Elizabeth Warren Stands Outside Fenway, in the Cold, Shaking Hands. (PHOTO)

[RandySF]

A little more than two years ago to the day, while locked in a tight race with Republican Scott Brown for the vacant Massachusetts Senate seat, Martha Coakley, the state attorney general, offered up the quote that no number of foreclosure fraud lawsuits will be able to wipe from her obituary. Asked about her hands-off campaign style, she pushed back: "As opposed to standing outside Fenway Park? In the cold? Shaking hands?"

On Saturday, Elizabeth Warren, the Democrat who's challenging Brown in November, tweeted this photo:

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That's Elizabeth Warren shaking hands in the cold, at Fenway Park, during a college hockey doubleheader. (Here she is standing outside Fenway, for you sticklers.)


http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/01/elizabeth-warren-campaigns-outside-fenway-cold

[Magoo48]

1. Hope I live long enough to see this woman president...

[Little Star]

3. Ditto!

[uponit7771]

16. +1

[roguevalley]

20. +google. I *love* her.

[cantbeserious]

22. Agreed - The Best We've Seen In A Long, Long Time

eom

[Greybnk48]

26. +2.

[Scuba]

28. + Another

[Ship of Fools]

30. +1

[karynnj]

2. Cool to tweet that picture - almost as a taunt to Brown

but one so subtle, he looks silly replying.

[Whisp]

4. wow. and she found a two headed guy in a red jacket.

This will be the first woman President, well deserved!

[dixiegrrrrl]

12. They DID say it was a double header game.

[crazylikafox]

21. double DUzy

[billybob537]

17. great fashion sense too

Must be an out of towner his hats match!!!
Yeah I live here and I'll vote DEM.

[oh08dem]

5. Scott Brown's "I'm an average Joe" shtick is becoming

more and more transparent everyday.

I hope Mitt makes a stop in his old stomping grounds and tours around with Brown in his truck, the awkwardness will be priceless.

[CTyankee]

6. It would help if he stopped wearing his $800 barn jacket...

[karynnj]

25. On that, he might be damned if he does, damned if he doesn't

It seems that half of his image is the truck and the coat.

[CTyankee]

29. Right after the election, he was a cheerleader for big bonuses at Wall St. companies.

I was surprised at how fast he showed his true colors.

[karynnj]

31. True - and he gave the banks a $19 billion gift as part of his price for

voting for Dodd/Frank.

Before it was changed to get Brown's vote, the too big to fail financial companies were suppose to pay a tax that would create a fund that would be used if a future bailout was needed. Brown insisted that returned TARP money (ie tax payer money) be used instead.

I assume that, though this is complicated, we will hear a lot about this it is not clear that Brown made anyone happy with that. The conservatives and the banking/Wall Street interests preferred that Dodd/Frank fail and there be no new regulations. In addition, one way to phrase what this does is to say that Brown, singlehandedly, already approved and funded the next TARP bailout - even as the conservatives still argue that TARP was evil.

At the time, I really really wished that Feingold - seeing the alternative - would have offered his vote and given a speech on all the shortcomings of the bill. This would have avoided weakening the Volker rule and saved the government this $19 billion, but it should now be turned against Brown.

[frazzled]

7. Not going to repeat Martha Coakley's fatal error (and words)

Martha Coakley specifically derided standing out in the cold at Fenway, shaking hands (in those words), as a way to win votes. Then she, oops, called (creepy but talented) Curt Schilling a "Yankees fan." Honestly, that lost her the election.

[GoCubsGo]

10. Yep. This is why she lost and Warren will win.

Her loss wasn't a "message to President Obama", as they would like us all to believe. It was because Coakley behaved quite stupidly. She lost the seat all by herself.

edited for spelling

[AtomicKitten]

14. Coakley's campaign was a carwreck.

She's got a lot of baggage with the Democratic party: http://www.verumserum.com/?p=11617

[AtomicKitten]

13. Elizabeth Warren will win back Teddy's seat

that Martha Coakley lost in a disastrously run campaign.

[monmouth]

8. She is so genuine, the real thing. I just love her..n/t

[Skittles]

24. same here; she impresses me a lot

yes INDEED

[Tracer]

9. In the cold?

Mother Jones obviously never checked the weather in Boston last Saturday.

It was 60 degrees and sunny.

[superpatriotman]

11. Marry me, Elizabeth!

Love this lady.

[EC]

15. It would be fitting for this woman to be our next Vice President

and then the first female President. She worked for every level of success she has achieved and did it while taking care of a family.


She would be a real President of the People. No legacy like so many have been, but most deserved.

[marlakay]

18. I just love her, I hope she wins

she is the one Teddy would want to take his place.

[golddigger]

19. Extremely smart, caring and beautiful on the inside as well

as on the outside. I just love this woman. I could listen to her talk all freakin day.

[Sanity Claws]

23. Look at the face of the guy shaking her hand

He has a wry little smile. He really likes her.

[grantcart]

27. kick

[JNelson6563]

32. May the gods smile upon this great lady.

[Tatiana]

33. It is so hard not to love this woman.

May I live to see her elected President someday.

[rox63]

34. Teddy would be proud to have her take his Senate seat back

from Senator Centerfold. That's how you do it - Get out there, meet people, talk to them, shake their hands and look them in the eye.