Tuesday, April 22, 2014
This surely does qualify as a stupid idea
The New York Times, ponderously pontificating in its role as a former great newspaper, has raised the question of whether Hilary Clinton could run with another female candidate in the VP slot.
Few doubt that Hillary Rodham Clinton’s nomination for president would be good for women. But her candidacy would also likely block the paths for other women running for the White House, and, notably, for those who would like to be vice president.But for over 200 years, women have been represented by pairings of two men and nobody questioned if they were represented, did they? The NYT does briefly allow that there may be merit to the idea but quickly pivots to a litany of conventinal do's & don'ts for political campaigns. Perhaps if someday the NYT looked beyond the facile surface elements, they might actually find something of value.
Never has there been so much rising female talent in the Democratic Party, with a record 20 women in the Senate, 16 of them Democrats. They include Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, the liberal fund-raising powerhouse and author of a new book, “A Fighting Chance”; Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, the former prosecutor with made-for-state-fair charms; the issue-grabber Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand of New York; and others, like Gov. Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire. Any one of them would be potential candidates for the bottom of a 2016 ticket, or possibly even have a shot at the top.
Ms. Warren emphatically discouraged the idea that she was even considering a White House bid. “I’m not running for president,” she told ABC News on Tuesday.
Yet even in an America that has elected a black president, unraveled same-sex marriage bans across several states and cottoned to a woman at the head of General Motors, having two women on a 2016 ticket may be a leap of electoral faith.
“It’s certainly possible to have two women,” said Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California. “I am not sure it’s wise. You want a ticket that represents men and women.”
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