Elizabeth Warren for VP, please

[DFW]

35. I'm no Warren fan, but the rest of what you say conforms to my view.

I fully believe that it was never Biden's intention to serve more than one term. For that reason, it is vital that he select someone who will still be as with it twelve years from now as she is today, and he knows it.

I don't want Warren as VP, not least due to the temporary period when a vacant Massachusetts Senate seat would be in Republican hands. Biden needs to hit the ground running. There is a half century's worth of damage control that needs to be addressed in about two years. We can't afford to let Charlie Baker appoint a Republican Senator for the first 180 days of a Biden Administration. That could end up making McTurtle majority leader for the first six months of a Biden Administration.

If Warren wants to go for Senate majority leader, I think she would be perfect for the post. She would certainly wield a lot more power that the Vice-President, something that I'm sure the Biden camp is well aware of.

It's funny, back in December, when I was still mourning Jay Inslee's poor showing, a Republican strategist from Florida asked me my prediction for the Democratic ticket. Not preference, mind you, but only prediction, and that was Biden-Klobuchar, a view that few shared at the time. Why a Republican strategist was interested in MY humble opinion, I can't say. Residents of Düsseldorf don't tend to be among the most quoted of Democratic pundits. But if I turn out to be right, you can bet she'll ask me a bunch of other stuff this coming December, and I'm sure I'll wrong about 99% of them!