President Elizabeth Warren? — Page 2

Portman has a well-deserved Oscar. That's certainly a leg up on Clinton and Warren. The girl's got attitude!

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I think history has shown that it is very difficult to tell in advance who will be a good or great President. Decisions and events, often evaluated years later, tell the story.

I may believe that Hillary, or Warren, or Rommney even would have been better than Obama. But history may look at Obama, someone who has disappointed me, as superior and I think that much of it is a matter of dumb luck. I sometimes think that greatness is about as predictable as cancer. But I still like Presidents that are proactive and even with Obama, those are the areas in which he has had success.

After I voted for Bill Clinton and his personal problems almost brought him down, I thought he was terrible, both as a person and a leader. Then he turned it around and left office respected as a leader.

I can say with absolute certainty that I have lost confidence with my own ability to predict competence in a President and I try to read everything I can from all sides of the political spectrum.

We have had good Presidents from both parties. We may not agree with their political agendas but I think that seeing problems through to a conclusion seems to be the common thread seen in the ones we respect years later.

I was more sure about things when I was younger.

I think the Republicans know if they put Portman up against Hillary Clinton, they lose in a landslide.

They're in a bind because they can't nominate anyone too tea-party or they'll lose the middle, but they have to have someone the tea partiers will vote for or they'll lose the right. Either way, they lose.

The Democrats are in less of a bind, because if they lose the far left with Hillary, they'll still get a huge boost from the center.

There's no one in the GOP who could beat her: certainly not Portman but not Mitt Romney or Chris Christie or Marco Rubio or Rick Perry or Paul Ryan or Jeb Bush or Ted Cruz or Mike Huckabee or Jeb Bush...they would all lose to Hillary.

Only if Rand Paul freakishly gets the Youth Vote do I think they stand a chance...but he's just not popular enough with the aging Republicans or the GOP establishment.

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Well I for one would vote for Portman over Hillary.

That's an awfully short cover letter, madbrian.

Cory Booker has never done much more than build and promote The Cory Booker Brand, and I say that as someone who used to be a strong supporter. I don't see HRC choosing him as a running mate, should it come to that.

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Clinton, Warren, Booker- it matters not. The Republicans will hate on them with a burning vehemence that makes the word "hate" seem far too mild a verb.

I think Warren has made it clear she's out in 2016.

PJ you are probably correct that Hillary is a lock. None of the Republicans have much of a following and the party is pretty split. But Joe, honestly isn't it the same about the Democrats. Whoever the Republican, he will get the same kind of hateful response. Look what happened to Romney in the last election. There was all kinds of hate toward him.

The light of reason and respect is the new black.

HRC's biggest weapon remains her hubby. Chris Matthew's is all over Bill and Hillary's southern strategy. Bill is burning midnight oil trying to flip those southern states back into HRC's column eventually. He'd like to restore the electoral college map back to the way it appeared when he ran. The Clintons absolutely need GA and NC to get HRC elected POTUS. PA would be gravy. Romney-Ryan were able to snatch NC from Obama-Biden in 2012.

This time around HRC gets to run as the Anti-Obama & Harry Reid candidate both of whom are universally HATED by the right. To win in 2016, she needs a running mate who appeals to southerners akin to her hubby. I wonder if Team Clinton has already reached out to current AR governor Mike Beebe. HRC has enough name recognition for the ticket. She simply needs to recapture electoral college votes that Bill Clinton nabbed during his heydey. Dark horse as running mate: Julian Castro.

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Updated On: 10/23/14 at 08:29 PM

I'd love to see Brian Schweitzer as a running mate for HRC. He has a folksy charm that is lacking in most Dems, and he's effing brilliant, particularly with respect to energy.

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I like Warren but this comment hardly suggests that she's going to run.

I agree Hillary is more electable than anybody and I fully expect she will be our next president.

However, I fully expect the old Republican Hillary Hate to have a major renaissance. It's been mostly under wraps since 2008 when she was replaced as enemy #1 with Obama.

It had a slight resurgence with Benghazi and it will no doubt be boom time again for the whole rightwing book against the Clintons.

It's not going to work against her. But you can bet they are going to go after her with every trick they've got. Including all the old ones.

Updated On: 10/24/14 at 10:21 AM