CANTON — I’ll admit I’ve been a little puzzled about Elizabeth Warren lately. Her campaign has seemed slow in responding to Scott Brown’s quicksilver, if not exactly principled, moves. Her ads have been good, but a little wonky, while Brown has gone all out on the family man theme, his laundry-folding now almost as famous as that truck.
Where, I wondered, has the excitement about Warren gone — the feeling many had last spring when she gobsmacked conventional wisdom hereabouts by announcing her run? I’ll tell you where — out on the trail. Warren, I can report, is a very, very, good campaigner.
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Brown voted FOR the Blunt Amendment and AGAINST the Lily Ledbetter Act. He doesn't want anyone to know he's a Republican. Right wing nut job Ray Flynn wants you to think he's a Democrat who endorses Brown. If you call Brown's office, his staff is surly & nasty if you ask them to relay a message to the senator with which they disagree. The coup de grace is Scott Brown is a RELIABLE vote for the Republicans although he is desperate to have you think otherwise. WARREN 2012.
He is statistically proven to be the 2nd most bi-partisan voting member of the Senate.
"He is statistically proven to be the 2nd most bi-partisan voting member of the Senate." But for show votes and slam-dunks only, not for ones that truly matter.
Why in Warren's bio the fact she worked for Travelers Insurance to fight against people filing claims for absetos illnesses ever mentioned? This from a person who is supposed to be fighting for the consumer all her life. BTW, if and when, Wareen loses do you think she'll ever run for office again? No, she'll go back to her $350K part time job. What she is missing is the rigors of politics is not in her blood.
Sure, there's a whole list of things never mentioned. They'll never bring up that she's proven to have plagiarized recipes for her cookbook "PowWow Chow". Plagiarism costs people their jobs all the time. They won't call her the "First American Indian Massacusetts Senate Candidate" even though that is exactly what she claims to be ... if it is true, why not trumpet it? They won't say that she has raised more money from Wall Street than Brown - she claims only the "good" ones that want change. You won't read hear that she traded in the BMW just before she started her campaign, or that she made $350K teaching one class at Harvard, while saying she wants to help with the price of tuition. You won't be hearing about her flipping foreclosed houses. You won't be hearing any demands here for release by Harvard and Penn of job applications.
As a supporter of Elizabeth Warren and having had the same up close experience that Yvonne Abraham discribes, she is the real deal. There is absolutely no phoniness about her deep respect for those who helped her in her life's journey coupled with a burning ambition to make the most of herself not by just earning a good income but by making a positive contribution for this country. Her family were hard workers, her brothers were active military, and her children are accomplished and serving individuals. Her desire and intellectual skill to bring about real change can be seen in her writings, research, and her role as a teacher to thousands over the years. She was voted a top professor by her students at 4 of the 5 universities where she taught. Sen Brown's campaign is in full recognition of her accomplishments including her part in creating the Federal Consumer Protection Agency and they know they have little to offer that will impact people's lives in a forward direction. Using federal funds to prosecute people who embellish their war record instead of making sure wars are stopped and those wounded are properly cared for is a misplaced effort. Government does matter because society's individuals just fo not fill the bill on some of our larger problems. It take investment from all of us as a price for having a nation that does ensure opportunity for those who want it. Folding your laundry and a truck tour of the neighborhood does not get the job done. At the Convention he stated this is what he had to rush back to Massachusetts to do. He sheepishly forfeited an on stage role at the gathering because he would have to mouth his support for the Republican agenda. At the floor interview with Chuck Todd he did endorse the ticket. He could not get away fast enough but we know he stands firmly with Mitch McConnell. His voting record shows that in spite of his protestations to the contrary.
Elizabeth Warren is a liar and a fraud. She is just like every other democratic candidate. Tell the voters exactly what they want to hear and then do everything in their power for illegal immigrants and welfare cheats and then turning around and telling those of us who have contributed to social security since being a teenager that it is an entitlement. I'm sorry, but the democratic party is not what my parents supported. I'm voting for Scott Brown because I believe he truly is indepdent in his voting. We need the economy to turn around and it's obvious that democrats are incapable of doing that.
