I'm getting more excited now about an Elizabeth Warren run for 2020 as our

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120. Sen. Warren is among the most CONSERVATIVE in voting

records of all Democratic senators. Sen. Sanders is among the most left, and probably would be showed to be much farther left if there was anything out there he could vote for. They are very different in basic personality orientation and how that plays out in politics.

This may surprise you. But Warren was a Republican for decades and of course must still be a moderate conservative by personality; personality is malleable, but it'd take a brain transplant to get rid of that basic orientation. She was, however, one of the relatively few principled, aware, responsible Republicans who became a Democrat when the GOP left traditional conservative principles far behind and moved to economic and socioreligious extremism. But she was there all through the GOP's move to the strong-to-hard right during the Reagan era.

All this is less confusing when one remembers that "radical" personality and "radical" position (i.e., out of the standard box) are two extremely different things. Pew says it's common, for instance, for political moderates (liberal and con, there is no "moderate" personality type) to hold at least some positions that are not considered mainstream.

Warren is like that on economic issues except far stronger and more committed than most.

Sanders tends radical in personality and positions.

However, imo, the official positions of both aren't actually very radical at all. Most of those they espouse are long established in progressive liberalism and the Democratic Party supported them all at various times (such as the New Deal, Fair Deal, Great Society, Obama's not-deal advances). What makes pushing them seem radical now is merely timing while an extreme right GOP holds the nation in thrall. Most genuinely radical factions definitely believe that and consider Warren and Sanders not much different from typical Democrats.

Ability and integrity, btw, are other places I see huge differences between Warren and Sanders, and I do think that comes from their very different personalities. She's basically honest and honorable and a strong doer with bold goals, but she is also very practical and understands what can be accomplished under the circumstances she'd be working with. He has a long record of demonstrating lack of all this.

Btw, in considering all this, it's worth remembering that Warren endorsed Hillary for president. I imagine she felt she'd make a better president, but she could work with Hillary and would have accepted the VP slot.

Oh, and back to your premise that Warren only appeals to the far left. Her talented rhetoric has strong appeal to populists across the spectrum. And in future she'd have absolutely no trouble blasting the notions of anyone who imagined she was some kind of female version of Sanders.