JeffreyFeldman · @JeffreyFeldman
12th Apr 2015 from TwitLonger
Per the HRC announcement here is one perspective:
There's no such thing as purity in politics--in leadership as a category. If you take the time to become an experienced leader over the long term--decades...your whole life--you will not be pure by the time you arrive at your chance to drive the ship. That's life. But politics and government are not about purity. They are about getting things done in the face of intractable opposition. I like Elizabeth Warren. She says and has tried to do great things. But I am 100% certain that if she were elected, it would just be a matter of months--maybe weeks--before the very people celebrating her would be abandoning her and attacking her for not being a pure progressive. And I have no idea if she can get things done or weather the GOP storm. HRC is not pure. I disagree with her on many things. But to set her up as impure by comparison to Warren--I don't see that as productive. The issue for me is potential to move things forward. I look at the last two terms and the "change" I want is someone who gets angry and does what is necessary to drive the agenda--who takes the fight to the GOP and keeps pushing no matter how ugly or how racist/sexist/unfair the attacks may be. Take, it, to, them. That's the candidate I am after, as opposed to a candidate who simply has all the right positions up front. There is no question that HRC is the most picked over candidate in a long, long time. The GOP has boxes and boxes of crap to hurl. If HRC can push back early and stay in front, that is likely the kind of candidate we need.