Then let Bernie educate voters on his positions. It's not Warren's job (Reply #29)

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29. Then let Bernie educate voters on his positions. It's not Warren's job

or any other candidate’s job to serve as a Sanders surrogate.

It is Senator Sanders’ job to come up with his own concrete policy positions and convince voters he is the best choice for President.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided

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81 replies	Author	Time	Post
Elizabeth Warren: 'I am not a' Democratic Socialist [View all]	TexasTowelie	Mar 2019	OP
At the end of the day people care about whether you represent them	Tiggeroshii	Mar 2019	#1
Exactly right!!	InAbLuEsTaTe	Mar 2019	#10
WRONG	Horizens	Mar 2019	#26
The NBC/WSJ recently cited by Brooklynite is a reality check.	empedocles	Mar 2019	#30
I totally agree!	Honeycombe8	Mar 2019	#54
Of course.. why would she be labeled	Cha	Mar 2019	#2
I doubt it. I read reports of that meeting at the time	Eric J in MN	Mar 2019	#11
conversation with "Sanders in which he reportedly discouraged her from running for president"	JI7	Mar 2019	#3
That's certainly a "Say what now?" sentence.	OnDoutside	Mar 2019	#6
I read reports of the meeting which didn't say that.	Eric J in MN	Mar 2019	#12
She did not deny it.	backabby-blue	Mar 2019	#21
CNN alluded to the conversation in their report, and Warren neither confirmed nor denied.	lapucelle	Mar 2019	#52
Taking the position that a private conversation is private	Eric J in MN	Mar 2019	#65
It was a brilliant answer. N/T	lapucelle	Mar 2019	#67
Her progressive achievements would be head and shoulders	Hortensis	Mar 2019	#4
Agreed!	True Blue American	Mar 2019	#7
She's tough, has accomplishments, and can produce concrete policy proposals	emulatorloo	Mar 2019	#27
Another thread that was bemoaning our lost morality, as if we	Hortensis	Mar 2019	#46
Very well said	emulatorloo	Mar 2019	#47
Translation	forklift	Mar 2019	#5
As it should be.	True Blue American	Mar 2019	#8
and the fact that she actually is not a socalist . supporting social security, even break up of	JI7	Mar 2019	#13
Breaking up monopolist companies is 'Progressive'	crazytown	Mar 2019	#19
I said it wasn't socialist	JI7	Mar 2019	#22
According to MorningJoke, anyone who won't say they're a "capitalist" or who is against	CousinIT	Mar 2019	#15
so you're saying	forklift	Mar 2019	#17
OK. Call it "Social Democracy"	CousinIT	Mar 2019	#18
What I see in the so called democratic socialists	forklift	Mar 2019	#24
Yes! That behavior is intrinsic to POPULISM, though populists	Hortensis	Mar 2019	#55
You expressed it far better than I could ever have! nt	forklift	Mar 2019	#63
Newsflash: I'm not a Bernie Sanders supporter.	CousinIT	Mar 2019	#59
Maybe it is time for a new political party for such a passion	forklift	Mar 2019	#64
In the U.S. FDR would be called a l i b e r a l.	DemocratSinceBirth	Mar 2019	#23
The Democratic Party supports capitalism, with some social programs.	Honeycombe8	Mar 2019	#56
Counter challenge that:	Aussie105	Mar 2019	#9
i watched part of that interview.	Kurt V.	Mar 2019	#14
Nor am I...	Mike Nelson	Mar 2019	#16
The U S has had a capitalist economy from the start. At some point,	Honeycombe8	Mar 2019	#57
Sounds good to me...	Mike Nelson	Mar 2019	#68
All advanced western democracies except us embrace Social Democracy.	Blue_true	Mar 2019	#73
Ironically, given how people misuse the term, she is probably the most neoliberal candidate running	Recursion	Mar 2019	#20
Neoliberal? So she's like Margaret Thatcher? Believes in trickle down economics? A thousand	emulatorloo	Mar 2019	#28
I mean, yes: she voted for Ronald Reagan twice, and George H W Bush twice	Recursion	Mar 2019	#31
"Bernie has to speak to what Democratic Socialism is"	Lazy Daisy	Mar 2019	#25
Then let Bernie educate voters on his positions. It's not Warren's job	emulatorloo	Mar 2019	#29
Never said it was	Lazy Daisy	Mar 2019	#32
Democrats have long been the champions of social programs.	emulatorloo	Mar 2019	#33
OK	Lazy Daisy	Mar 2019	#39
Ah yes, we all remember the day Obama cut Social Security and Medicare	emulatorloo	Mar 2019	#45
I said he wanted to, not that he did	Lazy Daisy	Mar 2019	#49
Or he was bluffing to paint Boehner in a corner and show Republicans were acting in bad faith	emulatorloo	Mar 2019	#69
She is not indicting the existing social safety net, ALL of her policy proposals have been about how	Blue_true	Mar 2019	#77
Exactly. nt	Blue_true	Mar 2019	#76
She said that she is not a democratic socialist. Bernie says that he is one.	Blue_true	Mar 2019	#75
Exactly. nt	Blue_true	Mar 2019	#74
It's not her job to explain his positions to voters.	TwilightZone	Mar 2019	#58
Please see above	Lazy Daisy	Mar 2019	#60
No, it really wasn't.	TwilightZone	Mar 2019	#61
huh?	Lazy Daisy	Mar 2019	#62
Who else remembers when Sen. Warren was Bernie before Bernie was Bernie?	OilemFirchen	Mar 2019	#34
Yes, every progressive/left liberal I know wanted her to run in 2016	emulatorloo	Mar 2019	#35
I recently saw her interview on The Beat with Ari and I thought she was	saljr1	Mar 2019	#36
Why do these people keep falling for the label-making?	grumpyduck	Mar 2019	#37
Elizabeth Warren--being super smart--knows that she's not a "Democratic Socialist."	CrossingTheRubicon	Mar 2019	#38
She's in a tough spot.	Garrett78	Mar 2019	#40
Very true	Lazy Daisy	Mar 2019	#50
So many wrong assumptions here	Bradshaw3	Mar 2019	#78
I like Warren and Democratic Socialists	Carrito	Mar 2019	#41
I have no trouble believing her on that.	MineralMan	Mar 2019	#42
I would phrase the sentence as,	TexasTowelie	Mar 2019	#44
I choose my words carefully.	MineralMan	Mar 2019	#66
Elizabeth Warren has said this before	peggysue2	Mar 2019	#43
Interesting that Elizabeth Warren is being attacked on DU as a "neoliberal."	CrossingTheRubicon	Mar 2019	#48
Laugh anyway.	TwilightZone	Mar 2019	#53
Nobody is perfect.	CentralMass	Mar 2019	#51
Cool. Ideological diversity.	David__77	Mar 2019	#70
Opinion: The myth of ideology, and why Democrats' energy isn't all on the left	Gothmog	Mar 2019	#71
She's got that in her favor. She understands that it's a	NurseJackie	Mar 2019	#72
K&R	stonecutter357	Mar 2019	#79
That is practically the same thing Kamala Harris said, and they both aren't. I am somewhat surprise	still_one	Mar 2019	#80
Trump plans to hit Democrats on "socialism" but faces own vulnerabilities	Gothmog	Mar 2019	#81

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