Some of the code words you use also demonstrate your frame of mind. Exactly which welfare cheats are you talking about?
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Obviously, one candidate has a lot more pride in his family and his heritage. Liz should stay in school. She's not the type the type of senator we need despite all of the contributions that she's getting from out of state sources!
What a lot of BS. This is an obvious smear and completely untrue. Better check Sen Brown's out of state financing. But keep it up and be sure to present yourself as a proud Scott Brown supporter.
While at the Republican Convention, Scott Brown was seen at lunch with Karl Rove.
Voters can sense that Elizabeth Warren would add to a bitter partisan climate, not help solve it. While Scott Brown has a proven track record of working with Democrats, Warren talks about leaving "blood and teeth on the floor". She made enough enemies in the Obama administration that they wouldn't even choose her to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The National Democrat party cleared the way for her in Massachusetts; I wonder how Mass. Dems are feeling about that now?
"Voters can sense..." Really. Peddling something you can not prove means it can be dismissed. Warren did not talk about leaving "blood and teeth on the floor." Those were the words of Scott Brown about her. This is the kind of rhetoric he uses so he can hide from his own record and the party he belongs to. He uttered those words trying to keep under cover at the Republican Convention not wanting the public to know he is indeed a Republican in every sense of that word. He is a Mitch McConnell Republican and his voting record shows it. If you strip away votes that both parties voted for, his partisan vote goes to 80% and includes voting against equal pay for women, interference in women's health in the workplace, and measures that are meant to prevent pollution of the environment. He diluted the financing mechanism for Dodd Frank so oversight to prevent the Banking fiasco that led to recession would be more difficult. He is not an independent. He is an ineffective legislator and a Republican marching with his Senate leadership.
Hi OETKB, you believe the Huffingtonpost, quoting Warren in an interview they had with her?
"My first choice is a strong consumer agency," the Harvard Law professor and federal bailout watchdog said in an interview with the Huffington Post. "My second choice is no agency at all and plenty of blood and teeth left on the floor."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/03/fight-for-the-cfpa-is-a-d_n_483707.html
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Apparently, Yvonne missed all of Warren's early ads where she deliberately downplayed her comfortable middle-class upbringing, making her early life sound positively Dickensian. Listen to early Liz's ads, and it was all about the hardship of losing the family car. Talk to people who attended her upple-middle-class high school with her, though, and they'll tell you Liz drove to school in a white MG -- one of the family's three cars at a time when most families had only one. Perhaps Warren stopped talking about her family because she couldn't keep the fiction straight. In her first ad, she said her dad "sold carpet." The next ad said he "sold fencing." Then, he became a "maintenance man" and finally a "janitor." (I guess "janitor" tested better in the focus groups.) The stories above about Warren on the campaign trail also don't square with what I've heard from people who sat waiting for a half an hour or more for Warren to show up, only to have her speak for five minutes then bolt without taking questions. But I guess having a Globe columnist follow at your heels like a lovesick puppy does wonders for your people skills.
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Warren's biggest problem is that she comes across like a stern junior high school principal: very, very, disappointed in us, since she thought we knew better. Tsk, tsk. Still I'll be voting for her in a heartbeat to prevent the latest crop of loony tea party manques from gaining the majority and leading us back into the dark ages.
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He may not be 'one of those' but he votes with them when it matters most. You make a distiction without a difference.
People aren't warming up to her because she's never had a real job in the real world and she's a fraud and a liar. Lying about Scott Brown can't help her because we already know him; he's from here.
Will that attitude keep you from voting for self proclaimed sub-three hour "marathon runner" Paul Ryan? (PS - Scott's fudged a few 'facts' too.)
Making it in academia is tougher than 'the real world'
"In Beverly, where he won handily in 2010, there was more to concern him. “I voted for Scott Brown because I thought he’d be something different,” said Mike Bovio, 59, who was leaving the train station as Warren greeted commuters. “He turned out to be more of the same, partisan politics.”" If Mike believes that Warren will be less partisan than Brown, I've got a bridge for sale that he might be interested in. Or in this case, it may be a reservation. Or a teepee. "John Aiken, 52, a Republican, told Warren, “I’m so for you,” at a rally at Veterans Memorial Park. He said his party seemed too focused on “just the few,” and he was bothered by the way Republicans came after Warren “like a freight train” over consumer protections she helped put in place." It may be true, but it's hard to believe that this guy is really a republican. Maybe he's like the woman that was featured in the Obama campaign ad as a republican who turned out to be a left wing activist. The problem with Warren, apart from her inablilty to tell the truth about herself, is that she comes across as shrill and angry. That's in sharp contrast to Scott Brown, who comes across as a regular guy.
