Democrats Eyeing a Clinton Challenge Get Icy Reception

[mimi85]

Personal Note: The MSM strikes again.....

BY PERRY BACON JR. NBC News

Democratic activists so far have one message for potential presidential candidates: If your name isn't Clinton or Warren, we aren't interested.

Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders have made numerous trips to Iowa and left little doubt they are strongly considering 2016 runs. Virginia Sen. Jim Webb established a formal presidential exploratory committee last month, becoming the only candidate in either party to do so. But the trio has generated little support or interest.

Liberal groups like MoveOn.org who are looking for a more progressive alternative to Hillary Clinton, have bypassed these three candidates to endorse Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who has said repeatedly she will not run for president.

Meanwhile, the three are being rejected even by Democrats in their home states. Howard Dean, the former governor of Vermont and once one of the leading voices in the party's left wing, announced this month he was endorsing Clinton over Sanders, who was formerly mayor of Dean's hometown, Burlington. Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, the Democrat who succeeded Webb in the Senate, told Bloomberg earlier this month he is also backing Clinton.

Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/democrats-eyeing-clinton-challenge-get-icy-reception-n276501

[babylonsister]

1. Speculation. Be prepared for a lot of this. nt

[TheNutcracker]

2. Exactly....I don't care who the media and party tell me to support. Geez, no one is welcome in the

process. Hillary won't put up with a challenge. It turns me off, I don't know about you.

[whathehell]

4. I feel the same. n/t

[blkmusclmachine]

3. Hillary will run to the right of Obama. And lose.

[Zorra]

5. Clinton is the choice of the 1%, so she'll be nominated.

"The media says it, and you live the role".
~ Bob Daisley, from the song Crazy Train by Ozzie Osbourne

[hifiguy]

12. Very sad but just as true.

The Clintons have more than proven their fealty to the Powers That Be and that is all that counts any more. When you have BFFs like Henry (should be hanged as a war criminal) Kissinger and Lloyd (should be hanged for crimes against humanity) Blankfein, and the BFEE just loves you and thinks of you as family, you have made your bones at the highest levels of world criminality.

I WILL NOT vote for that woman. Ever. Every other Democrat on the ticket, yes. HRC never.

[Thinkingabout]

6. Wow, seems like some are surprised, HRC numbers are high and when

others start showing up it is reported by some it is Hillary's fault because she will not allow this? Interesting how this is Hillary's fault.

[Agnosticsherbet]

7. Howard Dean has endorsed Hillary? I did not know that.

What do Dean and Franken know that we don't?

[geek tragedy]

8. Oh the irony. The Clinton haters who are pushing the

Draft Warren movement are greasing the skids for Hillary to run unopposed.

[mimi85]

9. I'm afraid I must agree with you.

Plus it's been a long time since a Democrat won after an 8 year D term - I think since Truman won after FDR. I would hate to see that if Hillary gets the nom, Jeb Bush is in.....ugh! Already supporters of Rubio, Christie, etc are bailing and beginning to back Jeb. I feel nauseous just thinking about it.

[JI7]

10. confirms what i have thought of certain people who complain about Hillary

and claim she is being forced on people and other things .

there ARE candidates who have expressed interest but they aren't getting support. including from those who don't want hillary.

they would rather support someone who insists they don't want to run because then they don't really have to do much since the person will not run anyways. they can just post about how disappointed they are and get recs.

[mimi85]

11. Seriously? nt