A take down worth watching that shows why Elizabeth Warren is an electrifying leader.
Key take-aways: why won’t Scott Brown reveal the names of the people on his New York Finance Committee. What is Scott Brown’s plan to keep student interest rates from doubling, now that he has twice voted to let them rise. And how dare Scott Brown attack the love of Warren’s mother for her father. As she told CBS in similar language:
“My mom and dad were deeply in love,” said Warren, who was raised in Oklahoma. My father wanted to marry my mother, his parents objected, because she was part-Cherokee and part-Delaware. My parents eloped, in order to marry. It’s something my brothers and I grew up with. We always understood the difference, between our father’s family and our mother’s family,” she said.”
Is Scott Brown a hater? Could he denigrate a non-traditional couple? Might he insinuate that a woman’s word should not be taken seriously? Poof! The wholesome Captain America in a barn jacket disappears and in his place stands yet another shriveled shrunken-souled Republican. The type of person that appeals to just 11 percent of registered voters and is about as popular to Massachusetts independents as a fake Twitter smear campaign.
Equally impressive is Brown/GOP operative Foxer Sharman Sacchetti’s intellectual immolation. The would-be attacker turns her gotchas into gimmes through monotone repetition as Warren uses each one to pound Brown and reverse engineer Sacchetti on live TV as a mouthpiece for the Brown campaign. Extraordinary.
Clip is on the jump because it is too wide for the front page, more’s the pity. Hat tip to the ever-entertaining Red Mass Group.
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14 Comments . Leave a comment below.Cue the professionally unsatisfied (for disingenuous tactical gain).
… would leave Scotty destroyed, trembling in a puddle of his own pee.
I don’t think that this issue has reached a crescendo this week by coincidence. The forces that wish to see DeFranco get her 15% are trying to create enough FUD about Warren to ensure that she has a primary opponent. Besides the DeFranco and Brown camps, this includes the Globe, the Herald, and pretty much all the other media outlets.
I’m guessing that this all settles down this weekend, no matter what the outcome.
Especially since polls continue to indicate that the heritage thing is a yawner for voters, the issue will fade after the convention.
Is it the 1/32nd Native American claim — bogus or otherwise? Or is it Warren’s — and Harvard’s — minority box-checking, and the 6 weeks of dissembling about it?
If the poll tested only the former, I agree it’s a yawn. But if it dribbles out that there might have been some affirmative action minority-status box-checking and preferential hiring, then that speaks to Warren’s character and middle-class everyman-status, i.e., both canards.
Fortunately, it’s not a long jump…
But I believe most independents will (and all R’s do) think that Warren, Penn, and Harvard gamed the affirmative action system, in many ways, over a long period of time.
The mere fact that anyone of 1/32nd blood line can claim themselves of that heritage rubs a lot of folks the wrong way. I’m 1/128th Ottoman. May I claim Middle Eastern or perhaps Persian status? Could a 1/4th black heritage allow you to check “African American” on a job application? 1/8th? 1/32? People are VERY tired of all this.
Then there’s the unexamined issue of whether Warren’s minority status at HLS went toward fulfilling some federal diversity bonus or funding requirement. Did Harvard file any reporting that can now be considered fraudulent? Does Warren, upon whose self-reporting Harvard relied, have committed fraud?
With unemployment so high, progressives should not underestimate how much these sub-Rosa resentments and unanswered issues might alienate the all-important independent voter.
feel about an incumbent who can’t talk about his record? Each time he flings a smear he only shows voters how vacuous he really is.
I’m good with that.
Most independents vote candidates out based on a lingering negative. All it takes is one scandal, one headline which lasts more than a week, or is brought up across the board, on TV, in the papers, on the radio. They hear it, and remember on voting day “oh yeah…he’s the guy who kicked that puppy”. This hasn’t happened to Senator Brown. I think most independents find him likeable and homespun with no lingering negative.
I think around BMG those people are termed “low information voters”, I call them “headline readers”. I think they swing many elections. I think they’ll swing this one and I think that’s why the Warren Cherokee issue will have impact.
Other-winged folks get sensitive when I say this, but so what.
I think “ignorant” is the right word for what you call “headline readers”. I agree with you that the Brown campaign specifically and GOP in general targets these ignorant voters. That’s the reason they pump these stupid and meaningless “issues”.
We face serious issues with our economy. The premise that a workable and sustainable solution will fit on a bumper sticker or in a headline is failed, and we will fail as a nation if we persist in choosing our leaders according to this failed premise.
When America faced a similar economic crisis during the Great Depression, America did NOT demand that the solution fit on a headline or bumper-sticker. America at our prime was a nation that valued intellect, education, literacy, and excellence.
The GOP has led the way in rejecting those values.
This issue, while immensely annoying to those here, will not go away. The national press has picked it up and we will still be talking about this next week, and the following week…
Maybe a good strategy here would be to stop commenting on it… completely. Try it, although I’m sure most will not be able to resist defending the recently BMW to hybrid vehicle 1%-er Ms Warren.
there is no statute of limitations on smears
…to also remember Brown calling then-Senator Jacques decision to have children “not normal”?
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