Posted on 10/17/2018 4:15:01 AM PDT by 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 shes 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 youre 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 hes on the wrong side of public opinion.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Harriss non Natural Born status wont even be mentioned this time around. Natural Born has been excised from the Constitution.
He did a great deal of damage, which is why we have Trump.
If Trump is willing to call SD “horseface”, he will not hesitate to insist that Constitutional eligibility be enforced. Harris is a non-starter, and she knows it.
Is that Psychojawea runnning with Lewis?
Her street name is “faux squaw”..
Real Indians lived in Teepees.
Modern ancesters live in houses.
Indians had NO houses.
Ross, Ross, Ross..... you should have written,
“A lot of allegedly smart people are really insufferable leftist morons....”
Th only way to make the meme any better would be to work Brian Williams into it.
‘It requires a deftness dealing with scandals and gaffes and accidental blunders’
I must confess, I misjudged the impact of this DNA story when I first heard it...I fell, not the first time, for the spin...
BECAUSE it would satisfy the Federal Requirement without them having to actually hire an INJUN.
“the freak show”
He really nailed it with that statement. Did you see see the recent CNN poll? Had Hitlery been on the list she would have the most mainstream and reasonable candidate.
Researchers tracing Pocahontas' DNA
The amazing thing is that she had so much time to figure out how she wanted to deal with this. It is not some sudden scandal that had to be addressed quickly, on the fly. She had years to sort this out and still screwed up this badly. HA HA HA, nice job Fauxcahontas!!
Maybe Joe Biden can get a sex change.
There is no front runner for the dems. All 427 of them are tied for first with one vote each. The one vote is their own.
OR.... just self-identify as female.
Modern “Indians” are sell outs.
Real Indians lived with animal skins to stay warm, with wood fires and teepees. Real Indians braved the harsh elements of weather, wild beasts and had no sharpened metals for defense.
Modern “Indians” are wimps, enjoying the modern European conveniences like a house.
Modern Indians are EUROPEAN by influence. They just cannot let go of scientific progress.
End all reservations. They are not Indians.
Joe will just 'self-identify' as a female and the MSM will say it's OK for him to get handsy with little girls and other men's wives.
Can the writer name a dozen of these "lots" of smart people?
Of course the New York Times misses the fundamental Point as expected. Elizabeth Warren did receive benefits as an Indian. That is the issue and always has been the issue and even this article cannot look that fact in the face and deal with it
Her saliva should be checked for Looney, Liberal, Pushy, Big Mouth Anglo ancestry.
Well, that would prompt a serious discussion about the absurdity of diversity, can't have that
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