Having a surprisingly hard time deciding on a second choice after Warren.

@rpardee Gotta be Biden, imo. Only alternative to either of them is Sanders, and he can't get anything through Congress as President.

@kel @rpardee none of them will unless the senate is flipped

@ibid Maybe, but where Biden or Warren could make the case to GOP voters, Bernie automatically precludes any possibility of consensus.

There isn't a single Republican anywhere that is going to work with an avowed socialist. @rpardee

@kel @rpardee they aren't going to work with any democrats. The senate is sitting on over 250 bills right now for example . Pretending they are interested in any sort of compromising is one of the reasons we have Gorsuch

@ibid I'm aware of that. That we've been mired in gridlock is a poor reason to vote for a candidate that *guarantees* more of the same. @rpardee

@kel @ibid Eh--I think they're both equally guaranteeing that. Not sure it's a discriminator between the two old men candidates.

@rpardee It's the socialism that makes Bernie unique. Any Republican that works with him is getting primaried, no matter what, because rational or not, Republicans have been very successful at making their people terrified of socialism.

Biden's a moderate. They won't *want* to work with him, but pressure from constituents changes that—and every candidate but Bernie has the potential to create that pressure, imo. @ibid

@kel @ibid I can't say that's crazy. But my intuition is different.

Mostly everything just sucks b/c Warren is the best person for the job, and that seems so clear to me that I don't understand how Biden is even still under consideration...