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Why Elizabeth Warren is cratering?
Yahoo Finance ^ | 02/13/2020 | Rick Newman

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 she’s 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 she’d pay for the massively costly program. She finally did explain how—through a new wealth tax on millionaires—but 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 wasn’t 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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: 2020; 2020demprimary; campaign; elizabethwarren; fauxahontas; massachusetts; miserablefailure; slingingbull; warren
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To: SeekAndFind

Gray Beaver isn’t


41 posted on 02/13/2020 12:56:02 PM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: SeekAndFind

Because she doesn’t have any relationship to truth. She lies about things that don’t give her any advantage. She probably doesn’t know how to stop. She clearly has severe mental issues.


42 posted on 02/13/2020 12:59:16 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: 2banana

If there is such a thing as white privilege, why did Warren pretend to be an Indian for 20+ years?


Somebody done won the internets!!!!


43 posted on 02/13/2020 12:59:55 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: HotKat

Dems are racists, they are not going to support a fake Indian.


44 posted on 02/13/2020 1:02:39 PM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: SeekAndFind

Hillary was the Queen of Pantsuits.

Lieawatha was the Squaw of Cropped Blazers.


45 posted on 02/13/2020 1:05:29 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Kill a Commie for your Mommy.)
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To: Kickass Conservative

With the same black slacks and black tops, always. Just changes the jacket colors.


46 posted on 02/13/2020 1:08:10 PM PST by Toespi
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To: SeekAndFind

Warren as President would expand the permanent unelected government with greater authority to operate and make decisions on its own; like the true Progressive she is.


47 posted on 02/13/2020 1:09:55 PM PST by Wuli
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To: SeekAndFind

She is America’s ex-Mother in Law


48 posted on 02/13/2020 1:16:08 PM PST by Freedumb
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To: Da Coyote
and the leadership ability of a turnip.

I think you messed up...or misspelled "TURD"

49 posted on 02/13/2020 1:16:14 PM PST by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: 2banana

Because she has high cheek bones?


50 posted on 02/13/2020 1:25:21 PM PST by spudville
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To: wildcard_redneck
She always looked like she was holding rallies at a DMV. A few people unwilling to leave but thoroughly confused at why she was speaking to them. She tried it at a restaurant and the family she accosted just looked annoyed.
51 posted on 02/13/2020 1:29:33 PM PST by spudville
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To: Red Badger

Perfect first reply to get the thread started. Topical and true, Hat’s off!


52 posted on 02/13/2020 1:43:03 PM PST by bleach (If I agreed with you, we would both be wrong.)
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To: SeekAndFind

She took my $3.


53 posted on 02/13/2020 1:57:40 PM PST by GnuThere
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To: SeekAndFind

the whole article is hogwash ... warren cratered for the followingreasons:

1. liq kept saying crazier and crazier stuff every day (pretty much like Beto did before imploding, and like Biden is doing now, and he’s sinking because of that too)

2. people finally started paying attention and realized: 1.) liz was saying crazier and crazier stuff every day; 2.) liz was completely inauthentic, both in her personal claims and her political claims; 3.) when people wanted an authentic kommie,they picked Bernie instead ...


54 posted on 02/13/2020 4:24:06 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: catnipman

I always thought she was a 100% phony with insane socialist policies, but she really went totally bonkers with:

—announcing she would always protect the rights of transgendered illegal aliens!!!! (WTF?!?)

—announcing that her Secretary of Education would have to be approved by a transgender child (....unbelievable.....)

She’s absolutely desperate and she knows she’s finished. But she’s too much of a dope and narcissist to behave like a normal person and quit.


55 posted on 02/13/2020 4:37:34 PM PST by RooRoobird20
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To: SeekAndFind

She always looks like she is smelling rotten eggs.


56 posted on 02/13/2020 4:39:09 PM PST by jetson
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To: Toespi

IMHO, that’s a good thing. More efficient.


57 posted on 02/14/2020 1:35:35 PM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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