Posted on 10/25/2012 7:35:15 AM PDT by bigbob
The marquee Senate race this year is in Massachusetts, where Democrat Elizabeth Warren is challenging incumbent Republican Sen. Scott Brown.
"I never thought I'd run for public office, but I feel the urgency of this moment," says Warren. "If we don't make some important changes and make them soon, this country is going to change fundamentally, and it's not for the better."
Democrats took notice of the former Harvard professor late last year, when a video of Warren speaking on fair taxation and debt surfaced online.
"There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody," Warren says in the video. "You built a factory out there, good for you, but I want to be clear, you moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for; you hired workers the rest of us paid to educate; you all were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for."
Warren's popularity among Democrats has only increased since then; there are already people talking, tweeting, and posting about Elizabeth Warren running for president in 2016.
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Agreed. If Lizzy voted 99% (instead of 100%) of the time with Dems, she would be considered “a moderate” to some lefties.
Her speech at the convention was so boring. I could not imagine listening to her for four years...Good Lord. The only speech worse was the birth control girl...Fluke or something like that.
Elizabeth Warren is flat-out awful.
It says a lot about the electorate here in the Commonwealth that a person so utterly and demonstrably devoid of character can be a "legitimate" candidate for national office so long as that candidate touts the Party Line. She is clearly the most partisan candidate to run here in a long time, and in Massachusetts, that's saying something. Pro-Warren forces are running campaign ads here which promote her by setting up the Evil Republican straw-man, as if all Republicans have horns and pitchforks.
If Warren does beat Brown, and I'm thinking Brown will end up being the winner in a squeaker, it'll finally lay to rest the notion of the Massachusetts "independent" who votes for the person rather than the party. Because there's no way anyone could claim that Warren has more character than Brown. Say what you will about Brown's politics, or his RINO-ness, but that man has character up the yin-yang.
And yet, we have posters here that would be happy if Scott Brown lost just to teach him and other “RINOs” a lesson about not voting 100% conservative.
It’s one thing to not vote 100 percent conservative, but it is another thing to vote 40 percent liberal which is what Brown does. It would not even be so bad if he would vote liberal on useless bills but NO he votes liberal on the most important bills. I am not from Mass so I don’t have a dog in the fight. It is up to Mass to pick who they choose.
Anecdotal: I was driving through Andover over the weekend, and I was shocked (shocked I tell ya) to see all the Warren signs on all the manicured lawns. They outnumbered Brown signs on the stretch of road I traveled by at least 10 to 1.
She definitely has the limo lib vote all locked up.
Lol, that’s not far off! But she has it all ass-backward - it was the private sector that agreed to pay taxes to provide for common services and infrastructure. Libs like to just dismiss this as a chicken/egg argument but it’s not. When it comes to the assets that gov’t claims as theirs: “We (the people who paid the taxes) built that”.
She’ll be too old.
Wait a minute, Indians are long-lived.
“Sadly, she is revered in the land of Paul Revere.”
Short of a last-moment upset, looks like Warren is going to win in Massachusetts.
Scott Brown may have been a fluke who rode to victory on the strength of his remark about “the Kennedys’ Senate seat”. It sounded good for a little while, and won the election for him against a very weak candidate, but the people of Massachusetts are who they are — leftists, by and large, and on November 6 they may well revert to form.
I hope Mr. Brown can pull the rabbit out of the hat on election day, but at this point I’d say his chances are less than 50-50.
That says more about the voters of Mass, than it does about Scott Brown or Elizabeth Warren...
If she wins her Senate race I think it could happen. I think the crises in the banking industry are by no means over. By 2016 the Dems may feel there is a lot of gold to be mined by re-running the William Jennings Bryan campaign.
“Well she’d have the Indian vote locked up”
Well she’d have the fake Indian and almost Indian vote locked up for sure.
Hmmmmmm....seems to me that America is actually on a pay as we go basis or should be. Those with a factory pay through the nose for the life of the factory and when it's turned over (sold) to someone else, they pay. Nobody gets any money back or needs to pay anyone back. Each generation should pay for the stuff that is built. The National Debt must be eliminated to make this scenario work once again, so subsequent generations will not have to pay for our stuff, our policies.
His woman is so full of poop.
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