Posted on 02/13/2020 11:13:43 AM PST by SeekAndFind
One big story after the first two Democratic primary elections is the fast fade of former Vice President Joe Biden, who came in fourth in Iowa and a dismal fifth in New Hampshire. But one other prominent candidate is quickly losing altitude as well: Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
Last fall, Warren was more popular than Bernie Sanders and a solid second behind Biden. Her rallies drew thousands and her plans for everything forced competing candidates to plan up. But Warren landed third in Iowa and fourth in New Hampshire, a particularly lousy showing given that shes from the neighboring state of Massachusetts. Her odds of winning the Democratic nomination are now in the low single digits.
What happened? Three things:
First, Warren backtracked on Medicare for all, the proposed giant health care plan that would eliminate private insurance. As she took a leadership position last fall, critics began to pester Warren to explain how shed pay for the massively costly program. She finally did explain howthrough a new wealth tax on millionairesbut she also low-balled the cost, coming in around $1 trillion less per year than independent estimates. That made it look like Warren was waffling and perhaps mulling other tax hikes, on regular folks, that she wasnt bothering to mention.
Then, last November, she changed her mind, sort of. Warren announced a new transition plan that would start out like the public option Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobhuchar favor, and become Medicare for all after a couple of years, as everybody saw how great the public option was. This was far too clever, and it made Warren the only Democrat pandering to both the center and the left. She ended up stranded between the two factions on one of the topics that matters most to Democrats.
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Her Native American name should be The Flogging because hearing her talk is like taking a beating.
And who would have thought that was possible!?
Lying to get ahead is not good for credibility.
The President should use that in an ad for whoever is the nominee (applies to all of them)
Very simple explanation of socialism and it hits people where it hurts..their family.
Thats funny. Her initials are ew. Thats the response she elicits from me....ew!
.... whose cabinet will be vetted by young transgenders approximately 9 years of age.
She'd gotten away with piling it higher and deeper for a long time, but eventually the pile topples over.
Because she reminds men of their first wife. The screeching, the body language and a face that could stop a sundial.
One thing she does do well -— is prance back and forth across the stage or floor.
Because she comes across as a bitter old school marm who would rap your knuckles with a ruler for not paying attention?
Yes, shes very peppy. Slim, trim, total opposite of the physical Hillary. Thats why Im not understanding why shes cratering.
If the dems liked Hillary, why not Elizabeth?
Cause....Democrats are misogynists?
She definitely has a similar grating voice.
Yes, shes very peppy. Slim, trim, total opposite of the physical Hillary. Plus she doesnt wear crazy clothes. Thats why Im not understanding why shes cratering.
If the dems liked Hillary, why not Elizabeth?
This is drek.
Nobody wants a radical version of Gladys Kravitz peaking over your shoulder everyday seeing what you are up to.
Yes. Somebody finally had the courage to come out and say it.
Others thought it was because she's lacking in personality,has a monotonous and maddening speaking style, is ugly, reminds males of man-hating school teachers or nuns all their lives, and she smells bad. So does her breath.
And if she lied about being a Native American on documents at least two separate times then can we trust her that all the North Korean and Iranian nukes were destroyed before she signed her treaty to disarm us? (Unless she lied.)
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