WASHINGTON, D.C. Dec. 31 (DPI) – Sen. Elizabeth Warren today signaled her plans to run for president in 2020, and comment boards on conservative-leaning news sites were typically derisive of the now-easily-mocked liberal challenger to Trump. The most popular comment on WSJ.com today: “I put her odds of winning at 1/1024.”
But remarkably, left-leaning news sites revealed many hand-wringing comments, all concerned that Warren won’t and can’t be the person to defeat in a national election the most divisive and depressingly incompetent president that the republic has ever endured.
An insight in the most popular comment on NYTimes.com: “The first order of business is to win the election. To do that, you need to flip back states in the Midwest. Warren is the least likely Democratic candidate to do that.”
Among all the most popular comments on NYTimes.com today:
As much as I like and respect Senator Warren, she is perhaps the worst candidate (not president) we could nominate against Donald Trump. Trump’s greatest talent as a politician is his ability to charicaturize his opponents (Lyin’ Hillary, etc.). Warren is a “lay up” in this regard. She is an intelligent, informed, and principled politician and comes across as an elite, think-she’s-so-smart, intellectual. She is so easy to pigeonhole as a “limousine liberal.” Do we really expect to flip back the Obama-Trump voters in WI, MI, MN, PA with Elizabeth Warren? Will they see her as their kind of president? Will they see her any differently than they saw Hillary Clinton? I think not. Better to nominate Brown, Biden, or Klobuchar. The first order of business is to win the election. To do that, you need to flip back states in the Midwest. Warren is the least likely Democratic candidate to do that.
Ugh I love her as my senator. I don’t want her as my president. I fear she can never win.
Let me start by saying the most important thing: Whatever happens in the election, I hope all of us on the left will debate in good faith, listen to each other, remember we are all human, and eventually unite with full force behind whoever wins so we can save our country. I have always liked Elizabeth Warren and admired her fierceness. I am a supporter of hers and have been for years. But I cannot see this working. She has alienated the progressive left in a number of ways — her handling of the 2016 Election, her recent DNA fiasco, and her slightly strange insistence on being a hard-core capitalist “to her bones” who “adores markets” — which is fine, but it sets off alarms for many progressives about how much she feels the need to repeat it. And she is outflanked from the center by a more inspiring and unifying candidate in Beto. Anything could happen. But it’s already beginning to seem like this race will come down to the centered and cool Obama-style inspiration of Beto, or the farther-left, issue-based progressivism of Bernie (or possibly a breakout progressive candidate like Tulsi Gabbard.) Buckle your seatbelts. And please remember that we on the left are all on the same team.
I’ve donated to her campaigns, and I think she’s a terrific senator. But in this conservative leaning, misogynistic country, a woman Democrat form Massachusetts has no chance. I think it’ll help to have her steer the issues, but she doesn’t make Trump quiver in his boots, and she doesn’t inspire like Obama. We need a viciously articulate, charismatic southerner/Midwesterner to beat Trump.