Bernie's the perfect addition to the race. Keeps Dems honest, but not a bitter self-centered crank (ala Nader). The more he focuses attention to issues like paying for college, the minimum wage, and social security, the better the party does. A desperate media dying to take Clinton down will cover him extensively in the faint hopes he'll offer up some red meat (he won't) and instead get tricked into actually giving air time to a wonky policy discussion.
One of the better things Howard Dean did by taking the DNC reigns is it gave lefties the feeling that they had a voice. No coincidence they turned out in droves in a mid-term for once (2006) and kicked butt. Bernie does the same, presuming that he endorses Hillary upon her winning the nomination.
Saying Warren would do this and Warren would do that is a useless exercise. Its like speculating how Reagan's ghost would poll if it jumped in on the GOP side. Something amusing has happened though, and you can see it by reading the whiners over at daily kos. By my unscientific estimate, two months ago half the articles were Kep or Handy inspired about how Clinton was Bush in a pantsuit. Then the lamestream media started covering nonsense like the Clinton Cash book. Next thing you know the articles are running like 10 to 1 in her favor. Simply put, libs have rallied around Hillary thanks to a once again nonsensical right wing smear campaign.
So, I'm not trying to call the guy out as I appreciate his contributions to the discussion, but joecct really captures how older righties don't get it when it comes to both the Clintons and the media. Seeing an anti-Clinton story in the New York Times must mean she's on life support, because liberals worship the Times. Umm..no, liberals hate the Judith Miller/Iraq War proponent Times unless they're old enough to remember the Pentagon Papers release, which happened in like 1971. As there are more Dems than Republicans in the country, the trick is merely getting them to vote. 4 years and 20 congressional committee's investigating Benghazi is not going to bring one more Gooper to the voting booth, but its gonna bring a lot more Dems who were ambivalent about Clinton but will now become full fledged supporters just to stick it the people unfairly flogging this nonsense.
So, we're back to where this race has always been. 18 dwarfs on the GOP side trying to run further and further to the right in an extended primary season, only to have to pivot 180 degrees on a dime a few months before the general election. That's not going to be easy even for the most skilled politician.
