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What makes you think they're

AmericanDreamer — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 21:10:38 +0000

In reply to I have a trick question. This

What makes you think they're ready to jump the shark again?

Because if Elizabeth Warren is the Democratic nominee instead of Martha Coakley, enough voters will see a difference between her and Brown to vote Warren in. Coakley ran a poor, gaffe-ridden campaign and had no record or reason for running that offered voters any inspiration or reason to think she could be a senator who might actually make a difference.

The GOP and their open and clandestine allies are going to throw everything at her to try to sink her, I agree. Even yesterday--before she's even officially a candidate, all she has now is an exploratory committee!--there was some GOP-issued attempt to smear her. Thanks to CU we may never know how much money will get spent to try to defeat her. I think she's going to win anyway.

I also believe, building on and consistent with trkgmom's point in this thread, that the large amount of attention this race will get has the potential to help other economic progressives choosing to run for the House or Senate on similar messages as the one she's likely to run on. Her candidacy will affect the national discussions on economic policy in a way that the candidacy of few if any others could. To how great a degree, how enduringly, and with what if any ultimate consequences is impossible to say. But she gives people trying to promote--heck, even get something like a hearing for--progressive economic policies a strong hook for the next, hopefully, 15 months or so. At least.

Her candidacy in this way creates an opportunity, that's all. Frustrated progressives leery if not afraid of investing hope in anything or anyone can become, or remain, fatalistic or cynical. I certainly do battle with such feelings myself. Or we can try to make something of it.

I have a trick question. This

Beetlejuice — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 18:08:53 +0000

In reply to She's In!

I have a trick question.

This is the same district that for thousands of years voted Kennedy then jumped the shark for Scott Brown, right?

What makes you think they're ready to jump the shark again?

And what makes you think they've seen the errors of their ways too?

To be truthful, Ms Warren didn't have a sugar daddy to help her nomination to that new consumer bureau she created for Obama. But Brown sure does have them lined up in his corner. And the same political forces that kept her out of that bureau will be in full force to keep her out of the Senate, now that the GOPer's have the Supreme Court on their side stating corporations are people and have the same rights too.

For sure, we need more like her in Congress. We also need Alan Greyson - who lost in Florida, and Russ Finegold - who lost in Wisconsin, back as well. And others of like minds. But they're finding it hard to fight a political system corrupt with corporate cash that drowns out the public's best interest.

She will be followed very

trkingmomoe — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 03:07:05 +0000

In reply to All exciting, but being a

She will be followed very closely in her challenge of Scott Brown by MSM. She will get a good message going that will be good for Dems. She has a good media presence.

All exciting, but being a

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:50:26 +0000

In reply to She'll make a smooth

All exciting, but being a junior Senator is years away from doing much of anything.

Okay, Grayson probably broke the mold.

Anyway, small steps.

She'll make a smooth

acanuck — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:29:09 +0000

In reply to She's In!

She'll make a smooth transition, win the seat, and become one of the really great ones.

Warren's plugged in to something real.

Actually she filed paperwork

AmericanDreamer — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:13:19 +0000

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Actually she filed paperwork to form an exploratory committee, not the same as a declaration of candidacy. But a pretty strong hint.