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If you live inside the media bubble, youve probably heard that Elizabeth Warren, the progressive darling and self-declared non-candidate for 2016, messed up on Tuesday. Appearing on ABCs The View, Warren said that Senator Jeanne Shaheen, the New Hampshire Democrat who is facing a tough challenge from Scott Brown, her Republican opponent, was out there working for the people of Vermont.
Cue a slew of tweets and a good deal of crowing on the right. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) gave an impassioned endorsement of senator Jeanne Shaheen (D., N.H.) on Tuesdays The View, the online Washington Free Beacon cackled. The only problem was that she forgot which state Shaheen is from. A story in the Washington Times said that Warren looked like a political rookie.
Since Warren, who represents the neighboring state of Massachusetts in the Senate, has spent quite a bit of time campaigning in New Hampshire with Shaheen, it seems highly unlikely that she had a true memory malfunction. It was a simple slip of the tongue. Sitting at a table with Whoopi and the other hosts, Warren was talking a mile a minute, as she invariably does, and she goofed. As the Boston Globe s Bruce Wright noted, thats also something she does sometimes. Appearing at the University of New Hampshire on Saturday, she said, The people of Massachusetts are not taking Scott Brown, theyre taking Jeanne Shaheen! Realizing her mistake, she said, Sorry about that! Sorry about that!
Warren isnt infallible. But, if any Democrat is likely to emerge from the midterms as a big winner, it is she. Over the past couple of weeks, she has been barnstorming around the country, campaigning for Democratic candidates, sounding like a reincarnated Eugene Debs or (to cross party lines) Teddy Roosevelt.
We can go through the list over and over, but at the end of every line is this: Republicans believe this country should work for those who are rich, those who are powerful, those who can hire armies of lobbyists and lawyers, she said in Englewood, Colorado. I will tell you we can whimper about it, we can whine about it, or we can fight back. Im here with Mark Udall so we can fight back.
Republicans, man, they ought to be wearing a T-shirt, she said in Des Moines, Iowa. The T-shirt should say: I got mine. The rest of you are on your own.
We can hang back, we can whine about what the Republicans have done
or we can fight back. Me, Im fighting back!
Even on The View, Warren came across as a political pugilist who loves nothing more than climbing into the ring with the Republicans. Under President Obamas leadership, we fight to raise the minimum wage, we fight to reduce the interest rate on student loans, we fight for equal pay for equal work, she told CBS This Morning. Its really about whose side do you stand on? And, for me, thats the whole heart of it.
After six years of watching their President being kicked around by the Republicansand, sometimes, seeming reluctant to fight them on their own levelliberals and progressives are thrilled to have someone who dishes it right back. At some of her public appearances, there are people wearing READY FOR WARREN T-shirts, which represent a cheeky response to the READY FOR HILLARY movement. Mother Jones , in highlighting five of Warrens best lines, noted that shes receiving rock star treatment. Eugene Robinson, the Washington Post columnist, said that Warren has become the brightest ideological and rhetorical light in a party whose prospects are dimmed byto use a word Jimmy Carter never utteredmalaise.
Perhaps the most ringing endorsement of Warren comes from Hillary Clinton herself. Appearing late last week with the Massachusetts senator at a campaign event for Martha Coakley, the Democratic candidate for governor of the state, Clinton said, I am so pleased to be here with your senior senator, the passionate champion for working people and middle-class families, Elizabeth Warren!
I love watching Elizabeth give it to those who deserve to get it. Standing up not only for you but people with the same needs and the same wants across our country.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/elizabeth-warren-wins-the-midterms/ar-BBbWAtR?ocid=DELLDHP
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,391 posts)If one wants to be elected they should not let their opponent frame the debate.
AND THEN SOME...
JI7
(89,283 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)JI7
(89,283 posts)the other 2 aren't about this op which is about midterms and where warren is support third way dems.
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)sadoldgirl
(3,431 posts)to support Sen. M.Udall, who is an honorary member of the board of the Third Way. However, she supported him as a Democrat, because his opponent is a Teapublicon.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Do any DU'ers acknowledge being Third Way'ers? In another thread I disparaged the Third Way and someone alerted saying that I was insulting some DU'ers. My post didn't get hidden but I was wondering who in DU associates themselves with the Third Way.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)sadoldgirl
(3,431 posts)him/herself by talking about "when Democrat voters". A slip which happens quite often, when the debate becomes hot or insistent.
stillwaiting
(3,795 posts)I have noticed quite a few slips as well, BUT
it seems some think we have to accept neo-liberal and conservative economic ideas as not only valid Democratic ideas, but ideas that should not be allowed to be criticized, mocked and scorned for being elitist ideas that clearly and historically only benefit the financial elite at huge cost to everyone else. It's a problem.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)MontyPow
(285 posts)JI7
(89,283 posts)Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)If the Dems throw the Turd Wayers into the ditch, they will assuredly lose the majority. Liz is campaigning to retain the majority. Sometimes that involves campaigning for people who don't exactly share her ideology. Is this really too difficult to comprehend? Would you rather have Grimes or McConnell? That's the choice. Would you rather have a Democrat or a toad in a shell* for Majority Leader?
*Rough literal translation of Ger. Schildkröte, "turtle"--a term I find appealingly accurate for describing Mitch.
MontyPow
(285 posts)Last I checked we ceded control of the Senate to the minority, and received zero Republican votes for the 1990s Republican healthcare deform.
I see the turd way Dems as the soldiers in the Trojan Horse.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)You're pretty close to right there, but there are still marginal differences between the 2 parties.
MontyPow
(285 posts)Marr
(20,317 posts)Remember when Obama had his name officially stricken from the "New Democrats" directory before running for the Presidency?
They know that people understand what their label actually stands for now, so they act like the name is an epithet. It's hilarious.
Bonhomme Richard
(9,001 posts)harness her popularity without really changing anything meaningful.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)sadoldgirl
(3,431 posts)in the 2016 election, although I am somewhat troubled, if Bernie would not do so.
I would like to see them both running, selfish as I am for the country!
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Did he move his CarpetBagger ass to NH?
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,391 posts)Zorra
(27,670 posts)"campaigning for Democratic candidates, sounding like a reincarnated Eugene Debs"
"Mother Jones , in highlighting five of Warrens best lines, noted that shes receiving rock star treatment.
"Eugene Robinson, the Washington Post columnist, said that Warren has become the brightest ideological and rhetorical light in a party whose prospects are dimmed byto use a word Jimmy Carter never utteredmalaise.
^^This^^ is win.
Sanders/Warren 2016.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)Cha
(297,923 posts)Trajan
(19,089 posts)I'm troubled that no one else on this thread mentioned this ... It's like nobody gives a fuck if DU gets sued again ... Righthaven, anybody?