Posted on 12/18/2014 12:53:16 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Insiders agree the party has lost focus on ‘bread and butter’ economic issues.
Elizabeth Warren may have captured the imagination of the Democratic Party’s base, but many in her party worry that it does not have a message that can reach beyond its most loyal supporters.
In recent weeks, Democratic operatives have begun to voice concerns that the 2014 midterms made plain the limits of an approach that failed to reach beyond minority groups or those who are reflexively liberal. And yet what should come next is not yet totally clear.
“You have to answer the mail about what people’s concerns are,” said Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress, the preeminent liberal think tank and advocacy group. Democrats, she said, need to emphasize “an economic focus on 'bread and butter' issues that matter to people’s lives.”
For CAP, that will mean releasing a series of new policy ideas in 2015 to address “the middle-class squeeze,” as the group calls the cross-pressures created by rising living costs and years of stagnant or falling wages.
For Warren, the first-term Democratic senator from Massachusetts, that means talking about fighting for the middle class — and then standing up for her beliefs even if it means leading a rebellion against her Senate colleagues. Her pointed comments on the floor of the U.S. Senate last week, arguing that Citigroup and other big banks should be broken up into smaller pieces, galvanized and excited the progressive left wing of her party. But even as the calls for her to run for president are growing louder, she remains known more for what she is against than what she is for.
Being oppositional is something that unites the populist right and the left because of a now commonly held set of concurrent attitudes....
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
How about, “How in hell did we elect him twice?”
How about, “Come back, the ruling class can’t fund itself.”
“...left wing of her party.”
The whole stinkin’ party dem party is left-wing!
Here’s a slogan for the occuturds....
“What Do We Want?”
“We Don’t Know!”
“When Do We Want It?”
“Now!”
Joe was picked to add experience, gravitas, and competence to the ticket. We laughed at the time ... but there's no question he elevated the ticket on all three counts.
Having said that, I’ll next probably get a freepmail from an infiltrator asking ‘ol sphinx to head up “Freepers for Biden” in 2016. I’ll probably pass, but it might be worthwhile to see what it pays first.
A few mottoes come to mind.
“MORE FREE STUFF”
“REPUBLICANS ARE RACIST”
“YOU CAN’T DO IT WITHOUT US”
Dem Platform for 2016:
- Force GREEEEEEDY employers to give YOU an overdue raise
- Extend FICA taxes to unlimited amounts of income and increase Social Security benefits.
- Student Loan Forgiveness
- Start strictly regulating bank fees and policies, and send some bankers to jail.
They will ride that horse and sweep to power.
Warren’s message of breaking up the huge financial institutions would be popular.
We once broke up the oil industry, and it survived nicely. It was called “anti-trust” and increasing competition.
“Too big to fail” has helped the banks, and harmed the country.
Does that mean I would vote for Warren? Of course not. It means however not every single issue has a partisan answer.
I expect she will expand her anti-banking theme, to anti-other very big business, like Walmart.
She will argue the workers lose out, and jobs disappear.
And it will all fit neatly into an attractive populist appeal.
So my advice to the GOP is think of something beside the indian jokes, to use with her. By the time the political professionals package her, she will be formidable.
Democrats have a message:
‘We will forcibly take what your neighbor has earned and give it to you.’
Now. Will Republicans come up with an alternate message?
I look at Elizabeth Warren and I just can’t figure out why a major political party would EVER choose her as their presidential candidate. She is a 1 term senator who hasn’t accomplished much of anything and other than being outspoken she doesn’t have that much going for her. You can’t get much further left unless you move to Cuba and her opinions that I’ve heard are as asinine as I’ve ever heard.
I cannot for the life of me understand how anyone would feel safe with their lives in her hands.
Thanks for posting this, I wanted to but I’m at work. It’s a pretty good article. Love the bit at the end!
Right now Hillary has five or six times as much support as Warren in the early opinion polls, so I don't think anybody's going to nominate Liz. But there are people who voted for Dennis Kucinich in previous primary elections who would vote for Warren or Bernie Sanders next time.
Funny thing, I'm starting to get spam e-mail messages from "Mrs.Elizabeth Warren." Apparently they're from Brazilian con-artists. I'm wondering if enough people get scammed maybe it will hurt her campaign. But then, the Republicans will probably be blamed.
It will probably be a Clinton/Warren ticket.
“By the time the journ-0-lists are done with Warren, she’ll be a proud Native American grandmother fighting for the middle class against Wall $treet and the banks. Throw in a black VP to bring out the entitlement army vote, and you have a combination capable of winning.”
Probably get her a Nobel Prize too before she even gets her chance to finish with the wrecking ball Obama’s been swinging.
I guess it comes down to whether she can pull off the "working class" thing in Middle America or whether she's just going to be seen as another rich law professor. I'm thinking the latter.
Most likely Hillary would be stronger than Obama among the White working class and it's hard for me to see what votes Warren could snag for her that she wouldn't get on her own. IMO, a Latino or a middle class White guy could help her with Hispanic or White constituencies more than Warren would.
How about, “We promise not to ‘Gruber’ you anymore.
(Problem with that is that, they would be “Grubering” the people with that statement.)
I’m sure a female/male would probably be a better team. Warren and Hillary may be too competitive to run on same ticket. Warren has got a huge following in the far left.
Well there is some time to watch this all unfold.
Thou shall not steal - might it be considered?
Here’s a slogan for the occuturds....
“What Do We Want?”
“We Don’t Know!”
“When Do We Want It?”
“Now!”
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AWESOME!!! I needed a good laugh.
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