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!
How about, “We promise not to ‘Gruber’ you anymore.
(Problem with that is that, they would be “Grubering” the people with that statement.)
Thou shall not steal - might it be considered?