Never too early for a good "See, I told you so!", if you ask me.
Here is the open love letter they've signed and released:
We believed in an unlikely candidate who no one thought had a chance.
Neither of those things is true, actually. Barack Obama was considered presidential timbre by Democrats ever since his convention keynote speech in 2004, and everybody knew he was running in 2008.
We worked for him — and against all odds, we won in Iowa.
We organized like no campaign had organized before — and won the Democratic primary.
"Against all odds"? Hardly. But was that due to The One's awesomeness or Hillary Clinton's awfulness? I think we all know the answer to that question by now.
We built a movement — and the country elected the first-ever African American president.
That "movement" - the "Nutroots" - predated Barack Obama by at least six years, when Nancy Pelosi became House Democrat leader.
We know that the improbable is far from impossible.
There was nothing "improbable" about it. Years of anti-Bush and "anti-war" agitating that destroyed the GOP "brand," and then the engineered stock market crash and economic collapse seven weeks before the 2008 election made it inevitable.
Now, former staffers from President Obama’s campaigns, along with former staffers from OFA, are joining with the thousands of Americans who are calling on Elizabeth Warren to run for president in 2016.
Rising income inequality is the challenge of our times.....
<eyeroll>
....and we want someone who will stand up for working families and take on the Wall Street banks and special interests that took down our economy.
The job-creators that were taken down by the Democrat Financial Logic Bomb.
We urge Elizabeth Warren to run for president in 2016.
And she'll do it, too, once it becomes clear that a Hillary Clinton candidacy will only end in Democrat voters staying home in droves, and thus a landslide defeat.
This open letter illustrates anew what is going to become deafeningly obvious over the next year: The far Left Democrat "mainstream" plainly and simply hates Hillary Clinton's flabby guts. They think she's a "sell-out to Wall Street" just like her weak-tickered, horndog husband. Have we forgotten what inspired the rise of the Nutroots in the first place? It was the Clintons' "centrist" subterfuge that served them so well throughout the '90s, but served the Democrat Party, so its grassroots perceived, so poorly. They had such stratospheric hopes for "fundamental transformation" in 1992, and then they came crashing down just two years later with the failure of HillaryCare and the election of the first unified Republican Congress in four decades. "Fundamental transformation" was reduced to defending Sick Willie's lechery while the GOP sparked another economic boom that Democrats weren't doing anything to stop. The hard-left frustration built for years, and after the photo-finish 2000 presidential election and the failure of Al Gore's bloodless coup attempt, they collectively snapped altogether. By contrast, in their minds, most of another decade of agitating and open radicalism produced a genuine, proudly and avowedly communist candidate that swept grandly to power and proceeded to accomplish everything the Left ever wanted, and all the Clintons never did.
For the Democrat "mainstream," there is simply no comparison. As far as they're concerned, the only thing Elizabeth Warren and Hillary Clinton have in common is two X-chromosomes. Fauxcahontas is Hillary! circa 1992: all the Marxism-Alinskyism and none of the age, staleness, and compromises. Again, in Nutroot reckoning, the last time they opted for "electability" over following their hearts, they nominated John Kerry over Howard Dean and lost, whereas nominating Barack Hussein Obama over Hillary four years later produced a glorious victory. In short, the Donk basis is highly unlikely to "settle" ever again.
The only caveat I would throw into this scenario is that these open letter writers are all former Obama and OFA staffers. As a consequence, they may not be privy to their demigod's prospects of remaining in office beyond January 20th, 2017, which is the only thing standing in the way of an Elizabeth Warren run for the presidency in 2016.
Which is not to say that Fauxcahontas would be any more likely to actually reach the White House than Mrs. Clinton. But that's another post.
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