The Elizabeth Warren Fiasco

NYTimes ^ | Ross Douthat

[RoosterRedux]

A lot of smart people believe that Elizabeth Warren, the senator from Massachusetts, is the front-runner for the Democratic nomination in 2020. A recent New York magazine profile by Jonathan Chait claimed that she’s winning the invisible primary — building campaign networks, rolling out policy proposals, wooing insiders, intimidating rivals.

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I am not a Democratic insider or a campaign professional, so for all I know Warren may indeed be impressing her intended audience.

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But running for president in the age of Donald Trump requires, above all, an ability to handle what John Heileman and Mark Halperin once called “the freak show” (back when it was considerably less freaky). It requires a deftness dealing with scandals and gaffes and accidental blunders, an ability to know when you have a wrestling move that justifies getting down in the mud and when you’re better off sitting on a top rail and acting superior to the pigs.

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[W]hat Warren should have done when the story resurfaced, what she obviously should have done, was to simply express mild regret for letting her enthusiasm for family lore carry her away into identifying as someone who might possibly receive affirmative-action consideration, apologize to Cherokee groups for any offense, and literally never speak of the matter again. And if and when Donald Trump started up his Pocahontas jibes, she should have simply ignored him and talked about the many issues where he’s on the wrong side of public opinion.

[Mase]

[Political Junkie Too]

That will be must watch TV as they try to all veer towards Marx/Engles/Lennen et al... you know old dead white guys.....

At least we look to Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Lincoln, Reagan as our old dead white guys.

They look to Russians and Germans!

-PJ

[elcid1970]

That is so sick.

[Fitzy_888]

(VA Shiva: “Only a REAL INDIAN can defeat a fake Indian”)

A Chat With VA Shiva as Midterms Loom
https://youtu.be/vYYj5mHojDc

[Trump_the_Evil_Left]

[jim_trent]

> “The woman is 99.9% WHITE”

Actually, I think it is 99.999% white, isn’t it?

[arthurus]

McCain and Hussein were both declared to be NBCs in the Congress.

[AFret.]

McCain and Hussein were both declared to be NBCs in the Congress.

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That was bogus and you know it. The so called “Congress” of this fair land does not interpret the Constitution, SCOTUS does.

If the Republicans had any sand, and challenged that silly kabuki in court, we would have dodged Obama.

The worthless Republicans are the only reason Obama was elected...the only reason.

Republicans..the same losers who are filling up your email inbox with messages pleading for money to win in November.

All they do is hamstring Trump, and beg for money from us.

Pathetic.

[arthurus]

You think the Democrats and Republicans actually intend to adhere to adhere to the Constitution? If the Democrats win the mid terms most Republicans will revert to their lapdog status and the Constitution is dead. Either the Democrats will scrap it implicitly or Trump will move to rule by decree. Fortunately I think the Democrats will lose ground in both Houses. That, of course, presents its own problems with violence and Democrat explosive insanity but is not a threat to the Constitution.