Posted on 09/20/2012 7:09:40 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Via BuzzFeed, five minutes of fun at the start of tonight’s debate. I agree with William Jacobson: In some ways, this is a tough subject for Brown to broach. To make the case effectively he's got to get into details about the debunked genealogy, her dubious explanations for identifying as Native American, and her insistence on doing so professionally at Harvard even though she didn’t meet the professional guidelines for it. That's hard or impossible to do in a 60-second opening statement; as it is, his argument that she's lying amounts to "c'mon, she obviously doesn't look Native American," which is both true and not dispositive. I think he ended up fine by turning it into a “release the documents” attack, which puts her on the defensive, but I wonder what would have happened if she had gotten ostentatiously indignant. It’s always dangerous for a male candidate to attack a woman opponent personally; if she had turned this into a sustained “you’re impugning my family!” lament, the optics could have been bad.
But she doesn’t. She’s actually pretty sanguine about the whole thing. Not sure if that’s proof that she’s a bit more dignified than an average politician, who’d be eager to seize an opportunity to play the victim, or if she’s still too green to detect an opportunity like that when one’s in front of her. But I’m curious to see if either of them revisits this topic at the next debate.
Carpe jugulum.
Maybe she should get the phone number to Pelosi’s plastic surgeon and have him raise her cheekbones up a bit. Just an idea.
I bet she turned all red when he said that.
Warren’s indian name = Dances with Lies
WHUT did you say, Kemo Sabe?????
WHUT did you say, Kemo Sabe?????
WHUT did you say, Kemo Sabe?????
Boston media already starting to say Brown was too aggressive. Not the case. Warren was far more so. She tried to attack him on women’s issues. Brown. The guy married to a fox with two daughters and is pro-murder. I mean COME ON. Silly fauxcahontas.
WHUT did you say, Kemo Sabe?????
Isn’t she a member of the Fakawi tribe?? Roamed aimlessly asking anybody, “where the Fakawi.”
He really went there.
My respect for Brown just went up a couple of notches.
“How.” I am sure that is another code word to Comrade Chrissie Matthews.
Let me bring it back down a few. Brown was nauseating with his fawning over Ted Kennedy.
Gad, the guy’s just BRILLIANT! God save Massachusetts from this heads-I-win, tails-you-lose choice. Poor John & Abigail. Taking some heat, I’ll bet, from the other founders.
I thought it was 'Faux-cahontas'.
...if she had turned this into a sustained “you’re impugning my family!” lament, the optics could have been bad.No, that's not impugning your family - It's impugning you for your dishonesty and your complete lack of integrity
I know that, but he’s also a Republican in sky-blue Mass.
He’s the best you’ll do in a state like that for a GOP’er.
Its been like that for Pubs up there going back to Henry Cabot Lodge
Hominah, hominah, hominah.
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