I thought she might have been a "real" feminist (as opposed to a faux feminist) until I saw her ad talking about the "problem" that women don't get equal pay for equal work. I think that's a made-up "problem" that is motly due to the fact that women drop in and out of the work force to have children, and, also frankly, are less likely to be willing to work the long, killer hours, that American business prefers. So, she either believes in the equal pay for equal work "problem" -- indicating a problem with analytical abilities -- or she doesn't -- indicating that she was pandering (to women for votes).
Faux feminist? We can only imagine what jkupie's concept of a "real" feminist would look like. The mind boggles....
Mr. Brown and Ms. Warren are locked in a fierce race that could be critical to party control of the Senate. Please keep in mind that, although Scott Brown claims he is bipartisan, he votes with his party most of the time --especially when the vote is close-- and that means support of the Republican platform and the 1%. Even if Republicans are successful in painting Mr. Brown as an independent politician capable of representing the whole Bay State if reelected, he will cast the deciding vote to give to control of the Senate to a largely very conservative group of Republican senators.
Elizabeth Warren believes in putting people back to work especially in the public sector (firemen, policemen and teachers) and in rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure. Her opponent Senator Brown ran on a jobs platform, but he voted against three job bills that would have created 22,000 jobs in Massachusetts.
Well, Scott Brown is a very busy guy...I mean, there's all those meetings he takes with kings, queens and prime ministers and then, of course, the President is always calling Little Scotty to ask for his brilliant and scintillating advice and insights...so that keeps Brownie busy a lot. That's probably why he has all those loose ends dangling, like when he said he had been abused as a kid but declined to name the abuser (who presumably went on the abuse other children)...but, hey, Scott's revelation probably kicked sales of his autobiography up another one or two percent and that's more cash in the old barncoat pocket, right? Yessir, heckuva job, Brownie...heckuva job!
Thanks for a view of Warre from the campaign trail. But her adverts have been uninspired and uninspiring. She needs to be in an advert with a large report card on Browns voter and what that means to Massachusett
I liked the word "gobsmacked." Rather British, I say, don't you think? And the commentator who used the word "advert" as a noun. No it ain't.
I was had! I thought maybe you actually might write a column non partisan by your headline. But, once again you fooled me. A least you got me to read your column this time. Good for you!
If you are really interested in reporting, check Brown's voting record in Washington. He has almost always voted with the GOP until Elizabeth Warren came on the scene, then he became more moderate. check it at the WashingtonPost.com. Easy enough to find out what all these people due when out of sight and see how much they lie. Try it. You might be able to write a more informative column.
L:izzie Warren is a puppet for the democratic party. They are throwing millions her way to get her elected. She'll owe so many favors there is no way she'll get to vote other than what she is told. If Warren loses, what will she do next? The answer is go back teaching her class for for $350/year. Obama and his cronies are counting on her vote for his agenda..
Colonel Brown's adds appear professional compared to Warren's amateurish commercials. Warren should make adds showing excerpts from her rousing speech at the democratic convention and make them in HD!!!
fraud? liar? Lizzie?
those constantly repeated words, along with the "substantive" arguments against her are the sound of the Republican Noise Machine, busy smearing an intelligent, articulate and good woman.
some "clean" campaign, Scott and pals.
typical Lee Atwater/Karl Rove hatchet job. reminds me of the Georgia Senate campaign where a double amputee war hero was beaten by a chicken hawk who falsely smeared the war hero as a war wimp. this generation of Republicans will say and do anything to cling to power so that they can milk the economic system. Shameful. and it would be a relief if the Globe systematically covered how this Republican Noise Machine works. now that would be investigative reporting worth reading.