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By 2016, more of the electorate might be tired of the GOP screaming "socialist!" at anything remotely moderate or common to most Western democracies. They've been crying wolf so long, that their second-favorite epithet has lost much of its impact.
Bernie should run, if for no other reason than to give the Koch brothers a fucking heart attack.
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* - which means nothing. I'd vote for absolutely anyone on the Democratic ticket over a Republican.
The primary is where we get a chance to register our opposition, and hopefully force her to adopt positions more liberal than she prefers. At the very least, it would be good to force a more liberal running mate on her. I'd like to see Sanders give her a real challenge, and then use his influence to lobby for a younger liberal figure as Hillary's VP. Unfortunately, you can't have two people in or on the verge of their 70s--Hillary will be 69 on election day and turns 70 in 2017--running on the same ticket.
But go ahead and keep fantasizing about how the next president needs to act like they only care about the voters of places like Washington and Vermont and not places such as, say, Florida and Georgia and Ohio and Virginia. You know, places which are actually up for grabs and actually matter in the electoral college.
It's time to move past the bipartisan disorder of the baby boomer generation and stop supporting the Republican and Democratic dynasties.
No Bush.
No Nixon.
No Clinton.
No Kennedy.
American political commentary is in constant need of remedial education.
Socialist democracies are often by design and necessity moderate to conservative in the traditional meaning of those words.
Republicans are NOT "conservatives." They have completely bastardized that word by misapplying it to themselves. Republicans have become radical, reactionary and regressive, and those are not the characteristics of a true conservative. They are the byproduct of the Dixiecrats and the nouveau riche that largely displaced the old Republican guard under Reagan.
Democrats are not "liberals." Few true liberals remain in their ranks. Most of them pay little more than lip service to the causes that once defined them after Roosevelt.
Perhaps, Americans should start judging politicians on their actual record of actions and on their merits, not by mindless assumptions based on their brand labels and jersey colors.
IF Sanders runs, which I doubt, he'll lose spectacularly. If he inherits ALL of Warren's support, current polling shows Hillary beating him by 57 points. That is not a typo.