She wouldn't be the first Mass. witch to be burned.
Posted on 12/14/2014 2:14:57 AM PST by Zakeet
Ready for Warren? Run Liz Run? Run Warren Run? Draft Warren?
Progressive activists haven’t agreed on what to call the movement urging Elizabeth Warren to run for president, but they largely concur on this: with every recent anti-establishment move the Massachusetts senator grows more attractive as a 2016 candidate, both in her own right and as a progressive foil for Hillary Clinton.
Such sentiments were on vivid display this week at RootsCamp, a gathering of some 2,000 progressive activists held in Washington, D.C. The event was held as Warren and others on the left have been denouncing the “cromnibus” spending bill winding its way through Congress over provisions they say are too friendly to Wall Street.
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I wonder how many millions of dollars have already been spent on this upcoming election?
Don't forget that business of her practicing law without a license.
What I’m saying is people will vote for Warren or anyone else who will campaign about restoring the middle class and cleaning up the pro-elite banking and financial mess. Pocketbook issues resonate.
They need to be reminded they've been lied to before. Obama needs to be hung around her neck like a millstone.
“She’s a communist retard from Massachusetts”
That makes her the perfect Libtard candidate for 2016. :-)
I suspect you’re correct.
Even the young guys coming up in Nascar go to “finishing school” to learn how to interact with interviews and sponsors.
Second, that her jump into the political world was enabled by the great personal wealth she accumulated by exploiting foreclosures.
I think it’s good that rat voters are being forced to contemplate which candidate to coalesce behind so early. A decent number voted R for the first time last Nov, so they’ll be more receptive to the only real reformer running - Cruz - who despises country-club Republican cronyists as much as they do.
Cruz needs to be out mining those voters right NOW before they get mesmerized by some as-yet-unidentified RAT male governor.
Look, anybody touting economic equality is touting communism. Not socialism, but flat out communism.
Is the financial Industry bad? To an extent yes, but only in that politicians seem to be the gift that keeps giving for the campaign contributions that keep coming.
Stop letting conservatives let the banks get away with usury and insane fees and stop letting the progressives force loose lending practices on the bank in the name of economic equality.
We’re in a problem of our own making. Very low interest rates mean money has to hit Real Estate or Stock Markets or Venture capital.
The members in the GOP who were/are anti bailout, anti TARP, against cronyism better start standing up or they will miss this populist opportunity.
You don’t get it. I don’t want Obama “hung around her (Warren’s) neck like a millstone”. I want supposed conservatives to embrace the issue. If they don’t, I have to wonder whose side they’re on.
As I said on this forum 14 months ago, Hillary will never be president, nor even come close to the nomination. Warren’s insurgency, which I predicted (check the history) coupled with Hillary’s increasing health and memory issues (caused by a brain injury far more serious than revealed) will do her in. She won’t make it to Super Tuesday.
She wouldn't be the first Mass. witch to be burned.
I get that, but you’ll have better luck with that discussion if you start a thread for it instead of trying to hijack this one.
We were furious about TARP (myself more ambiguous than committed against it) and apoplectic about porkulas. We are now outraged that wherever possible the establishment has torpedoed the campaigns at the primary level of tea party candidates who would speak to these issues and who would, at least presumably, carry through with they get to Washington. Instead we see the likes of Cochran pushed through in Mississippi and Mike Espe in Wyoming, who voted against our interests to fund everything Obama dreamed of and everything the establishment Republican class dreamed of through the fiscal year, with the exception that they pretended not to fund amnesty.
We have seen Republican congressmen and senators fall in line to support this travesty because money talks. There can be no doubt that to understand present-day politics one must follow the money. That means the control of people like George Soros over the Democrat party and that means control by people like Karl Rove over the Republican Party. Wall Street and K St. now dominate the establishment wing of the Republican Party and the Tea Party base will be manipulated with cynical resort to issues like gay marriage. A United States Senator, after all, has very little to do with whether gay marriage will prevail in this country, apart from confirming federal judges, but he has great control over the financial affairs of the nation. So the establishment Republican party gathers its money from Wall Street, votes Wall Street's interest against the middle-class by, for example, surreptitiously facilitating amnesty and picks up the votes from the base by pandering to that base about gay marriage.
The reality over the past few election cycles, certainly beginning with Bill Clinton, is that the Democrats have had the best of both possible worlds, they have received the bulk of Wall Street money and hung the blame on the Republicans for being the party of Wall Street. Ted Cruz and Elizabeth Warren at least in theory are at odds with this alignment which places each political party in thrall to these moneyed interests. That is not to say that they agree on anything else but they understand the implications of the influence of this money in politics. It means that The Tea Party will have to go the way of the Grange movement. It means that the Republican party elites will become more and more estranged from the base. It means that the national debt will soar until we crash and it means the end of our Constitution, or what's left of it.
Make no mistake, the Constitution is being jettisoned in favor of a new system of creating money by an unelected Federal Reserve Bank to be allocated to big Wall Street banks and minimally apportioned as political necessity requires to keep the electorate under control. So the Republican establishment will campaign against amnesty while they actively connive to deliver amnesty. They will decry spending while they try to restore earmarks. The list goes on and on and the squabble over bailing out big banks for failed swaps is merely one more example. The game in Washington is to legislate and regulate to the extent that big-money must and will pay off to be relieved of that legislation and regulation.
I think Ted Cruz gets it. I think Elizabeth Warren is motivated by a rank leftist ideology but she will strike a chord and rightly so.
You suggest a future without the Constitution as we've know it. I'd submit that the best possible outcome at this juncture would be a collapse of the federal government as we know it. Some states and regions would survive, some not so much. It might be that the sooner it happens, the better. At least for now some people have survival skills and remember what government should be. Not all populations have been overwhelmed by takers. I wonder how long those advantages will remain.
Ted Cruz and Elizabeth Warren get it. So do a handful of others. But mygosh, how does it ever happen that so many politicians are overwhelmed so quickly in the DC smog? It can't be just money.
If this shrew becomes President, I predict a new nursery rhyme:
“Lizzy Warren took an ax,
gave the economy 40 whacks.
When she saw that she was done,
she gave national security 41.”
She’s unelectable unless our side majorly effs up. We should pray for her nomination.
” She’s unelectable unless our side majorly effs up. We should pray for her nomination.”
If Jeb runs, he will lose like Carter lost to Reagan. I figure 70% of the country hates Bush men in general, and Jeb in particular.
I hate the Bushes.
But I can’t see her winning that matchup either. She’s a rat faced little commie witch. She has none of Obama’s razzle dazzle.
Both comments express my views.
Nailed it!
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