Want to see some GOP heads explode? Barbara Lee for VP

[daredtowork]

Think about it.
East/West
Wall Street/Oakland
Elite/Populist
Puts a black woman next in line for Presidential succession.

I've never heard anyone field Barbara Lee's name before, but she has a lot of cred for voting the People's way around here. Perhaps she just lacks exposure to larger Stateswoman-making opportunities.

She could balance the ticket without making it look like Hillary needs a man.

Thoughts?

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

1. Isnt she the lone vote against Patriot Act?

I could cheat and look it up but I think so.

[daredtowork]

3. I think so too

Can't look it up either where I am (DRs office).

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

5. yep

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1927

[arcane1]

4. I think it was the Iraq invasion that she voted against

Though she likely voted against that abominable Act too.

[csziggy]

9. No she voted against the use of force authorization

Lee is notable as the only member of either house of Congress to vote against the authorization of use of force following the September 11, 2001 attacks.

H J RES 64 YEA-AND-NAY 14-Sep-2001 11:17 PM
QUESTION: On Passage
BILL TITLE: To authorize the use of United States Armed Forces against those responsible for the recent attacks launched against the United States.
NAYS 1 --- Lee
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2001/roll342.xml

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

10. And patriot act, right? this is from my link

against the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2001;


http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1927

[csziggy]

11. She voted against the Patriot Act but she was not a lone vote against it

66 Democrats voted against the Patriot Bill, Lee among them.
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2001/roll398.xml

Barbara Lee is noted for being the lone vote against the authorization of force bill and your first post in this sub-thread was about a lone vote against the Patriot Act.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

12. OK, thanks

[arcane1]

2. I'd rather see her run for the top spot, but I'd settle for VP!

[daredtowork]

14. While I would also prefer Lee over Hillary any day

I could be reconciled to Hillary as the Democrat nominee if Barbara Lee was the VP pick AND she was assured of domestic policy-shaping influence/power and a mandate to undo the damage that the previous Clinton era wrought. A HUGE PUBLIC MANDATE to signal the poor will no longer be the easy scapegoats of politics, but rather the foundation stone in rebuilding American communities.

A two woman ticket can't succeed? How sexist is that? Why not? Hillary and Barbara Lee could prove that society has matured beyond that point - that we just skipped over the step where we could only tolerate one token woman at the top. Society has never rejected a ticket with 2 men on it.

Besides, these days a woman making it to the top is...meh. Two women would be something different: something epic: something worth fighting for.

Barbara Lee provides the social voice and, frankly, color, Hillary is missing. That's a perfectly balanced ticket. But if that was the ticket: two women, a Clinton, an authentic black progresive woman from California vs. Texas Oil Money, Lobbyists of the Super Rich, Ayn Rand Fanboys, TV Megachurch Ministers, and Tea Party Wingnuttery -- the next election could be as close as we ever get to WWIII without using nukes.

Kind of awesome if you think about it. Quick someone design the video game. :p

[NV Whino]

6. They would never run a two-woman ticket

We need her in the (now) House and (future—I'm hoping she takes DiFi's place, assuming that Dino ever retires) Senate.

[daredtowork]

8. Perhaps

but this is also sounding like a "keep the woman in her place" line. We need more woman in the pipeline whi can ALSO be alternatives to Feinstein.

Have we ever kept a man back by saying "we need him in the House/Senate" like we did with Warren and now Lee? We needed tge luttle woman in the kitchen, too.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

13. AGree, but in reality to win the WH a Latino male is likely

[daredtowork]

15. I also like Julian Castro

But Barbara Lee has a wider range of experience, and just as holding up Hillary as the first (token) female President won't win the election, throwing in a Latin male won't win the "diversity" vote. In fact if he doesn't bring the right political stuff to the ticket, he will seem like yet another pathetic effort at "triangulation" engineered by pollsters and focus groups, ultimately withlut a soul.

[NV Whino]

16. No, and that has been a big problem

Raiding the Senate to fill cabinet positions, or whatever. Frankly, we lost the Senate (and governors) because Obama raided it/them for cabinet positions. Most of those men and some women should have stayed in the house or senate or as governors.

I, personally, have no problem with a two-woman ticket, but I do not represent national demographics. This is called politics, where you play the odds and percentages; what will win and what will not. Like it or not, I (and it would seem) you, are marginal votes. In other words, they don't give a shit about us. They have to go with (as much as possible, and still satisfy the fringe) mainstream choices. Two women on the ticket is sensory overload for the mainstream.

[daredtowork]

17. Thank you for putting that marginality in kind/flattering terms

I still wonder if the opposition to such an unexpexted, ostensibly unviable, yet undeniably powerful pairing might energize the campaign to fight for it. That's what took Hillary by surprise in 2008 -people fought for Obama.

People weren't going to fight for Third Way Hillary then, and they aren't now. Hillary's campaign is fueled by money. I'm willing to bet even Skinner's sudden appearance and endorsement has something to do with funding for DU. The amount of fake enthusiasm drummed up over the last 24 hours feels like the attack of the Pod People/Stepford Dems.

[gwheezie]

7. she is in my top 10 list

To run for president. The 1st person I actually campaigned for was Shirley Chisholm. Shirley paved the way for strong women who take tough votes. I would love to see Lee on the ticket. She is one of the people I admire on congress and there ain't that many of them

[daredtowork]

18. Bump - as alternative to mere Oligarchy Theater

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Get Barbara Lee in the game.