CA-Sen: Feinstein gearing up for another run in 2018

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HELL NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Seriously, people need to find something else to be outraged about other than incumbents running for re-election. Having new people run just for the sake of being is lame thinking, candidates have to have substance beyond being "new". If you want new people, focus on flipping GOP seats to Democratic.

Yeah, like California doesn't have dozens of people that would be more than qualified to hold this seat, while not holding Dinosaur Feinstein's medieval views on national security?

My point is that this "new blood" meme is stupid. Just being new to politics is not a good reason to be elected, some substance is necessary too.

Dianne Feinstein is the 2nd worst Senator from a solid blue state after Carper, and California is more solid blue than Delaware, and most blue state Senators are still pretty bad.

Plus her husband made a killing wartime profiteering from her Iraq war vote. She's a vile disgrace.

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I don't really care, but when you're a 4 term 80 year old establishment Senator who Progressives rather dislike in a state like California, you can't expect to skate through completely unscathed. I'm sure if she does end up running, no big names will challenge her, but it's not impossible to see someone who doesn't really have anything to lose, like Loretta Sanchez, to challenge her.

Oh yeah, a literal blue dog, that's just what progressives are looking for.

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Seriously, people need to find something else to be outraged about other than incumbents running for re-election. Having new people run just for the sake of being is lame thinking, candidates have to have substance beyond being "new". If you want new people, focus on flipping GOP seats to Democratic.

Yeah, like California doesn't have dozens of people that would be more than qualified to hold this seat, while not holding Dinosaur Feinstein's medieval views on national security?

My point is that this "new blood" meme is stupid. Just being new to politics is not a good reason to be elected, some substance is necessary too.

Dianne Feinstein is the 2nd worst Senator from a solid blue state after Carper, and California is more solid blue than Delaware, and most blue state Senators are still pretty bad.

Plus her husband made a killing wartime profiteering from her Iraq war vote. She's a vile disgrace.

How is Tom Carper an awful senator? He seems like a good guy.

To jfern, everyone not named Bernie Sanders is evil.

Even if I was happy with the majority of the blue state Senators, which I absolutely am not, I'd still hate Feinstein.

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Even as a relative standard democrat, who opposes the whole 'Primary, Primary, Primary' mentality Feinstein really has to go. She'd be 92 by the time that her next term ends which is just ridiculous; and the strength of the Dem Bench in CA means that the torch really needs to pass 

I don't even know why you'd oppose primarying bad Democrats. There have been so few successful primaries from the left. I guess there was Donna Edwards for some random House district in 2008, but that's irrelevant now.

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I mean Bernie Sanders will be 76 years old, no one is criticizing him.

I take it you weren't on this forum in the first half of last year.

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I really hope someone steps up and seriously challenges her, look at Pete Stark and Mike Honda you can take out these dinosaurs!

Those were both defeated from the right. Top two is a problem for defeating a bad Democrat from the left.

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I really hope someone steps up and seriously challenges her, look at Pete Stark and Mike Honda you can take out these dinosaurs!

Those were both defeated from the right. Top two is a problem for defeating a bad Democrat from the left.

Rs would salivate the thought of getting rid of Feinstein anyway they can with her views on guns. To many she is the face of the gun control movement very few are voting for her.

The same Republican party that nominated Arnold Schwarzenegger? Yeah, he might be to the left of her.

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I really hope someone steps up and seriously challenges her, look at Pete Stark and Mike Honda you can take out these dinosaurs!

Those were both defeated from the right. Top two is a problem for defeating a bad Democrat from the left.

Honda losing was a personal disappointment to me. Brilliant progressive.

It's a shame but Khanna has been pretty solid so far. At least, better than I thought he was going to be.

Has there been any progressive legislation up for a vote? Yeah, I don't think so. Anyone who isn't batsh**t crazy is voting the same way on Paul Ryan's crazy bills.