I love her, but I think she will need some more time to mature in politics before taking on the big job. 2 terms for Warren, then Ocasio-Cortez after. It’s time the hyphenated-Americans to have a turn!
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Poor Kamala; only a year in office, and she’s already considered old guard!
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If there were three candidates-- Feinstein, de Leon, and some Republican running-- in the general election-- it would be theoretically possible for either of the two nominally democratic candidates to “spoil” the election and let that Republican run away with a plurality. but as I understand the rules, this can’t happen.
It’s not just her age. She is far from the worst Democrat in the Senate, but one of the things she did was defend the warrantless wiretapping that went on under both GWB and Obama. She knew about it before it became public, because she was on the Intelligence Committee. She also supported the Patriot Act and the Iraq war resolution.
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No. The general is just the two of them and most every body who’d have ordinarily voted for the Republican had there been one — myself included — will vote for Feinstein in November.
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Hispanic Man Beats 85-Year-Old White Lady
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This is why local politics matter. The progressives who ran for the executive committee were looking ahead to this moment.
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Now that’s the kind of Tabloid Headline I’m used to seeing.
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I agree. If Kevin De León is ‘far left’ then I am too. He is for common sense legislation that will lift all boats. What is so radical about helping the citizens that actually pay the bills to keep this nation going?
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Because she was put in place by ‘old guard’.
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She’s been tight with the CA Dem establishment since the early 1990s when Willie Brown started introducing her around to get her own political career off the ground, so it’s her own fault if that’s how she’s viewed. I do like Harris and think she’s capable of seeing how things are shifting and of rejecting a lot of the policies that make Feinstein unpopular with progressives, but in the end she’s loyal to the party old guard who helped put her where she is.
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Dear Dems:
Faint heart never won fair voter.
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The Ocasio-Cortez Wing. Senator Sanders is not currently a Democrat. While they seem to share many platforms, and both identify as Democratic Socialists, only one is in the Democratic Party (except every now and then, when it’s convenient or opportune). Sorry if this is too much of a quibble. I do agree though that this is a big deal; hopefully voters show up in support.
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The “Sanders wing” is really shorthand for the “Our Revolution wing” of the party. I like Ocasio-Cortez, but it’s a little too early to make her the figurehead.
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Yeah, a little early; she’s got to get elected first. I just object to Senator Sanders being the figurehead for a wing of a party to which he is only a member when it is opportune to be so; to my mind it shows poor judgement in his part, to say the least.
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Fuck it; Ocasio-Cortez for Prez.
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In the absence of no-one within the party truly having stepped forward to challenge the Third-Way approach and the coronation of its proponent in 2016 my objection to his being seen as the figurehead is more muted. In time an actual member of the party will take his place as the face of progressive Dem politics, but I suspect that won’t happen until 2020.
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I don’t know enough about her to wish that, i just know i support the platform she campaigned on… we’ll see how reality shakes out. If she indeed has a backbone and is able to get things done then i’ll be more enthusiastic.
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