2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Why is Turdblossom Talking about Hillary? [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts)... would do to go after the corporatist oligarchic agenda that has manifested itself as a controlling two party entity between the Republicans and the "Third Way" Koch purchased influence over the Democratic Party that has produced 20 years of increasing corruption and a Supreme Court that's almost ready to rubber stamp real democracy out of existence.
Hillary hasn't announced she's running, and neither has Warren. They are EQUAL in that respect. When asked if she will not run in 2016, Warren continues to not explicitly qualify her answer "in 2016", but just says she's not currently running. She's not stupid. If she announces it now, she's got a big target painted on her for over a long time that let the corporate controlled media try to bury her. Rove knows this, and it is why he wants to make sure that the Republicans and corporatist Democrats don't even acknowledge the possibility of Warren to minimize any kind of momentum building. He knows she's far more dangerous than Hillary or Obama (or for that matter the already "doomed" from the start John Edwards in last election), so they keep counting on people like you to be their echo chamber to say that Hillary is the "chosen one" so that they know even if the Republicans lose, the uber corporatist party will still win with someone like Hillary in the end so that they don't lose their control.
As you note, two years is a lifetime, and it is way too early to be concerned just about numbers. That isn't what has Rove and the corporatists worked up. It is the possibility of a true populist progressive winning that they want to keep from happening, even now and even if their corporate media has the polls making it look like it's not possible now.
In 2008 there was a similar drumbeat for Hillary then, and how did that turn out? I'm sure that even then, the corporate lobbyists knew that Obama was more "controllable" than someone like Warren or Sanders would be. I noted that back then too.
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