Yes I want Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren to be chosen as Hillary Clinton’s running mate, but this piece is not about preference, it’s about being strategically imperative, to prevent America from taking a drastically wrong turn. (You know what I mean)
Yes this would help mollify the anxious left, giving them their original hero before Bernie Sanders. Hillary will run to the middle to capture independent voters and the best person to protect her left flank is the Senates’ liberal lion.
Senator Warren has proven to be a capable attack dog on the ominous scenario of a President Trump. As Donald attempts to drag Hillary into the mud, discouraging turnout which always gives the advantage to the Republican; Hillary must learn to respond to absurd charges while at the same time trying to maintain a high road in order to provide an incentive for voters to turn out. As Senator Warren attacks and engages Trump in hand to hand bombast, Sec. Clinton could be the voice of reason, the grownup in the room that answers the phone at 3AM.
This is 2016; safe, traditional political playbooks are thrown out the window, icons representing politics of the past is just that, anachronistic. If the former Secretary of State makes a safe pick for geography or ideology or some other demographic i.e. race, gender, age she will be stuck in neutral as Trump dazzles and beguiles the voting public through free media. She can wait for Trump to blow up while she just hits safe shots waiting to get off the court but just ask the 20 Republican primary contenders this year how that worked for them. And once she brings out Bill should we dust off our video cassette collection of Arsenio Hall’s greatest moments?
Bill Clinton won in 1992 by playing it safe but it was 12 years of Republican fatigue. This year the fatigue is on our side.
In the 2012 presidential election 54% of the voters were women. Having 2 women on the ticket as opposed to 2 anti-abortion, anti-Planned Parenthood men is a no-brainer. Senator Warren will also appeal to the middle class, Midwesterners, Ivy League intellectuals, academia, the left, Native Americans and more.
Elizabeth Warren is not only the best candidate for vice president; she’s the only candidate that can help Hillary Clinton prevent the Miss Universeization of the United States.
This is not reality television this is real.