Strangest thing just happened...
With all the talk about
Elizabeth Warren giving up her powerful position in the Senate and running for president, you'd think other people
like Warren might be getting similar buzz. Not so. Former FDIC chair,
Sheila Bair, for example, who fought alongside Warren for home-owners' relief during the whole banking bailout fiasco, is getting no attention at all.
I just googled "Bair 2016", and it turned up
nothing.
Personally, I think she'd make a better candidate than Warren, because Warren is seen as being so radical, whereas from what I gather Bair is at about the same spot on the spectrum as Susan Collins. The trick for Bair, would be getting either party to endorse her, but if the Democrats are really so strapped for options that Rahm Emanuel and a guy named "Castro" are listed in
Time as viable options, then maybe they'd back her. (Maybe we could see her standing on the podium of the 2016 Democratic Convention and flipping
Reagan's 1980 message to the evangelicals on its head: "Now I know that as a life-long Kansas Republican I can't endorse you, but it's great you endorse me."
)
I'll have a better idea how much I actually like her after reading
Bull by the Horns, but for now let's just get this meme started:
"Sheila Bair 2016"
"Sheila Bair 2016"
"Sheila Bair 2016"