Obituary: Elizabeth Warren's Campaign

The biggest news of the day, save for any further coronavirus news, is the death by delegate starvation Elizabeth Warren's quest for the White House, which was probably doomed to die from the beginning, since she had to constantly talk about how she was going to pay for Medicare for All and also about her views on a wealth tax.

She was usually right on the issues except for being so damned dumb when it came to the trans issue.  She went out of her way to alienate women with that bullshit, and it is a loser if any candidate is dumb enough to promote it.  Warren had to be getting oodles of Pritzker money to make a complete jackass out of herself on this.

I was an early donor and supporter of her campaign, but I knew the minute Joe Biden decided to throw his hat into the ring, the campaign was really over.  At 70 she is too old to be considered VP material, and I am guessing Biden will likely pick Amy Klobuchar as his running mate.  She is ten years younger than Warren and would not be too old by the time she would run for president as a sitting VP.

Elizabeth Warren's campaign was her first and only shot.  She was overshadowed by somebody with a tremendous resume with well over forty years, closer to fifty, in governmental experience plus was a former vice president. Now time for an aside:   Vice presidents as a rule are almost never rejected as presidential nominees.  The big exception was Hubert Humphrey.  He ran for president in 1952 and 1960, and then as a sitting vice president in 1968 (for which he was nominated), and finally as a former vice president in 1972 and 1976.  I am sure that isn't the record for presidential runs, but it is up there.  Five times he ran, and he never won.  The closest he came was in 1968, but Nixon made goddamned sure Humphrey would not win when he, through third parties, sabotaged the Paris Peace Talks.  HHH was also a target of Nixon's dirty tricks in 1972.  By 1976, however, HHH was getting old, and it wasn't long before cancer ended an otherwise stellar career as a public servant.  I miss HHH, a true liberal, a lot.

So this was Warren's first and only shot for the job.  She is going to have to work to keep her Massachusetts Senate seat given how badly she was beaten Tuesday by both Biden--who spent only 11 grand in the state--and Bernie Sanders.  That should be her focus now.

Here is an analysis of why Medicare for All wrecked Warren's campaign but not Sanders'.  I think it is obvious.  Warren at one time had a realistic shot at the nomination, while Sanders was never considered a serious contender.  He certainly isn't that now.

This has to be the stupidest goddamned tweet I have read in a long time:

Stop telling Warren supporters to suck it up and support Sanders or Biden.

Of course we will do that, we're strong, capable women and we are fucking used to supporting whichever less-qualified white man seems to hate us least.

But we get to be mad as hell first.

— Virginia Sole-Smith (@v_solesmith) March 4, 2020

Moron doesn't understand Warren's resume is very, very thin when it comes to elected political office experience. Sanders, though a grifter, has around 30 years in Congress (while achieving little), while Biden has about FIFTY years of experience in public office, including being vice president of the United States and assisted Obama in the area of foreign policy. Warren's resume comes up short by comparison.

Morons like this person who tweeted should get her facts straight before making a jackass out of herself.