Howard Dean calls Elizabeth Warren too old to be HRC VP.

[Eric J in MN]

Reporter Andrea Mitchell said that Warren was one of the strongest critics of Donald Trump, and pointed out that a Clinton-Warren ticket would send a strong signal to the party’s progressive side.

“Certainly somebody like that would be very helpful,” Dean said about the the Massachusetts senator.

But then he added, “I strongly believe we ought to have somebody under 50 on the ticket. I think the Baby Boomers have run this country for too long. We stepped away from that with Barrack Obama; we don’t normally go back a generation. We’re gonna have two Baby Boomers running for president on the Democratic and the Republican side. So I would like somebody very much who is not in the Baby Boomer generation. Who is in this new upcoming generation — the younger the better.”

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/06/03/howard-dean-hillary-clinton-elizabeth-warren/85352562/

@lhfang

Howard Dean's lobbying firm (interc.pt/1RVVbFd) reps financial industry clients before Liz Warren's CFPB twitter.com/usatoday2016/s…

https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/738816830051999744

[highprincipleswork]

1. You know what Howard Dean can do. What happened to you Howard? Early senility?

[RufusTFirefly]

3. Howard Dean provides a wonderful object lesson

Relatively few people enter politics with the explicit intention of becoming corrupted. Unfortunately, the siren song of corruption is extremely difficult to resist, especially since it's largely systemic.

That makes Bernie all the more extraordinary.


By the way, one of the more sobering (!!) cautionary tales is that of Candy Lightner, the founder of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, who eventually became a lobbyist for restaurants and breweries.

NYT: Founder of Anti Drunk-Driving Group Now Lobbies for Breweries.

[msongs]

6. bernie and lockheed - a dream marriage. typical of the MIC supporters in congress nt

[Eric J in MN]

5. Dean became a lobbyist though

...he refuses to register as one.

[lagomorph777]

2. She's also too liberal for HRC - would be a waste of a great Senator.

VP is like beauty-pageant runner-up (which, oddly enough is what I expect Donald Dick to nominate for his VP).

[demwing]

14. Little Marco?

Trump wont let Cruz get within a heartbeat of the Presidency when that heartbeat belongs to Trump.

[Meteor Man]

4. Another New Dem Sellout

Howard and Barney sitting in a tree . . .

[OKNancy]

7. He wasn't that crass. I saw it live...

He just said she needs to get someone who is not a Boomer... someone younger. He was very complimentary of Warren.

[StarTrombone]

8. For the cripe's sake

They're practically the same age

And Trump and Bernie are older

[Maru Kitteh]

9. Well it's different for women isn't it. I saw a Sanders supporter mansplaining how Hillary was fat

yesterday in GDP, and how that was a "real issue."

[auntpurl]

16. Yes but it's ok because they were talking about

How the fact she's fat is because she's inches from death!

[Fumesucker]

10. Not to mention it would get that troublesome woman out of the Senate

That would definitely make it easier on the pragmatic moderate centrists who desire bipartisan comity with the Republicans.

[Joob]

11. Nobodies too old for VP or President, you can only be too unhealthy.

Tired of people saying someone's too Old, we live in 2016 geez.

We have come a long way in medicine and health.

[MisterP]

28. reminds me of this tidbit from of those "what to do when you're 50" books

http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-hilarious-self-help-books-crazy-old-people/ (NSFW)

[2banon]

12. Wow. Just Jaw Dropping. I smell the stench of Conflict of Interest vapors

[demwing]

13. First, Obama is a Boomer

Second, Howard Dean isn't an authority on winning presidential elections, is he?

Http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-09.pdf

[Bill USA]

15. whhaaaat? Really Howard!

[nc4bo]

18. What an asshole-ish thing to say. nt

[StevieM]

17. I doubt that Warren would accept the VP job, from Clinton or from Sanders, but I think she may well

be our presidential candidate in 2020 or 2024.

Let's all do our part to elect a Democrat to the White House and make sure that it is 2024.

[JoePhilly]

19. BS OP title.

[Eric J in MN]

23. My title is similar to the USA Today headline.

"Howard Dean says Elizabeth Warren is too old to be Clinton's running mate"

[JoePhilly]

24. So 2 BS headlines. ok.

[NCTraveler]

20. He makes a solid point. Nt

[karynnj]

21. The baby boom is defined as 1946 - 1964

Now, if Howard Dean REALLY wants those years not to be very overweighted - he should support Bernie getting the nomination and winning the Presidency. Unlike both Trump and HRC, he is not a baby boomer. He is a war baby - a cohort that has yet to get a President. They would have had Ohio not had voter suppression in 2004 - because Kerry is a war baby too. McCain was born in 1936 - and I have no idea what his cohort was called.

So far, we have had 6 terms worth of baby boomers or 24 years. If proportional, they should get just 18 years - between 4 and 5 terms.

The fact is THIS IS THE SILLIEST ARGUMENT FOR PRESIDENT OR VP.

[BlueStater]

22. Forget 50. I'd be content with just having someone under 65.

Both these nominees are as old as dirt. I can't say I'm too wild about the idea that we're going to go from having a president born in the 1960s all the way back to one born in the 1940s. If that makes me ageist, then fine. I don't care. We've already had two president born in the '40s and I could have done without either one.

[bigwillq]

25. Trump, Clinton and Sanders are all too old, imo

All are well past the average retirement age. When us normal folks are pushed out of our jobs once we get past a certain age, these three are running to rule the free world.

Only in America. Lol

[Jack Bone]

26. No sitting Senator should be added to the Admin.

period.

[Fresh_Start]

27. ridiculous

there is no reason to set an arbitrary age limit of <50.

[HooptieWagon]

29. Is that the same Howard Dean who's a health industry lobbyist?

And we should listen to him because....?

[djean111]

30. What a deliberate waste of a fine liberal Democrat it would be - to have Warren as VP.

Pure unadulterated odoriferous pandering, with the extra fillip of the Third Way getting Warren out of the Senate, and reduced to attending dinners and funerals.

[Tarc]

31. Ok, Dean is being a moron on this one, 50-ish is fine.

[99Forever]

32. Howard the no principles sell out.

Shut the fuck up, Howard, you traitor.

[EndElectoral]

33. How old is Biden?