Warren Is NOT Running For President - Accept It!

(This photo image of Senator Elizabeth Warren was found at Politico.com.)

I think a few months ago, when progressives first started urging Senator Elizabeth Warren to run for president, she probably took it as a compliment. But she understood that 2016 was not her time, and she politely told people that she was not a candidate -- and had no desire to be a candidate for the presidency in 2016.

But people persisted in the delusion of drafting Warren to be a candidate, and even when she appeared at the Netroots convention, she was met with cheers urging her to run. Once again she made it clear she was not a candidate, and was not going to be a candidate for president, telling a Boston Globe reporter:

 “I’m going to give you the same answer I have given you many times. There is no wiggle room. I am not running for president. No means no.”

But some people are hard-headed. Either that or they think the candidate they want is a liar and will break her word if they just push her hard enough. Now some of those people have gone out and created a super-PAC called "Ready for Warren" -- which is dedicated solely to the task of raising money for a Warren run for the presidency.

And what was once a compliment for the Massachusetts senator has now become an irritant -- so much so that she has instructed her attorneys to write a letter to the FEC (shown below) informing  them that she is in no way connected to this super-PAC, and she does not approve of its formation. She thinks the money is raises is wasted, and could be used much better to help the Democrats maintain their senate majority in the coming election.

While this letter is addressed to the FEC, it is clearly aimed at the people who refuse to stop their campaign to draft her for the presidential nomination in 2016. It is one more effort of Senator Warren's to get through to these people, and make them understand that she is not running and does not want the presidential nomination in 2016.

Personally, I think this whole effort to draft Warren in spite of her repeated wishes is now bordering on the ridiculous. Accept it! She is NOT running! If you cannot support Hillary Clinton (or some other Democrat), then slide over and support the Green Party. But stop this outrageous effort to force Senator Warren to do what she has clearly and repeatedly said she does not want to do.