Elizabeth Warren: Democrats Must "Stand Up and Fight"

[eridani]

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/26568-focus-elizabeth-warren-democrats-must-qstand-up-and-fightq

While an increasingly unpopular President Obama seems to be on a self-imposed Rose Garden strategy this election, one Democrat is in demand on the campaign trail: Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

She's an unabashed progressive from Massachusetts, a Democrat who thinks Democrats are too timid and a populist who has been called to help in red, blue and purple states. And despite her frequent protests, she's someone that liberals long to see launch a 2016 bid for the White House.

Warren is an unusual Washington phenom—a combination of loyal soldier and inside agitator, a star who has no problem taking on her own party.

"What the Democrats have to do is be willing to stand up and fight," she tells CNN. Asked if the party hasn't been willing to do that, she responds: "I just think we can use a little more of that. I think we can use a little more of standing up and saying this is what it's about, and I'm willing to do it."

Warren's job this election season is to gin up a party base that lacks energy, and she's been taking her message to get out the vote to 15 states so far. This weekend, she ventures to New Hampshire to stump for Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, locked in a close contest with Republican Scott Brown. The race is personal for Warren: she defeated Brown in 2012 for her Senate seat when he lived in Massachusetts.

Warren has also raised money -- about $6 million -- for the party this cycle.

[Scuba]

1. She's the star of the Party, despite the best efforts of the Third Way.

And yes, Democrats are too timid.

[bigwillq]

3. Great post.

[djean111]

2. It is the weekend, and Third Way thread invasions seem to diminish on the weekends. :-)

Slogging through a Warren thread yesterday that had about half of the replies shrilly about how Hillary had a 67% FAVORABILITY RATING SO WE SHOULD ALL STFU AND STOP CALLING WARREN A LIAR!!!!!!! -I was reminded of the American Idol mentality some seem to have. Sometimes a wanna-be idol has a fan base that pushes them though to victory, sometimes people who are just voting for the heck of it, maybe voting against other contestants more then voting FOR a singer - sometimes it is very shocking to fans when their idol wins - and no one buys their CD because they just don't like the music.
The music is what counts, not who won. Those who get caught up in the personality thing don't seem to understand that Warren is, for some, a symbol of what could be a start of Progressive thinking at the top. There are others who would do just as well. It is not about a personality cult. So continuously attacking Warren does not accomplish what they think it does, IMO. I predict that we will see more links to ridiculous shit about Warren and Indians right here at DU, from Third Wayers, than there will be at Freeperland.

[arcane1]

5. Did she lie about it?

[djean111]

7. She did not lie about, she had been told this, and never questioned it.

It is nice that you joined DU just to question this, though. Don't be sorry, though, because everyone is entitled to an opinion. Ours just differ. Doesn't affect how I think, at all.

There are reports that one of my ancestors came over from England centuries ago and married a Lenni-Lenape woman, and settled by a river in Pennsylvania. I like to think it is true, does that make me "sleazy and dishonest"?
You know what is REALLY sleazy and dishonest? Claiming, with a bit of detail, that one was shot at on an airfield in Bosnia.
That is a pretty fucking questionable page in anyone's book, n'est-ce pas?

[marble falls]

9. "The "Native American thing". That's the worst thing you can think of? What's the real reason?....

What are some of those other "questionable pages in her character file"? If the "native American thing" is the worst "page in her character file", there's nothing wrong with her at all.

"This woman" isn't a far stretch from "you people", or "those people".

[Anoldhippietype]

6. Elizabeth and Bernie

Elizabeth is the best person we have for the highest office. She seems to be a true progressive. She isn't afraid to fight--which is unusual for most of the party. I feel that she believes we all can make a difference. I also think a running mate should be Bernie Sanders. And I don't care who is what as long as it is the two of them. We haven't had candidates like these two since Harry Truman and JFK. And we haven't had a candidate with cajones since Lyndon Johnson. I believe them when they say they work for us. I am sixty eight years old an have watched the democratic party grow weaker and weaker. They use to have good ideas for everyone when I was a kid. And they stood up for them.
Beth and Bernie---Bernie and Beth.. I don't care which is which but I do care that the are the candidates. What is good for them Is Good for Us and the rest of America. They really do fight the good fight

[djean111]

8. Well, the knives are out for Warren. It almost seems like an actual primary is not wanted, for some

reason. Warren will be overtly and subtly vilified, by those who hope to squash her ideas more than herself, and don't realise that the Warren enthusiasm is as much against the corporatist third way thinking, like the TPP. Those who do not like the Clinton form of government now are not going to embrace it, or Hillary, just because Warren mistakenly believed she had some Indian ancestry. The smearing is just old-fashioned political smearing, and I would have thought some people would have learned about that and avoided it, since they themselves have been subjected to it. It is a very RW thing to do, IMO.

I am afraid, though, all we are going to get is the usual campaign blather, pretending to be more populist or progressive, from the Wall Street candidate. What concerns me, through the chorus of "but the liberals LOVE her, look at the polls!!!!" - is that the GOP base hates her with a passion. This will really mobilise them to vote against her, I think.

Already have noticed a whisper of "hey, why hate the TPP? Don't you want to help out our dearest trading partners?".