid of powerful women, or am some sort of misogynist, even though I prefer, um, another woman. And the logic there is also a bit faulty - if just being a woman is enough - why didn't McCain/Palin win?

Oh, well. As Manny says, should be a (horrifically) entertaining campaign season. At least, if Hillary is the candidate, she won't need money from us little 99% people.

[davidpdx]

9. +1

[JDPriestly]

6. K&R. America needs Elizabeth Warren.

We don't need another Wall Street shill or Bush baby. Never again a Clinton who will appoint Greenspan or someone like Greenspan to the Fed. We need Elizabeth Warren.

[winter is coming]

7. ... and Clinton supporters know this.

You don't jump up and down, yelling, "She's not running!" "She endorsed Hillary!" "She's got no chance!" "She was a Republican!" "Did I mention she's NOT RUNNING!" about a candidate you truly believe is no threat to your candidate. Whether or not Warren runs, her "the game is rigged" message is a threat to HRC's campaign, whose Wall Street ties might as well be anvils.

[Autumn]

8. Hillary supporters are terrified of this woman.

They are all over the place attacking Liz and her supporters. All they do is make Hillary look bad and that's a rather sad thing for them to do.